Been working on a project with a swing/jazz band in the studio.  Was mixing yesterday and the guitar player was in the control room with me.  During one of the songs he says.... "wait....back that up and play it again".  Low and behold he had hit a major chord where a minor chord should have been in this one segment.

I pulled up the passage of the guitar track in Melodyne Editor and was able to change the major 3rd to a minor 3rd in a matter of seconds.

I had read in the Melodyne manual that this was possible, and even saw it done in a video on youtube.....but to be able to fix...not only single notes, but notes in chords...just amazes me...!


edited to fix typo.

How about remixing an entire minor tune into a major key? 

Riders On The Storm remixed in major: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQpyyeh-vcY

Definitely changes the "feel" of the song...!

sharke


How about remixing an entire minor tune into a major key? 

Riders On The Storm remixed in major: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQpyyeh-vcY

I have used Melodyne on vocals with great success.  Even used it on the bass with this swing/jazz band (the guy was using a fretless bass and some of the notes were waaaayyy flat).  But those were single notes.  Fixing notes in chords is quite fascinating.  The guitar player was very impressed to say the least...!

I cannot even begin to imagine what's going on at the waveform level to determine, and edit, pitches in a chord. One of these days I'm gonna learn. 

Melodyne will turn audio tracks into Midi Data too

Bob...I'll have to give that a try.  I'm thinking of adding a kick drum sample to the kick I recorded in this band.  I haven't even tried it with audio snap in Sonar yet.

sharke


I cannot even begin to imagine what's going on at the waveform level to determine, and edit, pitches in a chord. One of these days I'm gonna learn. 

Yeah, crazy stuff.  I'm guessing they FFT the signal, determine the root note and best guess as to which harmonics belong to it, then transform in the frequency domain before IFFT shifting the whole thing back to the time domain.  Way easier said than done, especially determining which harmonics go with the individual note, since several instruments may be playing the same note.  Kudos to the Melodyne team for figuring out how to make it work. 
 
John

Some things I have done with Melodyne other than fix vocals:

• A guitar sample did not sustain long enough on the last note of the song.  I used the timing tool in Melodyne to stretch it out to sustain as long as the other instruments so I could do a smooth fade.
• After recording a guitar and having the note sustain for four beats, I realized it conflicted with another part, so I shortened it to two beats so it was gone before the chord change.
• Removed vibrato from a harmonica sample to make it sound like a melodica.

Melodyne Editor is definitely one of the coolest apps out there.    Just for fun I once brought in the song Brick House, changed it to major, and modified the bass line for a bassist coworker's un-enjoyment.