Melodyne 2 and 4 coexisting in Sonar?

Thanks for posting. I have the same concern, but I believe you can opt out of installing Melodyne Essential 4. We'll see.
 
Walt

There was actually a product called Melodyne 3 a good decade ago. And then they sort of changed the naming scheme and it was just called Melodyne. Then there were version numbers of that which eventually got up to 2.1.something, and now this new version. So I assume they're trying to avoid confusion with the version of 3 that's even older than the version we currently think of as 2.
 
I realise this explanation may not have helped much.

I just installed and tried out Melodyne 4 in Sonar. Seems to work just fine. I've only put about 5 minutes into it so far, but it seems OK. I'll be sure to post if I run into anything.
 
Dean

Razorwit
I just installed and tried out Melodyne 4 in Sonar. Seems to work just fine. I've only put about 5 minutes into it so far, but it seems OK. I'll be sure to post if I run into anything.
 
Dean

I installed the Studio 30 day free trial. So far so good.
 
Walt

mettelus
I just downloaded the trial for Melodyne 4, and it does overwrite Melodyne 2 (can see the "updating Melodyne 2.xxx to Melodyne 4.xxx"). The code is identical for all flavors (Essential, Assistant, Editor, Studio), so I can only assume that Melodyne 4 Essential will overwrite Melodyne 2 Editor.
 
The demo itself has an issue with activation, as it goes to a web page for "trial" but remained in "Media Player" mode (i.e. opens to look like Melodyne Studio, but cannot edit anything).
 
I just sent an email to Celemony on both issues above and will let you know feedback I get. As of right now, I have a non-functioning trial and total loss of Melodyne 2 Editor.

Thanks for this.
 
So the question still would be if we can choose not to install the free version (Essential v4) that will come with Sonar, and just keep Editor v2 that I already have. 

In the interim I did a system restore to yesterday and Editor 2 came back online without issue.

 
I just fired up Melodyne Essentials on a region and it suggested I upgrade to the free Melodyne 4.
 
I closed down Sonar, uninstalled the two programs that had Melodyne in their names, downloaded the update and installed it.  When I then started Sonar, it hangs during the plugin scan on Melodyne vst3.  There was no vst3 in the Melodyne 4 download, only vst2.  So my Sonar is broken.
 
I'll post more once I figure out what has to be done to fix this.  I'll start by reinstalling Melodyne 2 from my Cakewalk account.
 
Try 2 :  Uninstalled M4, installed M2 and got a runtime error at some point during the installation but ignored and the installation finished.  Started Sonar, the plugin scan completes, then Sonar hangs forever...
 
Try 3 : Tried to uninstall M2, uninstall fails on "Melodyne singletrack"... rebooted, same problem.
 
Try 4 :  Hoovered the registry of everything Celomony or Melodyne (gods I hate doing that but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as GR4), removed all files and folders I could find, rebooted and Melodyne singletrack is gone from Programs and Features list.  Now Sonar launches ok, but of course Melodyne is absent from the Region FX list.  Not sure I want to try and reinstall, but what choice do I have...
 
Try 5 :  Figured, what the heck, might as well try to reinstall M2 through CCC.  I start CCC and get a 'new CCC version available' message.  Accept the update and the installation of the new CCC fails.  I exit that, click my CCC icon, and that fails...
 
[here goes my evening]
 
Try 6 :  Uninstalled  CCC 1.1.2.2, installed CCC 1.1.3.1  - that works but Melodyne Essential still shows a green light.
Reinstall ME2 through CCC.  Sonar loads, Melodyne shows up in the Region FX.  I define a region, Melodyne askes to be activated, I give it my serial number and that fails on a "licenceProduct/VersionNotAcceptableByClient"
 
Try 7 : Close Sonar, reinstall M4 without first uninstalling M2.  That goes through, Sonars starts, I define a region, activate Melodyne and now Melodyne is all in French (I was never offered a choice and it was in English before, as is all my music software).
 
TRY 8 :    Preferences in Melodyne Region FX menus has no languages option.  However, after some surfing I discover that the vst plugin does and I could change it to English.  I then closed and reopened the Region FX and it's now in English as well.
 
The moral of this story :  Save yourself a lot of trouble and do not uninstall Melodyne Essentials 2 before updating to ME4.
 

Hey Paul, can you try a system restore (I hope you save them) to a point yesterday or prior? Your system should have actually saved one during the Melodyne 4 installation (2 processes), but I used the restore point prior to that one. System came back up to "where it was" after that reboot.
 

After using the demo for a day, liked what I saw/heard and bought the upgrade from Editor to Studio 4.
 
Walt

jbraner

John T

digimidi
I'm thinking of going with Melodyne Studio since the upgrade is only $49 dollars more than the $99 for the Editor 2 upgrade, if I understand it correctly...

I'm very tempted by that. The Studio-only sound editor feature is really unique and very interesting.

Audiodeluxe has the upgrade for $126 (go all the way through to checkout) - even better!

Yeah, but you have to wait until they manually process it! Damn!

FYI I just upgraded and  installed Melodyne Studio 4. It overwrites the "editor" or "singletrack" version but Melodyne Studio 3 remains operable. I had no install issues and loaded some vocal Projects that were originally using editor in Sonar Platinum and the loaded OK with all Melodyne info still in the original tracks. 

cparmerlee

digimidi
I'm thinking of going with Melodyne Studio since the upgrade is only $49 dollars more than the $99 for the Editor 2 upgrade, if I understand it correctly...

Yes, I was looking at exactly the same thing at
 
https://www.celemony.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CelemonyShop.woa/2/wo/ko6dLC23h613sNs2ot0H50/0.0.23.23.5.37
 
It says "Upgrade from Melodyne editor (all versions) to Melodyne 4 studio – Promotion price valid until 04/30/2016" for $149.
 
I have several questions:
 
1) Do they honor that price for those of us who got Melodyne 2 Editor from the special Cakewalk deal?  I assume they will because my account at Celemony shows the right serial number for my Editor 2 version.
 
Not sure about that one...maybe ask them?
 
2) If I upgrade now, with that work OK with the existing SPlat, or do we have to wait until SPlat officially supports Melodyne 4?  Notice that this price has an expiration date.
 
Worked successfully for me. Just ran install, activated and good to go. Seems nice and smooth.
 
3) How will I ever figure out how to use this stuff?  Those Celemony guys are freaking geniuses.
 
Agree with that. 
 
PS. Bought mine from the above: 'Audiodeluxe has the upgrade for $126 (go all the way through to checkout) - even better!' Took a few hours for it to come through though. But good to go now.