Melodyne
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| developer | Celemony Software GmbH |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| Current version |
5.0 ( May 2020 ) |
| operating system | macOS , Windows |
| programming language | C ++ |
| category | Music software |
| License | proprietary |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www.celemony.com | |
Melodyne is music software that enables the automatic pitch correction of music recordings. It also contains functions for sound processing and the analysis of pieces of music.
General
The music software is distributed in versions for Windows and macOS by Celemony Software GmbH . The name is composed of the words melody and dynamics . When it was launched, Melodyne was the first PC software that enabled independent real-time processing of various parameters such as pitch , sound character and speed. The basic idea was to process the sound material independently of pitch and time.
function
The recorded audio material is analyzed by the program so that it can then be edited in real time. In the first step, the material is classified as either melodic, polyphonic, or percussive. Vocal freedoms, such as controlling the sung notes and other stylistic devices, are automatically recognized, displayed in so-called "blobs" (blobs, drops) and thus made accessible for editing. In the second step, melodic material is arranged according to pitch, percussive and polyphonic material are displayed on the same pitch axis. The connection between the tones remains. In the visual representation of the pitches, wrong notes can be improved and even entire melodies can be transposed into other keys.
history
In 2008, Celemony introduced Direct Note Access (DNA; German: Direkter Notenzugriff), a technology that makes it possible to select individual notes from polyphonic audio material and change them. Up to this point it was only possible to edit monophonic and percussive sound material. Another innovation for Melodyne was presented in autumn 2014: Melodyne determines the beat by extracting events from the mixed music. As a consequence, the musician in the studio can now work without a metronome when recording the first track of a new piece, because Melodyne then determines the beginning of each bar (downbeat) and the intermediate beats. This makes it possible to bring the tempo to a fixed speed afterwards or to generate a tempo track, on the basis of which the following tracks are played.
Melodyne 4 was released on January 14, 2016, and it has the tempo functions mentioned above, among other things.
Melodyne 5 was released on May 26, 2020. The most important innovations concern the intonation correction of vocals. In addition to many other aspects of a vocal recording, the algorithm now also automatically detects noise components and breaths, which it then processes separately from the tonal components. The volume balance between noisy and tonal components can be controlled for each individual note. This helps with vocals and choirs and can replace a de-esser . The fade tool and macro for adjusting the volume also offer new possibilities for creating dynamics, because they work per note and even in polyphonic audio material. With the chord track and the chord grid (with integrated chord recognition) any recordings and samples can be adapted to your own song.
There are currently four different versions of Melodyne: Melodyne studio and editor (with DNA), Melodyne assistant and Melodyne essential.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Rauner: Celemony Melodyne 4, Audio Software. In: AMAZONA.de. June 27, 2016, accessed July 8, 2020 .
- ^ A b Philip von Beesten: Elastic Audio. The digital manipulation of pitch and time structures. . 2009. Archived from the original on July 14, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2015. p. 58.
- ↑ Philip von Beesten: Elastic Audio. The digital manipulation of pitch and time structures . 2009. Archived from the original on July 14, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2015. pp. 60–62.
- ↑ Digital music production. Groove and fold . 2014. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
- ↑ Melodyne with a major update . 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
- ↑ Celemony Melodyne 5: Many new features and more naturalness . 2020. Accessed June 18, 2020.