Sanderxpander
I've never seen the term spread in there, but I do know that Melodyne Essential does NOT include the pitch modulation tool that you're probably looking for.
Look here:
http://www.celemony.com/en/melodyne/functions
They call it vibrato in this list.
Ahhh... At last I see... From your link I found a demo video of vocal editing... Nice. It seems to do all the things I need and very nicely. At least the demo sounded clean and without artifacts... A limitless different visually but I'm sure I could get used to it...
So I will continue to use VV until the day I can affor the Editor upgrade... But at least I see that the full version does indeed do these chores as well as polyphony... Not having the tools in our lite version was a bit misleading. So I see that until I actually have Editor, I have no reason to use it instead of VV... ?
BTW... I believe some of the tools are called LFO or such in Editor as well...
Thanks....
Keni