CakeAlexS
If you spent more time learning and less complaining you could get somewhere:
Time Grid Overview: http://youtu.be/JtIbhSIH33c
There are also features around these 'boxes' that you haven't clearly come across yet, melodyne is a product you need to sit down and learn systematically, please don't expect the 'get it' by trial and error. If you do that you will get the basics but not great results because you would have only glossed over 10% of the features. I spent two days learning it myself. Groove 3 tutorials for instance last 4 hours, but I spent another 12 practicing.
If you don't have the time to learn it that's fine, but that's your issue if so.
If I spent less time watching videos that don't give me a solution...
What good are ruler lines up top when the blobs are halfway down the page?
That was my criticism if you go back and actually read my last complaint, I saw the stubby littler ruler lines it takes about ten minutes to go through every drop down menu in Melodyne.... The ruler lines do not go vertically down the page so what good are they?
Neither do they go down the page in essential nor in the editor version...
It as useless as being a carpenter and leaving your tape measure at home...
I have spent much more than two days in Melodyne and I also spent over 6 hours in it the other night. The boxes are cumbersome and far from intuitive.
In v-vocal I don't need to "split notes" I can just move and sculpt them where I want them.
In V-Vocal I can surgically erase any edits made on a certain wave and go back to the original at any time "within the app" where is that in Melodyne? I had to undo an entire wave of edits because I was in a corner and could not get melodyne to "not" edit a particular note incorrectly.