Hey Cakewalk, please ask Melodyne to give me a discount on upgrading :O)

I know I know! But it was worth a try :O)

LJB
$399- on special? My weak currency means that's nearly half-a-month's income. I cry in my pillow at night about this..

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RME UFX

How many months you had no food to get it?
 
If I remember correctly,  the best price from Sonar to Melodyne Studio 4 was: $150 immediately after registrations for Editor 3 + $150 for Editor 3 -> Studio 4. So $300 in total. That was strictly time limited process, so $399 just as "a special" sounds reasonable.

Tunerman
I may pull the trigger on the Editor version for now for $199.  As a piano player, I'm most interested in the Polyphonic (DNA Direct Note Access, and for vocals, the refined pitch/vibrato tools,
 
But for now, an additional $200 more for the Studio version only adds 3 more features: Multi-tracking and Multitrack Note Editing, Sound Editor, and Quantize to reference track. If I really think I'd use the additional features needed for just a home studio I'll upgrade to Studio in the future when another sale comes along.
 
Michael

I upgraded to Assistant about a year ago, so it's just $149 to move up to editor. Bit of a no brainer so I've done it.

Tunerman
I may pull the trigger on the Editor version for now for $199.  As a piano player, I'm most interested in the Polyphonic (DNA Direct Note Access, and for vocals, the refined pitch/vibrato tools,
 
But for now, an additional $200 more for the Studio version only adds 3 more features: Multi-tracking and Multitrack Note Editing, Sound Editor, and Quantize to reference track. If I really think I'd use the additional features needed for just a home studio I'll upgrade to Studio in the future when another sale comes along.
 
Michael

I'm thinking the same, I mainly want the expanded pitch correction tool palette.

Brian Walton

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Brian Walton
If you run a full time business recording, I'd think it would be a necessary tool these days to have.  If you are not generating a sizable revenue and "upgrade" to editor or studio, maybe not so much. 

For me that was other way around. I am home hobbyist without any revenue (from that activity). I am thinking long time about any new synth, effect, etc. But I was not thinking a second before getting the Editor and later studio: for piano, versions below Editor are useless; finding intended tempo in played without click by non-pro multiple tracks is much simpler when I see all tracks separately; finally melodyne can create some "music" from the content which is too far away from it originally (entry version is too limited).

I don't follow your workflow you describe.
 
"for piano" and multi-tracks?

I have mentioned that I am a noob, I do things which are away by procedure and target from a "studio".
 
For piano, think about a "concert" played by 8-14 years old masters which you want to send grandmas 
 
For tempo that is completely different use case. I play along myself. If someone with my skills play guitar and put block-flute/voice on it, even when drums and piano are "e-" (so in MIDI), there is no much sense to try quantize, at least not at the beginning (first I need to find where the tempo "supposed to be" since there is nothing where it "already is"). I "assign" tempo in Studio where I think the click sounds more or less reasonable. I have tried to find how to do this inside Sonar. May be I simply do not understand something, but I never had success. So I was doing that in standalone Editor (on mixed track) and then exporting to Sonar. In Studio that is simpler, since I see all tracks separately, know from where each "note" comes without audition, plus mute/solo.
 
The editor was offered immediately when I have registered Essential from Sonar. My "voice" needs much more then "subtle correction" to become musical, plus piano wish, and I have checked it will be hard to upgraded later for the same price, the decision had to be fast.
During 3->4 first offer, upgrade to studio was no brainer.
 
My point was that for a noob Studio can be a nice toy In some situations even more attractive than for real "pro".
 
PS. I understand the problem can be in its price... I was born in USSR, in the middle of utopia idea to make the whole world fair. The revenue from my first "job" was sufficient to buy only one legal CD.

SmilingCrow
So can you take advantage of the current offers if your only version is the one that comes with Sonar?
I currently have X3 Producer so I imagine I'd need to upgrade to Professional to get Melodyne 4.1!
 

Yes, the upgrade is from ANY Melodyne essential. I recommend buying it from everyplugin.com (you've got to log in to see the member price).