Worth upgrading to Melodyne 4?

I have Editor 2 and have been waiting to see how Melodyne 4 is working out.  Over at Gearslutz it hasn't been very well received so I'm wondering if people here have found it working good/worthwhile to upgrade or hold fast for the time being.  I'd probably upgrade to Studio 4 from Editor 2 and get the full upgrade.
Thanks...

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I installed an upgrade from Editor 2 to Studio 4 last night.  It went very smoothly.  I tried it out on a track and it seemed to work fine.  Lot more testing to do though.  HTH
 
Paul

I'm holding back too... I've really not read a lot of rave reviews about it....just people gawking over the list of new features.  I'd sure like to hear some people put it to use in the Songs Forum and see how it spins.  My Editor 2 is pretty nifty as is.  It's not like I have a zillion songs that some guitar player laid the first track on, and couldn't keep time....and then I want to add MIDI drums.  THAT seems to be the big feature many are talking about.

I just paid $125 to go from Editor 2 to 4. I get crashes if I leave melodyne on as a region effect when I save. I don't know if this happened on Editor 2, but otherwise I'm not getting crashes. I think I paid $150 to go from essentials to Editor, so to have the full blown Studio for $275 has left me feeling pretty happy. If you want to take advantage of this offer, I would say go for it. Even if you are concerned about some stability issues, you could take advantage of the offer and sit on it for a few months, whilst some issues are ironed out. 
 
The sound design stuff is worth it for me. Especially more subtle use. Has so much potential for creative use and for helping mix sounds in. I've not used the timing stuff yet, but that's a great tool to have in the box.
 
My only reservation would be for those on Studio 2, in that you loose 'some' of the Audio to Midi functions such as pitch bend data. If you don't use this and don't envisage using it, then that's not a problem. (You still get Audio to MIDI note and velocity data).
 
Melodyne won't do anything further with the 2 series, but they will develope and fix anomalies, and any work cake do from now on, I can only imagine will be with Series 4 integration, though they may still have positive benefits for Series 2.
 
I'm so glad I took advantage of the window in upgrading from Essential to Editor, that the same opportunity to get Studio was a no brainier, especially as it was my birthday at the time 

I think I'm going to hold off for a bit, see what fixes come out...

Isn't Essential 4 to Editor 4 just $99. I got Studio 4 for $126 so $400 makes no sense..
I think it is the same as was for Melodyne 2.

tenfoot +1.
Studio 4 is working fine here.

I went from Editor 2 to Studio 4 and am happy to report it's working like a charm for me...no crashes, or stop working stuff. It's a very smooth piece of software with some added things to play with. I recently had to take a song up by initially one and a half tones and I had recorded a guitar. I didn't want to redo the guitar so I tried S4 and it worked beautifully...I later had to take it up another tone and again no probs. I wouldn't have dared to do that in E2 as it always felt unstable and unless you did that and then mixed down, it was risky leaving it open...not so far with S4. Good job Celemony! +1

went from Editor 2 to Studio 4 & it is working good for me so far, no crashes (but i don't leave Melodyne clips in my projects; i always bounce to clip, so i would not have problems with Melodyne 4 trying to open up Melodyne 2 clips)

Mitch_I
 I couldn't find a manual to download on the Celemony site, and I've read that there's no big manual available in the installed version. Is hat right? Maybe I just need to spend more time with the Help Center.
  
Mitch I.

That is true Mitch - there is no manual. You certainly can find all of the information you need on their website, but I too am a fan of written manuals, and not writing one seems to be a disturbingly common and lazy trend.

I have upgraded from Editor 2 to Studio 4 and it seems to be working well for me. I have spent quite a few hours on several projects and no problems so far.
There have been some issues with the way multiple track editing, in the one Melodyne window, is functioning (or has been advertised to work, I'm not sure now) inside Sonar. There are some other threads related to this. Certainly the 'stand alone' version has a slightly different feature set than the 'plugin' version at this point in time.
I also believe Sonar (and maybe Melodyne as well) are still working on the ARA functionality, and this will improve over time.
This is one of only a few 'plugins' that I use outside of the ones that are included with Sonar and I have been nothing but impressed with it since its release.

whattarush
Melodyne 4 keeps crashing Sonar Platinum

Mmmm no, not for me. So far so good

Cheers,
J
Edit : i bought an upgrade in the first couple of days to v4 Editor, when there was no upgrade path to Studio. Celemony then sent ma a mail offering a special upgrade price from v4 Editor to v4 Studio.

One thong i did do : uninstall v2 completely before the upgrade .

But it still doesn'.t crash Sonar.........

Not a single crash for me, I'm using editor 4.

Paul P

maximumpower
How did some of you get Studio 4 (from Editor 2) for $126?

 
See http://forum.cakewalk.com/Upgrade-Melodyne-Editor-to-Editor-4-m3351789.aspx
 
which refers to http://plugindiscounts.com/home/6934-upgrade-melodyne-editor-to-studio-4.html
 

Thank you!