I must admit I upgraded to editor despite the fact that there's no way I can afford it right now. Polyphonic audio to MIDI this good is pretty much one of my dreams and I had to take advantage before the offer runs out. After the X3 upgrade and now this I am going to be doing some serious belt tightening for a while! Celemony I hate you.....and so does my landlord this month
It is so amazing. Straight away I went and sampled some Spanish guitar music and dragged it into Sonar. Let Melodyne do its job and dragged it into a MIDI track which I output to Reaktor's Prism. I could not believe how accurately it recreated the notes and the feel, I didn't have to change a thing. Going through some synth presets was great fun - the music became something unrecognizable but wonderful.
Next I tried it on some of the George Duke clips from "George Duke's Soul Treasures" which comes with Komplete Ultimate. I always loved what he was playing here but was never too keen on the sound. Once again Melodyne converted them perfectly and now I have them playing through Z3TA and it sounds amazing. I put some delay on it, slapped on a nice fat house beat and hey presto...instant track. This is dangerous.
But best of all was a short recording of me playing a jazz chord melody on guitar that I'd forgotten about from months ago. I played it recently and thought it sounded great but for the life of me I could not remember what I was playing. Of course I could have sat down and worked out all of those chords by ear, but it was much easier to just let Melodyne do its thing and covert it to MIDI. Now I know exactly what notes I was playing. This thing is incredible.