Melodyne and ASIO Buffer

 I had a really messed-up Melodyne crashing situation and the advice from Sweetwater and Celemony was to ensure the buffer was set to 1024 samples in Preferences.



That;s fine, but here is what is bothering me about this:

1. I cut a lot of tracks with Meldoyne and an ASIO buffer of 256 without problems so I am suspicious when someone says the buffer is the issue.

2. 1024 is not even close to usable when tracking: the latency is so great the singer feels like he/she is using a slow slapback, 100% wet.



So, at this time I am tracking (recording) at 256 and then switching to 1024 for Melodyne work, but that does not seem like a normal way to work.

Thoughts?

To the original poster, it seems from searching the forum that Melodyne wants 1024, and some comments in what I found indicate that they remove other plugs and such when using it.

Here are the threads I found on my search that might have some content that applies to you.  One of the threads was started by you, but you never got a complete answer from anyone in the forum - it's sort of an orphan:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2822021

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2773838

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1901480


Bob Bone

This is not an issue that is Sonar-specific.

I, too, was having problems with Melodyne in Sonar, and then I found that Celemony suggests a 1024 buffer for best operation in all systems. Here's a link to their forum that gives their advice to avoid crashes.

http://www.celemony.com/userforum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=7555

Thanks for all the help, everyone.

I have a particular vocal sound and Melodyne is an important tool for me.  (No, NOT the Cher or T-Pain sound—much more subtle than that.

By the way, I remember a somewhat 10cc-sounding group that used the so-called Cher sound before Cher, but I have searched and can't find it anywhere.  I remember that it was on the playlist in the movie theater before the show started so I heard it a zillion times for a while and used to think it was some kind of weird vocoder things (since we didn't know about AutoTune etc then).

I don't normally use Melodyne while I'm still tracking and if I do, or if I have used it on tracks I freeze them so I can safely use a smaller buffer to do more tracking.

Dan