Cmon Wiz... pull the trigger.. it is worth it... DNA is simply amazing and the ARA implementation within SONAR is as high tech as it can get.
 
I didn't like using the DNA stand alone (too much hassle) saving audio, loading Melodyne... editing the audio... saving the work and then reloading X3.... 
 
Of course it wasn't supposed to work like this but X2 and earlier would simply crash too much to try and do this IN LINE... now, it is almost as MELODYNE is an integrated part of SONAR... what a joy!
 
Jim

Get Editor and study the videos and put it to work. It is totally amazing at what it does.

the scale correction is awesome!  i prefer hungarian minor, but it's hard for me to hum a tune in it... just whistle a little something into sonar, engage melodyne's scale correction and drag it to a midi track and i'm set! ;)

swamptooth
the scale correction is awesome!  i prefer hungarian minor, but it's hard for me to hum a tune in it... just whistle a little something into sonar, engage melodyne's scale correction and drag it to a midi track and i'm set! ;)

+1 lol

Well I guess I didn't get a letter with the offer because I already had essentials installed. So when I installed X3 I skipped over the sonar essential version.
 
Hmmm??????????? What to do. I emailed Celemony but no response yet.

bobletteross
Anyone having trouble buying at the Celemony site?
 
Rejecting both good credit cards....weird... keeps saying check numbers....

The same thing happened to me... (I'm assuming you're in America?)  I checked my credit card's website, and realized that my account had been locked.  So I called the card company, and they told me it's because I tried to make a purchase from a company in Germany (Celemony)... So they assumed it was fraud, and locked my account.  So I just told them "Nope, that was me..." and after about 25 minutes of horrible phone support, they finally unlocked my account, and I was able to make the purchase. 
So I would assume it's the same issue that you're having?
 
With that being said... I bought the upgrade to Melodyne Editor 2 days ago... (October 1st)... What are the chances that they would still give me the discount price somehow?  (Refund or something?)  Am I just out of luck for jumping the gun on this one?  I'm sort of keeping my fingers crossed, because I agree with the people that are saying the upgrade price to X3, plus the upgrade to Editor (plus BFD3), plus paying rent, etc... It all stacks up pretty quickly... I TOTALLY could have waited 2 more days to make the upgrade if I would have known that there would be a discount like this so quickly.

Intrigued by essential I also bought the editor upgrade.
I'm glad I did. 
This is fantastic software. I didn't know such AI was possible at this time.

Can you send me a copy of the Melodyne upgrade email?
 
I've already registered and still waiting :-(
 
~ Tony

I hope when I get to installing X3 this weekend I get that.

For me I just went into the license screen and entered the new serial. Are you running Sonar and/or Melodyne as an Administrator? Some software requires this.

I briefly ran through the menu choices and "about" etc. Didn't see a license screen. I am completely new to Melodyne. Is there a menu access to that screen, or are you talking about the one that comes up when you haven't registered yet?
(Thanks for your interest.)

GMGM
For anyone still waiting for an e-mail, just register a myCelemony account here...
 
http://www.celemony.com/c.../WebObjects/LicenseApp
 
It'll forward you to an upgrade offer. I'm downloading now. Too bad I'll have to wait 'til tomorrow night to install / play.

Thanks so much for that link! I've purchased and am downloading now! Woo hoo!!!! :)

joden
I am particularly interested in the audio to midi to create drum parts from audio recordings (drums only) so I can use them in an arranger board I have to create some really funky beats.

I have been involved in software development since 1970, and since 1973 professionally.  I majored in Computer Science back when that involved studying hardware down to the gate level and building software all the way down to the machine code level.
 
While I am impressed by a great many products -- and few products are more impressive than SONAR X3 in its richness of function and elegant user interface -- there are only two program that still amaze me every time I use them.
 
One is Band-in-a-box.  I still can't get my head around how it does everything it does -- coming so close to the true human touch, and actually playing with more "human emotion" than most human musicians.  That program has amazed me for over a decade and the amazement hasn't diminished one bit.
 
And now Melodyne joins BIAB on my list of completely amazing, unfathomable programs.  Even if I didn't actually want to use any of its features, I would own that just for its value as a work of art.  And then the $150 offer!?  That took about 2 seconds to decide.  The cats can eat sawdust for a week or two.
 
(OK.  No angry letters from PETA, please.  All 11 of our cats are well cared for and eat better than I do.  And fortunately for them, almost all of them are music lovers.)

In Melodyne, find the help menu. Select "License", then "Enter Serial Number". I didn't uninstall Essential first, just installed Editor over it - although it seemed as if it didn't actually imstall anything, which would fit with Melodyne's statement that "Melodyne Single Track" is basically all one program and the different licenses unlock how much functionality you get.