Melodyne Essential vs. V-vocal vs. New Tone

Melodyne Essential is going for $49.99 at Musicians Friend's today in their Stupid Deal of the Day. Do you guys think this is worth picking up if V-vocal is already a feature of recent Sonar and X1 in general? FL Studio also has a pitch correction plugin that sells for $99. It looks cooler than Melodynes with its dark GUI. Do you guys know if New Tone can be used in Sonar or standalone?

Melodyne beats VV so yeah.... Looking cool or working like it's supposed to...... which would you rather have? Melodyne is one of the best pitch correction packages on the market. If you want clean, artifact free, transparent pitch fixes, Melodyne is the ticket to buy. Just my opinion. I have it and love it. I use Editor. I did a bunch of comparing before I bought it.

 
Yep!
Melodyne has no equal when it comes to intonation correction.
SUPER quick/easy...
 
 

I've tried a few.. Melodyne is no doubt the best.  It does work buggy as a Sonar plugin, I'm guessing they will address that soon enough ( Right??!?)  ; )

Is V-Vocal updated? I haven't used it in a long time but I remember it being fiddly to use and with less than excellent results. There's a possibillity that I never managed to learn it properly. Anyway, I ended up geting Melodyne instead which I have never had any problems with. I never leave it in the project tho, as soon as I'm done editing I do (as someone else say) a real-time bounce and get rid of it. Never had a crash and the results are amazing!

On a different note - I work professionally with Nuendo as well and have used the built in pitch correction inside Nuendo quite extensively. Melodyne even beats that to the ground. It's absolutely fantastic. However, if you're after an autotune effect, it's not that great. But that's positive I guess if your primary goal is to keep things sounding natural. For that you can't beat Melodyne (sorry V-Vocal)

I'm using the Editor as well.

Seems like Auto-Tune gets no love. I have both Melodyne and Auto-Tune and get better quality results from Auto-Tune - ***graphical, not auto, mode***. 

Melodyne's interface is less cluttered and perhaps more intuitive, but, in my experience, unless you slice the Ss off of every single word (that has an S) and exclude them from processing, the results sound phasey and unnatural. 

I totally respect the opinion of the folks who prefer Melodyne, but it gets talked about as though it were a foregone conclusion that Melodyne is the best. 

That said, $50 is pretty cheap and Melodyne sounds a lot better than V-Vocal. My preference for Auto-Tune aside, I'd say go for it.

I'll find out, I ordered it along with some other items from M/F today.  I wasn't going to order it but after the other items, I decided to bite.

I tried Auto Tune 7 and it won't work with Sonar 64 bit (they reluctantly refunded my money after admitting it won't run with Sonar 64 bit - they told me to install Sonar 32 bit so it would work). 

yeah, it is a SONAR thing. I have reported it. Melodyne fast bounce was fine before X1.

Still I can bounce to a track without fast bounce selected and Melodyne bounces fine.

Lance

Good info Guitarhacker.

Thanx!

Lance

The data has to be transferred to the plugin in real time. Then when it is in the plugin, the plugin does not have to be processed, so at that point, the edits are playing back real time essentially.

I like to bounce instances of it to save resources and keep the project less complex.

Lance

As big a SONAR fan as I am, I also prefer Melodyne hands down... the Editor version, anyway.  
 
But I also use it within Studio One via ARA so it opens in-place similar to the PRV.   I haven't used S1 for much else at this point, but for this use it works really well.  Add ARA to SONAR and it would be, well, wow. 
 

Meodyne is better than V-Vocal, but I am not familiar with "Essential."  I have Assistant.

konradh


Meodyne is better than V-Vocal, but I am not familiar with "Essential."  I have Assistant.

essential is the stripped down version.... just what you need and no more, to do pitch correction. 


The details are removed. 

californiamusic


I've tried a few.. Melodyne is no doubt the best.  It does work buggy as a Sonar plugin, I'm guessing they will address that soon enough ( Right??!?)  ; )

Yes, there is a memory leak in it.  Yes, they are working on it.
Interestingly, I see on the Presonus Studio One forums that Presonus have just discovered a similar resource problem with Melodyne that causes ever-increasing use of memory in Studio 1.

Well I opted not to pick up the Essential version because to upgrade it, it cost a lot more then just starting out with Assistant. And with Assistant, it has a few more features. I figure, V-vocal has all the basic pitch correction features that I would possibly need. So it didn't make sense for me to spend another $49 for basic features. Autotune looks sharp too but doesn't look as easy to use.