Melodyne - worth upgrading?

I believe this offer is just a step up, not the full package. It gives you polyphonic correction, but misses out some other aspects. For me I would like controller data in the mono convert to midi, such as pitch wheel being sent to replicate vibrato, but that's in the full package, what ever that's called. 

+1 for Craig's post.  It has many tools, just as Sonar does, and lets you customize to the nth degree.

It's true not everyone will use it, like me. I've only opened a few times just to see what it was about. First time it crashed my system , and now with a new up to date system it tells me I need to increase my buffers to 10,000 or something stupid, so I've yet to try it. But then I rarely used V Vocal. If something was out of tune, it gets re done, or I'll steal the part from somewhere else in the track where it was correct. 
 
Note that if you have an older version of Sonar installed you will still have V Vocal. So you can use both still. 

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 and if you need it for instruments , get a musician that can play. 
 

Thing is, I'm the musician that I want to correct. I play 3 different wind instruments, and contary to popular belieif, just tuning them does not make them pitch perfect. Every wind instrument has it's intonation problem areas.
 
Being able to turn that into midi is fantastic for layering and harmonising part

Scoot
Thing is, I'm the musician that I want to correct. I play 3 different wind instruments, and contary to popular belieif, just tuning them does not make them pitch perfect. Every wind instrument has it's intonation problem areas.
 
Being able to turn that into midi is fantastic for layering and harmonising part

Upgrading to Melodyne Editor is a slam dunk value.

If you need to correct something, all of the this audio editing software is all about that. Melodyne is an amazing tool to have available as you need or want.

Thanks for all the inputs.
I do still have X2 but I have done a clean install of X3 on a brand new laptop, I guess I am asking for trouble installing X2 just for V-Vocal.
I used the pencil tool a lot but I am happy to learn new ways of working with Melodyne if that's the supported option.
I really appreciate all the feedback but see no reason for anyone to have to justify why they need to use Melodyne, or indeed why they choose to use any tool or process which works for them. I nearly always have to slow the tempo down to play any half interesting keyboard part because I'm simply a crap player!
I think I will stump up for the upgrade and see where it takes me.
Thanks again.

Unfortunately V-Vocal is not a separately installable plug-in. In order to install V-Vocal, a minimum install of SONAR is required. In order to perform a minimum install of X2, select the advanced install option then select SONAR from the pick list and uncheck everything else unless you also want R-Mix and VC-64 which were dropped from X3.

Anderton
Yes, the audio-to-MIDI function is great. I often play bass into SONAR, then use Melodyne when I want that to turn into a synth bass part.

Just a shame and a real stinger for me, that you have to upgrade to the full Studio version to get pitch modulation in the Midi conversion. I expected (my fault but as you get a time limit to decide on buying x3, I just went with it) that mono processing would be greatly expanded and Polyphonic processing provided as basic in the mid level Editor. I can't get me head round why they omitted pitch bend data from the Editor level, something they add that extra life to midi.  

Something that blew my mind with the Editor version an polyphonic processing, is I took the intro of 'Moaning' by Charlie Mingus. The intro is played Pepper Adams on Baritone Sax and is a fiery start to that piece. Melodyne decided to treat it as Poly by accident, and what it gave me was the harmonic intervals of a monophonic instrument. Allowing my to change the harmonic characteristics of a of a harmonically rich mono sauce.
 
When I first arrived in Vietnam I met these 2 bamboo flute players. They had a real interest in the folk music of Vietnam. Often in Vietnam, you get a young girl accompanying and collecting money for a blind bamboo flute player, who is generally doodling. These 2 guys I met though, played some beautiful pieces, and I was surprised at how one of the more upbeat songs was so similar to an Irish Jig. With YouTube you can find Vietnamese guys playing songs that are traditional to their area of the country. Being able to put these Youtube videos into Sonar as MP3s, convert in Melodyne, adjust for the fact they are not tuned to 440, and then back to sonar as midi and to staff, will give me something I can learn.   

Anderton
I have X1, X2, and X3 installed on my computer and they get along fine. I think sometimes they go out for drinks at night when I'm not around.
 
If you want V-Vocal you don't need to install all of X2, just the base program. But mess with Melodyne for a while. You may find, as I did, that V-Vocal became irrelevant.
 
Be forewarned that Melodyne looks simple but it is deep. For example, the Split Notes tool is what allows you to really tame vibrato correctly - flatten it out, emphasize it, etc. The combination of note splitting and the modulation tool is what replaces the pencil.
 
You'll probably go through a "is this all there is?" phase, then dig deeper, watch the videos, and find out how much you can do with it.

Are you speaking about Melodyne Editor or Studio? It seems that many people are unhappy about certain functionality lacking in the Editor version, although I don't understand a lot of the complaints as I don't know the program.
I always have a problem to sing without vibrato so the pencil tool came in handy in VV! Are you saying that Melodyne Editor can do this equally well, or even better?
Thanks again

I've found that Melodyne Essential is "essentially" autotune with the ability to also move individual notes by semi-tones. You can't (that I've found) tune very short segments manually - need to upgrade for that. So, for the time being since I still have 7 installed I use Melodyne for the "autotune" quick hitters and still use VV if I need more surgical precision or to adjust timing (which I may have used more than tuning in the past - very cool feature).

So.... get Editor. You will not regret it once you realize that no tool of this nature will ever make a bad singer into a good singer. Melodyne will fix the occasional slightly sharp/flat note as long as the timber and vibrato is within the range of the rest of the track. +/- a whole step will generally yield desirable results.
 
WRT to guitar parts, remember the poly will only work of relatively clean parts. Think Strat thru Fender Deluxe not too drivern or acoutic (nylon or steel) and even piano. BigDistorto Guits are dificult at best to fix with Melodyne. Impossible most of the time, IMO.

Dang it, I had it all typed up and poof, it's gone...anyways
 
PER CELEMONY's Website, from what I can gather:
 
Essential has editor and what we get with Sonar
Assistant comes with the editor with "extras"
EDITOR comes  with DNA for poly(thus the caps)
Studio -EDITOR with "extras"
 
But then why does the editor in Essential have a poly mode? 
 
And why does it say 
ArticlePrice 

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Melodyne studio 3 as download
Upgrade from Melodyne essential (all versions)
US$599DeleteThe update/upgrade is valid for the following license in your account:
This update doesn't fit to any Melodyne product in your account.    
No matter which upgrade I choose, I get the same result, no upgrade for me. My license is registered and activated........

charlyg
Dang it, I had it all typed up and poof, it's gone...anyways
 
PER CELEMONY's Website, from what I can gather:
 
Essential has editor and what we get with Sonar
Assistant comes with the editor with "extras"
EDITOR comes  with DNA for poly(thus the caps)
Studio -EDITOR with "extras"
 
But then why does the editor in Essential have a poly mode? 
 
And why does it say ArticlePrice 

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Melodyne studio 3 as download
Upgrade from Melodyne essential (all versions)
US$599DeleteThe update/upgrade is valid for the following license in your account:
This update doesn't fit to any Melodyne product in your account.    
No matter which upgrade I choose, I get the same result, no upgrade for me. My license is registered and activated........

Just send them an email. They are a great bunch of people to deal with.