Anyone use Melodyne Editor with X1?

I am fed up waiting for V-Vocal to get fixed so I have just bought Melodyne Editor....
A somewhat rash decision possibly given its relatively high price tag.
It should arrive in the next couple of days.
I'm just asking the forum of any user experiences with Melodyne Editor (x64 version with X1x64) so I might avoid any pitfalls or pick up any useful tips before I receive it and install it.

So what have you?

While I use it all the time I tend to use it "outside" of Sonar as I like a bigger GUI to work in.  I'll fly my vocals out to the desktop...load them in Melodyne Editor standalone...and, once edited to my liking...import them back in to Sonar.  I don't recall having any of John's crashing problems using it as a plug.  Maybe I just got lucky.  Melodyne is head and shoulders above VVocal or anything else out there (save, possibly, Flux Trax).  You won't regret having it Twig, ol pal.

Agree completely.  They should allow you to scale the GUI and make it much bigger as a plug.

I use it as a plugin.

Have not tried it since I went 64bit though.

I use Melodyne x64 as plug in all the time on W7 x64 with Sonar X1c. 

I use it for vocals and guitar work for pitch and timing errors - I'm not the greatest singer or guitarist and don't have a huge amount of time. It saves having to do multiple takes and all the ensuing anger and frustration.
I think it is a fantastic piece of software and recommend it to anyone.

I use the melodyne plugin "inside" of cakewalk to built backing voices (melodyne editor). I want to hear the harmonic voices (background choir) to the song.
The plugin can be sized to 1800 x 1400 pixel. Therefore it is "near" fullscreen. I never tried V-vocal.

Have you got the Melodyne plugin configured in the PlugIn Manager as a "time based effect"?

I've have both "Use Multiprocessing Engine" and "MMCSS" ticked and Melodyne works fine. I also have "time based tempo" ticked in properties.

The only thing that Melodyne struggles with in Sonar is looping.

Not to many issues at all...and as reported ...the standalone is  great ... I use it constantly as well as in the box

..X1 and Melodyne are fantastic!

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Hi there. I use Melodyne a lot with Sonar.
 
Its best as a plug in as you can edit 'in context' and hear rest of track so really flexible. However it is not very stable with Sonar. I have posted about this before, whatever boxes you are ticking. So what I do is create a new project. import my vocal tracks and a bounced track of the rest of your channels. So you can then edit the vocals in context but with only a few tracks in use  and with no plug ins. Btw set buffer to 1024.  This really helps stability. I can edit a whole vocal track without a crash. You can then import your corrected vocal back into you main project. Of course importing wav file into standalone Melodyne is completely stable, but not in context of the song.
 
Hope helps

Good idea, I'll try that.  Thanks.
Yes, I use a 1024 buffer, and even tried higher than that, but it didn't help.
 
John

After having been spoiled with the rock solid perfromance of Melodyne Plugin, I was fairly disgusted with Melodyne Editor (which, oddly enough, is a plug-in as well).  To those of you saying you have no problems with ME, can you import 3.5 minutes of violin (or anything else for that matter) in polytimbre detection mode, and not have it either quit completely or go so slow as to be worthless?  DNA (polytimbral analysis) is only good if you can get your work done without resorting to doing small chunks at a time or other, time consuming workarounds.   Even in monotimbral mode, detection is muuuuuch slower, and the chances of it hogging all your RAM increase exponentially with the length of the imported data.

What really tied it for me, is that you cannot have Plugin and Editor installed at the same time.  Celemony claims that they are seperate products, and you can't have both (ummmm, you mean kind of like not having multiple versions of SONAR installed at the same time??).  They said that it was an industry standard... Which industry?

Anyway, for the time being, I consider Editor to be in the "not ready for prime time" category, and continue to use familiar, rock solid ol' Plugin.  If you doubt me, just go on their forums and read the nightmares.  I check every once in a while, and the same issues crop up over and over. 

User: this thing crashes

Claudio: Have you set your audio buffers to 1,024 samples?

User: Yes

Claudio: Have you set your audio buffers to 1,024 samples real hard?

There are now 5,394 posts in their "Issues and workarounds" category.  That should say enough right there.  The kicker: Posted Monday, August 22 - Constant Editor 1.2 crashes in Sonar 8.5 and X1

'Nuff said.
 
(edit)
 
I just noticed this in response to the above complaint:
 
Hello Skyline,

I just confirmed that shorter transfers under X1/64 work right through here (Win 7/i7 Quad CPU).
A 3:30 min polyphonic transfer passed testing, while a 13 minute transfer with two instances didn't. I agree that there might be a time or (RAM) related issue we or Cakewalk need to get into.
For now, I strongly recommend to:
a. transfer only sections that need correction, transfer section by section, save inbetween
b. avoid long transfer like whole tracks
c. do not transfer to multiple instances

Best, Ulf (Of Melodyne)
 
It looks like Ulf has just officially joined you, John.

I just bought Melodyne because VVocal was ineffective.......Now I'm worried about the above posts....that program was expensive and I hope I don't have an issue with it

Well, I just went and opened Melodyne within Sonar X1C and it said I needed to update...which I did...I also downloaded the latest iLok drivers as requested.  Now the 121 update shows up as standalone but even tho I've removed Melodyne in the PlugIn Manager then rescanned all plugs and then reinstated Melodyne in the PlugIn Manager it still shows up as version 120 and not 121.  Is this normal?  And how do you make the GUI bigger? ...And I'm talking about the plugin GUI not the standalone.

I have had my share of crashes with Sonar but Melodyne is and has always been rock solid stable for me.  I have not changed any of the defaults and I have been just fine, I am running it as a plugin as well.

I love Melodyne and think it was worth the money.

Yea, I can't get the plugin to show up as 121.  My standalone does.  I've tried deleting and rescaning a couple of times but now love.  Hmmmm.