Hi everyone,
 
I've just moved from Antares Autotune to Melodyne and am trying to get my head around some things.
 
I've noticed that when loading a vocal part via the region I notice that the notes on the left hand side column do not correspond with the actual note. For example the left hand column will say that the note is an E but it's actually a C#.
 
Am I doing something wrong? I can't seem to make sense of this.
 
Any help would be appreciated.
 
Cheers,
 
Peter.

not at the studio right now, but in melodyne you can set the key and scale in the options.. iirc, it does not track the scale set in sonar, but I may be in error over that.

Mystic38
not at the studio right now, but in melodyne you can set the key and scale in the options.. iirc, it does not track the scale set in sonar, but I may be in error over that.

I did manage to change the scale in Melodyne to the correct key but I still find that the notes depicted on the Left hand column do not correspond to the actual note.
It just seems that Melodyne seems to ignore what actual note is being sung. If I click on the note it will play a Db but Melodyne will show it as an E.
 
I also went onto the Melodyne forum and noticed that someone else has brought this up but it doesn't look like a very active forum as this was in March 2012 and there have been no replies.
 
Cheers.
 
 

I just used it to sort out the pitch of some notes played on my guitar and found that, for the most part, what I heard is what I saw. Sometimes though it did throw a note into a different place (visually) - usually lower than the actual note but generally the "strong" notes were ok.

Grum.

grumbleweed4162
I just used it to sort out the pitch of some notes played on my guitar and found that, for the most part, what I heard is what I saw. Sometimes though it did throw a note into a different place (visually) - usually lower than the actual note but generally the "strong" notes were ok.

Grum.

Yep, it's got to be something I'm doing or not doing. I just can't see it at the moment.

It also seems to me that Melodyne takes pitch vibrato into account, at least with vocals. For example if the vibrato cycles are a bit sharp, the note will sit lower in the note grid because the vibrato is raising the effective pitch. Not sure if that's the way it works, just a guess, but it does seem to correlate at least with the vocals I've been doing. For this reason I almost always turn the grid off and adjust by ear using the pitch indications as a guide, but not as an absolute "rule."

This is a hassle when I'm working out harmony parts on a guitar and know I want to raise this line to "E" but Melodyne is showing the wrong note names for the pitches. 

Never saw this, I'm a bit stumped. What happens if you switch to note detection mode and try to force the correct pitches?

BCnSTL
This is a hassle when I'm working out harmony parts on a guitar and know I want to raise this line to "E" but Melodyne is showing the wrong note names for the pitches. 

That's exactly what happens with me. Glad to see it's not something I'm doing then.
 
Cheers.