konradh
A tad off the question, but I will add that I use the "vibrato" tool (the one that looks like a triangle wave) a lot in conjunction with the pitch drift tool (that looks like a shallow sine wave).
 
If a note varies way off pitch, I use the drift tool to center it on the note as much as possible, and then use the vibrato tool to reduce the magnitude of the variance.  Old stuff to you Melodyne pros, but a good trick for newbies.
 
Arguing aside, people's ears now expect dead-on pitch.  On the other side, doubled and tripled parts can be fattened by using Melodyne in the other direction, or by correcting different amounts (or by moving a part as a whole up or down a few cents after it is corrected).

Conrad,
 
Which version of Melodyne are you using?

Zargg

ampfixer
I went with assistant after audio to midi was removed from essential. As you point out that small upgrade gives you a lot of features for your money. I felt it was the most bang for the bucks.

Hi. When did they remove that option?
I hadn't noticed

Pretty sure they changed the package content when version 4 came out. It was on the very 1st bundled version and then gone. If you look on the list everyone is linking, you'll see it's not in essential any longer.

I guess that makes sense from their staged sales model but that's a serious downer for anyone who got it with Sonar!

Unlike Microsoft Office the features of Melodyne whether advanced or simple are useful. I watched a video to do with Waves Tune last night and whilst impressive only deals with melodic content and it's always pushing the Protools thing. Although Studio 1 seems to be making an appearance these days.
 
Once I have allocated enough money I will put some cash into second most or Studio version. Afterall as long as I use the features at one time, the investment will be there. It's more than correction, you can use it to of sound design. I've used Melodyne to quickly recover melodies from prerecorded parts as it's a time saver. When remixing songs from others, it allows you create new parts from theirs or build accompanying parts.
 
For the moment I've been spending money here and there building a collection of new plug-in effects from SPL Transient designer to a Neve 1073 emulation.
 

I wrote Melodyne when I upgraded and they sent me a new license which made it easy to integrate. The vibrato tool is very important to me. Yes, I prefer multiple takes and comping but still need pitch correction. Inmissed v-vocal for awhile but got over it. Too many transients/artifacts/slurring sounds.

ampfixer

Zargg

ampfixer
I went with assistant after audio to midi was removed from essential. As you point out that small upgrade gives you a lot of features for your money. I felt it was the most bang for the bucks.

Hi. When did they remove that option?
I hadn't noticed

Pretty sure they changed the package content when version 4 came out. It was on the very 1st bundled version and then gone. If you look on the list everyone is linking, you'll see it's not in essential any longer.

FYI essential still has audio to midi conversion. just create a midi track or instrument track and drag an audio track to it.

stevesweat

ampfixer

Zargg

ampfixer
I went with assistant after audio to midi was removed from essential. As you point out that small upgrade gives you a lot of features for your money. I felt it was the most bang for the bucks.

Hi. When did they remove that option?
I hadn't noticed

Pretty sure they changed the package content when version 4 came out. It was on the very 1st bundled version and then gone. If you look on the list everyone is linking, you'll see it's not in essential any longer.

FYI essential still has audio to midi conversion. just create a midi track or instrument track and drag an audio track to it.

Thanks!
Just checked myself, and it works 

There seem to be so many good deals for Melodyne and I can recommend Studio if you also like experimental music as it offers some incredible features.
Up until the end of July you could buy an upgrade from Essential to Editor from everyplugin.com for £133 and right now direct from Celemony the upgrade from Editor 4 to Studio 4 is only £45 which totals £178 for Sonar users to upgrade from the bundled Essential version to Studio 4.
The full price is £630 which limits its market but at under £200 for all those people who have Essential as it's bundled with a lot more than Sonar it's very appealing; to me anyway.
 
I only registered Essential 2 recently as I'd never used it from Sonar X3 Producer.
Upgraded to Editor 4 two weeks ago and today to Studio 4 and I'm blown away.
Thanks to whomever it was on this forum that mentioned that everyplugin.com had the upgrade deal on last month.

Got Melodyne editor to my Sonar Professional. 
Yes, Melodyne Studio still does a lot more than editor, but I am ok presently with it: all the pitch correction, modulation, tone drift, volume, time correction, formants for timbre: all is there, well accessible, for each note (=blob).
There's another thing that puzzeles me a bit.
If I wanted to use Melodyne in Sonar, I used to go
"Insert",
"ReWire" -> uncategorized -> Melodyne 4.
I can see that Melodyne launches, but is does so as if I was using it as a standalone.
In earlier times Melodyne opened inside of the Sonar screen as we can watch it in the tutorial at YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-0pHJTaIOo&t=2s
but alas, the tutorial does not show which settings have they been using, differing (obviously) from mine.
I posted my question there as well, but with no reply so far, which makes me think I better try here.
Thanks for updating me.
 

Mad_Musicologist
Got Melodyne editor to my Sonar Professional. 
Yes, Melodyne Studio still does a lot more than editor, but I am ok presently with it: all the pitch correction, modulation, tone drift, volume, time correction, formants for timbre: all is there, well accessible, for each note (=blob).
There's another thing that puzzeles me a bit.
If I wanted to use Melodyne in Sonar, I used to go
"Insert",
"ReWire" -> uncategorized -> Melodyne 4.
I can see that Melodyne launches, but is does so as if I was using it as a standalone.
In earlier times Melodyne opened inside of the Sonar screen as we can watch it in the tutorial at YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-0pHJTaIOo&t=2s
but alas, the tutorial does not show which settings have they been using, differing (obviously) from mine.
I posted my question there as well, but with no reply so far, which makes me think I better try here.
Thanks for updating me.
 

Hi. IMO you should use Melodyne as a Region FX, using the ARA function. Right click on clip, choose Region FX, and then Melodyne.
All the best.