Melodyne 5 is Steve DeMott's Software Product Of 2020, he explains why.
I chose Melodyne as my favorite software tool for 2020. It not only allows me to fix a pitchy vocal, I’ve also used it to fix a bad note in a guitar solo and, because of its multi-timbral capabilities, I can even change one note in a piano chord to fix where the pianist’s finger slipped to an adjacent key. I’ve also tuned strings, horns & woodwinds, etc. Pretty much anything melodic.
Sometimes I don’t use it to tune, per se, but to reduce a vocalist’s vibrato to better center the pitch. I can even use the time tool to align vocalists or to shorten or lengthen a note when needed. Melodyne’s overtone correction has also come in handy, allowing for matching of tones in a different way than using an EQ. And with version 5, Melodyne brings sibilant control to its toolbox. It is a very deep program.
I don’t know if I’ve done any work this year without Melodyne on the mix session. From music to audio post, it’s been a big part of my workflow.
They are three of the most lauded vocal tuning plugins money can buy, but which is best suited to your particular corrective and/or creative needs? We drill down into the nitty gritty of Melodyne, Auto-Tune and RePitch to help you make the right buying decision.
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Melodyne 5 is Steve DeMott's Software Product Of 2020, he explains why.
Celemony has released the latest version of their pitch correction software Melodyne 5. The key new feature is an improved “Melodic” algorithm, designed to offer natural corrections at the press of a key. Using chord recognition, the Chord Track, you can now adapt notes quickly and easily to suit the song and with the Fade Tool, you are able to create note-based fades, even in polyphonic recordings and samples. In this article, we have all the details.
In the article we explain several different ways that audio is graphically represented in DAWs and a number of different tools from a range of developers to help you understand not only what these visuals tell us but to show you what they are for and how to interpret these graphics and displays to help you. This article isn’t a deep physics lesson in audio, instead we try to explain each of these points as practically as possible.
The two most common ways of using pitch correction plug-ins are to either produce the over processed T-Pain/Cher effect or to sculpt melodies in extremely transparent ways that sound almost inaudible. In this article, we highlight a number of powerful tuning and pitch correction plug-ins that you should consider trying in your next mix.
Essential plug-ins are tools that give you confidence in your abilities and the music you and produce. It’s so important to use plug-ins that you know inside out, regardless of whether they are stock DAW plug-ins or third-party. In this article I look at the plug-ins that I consider to be more than just my go-to tools, these are my plug-in essentials.
In this free video tutorial we show you a simple way of sculpting the perfect tune and notation of heavy vocal tuning effects by running an instance of Melodyne into Antares Auto-Tune Pro. Without doubt Auto-Tune Pro is the product to reach for to produce that distinctive Cher / T-Pain hard vocal effect. Melodyne on the other hand is by nature a very easy to use surgical tool for tuning. In this tutorial we utilise the strengths of both products.
Steve DeMott is a Connecticut based audio engineer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He studied Songwriting and Music Production & Engineering at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA & has been recording professionally for over 20 years. He now manages a commercial studio where they produce, record, edit, mix & master music & audio projects for artists & companies.