Work with the notes of your audio files instead of regular waveforms by analyzing the recorded tracks and checking the volume differences, pitch, beginning and ending times of particular notes, etc. Each note is modifiable with customizable intonation, phrasing, and dynamics.
Melodyne is a complex sound editor, specially developed for professionals to aid them to create original audio content, by removing unnecessary song parts, modifying parameters like timing, rhythm, volume, or formant spectrum.
Aesthetically, Melodyne has an innovative GUI, well-adapted to nowadays trends, with beautifully shaped menus and buttons icons that offer great response time to user actions. It could've had more skin themes but you can't have them all.
The embedded features are various and numerous while it offers support for plugin interfaces like VST, AU, RTAS, and AAX.
From its multiple functionalities, users can choose to manipulate the notes, melodies and harmonies, or edit grooves and dynamics.
They can also access the overtones, edit multiple tracks at the same time, or export MIDI files.
Furthermore, Audio Random Access allows better communication between the plugin and the DAW, and it's supported by a large number of stand-alone applications, such as Presonus Studio One, Cockos Reaper, Acoustica Mixcraft, or Tracktion Waveform.
All things considered, Melodyne is one of the best software tools from this industry, mostly because it embeds complex and innovative features. It's best suited for professionals, has an expensive price and requires a powerful end system, but it worths every penny.
v5.3 [Sep 24, 2022]
- Pro Tools with ARA: When repeated use was made of the Undo function in Melodyne, under very special circumstances Pro Tools could crash.
- ARA and plug-in: Under certain circumstances, not every note was included in local playback.
- ARA: When creating a new project, the DAW under certain circumstances displayed an error message even though the new project was error-free.
- ARA: When you switched back to Edit Mode from Note Assignment Mode, it could happen that the display scrolled all the way to the top instead of returning to the previous vertical position.
- Studio One: When Studio One was launched, a crash sometimes occurred while the Melodyne plug-in was being scanned.
- Digital Performer: Under rare circumstances, moving blobs could lead to a crash.
- Samplitude: In Melodyne 5.3, it sometimes happened that the ARA files of older projects were muted during playback.
- Stand-alone implementation: In Note Assignment Mode, execution of the “Convert Selection to Connected Sequence” function sometimes led to a crash.
- Stand-alone and ARA: On very high-resolution screens under macOS Monterey, crashes could occur in Full Screen Mode.
- Keyboard shortcuts: The assignments for Track Mode and Clip Mode were erroneously listed under “Editing Tools” instead of “View Configuration”, as they are now.
- Keyboard shortcuts: The Fade Tool and Sibilant Balance Tool now appear directly beneath the Amplitude Tool, which corresponds to the layout in the toolbox.
- Note Assignment Mode: Under certain circumstances when you were editing in Note Assignment Mode, individual notes were not played back.
- Time Handles: When undoing an edit made with the Time Handle Tool, it sometimes happened that the sound of the note in question remained unchanged.
- ARA: When the Universal algorithm was used, a display error (gaps between the blobs) sometimes occurred when blobs were being edited.
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