Melodyne Editor update coming.

Celemony sent me this email today. It starts:   

Look forward with us to a major update: in November, Version 2 of Melodyne editor will be released – with exciting new possibilities that make Melodyne still more musical, capable of editing in still greater depth, and still more compatible than ever before.
It goes on into some of the new things in the box....  

The new version offers unique possibilities for working with different scales and temperaments, more powerful timing tools, Rewire integration, and numerous other improvements. As a result, Melodyne is even more musical, allows you to go even deeper when editing your material, and is even more widely compatible than ever before. Melodyne editor 2 will be available in November for US$ 399, the update costing US$ 99.

Looking good... and for $99 update... it might be well worth it. But then again, I'm not into the intermodal music and other things it's designed to do....... hummmmm, I'll have to think about that a bit.  The ensuing  paragraphs in the email talk a bit more about the new stuff under the hood.  

Price will dictate if I upgrade this year. I'm a tight budget until January of 2012.

Jesse G


Carl how is the Studio One V2? 

I have Studio one artist, but never installed it.  I got it as a promotion for 14.00 with the ability to upgrade to Studio one producer at any time for 99.00.  I am thinking about getting Studio One Producer v2 for 99.00 and working with it.

Peace

Hi Jesse,
 
 I'm really enjoying it. I didn't get it to replace X1 but to create using different tools & mindset. The main thing I love about is the gapless audio. As I'm learning I'm working on one project. I just keep adding tracks & testing vst's while dragging, replacing, removing several instances each of Kontakt, GtrRig, AmpliTube, Scuffham all in while looping w/o dropouts or glitches. 
I started with instances of DimPro, Rapture, AD drums & haven't disabled them yet either. I couldn't do that in X1 w/o droputs happening somewhere along the line. 

It really can't compare to X1 as far as features go though. I'd go crazy tryng to do a 50-60 track project but creatively you can get ideas down quickly. 
As it's been posted it doesn't have deep midi capabilities like inst. defs. but as I'm getting rid of all my outboard synths & samplers it's forcing me to learn the program.
I'd definatley try the full 30 day demo then make your own mind up if it's something you'd could use.
With further development & features I think it could really take off.

Thanks,
A few others said the same, after the promo the upgrade price goes to $299.00 so I decided to get it.
I've used V-Vocal for minor vox repair but never quite trusted it too much because of crashing issues & after it corrupted a few projects.

After using Melodyne for only a few hours I'm very pleased with the results & performance. One thing I tried that I know I'll get alot of use out is 'save to midi file'. I transferred a friends bass track, a monster player- saved it to midi, imported back onto a midi track. It wasn't perfect but was very impressed & surprised how well it tracked & caught the majority of the notes, rythems & nuances.  I edited it, tried a few different patches - this has real potential.

I tried this in X1 as well as Studio One's VST3 & both worked well. 
Don't know if V-V does this but I'd be too wary to try. I'm sure it has it's issues too like all software but overall I'm pleased. 

cool deal. You'll like editor. 

I wonder if the poly works better in ME2.

ME has a poly mode...and it picks the notes out of chords and other multi-timbral things fairly well.... the problem I have had is in the editing..... moving a note had huge artifacts left over, even with small moves....

Now to be honest and fair, this was in the original version of Editor...there have been updates since then and I don't use ME for poly stuff very often. 

The one thing I could do OK in poly mode was remove a note transparently..... like removing the 7th in a chord... that worked fine. 

But yeah... you'll like it.

Dave, 

I have used ME in the melodic mode (monophonic) to do some pretty cool things. I used it to take a female vox track in unison and make it a harmony. I had to move some of the notes quite a distance from where they were originally sung. Listening to it now, I can not hear artifacts in it. 

I now use it on every vocal track and sometimes even on my guitar solo's, sax, and other solo instruments in my mix. It's only going to fix the stuff that needs fixing in a track, so the balance of the stuff that's right to start with never gets touched.  I use the "auto correct" .... both sliders set to about 80% and let it make the correction it thinks it needs. Then I will solo the track with just an acoustic or piano and go through it vocal phrase by vocal phrase to confirm, or manually edit what I think is still not right. Manually, you can do just about anything you need to. 

Sometimes it's just to fix one wrong note, sometimes to stretch a note or shorten in without having to go back and record it all again.  This is especially helpful when the original recording was done several days or weeks ago. Tone matching could be a problem, but with ME, just grab ..... edit....done. 

Yeah, I've used Melodyne to change chords on a guitar part as well.  It was great to just try out what it would sound like having the part play a D minor 7th rather than a D minor.  It allows you to experiment with the song construction in ways you've never imagined before.

Tom