Melodyne 4 Studio Sync Issues in Platinum Manchester

I just recently had an email exchange with support at Celemony.  I mentioned the timing problem and he told me that someone was working on it.  I'm going to hold off installing Studio 4 till this get straightened out.
 
Good luck.
 
Paul

Sorry to hear you are having problems with Melodyne. I am using Melodyne Studio 4 in Manchester Platinum, but I am not having any sync problems. Unless others are having the same trouble It could be worth digging a little deeper into trouble-shooting your system rather than waiting for Celemony. Has anyone else confirmed the issue?
 
The multi track editing is working as intended. There is a discussion of its limitations here:
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Manchester-not-working-as-advertized-with-Melodyne-Studio-4-m3359138.aspx

i remember the timing problem & the workaround i was told about it: before opening up something in Melodyne, turn off all FX in the project; that seems to "fix" the timing issue

Yes, I tried a simple project where I just sung the numbers from one to six, on 1 track with no other FX and the timing was still off. I made a little video of it and sent it to Celemony via DropBox but they haven't responded that they've seen it.
 
In the meantime, I just loaded Melodyne Studio 4 "trial" onto my backup DJ laptop (win10, i5) and have a "Demo" version of an earlier version of Platinum on it and was surprised that the timing was just fine. For the test, I dragged Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (MP3) onto a track, loaded Studio 4 as a plug-in, transferred the first a-capella 40 seconds of the song, and wow! Studio automatically chose the polyphonic setting, then broke it into the single vocal parts and it played in sync. I was even able to delete some notes to hear just the root melody that seems to be in the key of "G". On this computer, I never installed Cubase and maybe that further points to the Cubase ASIO "generic low latecny driver" as the culprit. It was really nice to be able to break apart the individual vocal parts of Queen's legendary song. Who would-a thunk even a few years ago that this ability would be possible? Amazing.
 
If I reinstall windows and all of my programs on my desktop, that's about a 2 to 3 day task. ugh... but if that is what will make it work, I'll do it because the reward is worth it...

I did go through all of the drivers and a lot of them actually worked OK but no better than the ASIO.
 
I went on the Cubase forums and folks there say the "generic" driver is hidden deep in the registry, so the best I could do safely was simply delete it's folder I found in the Programs file. But, that simple deletion has kept it from occurring in my Sonar list of drivers/devices in the Preferences section - so it is visibly gone but I think it still lives on in my registry as reported on the Cubase forums. I suppose I should go to those forums and ask where exactly it is in the registry and attempt to delete it that way before I do a full reinstall.
 
At any rate, I'm happy to see it work for once, and Bravo to Celemony for inventing this program as it's quite a giant advancement in editing ability. As a singer who likes to double track my vocals and do lots of multi-track background singing, it is a must-have to easily and accurately tighten things up.

OK, another hour of testing and the culprit seems to be how and when FX are implemented and maybe a dash of the Steinberg driver. In my last hour of testing, I loaded the song that I had originally noticed the sync problem with, but this time I held down the 'shift' key before I clicked on the song title, which brought up a screen that asked me which FX I wanted to enable. I chose 'none', loaded it up and then applied Melodyne Studio 4 to the 2 vocal tracks, did the transfer thing, and they actually worked in perfect sync - shocking! After this unexpected success, I added Izotope 2 and, oops, the scrolling stopped dead, so I closed without saving and opened it again, but this time I did allow only the Melodyne FX to load. This time everything worked, Melodyne was in perfect sync and Izotope (which I added later) worked fine as well. However, I hit the "FX" button and immediately all scrolling stopped again within the Melodyne screen. Obviously there's definitely a bug or 2 in there and I hope they fix it soon.
 
Oh yeah, I also did a little 10 second song where I sang from 1 to ten at the measure/marker points, one track in english and 1 track in german (high school german finally put to use). I panned one hard left and one hard right and "everything" was working great until I tried to add a drum loop and noticed the preview was silent for all the loops - why, who knows it used to work before this latest build, good grief.....and I started this little song with just a totally blank template that imported no known FX. Time for a break... Hopefully they get it all worked and it would be real nice if one could assign different colors to different tracks to more easily differentiate between blobs. Right now, all the blobs are orange which gets very confusing.

Thanks for the update, Frederick.