Notes and tools

In Melodyne, notes are represented by blobs. By manipulating these with Melodyne’s powerful tools, you can edit (among other things) the pitch, vibrato, volume, sibilants, length, timing and formants of each note. In this way, you can enhance in a musical yet straightforward manner the intonation, phrasing, dynamics and timbre of a performance. While ingenious algorithms ensure your editing’s almost always inaudible, sensitive, natural.

Notes instead of waveforms.

With Melodyne, you see the notes in your recordings and samples, and can manipulate and modify them at will. Even with polyphonic instruments like the piano and guitar.

Tools and macros.

Edit intonation, melody and harmony, but also rhythms and grooves, dynamics, formants and much more. Using intelligent macros or – with great precision – by hand.

Multitrack Note Editing.

See and edit the notes of multiple tracks simultaneously in a single window. Only Melodyne makes music this transparent and tangible.

All that counts musically.

Melodyne also recognizes chords, keys, tunings and tempos. And the editing functions for these important musical parameters are just as comprehensive as for the notes themselves.

Innovative sound design.

Access the overtones of your instruments directly and change their tone color in unique ways. Using an ultra-musical equalizer, resynthesis and morphing.

Compatibility and user-friendliness.

Melodyne can be operated via ARA or as a plug-in directly in a DAW. Or even as a stand-alone program. Its flexible interface adapts perfectly to the requirements of each situation.

Why Melodyne is better

That Melodyne sounds so good and is so simple to use is based on two things. The less important is the technology. The decisive factor is its understanding of the music.

Melodyne identifies the notes and the relationships between them. It is only as a result of this knowledge that Melodyne’s algorithms are able to “think” and operate in such a musical way. The benefits to you as a musician and producer include the famously superior sound of Melodyne and many other advantages that software lacking this understanding of musical contexts is incapable of offering.

Melodyne assistant

• If you want to perform vocal editing at the highest level, refining and enhancing every aspect of musical expression, however subtle, Melodyne assistant has the very features you need.

• In addition to Melodyne’s basic functions and all the possibilities of the smallest edition, essential, Melodyne assistant offers:

• The entire Melodyne toolkit: With the full diversity of Melodyne’s tools at your disposal, you can apply the finest of touches to any and every note parameter: intonation, vibrato, pitch drift, timing, duration, amplitude, fades, sibilants, formants, transients – even the timing within notes as well as the transition between them – and much else besides. You can take a vocal track as close to perfection as you choose to.

• Inspectors: In the inspectors, all the parameters are clearly laid out, and you can adjust them – without changing tools – to the precise values you want.

• Audio-to-MIDI: Export the MIDI equivalent of your audio, so you can double your vocal lines with a synthesizer or your acoustic bass with an electronic sound. Audio-to-MIDI gives you the means to conduct exciting experiments and create radically new sounds.

• In a nutshell: Melodyne assistant provides all you need for the professional editing of vocals. That’s where its main power is focused, but it can be used equally well, of course, to edit recordings of any monophonic sound source (trumpet, clarinet, etc.).

Included:

• Audio-to-MIDI – export notes to a MIDI file

• Inspectors – swift access to all parameters

• All Melodyne’s tools – for pitch, formants, volume, timing, sibilants

• Musically weighted pitch analysis – for psycho-acoustically optimal intonation correction

• Chord Track and chord recognition – bring notes into line harmonically, extract chords from audio

• All the algorithms without DNA – for melodic, percussive and complex material

• Edit note assignments – full control over the algorithms

• Melodyne’s Main Tool – edit the pitch, position and duration of notes and note separations

• Macros for pitch, timing, leveling – correct and optimize notes by means of intelligent automation

• Stand-alone or in your DAW – integrated via ARA , AU, VST 3 or AAX

• Intercompatibility – open and edit projects created by other editions

• Compatibility with Melodyne 4 – open and edit Melodyne 4 projects

Not Included:

• Multi-tracking – view and manage multiple tracks in a single window

• Multitrack Note Editing – edit the notes of multiple tracks simultaneously

• Track-transcending macros – apply the macros to multiple tracks simultaneously

• Quantize to reference track – make one track adopt the timing of another

• Sound Editor – unique, overtone-based sound design

• DNA Direct Note Access – algorithms for polyphonic instruments such as piano and guitar

• Editing of individual notes within chords – with all the tools and macros

• Extended tempo functions – map and edit sudden or gradual changes of tempo

• Extended scale functions – create and modify scales; extract scales from audio material