Oh absolutely MH...I wouldn't change a thing on The Kingsmen's version of Louie Louie ( to name a favorite) which is riddled with almost every imaginable recording and performance flaw. It's always a judgement call and one should always err on the side of groove and vibe IMHO.

Talk about guerrilla recording, that Kingsmen track was made in one pass with a single microphone! You couldn't have fixed the vocal even if the tools had been available. 

Well, you might be able to now with Celemony's DNA tech. Split everything out, clean up the vocal and see for yourself once and for all that there were no racy lyrics:-)

"Well, you might be able to now with Celemony's DNA tech. Split everything out, clean up the vocal and see for yourself once and for all that there were no racy lyrics:-)"

This could be a contest. Remix Louie Louie using Melodyne

That would be like colorizing Citizen Kane. Or would it?

I've found Melodyne to be a really helpful tool to analyze my singing.  Ican see how close I am to pitches, see how much I tend to "scoop" notes, and how much pitch wobbling is there.
 
Quite eye opening.
 
You can use it to help become a better singer.

I feel no shame in saying I use Melodyne frequently, and is one only just a few FX I use outside of the ones that come preinstalled with Sonar. Most of my recording concentrates on vocals and I will use whatever FX I can to make those vocal lines pop.
There are some musicians that feel pride in the fact they use no pitch correction software but have no trouble admitting to re-amping a guitar solo, adding reverb to a cold vocal line, or even overdubbing a fluffed note. I don't see any difference whatsoever.

Yep, absolutely necessary for how I prefer to work.
 
For me the end justifies the means. The listener isn't going to give half a damn about how proud the talent was about how they recorded the take, and in most cases they'd never know anyway since it's not usually disclosed how a track was recorded. All people care about is if they like it or don't like it.
 
The way I see it is we can do a whole day of take after take after take to get things perfect and possibly losing the vibe and likely wearing the talent out, or we can get a killer performance and touch up the bits that are a bit rough. Pitch and timing can be easily adjusted, vibe and intensity can not. So long as that's in the bag and we have a great core performance, why put yourself and your talent through unnecessary work? As I said, no one else will likely know or care.
 
The other thing is backing vocals. For the silly amount of vocal layering I do, getting everything locked in super tight, especially dealing with a lot of different vocalists of various ability is a must. I like those big wall of vocal harmony parts and if a couple of the guys are off... argh, man it grates on me!
 
So yeah, absolutely - pitch correction software is a must in my studio.

As a home studio singer/songwriter/player i always end up buying tools like M editor then not using it...i find comping much more fun and sitting there tweaking stuff less exciting.

Or... I'm just vst addicted and ultimately lazy...idk...but i end up just using a small part of my rather huge arsenal...

M4studio looks amazing... I swore off vst purchases this year to learn what i have..but M4studio looks amazing...i can't repeat it enough and truly appreciate this thread...as i do need to begin spending time learning some of the tricks...

The tempo system...the ability to just free form play and sing...omg...thank you.

Watching the vids...I'm pretty floored... Technically this it's an upgrade...right? Right!

Thanks for the liberal buy in timeframe...it will allow me to recover from the huge number of amazing vsts i got last quarter...And it's hard to pay bills gardening during rainstorms!

I think M4s has just moved to the front end of my "really learn to use" list.

I was playing around with studio last night. I recorded a few bars on my electric mountain dulcimer, cleaned it up and converted to MIDI. I then used the MIDI to play Indiginus mountain dulcimer in Kontakt. It sounded pretty good!! Far more realistic than playing from the keyboard.

I also recorded my electric baritone dulcimer. This has a double melody course. Melodyne correctly identified there were two strings on the course, assigning two blobs. Pretty cleaver.