Melodyne Tempo Drag 'n drop integration a serious time saver - Thank you Bakers

streckfus
I unfortunately wasn't able to reap the benefits of this new feature. I dragged the audio file to the timeline, and after a couple minutes of "thinking" SONAR crashed. Melodyne has caused issues with some users in previous iterations and it seems the new version isn't any different.  (I was going to wait until these issues were sorted out before upgrading, but got impatient and wanted to jump on the low upgrade price while it was still available.)
 
I opened the audio file in the standalone version without any problems, although I did notice that Melodyne had a difficult time grabbing the tempo for this particular song, so perhaps that's why it crashed SONAR. 

streckfus

bitman

streckfus
I unfortunately wasn't able to reap the benefits of this new feature. I dragged the audio file to the timeline, and after a couple minutes of "thinking" SONAR crashed. Melodyne has caused issues with some users in previous iterations and it seems the new version isn't any different.  (I was going to wait until these issues were sorted out before upgrading, but got impatient and wanted to jump on the low upgrade price while it was still available.)
 
I opened the audio file in the standalone version without any problems, although I did notice that Melodyne had a difficult time grabbing the tempo for this particular song, so perhaps that's why it crashed SONAR. 

How long was the track you told melo to process?
I am able to drag ~3 minute tracks to the time line in Win7 32 bit without issue.
 
 

It was about a 5-minute song. I've been able to get a couple of other songs to work without any crashes, so I have no idea what happened with the other one.  When testing the other songs, I've found that Melodyne's tempo detection has been rock solid if the source material was recorded to a click or was performed tightly enough to resemble a song that was recorded to a click, but it has had problems with material that has varying tempos and/or time signatures.  I of course don't expect Melodyne to hit it out of the park every single time and it's a time saver nonetheless, but I was hoping it would perform better with varying tempos, since time signatures can be easily changed and don't require the type of guesswork and trial & error that manual tempo alignment does.
 
Overall it's a pretty cool feature, though. I guess it all depends on the source material.
 
Here's a question: if I open up a song in the standalone version of Melodyne and make adjustments to get the tempo lined up there, if I want to bring that resulting tempo back into SONAR, do I need to save it at a MIDI file in Melodyne then import that into SONAR? Or is there another way to do it? Obviously the drag & drop method is by far the easiest, but in cases where that doesn't line up correctly, I'll need to use the standalone.