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1. Show Play Algorithm Parameters XSL Show Audio to MIDI Parameters CEM Show Pitched Notation on selected Track Show Score Notes XEN SMPTE Type 29 97 drop v 30 v Ignore Hours To select the type of SMPTE used for the transmission of MIDI Time Code choose View gt SMPTE Type followed by 24 25 29 97 drop or 30 from the sub menu If Melodyne is synchronized using MIDI Clock and the Cycle box in the Transport Bar is checked Melodyne will cycle between the locators in sync with the MIDI Clock if you would prefer it to follow the position of the MIDI Clock master clear the Cycle box 07 04 The function Spot to Pro Tools The function Spot to Pro Tools has an important role to play in streamlining the workflow when Melodyne is used in combination with Pro Tools especially when Melodyne is used as a ReWire client with Pro Tools but is otherwise irrelevant Note whilst the option Spot to Pro Tools is shown automatically when a file containing Pro Tools regions is first opened it is hidden by default to show it select Edit gt Preferences gt Other gt Enable Spot to Pro Tools 148 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 07 04 The function Spot to Pro Tools Explanation regions is the term used to describe sections of an audio file within Pro Tools Technically they consist of pointers to the beginning and end of all or part of the file For every
2. The three tools for the editing of pitch detection errors or note separations The next two tools have the same functions as the sub tools of the first multi function tool Use these tools when you can do without the multi functionality of the multi function tool Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 163 o8 The MDD Editor O8 O3 Correcting the pitch The detected pitch of a selected note is displayed in the text fields of the Inspector the name of the note and any deviation in cents as well as the frequency in hertz is displayed To reset the detected pitch drag the note in question or If necessary the group of notes in question near to the probably correct position Melodyne will then attempt in the area of the new pitch to ascertain again the pitch curve it contains Sometimes notes the pitch content of which is unclear are attached to a neighboring note as unrecognized parts These can be separated off using the next tool and then dragged to the likely pitch As a result of the new detection the neighboring notes may possibly also be altered in their pitch course If the result of the displayed pitch course does not seem entirely correct you can also double click a note without moving it Melodyne will then re ascertain the pitch course Tip to check whether the found pitch is the expected one it is useful to compare the found pitch with the original using the neighboring keys O which plays the original and P
3. After choosing the last tool in the MDD Editor you can remove or add pitch transitions f you double click on a note a pitch transition to the following note will be added A further double click will delete the transition again f several notes are marked a transition will be placed after each of the marked notes Deleting works in an analogous way to the single note Of course the pitch transitions are only deleted if and when all the marked notes have pitch transitions Otherwise the pitch transitions not yet set will be added As an alternative to double clicking on a note pitch transitions can be set or deleted by checking the Transition box in the Inspector The Change Notes button in the Inspector assigns a new pitch randomly to each note without changing the expression This is helpful since you can only assess the effect of the transitions when the intervals between notes have been changed Clicking Change Notes a second time produces a further test shift Reset Notes restores the notes to their starting positions 174 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual Keyboard Shortcuts NM DURWULWOQ eetere MOPUIM aS0 9 N PUBLUWOd titties MOpUIM SZILWIUL N puewwog ypyt is S JON 8109 MOUS IW puewwog yyw SJOTOWeIeY G 01 01pny MOUS 7 puewwojg yyru SJa awWeJeg WYOos y Ae q MOUS 4 PUBLULWO4 4 HV Cece cence eee eeneeeeeeeeeeeneneensaas BUI OJDSOINY SNOdUe III J q puewwog Yugi apo UOIIIE1Ep 4
4. Note Border Style from this menu you can now select Brightness 10 2 3 Ore OP ay between two preset styles Gray and Blue Auroserolling Page ver Paye a for the user interface or a user defined colour maceezname Ca scheme The default is Gray If you select Tempo Dis mat 123 4 a either of the preset styles the following four E show Siider Values while Editing fields have no significance If on the other hand you decide in favor of a Custom look you can choose new Background Note and Note Border colors Play around with the settings until you find the appearance you like best From the Unselected list box you can determine the brightness of the notes of unselected tracks with both the Classic and the Custom settings Autoscrolling Here you can decide how the display follows the position of the cursor during playback If the first option Smooth is selected the display scrolls smoothly if you choose Page per Page the display moves to the next page as soon as the cursor runs off the page Mid C 262 Name Here you can choose whether Middle C 262 Hz should be given the name C3 C4 or C5 as there are various naming conventions in common use for the various octaves Tempo Display Format determines how many decimal places should be used when displaying the tempo The setting affects the Transport window the Real time Play Offsets and the Time
5. SaxSolo01_B snd only the notes the notes and the waveform SaxSolo01_B snd a If an audio file has not yet been analyzed only the waveform can be displayed Whatever display mode you have selected as the file plays back a pointer indicates the playback position You can select parts of the melody with the mouse When notes are displayed your selection is always set on the note borders and you will also hear exactly the notes selected For easy arranging you can drag selections or even the entire melody into your Melodyne arrangement with or without tempo adjustment depending upon whether or not Autostretch Is activated and scale adjustment when the Scale Snap function is activated Melodyne blobs Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 71 O5 Other editing functions and options To play back the current audio file either click the play button beside its name or double click Stop with a single click anywhere in the display When you use a double click playback begins from where you clicked unless you have made a selection in which case playback will start from the beginning of the selection provided you double click somewhere within it The next list box is used to select the playback mode Plain plays only the currently active audio file Cycle causes the selected audio file to loop which is useful if you want to hear how a drum loop sounds when looped Sequence plays back all the audio f
6. studio cres user manual version 3 2 Celemony Software GmbH 2007 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual version 3 2 This printed documentation refers to Melodyne cre8 studio 3 2 Please check your program folder for updated documentations in pdf format In addition the latest documentation can always be downloaded from www celemony com Author Uwe G Hoenig Peter Neubacker Translation Ewan Whyte Celemony Software GmbH Valleystr 25 81371 Munchen Germany www celemony com Support support celemony com The manual and the software described therein are supplied under formal licence They may be used and copied only under the conditions of this licensing agreement The data contained in the manual only serves for information purposes and may be changed without prior announcement The information contained in the manual does not constitute a legal obligation of Celemony Software GmbH Celemony is not responsible for any eventual faulty or inaccurate information contained in the manual The manual and any parts thereof must not be reproduced or transmitted without the prior and explicit permission of Celemony Software GmbH All product and company names are registered trademarks or brands of the respective companies Apple the Apple logo Mac Macintosh and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc Windows 98 Windows ME Windows 2000 Windows XP and DirectX are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Micr
7. Buffer Size This parameter shows the size in bytes of the buffer used to communicate with the audio hardware Small values result in low latency times large values In correspondingly greater ones Please note that short latency times can result in a higher CPU load and the user interface responding more slowly or in dropouts during playback With DirectX 2048 is a sensible value for the buffer size whilst for all other drivers a value of 512 Is recommended The amount of latency also depends upon the hardware and the sample rate selected high sample rates result in faster latency times and vice versa The gnore buffer underruns checkbox With this switch you can order Melodyne when running on very slow computers to tolerate a click during the playback rather than producing dropouts as a result of lack of power The reason for this parameter is that many audio cards react sensitively to such dropouts and can even cause the computer to crash Activate this switch if you have the feeling that that is happening as a rule however you will not need this parameter and can Safely ignore it File Cache This parameter determines how much sample time Melodyne keeps in main memory during playback If you are using processor intensive functions such as altering the pitch of all notes at the same time during playback or permanently altering the tempo of the entire arrangement small file cache values can lead to a buffer underrun prod
8. e g under the name MySong the audio files are automatically saved to a folder called MySong Audio created parallel to the arrangement if the arrangement has not yet been saved the audio files are stored in the temporary folder of your choice Preferences gt Recording gt Audio Folder for unsaved Arrangements but copied to a new folder named according to the convention just described as soon as you save the arrangement To record proceed as follows In the Track List of the Arrangement window click the R button in the Control Panel of the track upon which you wish to record to record enable or arm it T 1 lt O gt lt 0 gt 0 o db Odb Il You can arm a track for recording from either the Arrange window or the Mixer _ Track 2 El MI R Click the Record button in the Transport Bar having first armed one or more tracks for recording both steps are necessary If the Mixer is open you will see a meter for each of the active tracks to control the level of the input signals use your external mixer or microphone preamp 132 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual O6 O6 Recording with Melodyne If the Rec Monitor box in the Mixer is checked you will hear the incoming signal with all the effects active in the signal chain the degree of latency delay is partly determined by the buffer size Preferences gt Hardware gt Buffer Size While you are recording you ca
9. 92 arm a track for recording 132 arrangement 109 116 arrangement window 40 audio driver 132 154 audio file 000 118 audio file format for recording 55 audio files 35 76 109 150 audio files in split stereo format 150 audio to MIDI converter 103 Audio to MIDI Parameters 104 automatic detection 83 Autostretch A759 Liz he ewe oe eee dea 119 126 B Bar Time ruler 0 3 7 Batch Detection 78 batch processing 84 beginning of the file 120 behavior of contiguous notes 55 DIODS a 2 senhee seks 36 40 83 blue box containing an outline of the same blob 63 blue line linking the two notes 64 boundaries of the segment 61 176 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual DEAL a ee ii niekina i 61 buffer size 137 155 C Change Tempo 113 change the default parameters governing the analysis 83 Compound notes 80 160 controller assignments 152 Copying and pasting notes 60 Correct Detection mode 89 Correct Pitch dialog 43 Correcting the automatic detection 88 Correcting the note separations 164 Correcting the pitch 164 correcting timing errors automatically amp acvaod aa 56 Correction Mode 83 CUDASE 4 aan dee fe a5 4S ee 141 CURSO aah a aapGth th am B
10. Audio 10 arrangement Open the How would you like to connect Melodyne to the running host M ixer the outputs of wh IC h a application RV are now connected to the C MelodyneBridge corresponding ReWire channels in the host application The inputs are not available when Melodyne is connected to a program as a ReWire client Unlike other ReWire programs it does not matter in which order you quit the applications If for example you relaunch Live without quitting Melodyne the connection between the two programs will generally be re established In the Sync drop down list in the Transport Bar you will find the option Link Transport to ReWire host which is O naaa TNO Bar normally selected and ensures that the host application ay ach ih aeaii 0001 01 01 starts and stops whenever Melodyne does under these seelik a AoT t circumstances it is normally of little importance which er p eceive ync program s transport bar you use If you deselect this Open Port Settings 4f Link Transport to ReWire Host O option however you can start and stop Melodyne Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 145 O7 Integration and global functions independently of the ReWire host which allows you to listen to the edited material in Melodyne without hearing the arrangement in the ReWire host at the same time ReWire related preferences In the ReWire Preferences which are only accessible in ReWire mode you will find two options Fast
11. O3 Loading and editing audio For notes that stand in isolation on the other hand different rules apply if you drag the start of an isolated note to the left the note simply moves rather than stretching l 0 tr Dragging the start of an isolated note or one with no immediate successor moves it without altering its length Dragging the end of a note stretches or compresses it As it changes from moving notes to resizing them the appearance of the mouse pointer also changes Pause for a moment to practice moving and resizing notes if there are no isolated notes in your file delete a few notes to give yourself more room in which to work For the time being switch off the quantization Once the use of the tools has become second nature move on to the next paragraph If you select two or more adjacent notes they behave as one if you drag the start of the group the entire group moves if you drag the end of the group to the right all members of the group are stretched Note When stretching a note inside the selection all the selected notes that lie before the note you have taken hold of are to a certain extent grouped together and stretched proportionately Also the selection behind the note taken hold of is treated as a connected group in the same way and proportionately compressed The behavior described applies when you take hold of the back of the note if in other words the Stretch Notes tool is active If you ta
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13. 49 notes appear as a single note 88 notes are displayed at the same pitch 89 notes that stand in isolation 54 number of working steps that can be undone 159 O outlines in little blue frames 0 Pp Pasting notes 126 Pasting pitches 128 percussive 82 84 93 phase reverse the vibrato 65 Pitch Bend 104 pitch center 44 Pitch Correction tool 89 Pitch Curve 36 55 82 89 PRCA GRIT amp acaba aaa 44 65 PCH DA TOO cen dos indrani 65 Pitch Modulation tool 64 Pitch Transition tool 65 Pitch Transitions tool 64 Play Algorithm wete lt s4ceudes 92 playback tempo of the audio file 47 plug in oe ee 139 plug in instruments 106 plug InS 0 t33 157 POCOISK aeeiiaii co ogee 8 polyphonic 82 84 93 DOMaAMENIO 24 ac Saeud ae ndace 64 Preferences 00 154 178 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual PIO TOONS sic g acwsiw aw oo 141 148 process of analysis 7 PUNCHMA OUL veie dont dae amp es 133 Q quantization factor 36 51 E E oe ee 71 126 quantization function 57 Quantize Time 70 Quantize Time dialog 57 R range of editing options 34 re quantization 58 Real time parameters 120 record ouuu ee wa ee des 132 record enable a track 118 FESION 2 ke ee 148
14. they are extremely flexible and easy to manipulate and you can insert them into your own arrangements First copy the library files from the CD DVD to your hard disk The procedure for activating MSL tiles and Liquid sound banks is described in Chapter 1 Once you have activated a Melodyne Sound Library or a Liquid sound bank double clicking on its entry on the status page of the activation assistant has one of two possible effects if Melodyne does not know where the sound bank Is stored a file select box will open allowing you to locate it if Melodyne does already know the location of the sound bank double clicking opens the Melody Manager window through which you can access the samples in the sound bank From the Melody Manager window you can work with the material in the normal way dragging phrases segments or even individual notes into your arrangements Note certain Melodyne Sound Library titles also offer multi voice material such as vocal or wind ensembles The multiple voices here are achieved through the combination of individual ones so you retain access at all times to the harmonies Show Notes H Play Plain Ea Andi boo MiniSax liquid gt ATO bo VLP_sax120alto005 d wav Banktest b BARITON p S45 BossKopp SOPRANO p CarstensSmaples p TENOR p Elastik p Instruments p Liquid p MP3 p A sound bank in the Melody Manager Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 79 O5 Other editing functions and optio
15. which plays the found pitch 08 04 Correcting the note separations Often it is a matter of opinion whether an ornament is regarded musically as a separate note or integrated into the main note and naturally Melodyne does not always recognize the intended separation of the notes either With the tool for altering the note separations the dividing up of the notes can be adjusted correspondingly Between the notes you can see vertical lines that show the note separations If you wish to move the separation between two notes drag the dividing line with the mouse If you want to divide a note as in the Editor double click on the desired position within the note and a new separation will be introduced At the same time both parts of the note will ascertain their own pitch centers Melodyne attempts to ascertain which is the best place in the note to make the division For this reason it can happen that the dividing line does not appear exactly where you have clicked within the note You can however drag the dividing line and move it to the place where you want it If you press Alt Space on the computer keyboard the selected note will be played exactly in the area between its separations so you can easily check whether or not the separation occurs in the desired place If you wish to remove the separation and unite two notes double click the dividing line between them If you wish to unite more than two notes select them with a 164 Mel
16. Cut and Paste Selection to a Parallel Track Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 129 O6 Working with multiple tracks O6 05 MIDI In options It is possible to edit an arrangement using your MIDI keyboard as well as using Melodyne as though it were an instrument and playing it in real time via MIDI To activate MIDI you must first select a standard MIDI input under MIDI Ports r Melodyne File Edit Definition View Navigation Window Help No MIDI In to Tracks v MIDI In Plays Notes MIDI In Edits Notes MIDI In Transposes All from C3 0 MIDI in Transposes Track from C3 0 All MIDI Channels to Selected Track MIDI Channels to Track Numbers MIDI Portamento Time b Show Audio to MIDI Parameters YM Show MIDI Ports Preferences Show MIDI Remote Control Preferences From the MIDI menu you can determine how Melodyne handles incoming MIDI notes When MIDI In Plays Notes is selected you can play the blobs in the arrangement using a MIDI keyboard If the playback is not running you can move in Step mode from one note to the next You can also move notewise forwards or backwards using the arrow keys on the computer keyboard When the playback of the arrangement is running you hear the blobs with the pitches you enter with the MIDI keyboard The playback is always in mono that means you hear always the pitch of the key last pressed When you release the last key the pitch returns to its original in the
17. Edit Formant Edit Amplitude Edit Notes Time Edit Note Separations vvvwevrevryvyvy VYY Change Tempo Autostretch Define Tempo Variable Tempo Editing Mode X J Correct Pitch XP Quantize Time KET Melodyne File Edit Pern View Navigation MIDI Window Help Correct Detection Save MDD from Current Edit State Reset Detection to Melodic Mode Reset Detection to Percussive Mode Reset Detection to Polyphonic Mode Redetect Audio File Select Detection Parameter Set Apply Arrangement Tempo and Tone Scale to all MDDs Open MDD Editor X 0 D Melodyne cre8 studio user manual Definition menu Commands for the performance cor rection and editing of Melodyne s audio detection as well as for the interpretati on of its results Overview menus Melodyne File Edit Definition EE Navigation MIDI Window Help v Autoscrolling XSF v Always Show Pitch Curve YC Always Show Note Separations NSE View menu A variety of options relating to the layout of the Editor and Arrangement window as well as the showing and Show Play Algorithm Parameters VSL Show Audio to MIDI Parameters XM Show Pitched Notation on selected Track Show Score Notes XN SMPTE Type gt hiding of the play algorithm and audio to MI DI inspectors Melodyne File Edit Definition View EEUE MIDI Window Help Create Marker NG Scroll to gt Zoom to i Delete Marker Navigation menu Commands for the creation and deletion of mark
18. For this reason the Melodyne Bridge has its own System Load display that shows the additional load on the host processor the part not reflected in the readout of the host application produced by the Melodyne Bridge plug in if the two figures added together come to more than 100 you can expect dropouts of the type just described The Melodyne Bridge like the ReWire implementation takes full advantage of multiprocessing architecture if present and therefore runs more smoothly on computers with dual processors than those that have to make do with one Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 143 O7 Integration and global functions Depending upon the host the Melodyne Bridge can either always transfer audio back from Melodyne i e even if the Melodyne Bridge plug in is on an empty track of the host or only if audio is to be found in the corresponding part of the track in the host The first category covers the case of Pro Tools and Cubase nter alia and the second that of Logic since the Bridge functions as an insert effect and Logic along with a number of other host applications that work on the same principle assumes that an insert effect does not require processing if no audio signal is being sent to it the program has no way of knowing that the audio signal is not being supplied by the track but by Melodyne via the Bridge plug in The Bridge represents such a situation by greying out all the signal paths What can help here is to
19. Unlike in MIDI In Plays Notes mode releasing the key has no effect the original pitch of the arrangement or track is not restored If you wish this to happen press Middle C The effect of these functions is the same as that of transposing the arrangement or selected track using Window gt Realtime Play Offsets and Global or Selected Track respectively from the list box at the top of the window where you enter the transposition interval in cents in the Pitch edit box immediately below and in fact if the Realtime Play Offsets window is open when you transpose the arrangement or track using the keyboard i e as described in the present paragraph you will see the changes reflected there in real time in the Pitch edit box As well as transposing through an integral number of semitones you can use MIDI input to detune the instrument by hundredths of a semitone by 50 cents half a semitone for example or 150 a tone and a half How to do this is explained in 07 05 Remote control using a MIDI controller below When A MIDI Channels to Selected Track is selected regardless of the channel of the MIDI input only the current Melodyne track is affected When MIDI Channels to Track Numbers is selected on the other hand messages transmitted on MIDI Channel 1 are assigned to Melodyne Track 1 those transmitted on Channel 2 to Track 2 and so on By splitting the MIDI keyboard into two zones and assigning each zone to a different MIDI channel
20. When you select a new value the process of note separation will be repeated throughout the audio file The parameter for the sensitivity of the silence detection Silence determines the threshold beneath which sections of the audio should be considered silent If the value Off is selected no silence will be defined and any silence following the dying out of a note will be added to this note This parameter also has a general influence upon note separation If you select a new value the process of note separation will be repeated throughout the audio file First find the values for these two parameters and the note separation mode that are best suited to the material and only then perform the manual note separation since manual separations are lost as a result of the general note separation Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 165 o8 The MDD Editor Tip With the tool for altering the note separations you can if need be alter the beginning of the first note or the end of the last note It may be that before the first note identified by Melodyne in a vocal line there is an intake of breath that you wish to include or Melodyne has set the end of the last note too early where in the recording there is a quiet but audible dying away of the note that you would prefer to keep In this case drag the first or last segment borders of the audio file and the part that was previously inaudible will be restored 08 05 The Define Score T
21. a progress bar a rectangle that Is gradually filled from left to right with the system highlight color as the operation proceeds will appear to give you some idea of how long the process can be expected to take Melodyne stores the analysis data in a separate analysis file in the same folder as the source file and with the same name except that the filename extension is mdd this obviates the need for Melodyne to analyze the file a second time when you reload it the next day Melodyne creates an analysis file for each new audio file you load For more detailed information about MDD files and their editing for the purposes of analysis correction see section 05 03 The Analysis and playback of audio by Melodyne audio wav mdd Once the process of analysis is complete the Editor opens replete with Melodyne s famous blobs displaying the exact pitch center and amplitude envelope of each note You can now begin editing the file If the material loaded is purely melodic the blobs will be displayed in the Editor at various heights depending upon their pitch which you can read from the Note ruler in the left hand margin If on the other hand the material has been identified as noise percussive or polyphonic the blobs will be displayed at the same height in the same way as notes of the same pitch are displayed To load additional files into the same arrangement select File gt Import Audio File the Arrangement window opens
22. a716 7 1 32 1 32 7 opens displaying the Select Groove Reference group in the upper pane gt and the Quantize Intensity 80 slider with its default setting of 80 e _ You could if you wanted exit immediately with OK effectively correcting all the timing irregularities in the file or selection with two mouse clicks but for the time being experiment with different settings and try to develop a sense of the musical implications If you watch the blobs as you move the Quantize Timing slider you will notice that the extent to which they move stretch or contract in order to conform more closely to the grid lines is dependent upon the position of the slider Now let s turn our attention to the top pane of the Quantize Time dialog beneath the words Select Groove Reference is a row of push buttons As you can see the default option is None in which case Melodyne makes an intelligent guess based upon its prior analysis of the audio material as to where each note is supposed to begin and how long it is supposed to last usually you will find it gets it spot on and most of the notes end up in their intended places and with the correct note values but occasionally you will need to correct one or two notes by hand using the Edit Time tool If on the other hand you prefer to set the quantization factor the fineness of the mesh by hand click the appropriate push button yo
23. it is better to deactivate the Faster Playback Start option You can find more information concerning the Melodyne Bridge current compatibility lists and configuration tips at http Awww celemony com support 144 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 07 02 ReWire 07 02 ReWire Like a number of other applications Melodyne supports communication via ReWire and can be used as either a ReWire host or a ReWire client Melodyne as ReWire host Launch Melodyne and open a new or existing arrangement Select Window gt ReWire Devices followed by the ReWire client from the drop down list at the top of the dialog box and launch it either by clicking the Start Application button or in the normal way Select the channels to be used using the switches in front of the channel names in the ReWire Devices window For each ReWire channel Melodyne adds a channel strip in the Mixer the input of which is fed by the output of the respective channel of the client The first two channels can be combined to make a stereo channel Commence playback and work with both programs It is also possible to combine multiple programs with Melodyne Always quit the client program before quitting Melodyne Melodyne as ReWire client Start the host program and activate Melodyne s ReWire channels in the mixer of the host application Start Melodyne it will recognize the running host program and ask how you wish to link it with Melodyne Select ReWire Open a new or existing
24. microphone you can ensure that Melodyne concentrates on the flute and disregards the grumbling of the bass in the background and any stray squeaks by entering here the lowest and highest notes the flute is capable of producing Separation Sensitivity determines whether more or fewer segments of the audio file are detected as separate notes This parameter is also available after the detection in Correction mode and in the MDD editor allowing you to adjust the note separation without having to re detect the entire file Silence Note Limit this determines the level beneath which the audio is deemed Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 85 O5 Other editing functions and options to be silent if the threshold is so low that the audio level never falls below it due perhaps to the self noise of the microphone each note will be deemed to last until the next note sounds even where to the listener it may appear to have ended and no rests will appear in the score This parameter can also be modified in Correction mode from the normal editor as well as using the MDD editor and allows you to adjust note boundaries without triggering a fresh analysis of the entire file For tempo recognition there are four options 1 Automatic Detection the default 2 Given Tempo you enter the tempo manually in the box provided 3 From Name at Digit in fact Melodyne will take the tempo from the first string of digits following n so if the tempo is 16
25. 1 Click O The Autostretch box Now as you increase or decrease the indicated tempo the extent and position of the notes moves along with the grid and you can hear the playback tempo changing This makes it possible to use Melodyne as a simple tool for modifying the tempo and therefore the length of samples and loops just load the file stretch or contract it to arrive at the desired tempo or length and export the edited version using the Save Audio command the tempo of the saved file will be the tempo displayed in the Tempo pane at the moment the file was saved 48 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual O3 O6 Editing timing If you alter the tempo whilst the Autostretch box is checked the tempo of the audio itself will be altered If on the other hand the Autostretch box is cleared the only effect will be upon the alignment of the background display If you paste blobs from another document whilst the Autostretch box is checked their tempo will be adjusted to that of the current arrangement The same applies to already detected audio files inserted by drag n drop New files loaded into the arrangement with mport Audio file initially have their original tempo O3 O6 Editing timing Melodyne allows you to adjust not only the overall tempo but also the timing i e the position and length of individual notes Since Melodyne allows you to modify the pitch of individual notes it must obviously know where one note ends and
26. 436 Hz instead of the 440 required by concert pitch Aa 14 ct 446 Hz The name of the note and the number of cents if any adrift of concert pitch are displayed in text boxes allowing you to type in the desired values you may find this easier than fiddling around with the mouse When the Edit Pitch tool is active there is another easy way of generating a thickened line i e a second part moving almost parallel to the first at some interval such as a third sixth or tenth or with further editing harmony parts that move independently e g in contrary or oblique motion to the melody Simply select the notes to which you wish to add harmonies and hold Shift Alt as you drag them upwards or downwards the required number of semitones What happens when you do this is that the selected notes are copied to a parallel track and then transposed by the desired amount When you do this slight pitch and timing variations are introduced to make it sound like two people singing in harmony rather than a copy and to prevent comb filter effects If however you would prefer an exact copy as you might if you were copying percussive material Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 63 O04 Other tools select Edit gt Paste Special gt Copy and Paste Selection to a Parallel Track or drag the notes with Shift Alt in the Arrangement window When this procedure is used no random pitch or timing variations are introduced When the Tone Scale
27. Find Scale with Standard Tuning works like Find Scale with Standard Tuning considering Tuning Offset except that concert pitch alone is used to determine the scale and note assignments within it Melodyne does not look to see whether a better match might be found by reinterpreting the melody in the light of a different pitch i e where the frequency of A is higher or lower than 440 Hz and that of all other notes similarly offset Use this function when you are confident that the instrument was correctly tuned i e to concert pitch and played in tune Find Tuning Offset from Standard Tuning works like Find Scale with Standard Tuning considering Tuning Offset except that the deviation from concert pitch is stored in the melody definition This function should only be used when the deviation is significant The point of storing this information is that otherwise when you first load a melody for which an offset has been defined the new tuning might be adopted by the newly created arrangement To prevent this happening without your being aware of it a dialog box appears asking you whether you wish the detected offset to be used for the definition of the scale Find Note Assignments for Current Tuning When you have already defined the scale and pitch this function will ensure that notes are correctly assigned Reset all Manual Note Assignments Whenever an existing note assignment has been modified by the user the default behaviour is
28. Installation and activation Online Deactivation In the case of online deactivation a new activation is automatically credited to your myCelemony account From the Window menu select License to open the activation assistant You will see the status page confirming that Melodyne has been successfully activated Click the Deactivate Melodyne button The deactivation page appears Select there the online deactivation option and click Continue Now you must enter the administrator password for your computer and confirm a security question After a short pause a dialog box will inform you that the deactivation has been successful When you close this dialog box you will automatically quit Melodyne Your myCelemony account will also automatically be credited with one activation Offline Deactivation When you select offline deactivation you must upload the data from a small HTML credit file from any computer connected to the Internet to myCelemony only then can your myCelemony account be credited with an activation credit so please do not forget this important step From the Window menu select License to open the activation assistant You will see the status page confirming that Melodyne has been successfully activated Click the Deactivate Melodyne button The deactivation page appears Select there the offline deactivation option and click Continue First you must enter the administrator password for your computer and confirm a s
29. It can happen that the fundamental does not sound with sufficient clarity causing Melodyne to mistake the first harmonic for the fundamental itself with the result that the note appears in the score as well as in the Editor an octave higher than you expect the exact opposite can also happen you have a frog in your throat perhaps and Melodyne thinks you were singing Middle C when you thought you were singing the C an octave above Errors of intervals other than an octave incidentally are very rare Sometimes notes are not cleanly separated i e two notes appear as a single note 88 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 03 The Analysis of audio by Melodyne Melodyne sometimes confuses tonal material with rhythmic and vice versa one could think of certain passages of scat jazz singers imitating instruments where different people could have a legitimate difference of opinion as to whether it was tonal or rhythmic The significance of the decision is this when material is interpreted as rhythmic all the notes are displayed at the same pitch when it is transposed the formants are also transposed and no manual editing of formants Is possible Such errors can be corrected manually For this purpose Melodyne offers a special edit mode which you enter by checking the option Correct Detection in the Definition menu and which causes the blobs to turn yellow and the pitch curve to appear in bold red The Editor in Co
30. Ruler but in that case of course only when the input field is active 156 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual O7 O6 Preferences The Show Tool Tips and Show Slider Values while Editing checkboxes allow you to decide whether tool tips should always be displayed and whether the values you are currently modifying should be displayed next to the mouse pointer New Arrangements The Preferences property sheet contains a page that allows you to select certain options for newly created arrangements These include Time Background the choices being Bars amp Beats Seconds and SMPTE as well as whether or not the Beat Snap Pitch Snap and Cycle should be active The default value for the master fader in the mixer is also determined here Preferences 6 0 0 Master Fader Default 6 db Time Background Bars amp Beats B w Beat Snap active M1 Pitch Snap active M cycle active First Recording determines Tempo First Recording determines Tempo When you begin recording in an empty arrangement you may wish the first recording to determine the tempo in the absence of an active click or external synchronization or you may prefer the tempo of the arrangement invariably to be taken as correct The option is off by default if you wish to activate it check the box Preferences e800 M AudioUnits Effects fie wanufacturer Vaid venion f v AUBandpass Apple Z AUDelay Apple Z AUDynamicsProcessor
31. Snap function Is active you can a create a thickened line that alternates between major or minor intervals as necessary to conform with the selected key As you move the Edit Pitch tool to the end of a note its shape changes and it becomes the Pitch Transitions tool When singing or playing the violin in particular musicians often glide from one note to the next This is called portamento Melodyne indicates a portamento transition by means of a blue line linking the two notes affected If this transition is deactivated the pitch curve from this note to the next is cut through and is not adjusted when adjacent notes are transposed If ever for creative reasons or after altering the pitch of a note you wish to introduce a portamento double click the end of the first of the two notes or activate with the first note manually the Transition checkbox and drag the blue line that appears linking them upwards for a slower portamento or downwards for a faster one Transitions between the adjacent notes of an entire selection can be created and edited simultaneously in the same way first make the selection then create and or edit the transition between any pair and similar transitions will appear throughout the selection 7 If you click and hold the Edit Pitch tool two sub tools appear beneath it these being the Pitch Modulation and Pitch Drift tools The Pitch Modulation tool can be used to augment or diminish the amo
32. The default value is 40 Note that when you change the scale using either the key buttons on the left or the drop down lists at the top of the screen or the Tone Scale window notes will not automatically be reassigned to degrees of the new scale To reassign them you must then use function Find Note Assignments for Current Tuning When the first three commands are used on the other hand notes are automatically reassigned to the newly defined scale Further recommendations regarding key definition and scale assignments the main object of defining the tonality and mode is that it makes it possible to distinguish between notes forming part of the scale diatonic notes and others chromatic notes which are handled differently by the Scale Snap function as well as when melodies are dragged and dropped into the Edit Window and their tonality is automatically matched to that of the arrangement before defining the tonality mode and note assignments the results of the pitch recognition and note separation functions should be checked carefully and if necessary corrected Only then should you begin with the Define Pitch Assignment tool Otherwise if you were to split a note after having assigned it manually to one of the degrees of the scale you might have to do so a second time as corrected notes are automatically reassigned if you already know the tonality and mode of the melody enter it manually and then invoke function Fi
33. The order of the channels is always the same as that of the corresponding tracks in the Arrange window so if you sort i e change the order of the latter you sort the former automatically as well Since the layout of the Mixer is tailored to the current arrangement its appearance is likely to alter each time you switch to a new arrangement Aux Out 1 2 H Til Rec Monitor 6 db 6 db i Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 Track 5 Track 6 Track 7 Track 8 Til Sync Faders ii Speyer rs S MJR Master out i 134 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual O6 0O7 The Mixer Note Command clicking any of the controls on the Mixer resets it to its default value To fine tune a parameter hold the Alt key whilst dragging the relevant control The top pane of each of the channel strips is devoted to the Equalizer High Shelf 7 Each time you add a band to the equalizer a new band appears just R E below it Bands are added by selecting their type High Shelf Peak or PII Low Shelf from the list box at the top The controls marked G Gain s F Frequency and Q govern the amplitude or magnitude the center or roll off frequency depending upon whether Peak or one of the other types is selected and the quality or selectivity factor of the filter respectively If you prefer you can also program the equalizers using a graphic interface as is described under Master Section
34. Title Midi In Bank Mapping Generischer Contr None L Bank 1 EJ Add Remove Add Remove Tite Eem fcH NUM Action SCN mx MIN MAX Controller 1 0 Master Gain v 0 0 13 Mixer Windows File Commands Melody Manager Commands Edit Commands Tools Commands Transport and Navigation Realtime Play Offsets Various Options MIDI Remote Control Change Global Tempo Change Global Pitch Change Global Formant Change Track Pitch Change Track Formant Reset Global Tempo Reset Global Pitch Reset Global Formant Reset Track Pitch Reset Track Formant es Ady PN ABR ah Ae d oi A The window for mapping the control elements of a MIDI remote controller to Melodyne functions In the next column each cell contains a hierarchically structured drop down menu with the actions that are available The entries in the last four columns channel index minimum and maximum value are dependent upon the action that you select If it is a simple action without a programmable value such as Playback Save etc there will be no entries here For Master Gain for example there will be a Min and Max value but no channel or index For Track Gain on the other hand you can enter the channel to which this controller is assigned in the mixer For Equalizer Gain you can additionally enter an index since there can be several equalizer bands per channel The Min and Max parameters are generally preset to se
35. You can also deactivate the grid temporarily by holding the Alt key Clicking on this button toggles the quantization on and off To change the quantization factor as indicated by the mesh of the grid click and hold or drag this button to open the Quantization list box To change the quantization factor as indicated by the mesh of the grid click and hold or drag this button to open the Quantization list box Note that what is happening here is that the quantization factor is determining the amount you can add to or subtract from the length of a note this is not the same thing as saying that note endings must coincide with or lie a specific distance from grid lines If the blobs are adrift from the grid lines to begin with they will remain adrift unless and until you decide to fine tune their position by Alt dragging them to the appropriate grid line Note the grid is zoom dependent in the sense that as you zoom the display outwards a point may be reached at which it is no longer possible to display the quantization factor selected If you zoom right the effective grid could have up to four times the resolution of the grid displayed Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 51 O3 Loading and editing audio 03 07 Note separators When you move the Arrow tool to a note separation it changes shape to become the Note Separation tool You can use this to move the boundary between notes freely to the right or left by f
36. a glance at the Pitch Curve To Melodyne no note is an island entire unto itself unless it really is isolated to begin with otherwise as you move and resize notes in Melodyne care is taken to ensure that the transitions retain their true musical character Most of the time this is what you want to be able to tidy up the rhythm of a performance without a gap appearing whenever a note needs to be shortened but there may be contexts in which you really would prefer to modify the ending or Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 55 O3 Loading and editing audio beginning of a note without this affecting the notes around it in other words to be able to treat each note as an independent entity This is where the Segment Separation tool to which we alluded earlier comes into its own Segment separation works like this lf you double click with the Segment Separation tool or the Note Separation tools whilst holding the Alt key on an existing note separation you turn it into a segment separation the symbol for which is a square bracket that is slightly thicker than a normal note separator The result is to detach the note in question from those on either side allowing you to move it without this affecting them Double clicking on a segment separator changes it back into a normal note separator But take care this is only possible in places where the adjacent note sections were touching before the segment separation If this was
37. adjusted to suit the arrangement Autostretch On or whether it should simply be Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 119 O6 Working with multiple tracks positioned at the insert point without any tempo adjustment Autostretch Off When the Autostretch function is active all the notes snap to the correct beat of the bar relative to their original position if for example you have selected Bar as the quantization factor the notes will be inserted on the same beats of the bar as in the original recording If you wish to insert a previously detected audio file in such a way that the beginning of the file coincides with that of the arrangement instead of the drag and drop method select File gt Import Audio File A similar logic to that governing tempo adjustment applies to the adjustment of pitch If the Scale Snap function is selected in which case the Note ruler in the Editor will be white rather than gray click the Snap button at the bottom to toggle the function on and off a detected audio file will adjust automatically to the key of the current arrangement sparing you the effort of performing the adjustment manually O6 O02 Real time parameters It is possible to change the pitch the formants and the tempo of the entire arrangement globally which is useful if you want to hear how it would sound in a different key or at a different tempo To do this select Window gt Realtime Play Offsets o Raaiime Flay Offsets These pa
38. are automatically stored in the mdd file as soon as you leave the mode for the correction of the detection whilst the alteration of the separations in the normal Editor only relate to the melody in the current arrangement Untitled C emph Separation 2 C rough pa waz Pitch Detection The Emphasize Pitch and Consider Roughness options can now be accessed through check boxes Check Emphasize Pitch at Dragged Note Position for Detection whenever you feel that it is noise in the recording that is preventing Melodyne detecting a note you yourself can hear at the pitch to which you have dragged the corresponding blob and Consider Sound Roughness for Detection whenever Melodyne is placing blobs an octave too low as sometimes happens when the singer has a cold or a gravelly growling voice Note that these options only affect the detection of those notes that you drag or double click with the Correct Pitch tool in Correct Detection mode they have no affect upon the detection of other notes Increasing the value in the Separation field in the Inspector area in Correct Detection mode increases the likelihood in cases of doubt that Melodyne will divide a sonic event into two or more notes rather than a single longer one The Silence parameter still in the Inspector area in Correct Detection mode determines the level beneath which the audio will be interpreted as silent if the threshold selected is very low each note will
39. are currently unselected and deselects those that are The standard shortcut Command IAl is assigned to Select All You can of course assign your own shortcuts to any or all of the other options as explained in 07 06 Preferences Customizing shortcut key assignments below The intelligent clipboard The pasting of notes from the clipboard is implemented rather differently by Melodyne than by other sequencers because a note to Melodyne is a note in the true sense of the word a musical event with a specific place in the melodic and rhythmic scheme of things rather than simply a snippet of audio This means that when you copy a phrase or even an entire melody from one arrangement to another or from one part of an arrangement to another not only the first note but all the notes fall automatically on the correct beats of the bar even if the tempo of the source and that of the destination are different Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 125 O6 Working with multiple tracks provided of course the Autostretch box is checked in the Transport bar of the destination arrangement otherwise Melodyne will preserve the tempo of the original just like any other sequencer Where for example a song has been recorded without using a metronome and the tempo of the third verse is slightly higher than that of the first provided the tempo has been correctly detected or that any detection errors have been corrected manually Melody
40. audio file to be edited or else to the audio file containing the region to be edited When the file to be opened contains a region Melodyne opens a dialog window from which you can elect to edit the entire file or only one region Open Region The sMected soundfile contains regions O Open entire file This is the window that appears when you open an Open region audio file containing one or more regions Mitte L Start 0 4 000000 End 0 12 000000 User Time 60 5 996395 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 149 O7 Integration and global functions Open the file or region selected and edit it using Melodyne Select Save Audio from the File menu In the top right hand corner of the window that appears there is a menu from which you can select either Interleaved or Split Stereo format If spotting from stereo files you should select Split Stereo At the bottom left you will find a checkbox marked Spot to Pro Tools If you check this box the audio files once saved will be loaded back into Pro Tools at the current cursor position If several tracks or stereo tracks are exported in this way the first will be inserted into the selected track and the others one after the other into the tracks that follow NB You will only see the Spot to Pro Tools checkbox if you have selected Enable Spot to Pro Tools either automatically or manually which you cannot do if you have selected Individual Range for Each Track or I
41. be deemed to last until the next note sounds even where to the listener it may appear to have ended and no rests will appear in the score This parameter also influences note separation but has nothing to do with a noise gate or the Strip Silence function offered by other sequencers 90 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 03 The Analysis of audio by Melodyne Silence 26 0db Melodic Separation From the drop down list on the right of the Percussive Separation EE Polyphonic Separation Inspector area you can select whether the No Note Separations Reset Detection note separation should be based upon the Reset Detection to Melodic Mode i A a Reset Detection to Percussive Mode assumption that the material is melodic Reset Detection to Polyphonic Mode S m Redetect percussive or polyphonic or else opt to Redetect Audio File Select Detection Parameter Set dispense with automatic note separation altogether Experiment with these options if you are not satisfied with the results of the automatically selected system of note separation The next group of commands the Reset Detection set which can also be accessed from the Definition menu are useful if the detection errors go beyond the incorrect positioning of note boundaries if for example a recording containing staccato pitched notes is wrongly interpreted as percussive selecting Reset Detection
42. beats will be of different lengths Set Tempo Zero to Sound Zero places the beginning of the tempo definition exactly at the beginning of the audio file 08 O6 The Define Beat Assignment tool If the tempo has been correctly defined the notation view of the recording at the top of the window should already be easier to read and more accurate but there may still be discrepancies between what is displayed there and what was displayed in the sheet music from which the performer was reading or was intended musically If the performer did not play with metronomic precision so much the better from a musical point of view that is not something that needs to be changed We are in Definition mode here and are not in any case seeking to change the performance in any way What we are seeking to do is to assign correctly the notes played to the notes intended which when we do come to reshape the performance later will make working with the notes more intuitive and flexible OE S FERT When you select the Define Beat Assignment tool the notes played are temporarily moved to the exact positions shown in the notation at the top of the window These assigned positions are represented as small blue frames containing an outline of the note whilst the actual position of the notes is shown in the background You can now listen to the audio file in this quantized form and decide whether what was meant is
43. below To bypass the equalizer clear the checkbox beneath the frequency F control The list boxes directly below the equalizer section are used for the selection of insert effects such as VST plug ins or Audio Units Mac only You can use as many as you like each time you use one list box another appears As soon as you have selected an effect from the cascading menu the contents of which vary depending upon your settings on the Preferences gt Plug ins page and whether the track is mono or stereo the user interface for the selected plug in or Audio Unit opens in a new window The knob marked Ax determines how much of the channel signal is routed to any auxiliary effect selected from the Aux drop down in the Master Section to the right of the channel strips See Master Section below The checkbox beside the control allows you to deactivate the aux send without altering the setting of the Ax control The aux sends are switched post fader The next list box down is used for selecting the input channels the choice being dependent upon your audio hardware If the channel in question was created by selecting Configure gt Instrument Tracks gt Add Instrument Track using the cascading list at the top of the Master section this is the list box you use to assign a software instrument to it available choice depending upon your settings on the Plug ins page of the Preferences dialog The list box below is u
44. cases using the Note Transitions tool in the Editor 86 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 03 The Analysis of audio by Melodyne Play Algorithm here too you are simply setting the default The playback algorithm can be changed at any time the options are described below without requiring a fresh analysis of the audio file Separation these options determine the basis upon which Melodyne decides whether to interpret a sonic event as a single note or as two or more individual notes In the case of melodic material a change of pitch is taken as Indicative of a change of note but in the case of polyphonic and percussive material this is largely ignored Instead the presence of a fresh attack is determinative Note that even if you leave the defaults unaltered in the Detection panel of the Preferences dialog the program will still behave differently from the way it behaves when automatic detection Is selected for example if under Separation you select Percussive Melodyne will observe the criteria chosen whether the material is really percussive in nature or not Custom detection parameters should only be used in rare cases such as when you are processing a set of audio files of the same type for a sound library and know exactly which settings are most appropriate Under other circumstances Melodyne will almost certainly do a better job if left to its own devices For this reason If any custom detection parameters are active whe
45. center of a note and disappeared just as rapidly when you moved it away But whereas the Main tool may be more useful if you are planning to edit the timing as well as the pitch of a note the dedicated Edit Pitch tool offers a wider range of functions for correcting intonation problems 62 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 04 01 Tools for editing pitch When this tool is active at the semitone nearest to each blob you will see a blue box containing an outline of the same blob This ghost blob indicates where the real blob would be if the note to which it refers were perfectly in tune To correct the tuning of a note simply double click on the blob with the Edit Pitch tool and it will snap to the position indicated by the outline i e the ghost blob To quantize the pitch of multiple notes in this way select them and double click any note in the selection As with the Main tool Melodyne s scrub mode is activated as you are moving the note which means that if you move the tool to the right or left as you are dragging a note you can hear the waveform at the points through which it passes If you find this distracting select Edit gt Preferences gt Other and uncheck Monitor Note Pitch on Editing Next to the toolbar you will see a read out of the exact pitch to the nearest cent and frequency of the selected note you can see for example that your A a is 14 cents hundreds of a semitone flat and oscillating at
46. companion file i e the file for the other channel if it is available If for example one file is called Audio L wav and the other Audio R wav whichever one you open Melodyne will open the other at the same time In either case the reference of the file names will be based on the left channel so whichever you open Audio L wav will appear in the title bar of the window When saving audio files you can decide whether you wish split stereo or interleaved files to be created When you save in split stereo format and the name does not already make the fact that it is a split stereo file clear Melodyne adds the letters L and R to the files containing the data for the left and right channels respectively If on the other hand the name chosen already ends with an L or an R Melodyne uses this name for the corresponding channel and a similar name substituting only an R for the L or the other way around for other channel mdd files Even split stereo files only require one mdd analysis file This contains the information for both channels even though it only bears the name of the file for the left channel In other words if you open the audio files Audio L wav and Audio R wav Melodyne will create an analysis file called Audio L wav mdd containing the analysis data for both channels 07 05 Remote control using a MIDI controller You can control most of the functions in Melo
47. complex process through which Melodyne obtains all kinds of information about the file under analysis including its tempo the positions at which each note or drum stroke begins and ends and in the case of one part material the pitch of each note as well as the prevailing tonality and mode i e the key Based on the information thus obtained Melodyne takes a number of key decisions the most important being whether to treat the material as melodic i e containing only one part homo or polyphonic i e containing two or more parts regardless of whether or not these are rhythmically independent or percussive i e consisting primarily of unpitched material This decision determines how the blobs will be displayed in the Arrange window and Editor as well as how the 82 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 03 The Analysis of audio by Melodyne material will be played back using Melodyne s Local Sound Synthesis LSS Unless the material is melodic for example there is no point in displaying a pitch curve Whether the material is characterized as melodic or percussive also determines whether the frequency is taken into account in determining where one sonic event ends and the next begins or only the amplitude how transients should be handled during playback and whether or not the pitch of the blobs should be displayed in the staff In short the conclusions drawn by Melodyne in the course of the analysis play an
48. emphasis is transformed and the entire feel of the loop changes Now let s see what happens when we change the time signature Exit the Quantize Time window with Cancel to return to the original rhythm Change the time signature to 5 4 make sure the Autostretch check box is cleared we don t want to change the playback speed and alter the tempo definition from 104 to 130 BPM Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 59 O3 Loading and editing audio Now the background of the Editor shows the loop extending over two bars of five beats each The notes naturally do not correspond with the grid Now open the Quantize Time dialog push the 1 4 button in the Select Groove Reference group box and move the Quantize Intensity Slider all the way to the right 100 Finally the loop really is in 5 4 time and the notes coincide with the grid lines 03 12 Copying and pasting notes Selected notes can be copied and pasted You can only copy part of a melody to a place within a melody where there is enough space If you wish to insert notes into the middle of a continuous melody you have to make room for it by splitting the melody using the Note Separation tool and moving the following notes out of the way Only then can you insert the new notes This is not the case if you are replacing notes directly If for example you copy a note select a second note that Is in fact shorter and then click paste the
49. few minutes and need only be performed once Registering means opening a user account in the myCelemony section of the Celemony web site This happens in conjunction with the activation of Melodyne see below You can then access this account from any computer hooked up to the Internet by entering your user name and password www celemony com mycelemony Your myCelemony account consists of a customer profile and a hierarchically arranged product display There you can see all the Celemony products you have activated as well as their activation status download the latest installation programs for your products as well as the corresponding updates in some cases download other Celemony products at a favourable price or else free of charge choose which type of Celemony newsletter you wish to receive and edit your other user data 12 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 01 03 Activation and myCelemony An activation assistant TT a integrated into Melodyne aera nge eied eaan Melodyne is activated on this computer guides you through all the mead kha t aceate Melodyne on this computer Meiodyna sariat mumbar D000 S000 1000 CL necessary steps for A CAE f tant mot Gara a sv eaty registration and activation i weusd Ohe te wee a0 Ret dongle for thee Mrica worl nember CARR OOU KEKE Merantpre Nab beer setserete y Geertivated ont Pos orate The provtas Sas re
50. fill the empty sections in the Logic arrangement with muted audio parts Another possibility is to save the Melodyne arrangement once all the tracks have been transferred to quit Melodyne to remove the Melodyne Bridge plug in to activate Melodyne s ReWire channels in the host to start Melodyne again and establish a ReWire connection with the host to reload the arrangement that you have just saved Preferences In Bridge mode on the Bridge e000 page of the Preferences dialog r a 3 _ lt A you Can find two Melodyne i Fast Playback Start loads audio file into RAM Bridge specific options The first Else hue veers when playing back asmchronausly is Use Audio Hardware for Non Synchronous Playback the purpose of which has already been explained and the second Faster Playback Start With this option you can ensure that Melodyne synchronizes with the host after a delay that is constant and as small as possible Of course considerably more RAM is required to implement this option as it involves reading the file from the hard disk and loading it in its entirety into RAM If your computer has a less than abundant supply of RAM it may be obliged to use virtual memory which involves using page or swap files to swap pages of data out of physical memory when necessary the upshot being that instead of the hoped for acceleration in performance there is a marked braking If this occurs
51. fingerprint if you like where they are thereby obtaining a far more realistic effect than conventional pitch shifters which simply increase or decrease the frequency of the entire waveform moving the formants into the bargain Note it can happen on rare occasions that the sound characteristics of a recording prevent Melodyne correctly identifying the intended pitch of a note usually confusing it with the same note an octave higher or lower You cannot hear the error of course Melodyne hasn t changed the sound of your audio yet in any way We are talking simply about the way it is displayed In such cases there is an easy way of ensuring that Melodyne identifies and displays the note correctly in future but we will come to it later Melodyne s blobs indicate the exact pitch of each note Not the intended pitch but the actual pitch This means that if notes are not precisely in tune as if often the case when the sound source is the human voice or one of those instruments such as the violin that are not always easy to play precisely in tune you will notice that the blobs are often some way from the dead center of the shaded horizontal lanes that calibrate the display If for example instead of a G you sing or play a note halfway in pitch between G and G that is precisely where Melodyne will display it on the line between G and G This note can t seem to decide n whether it s an A or a B If you want to correct the
52. for such an assignment to be retained throughout any subsequent automatic note assignment operations Whilst no reassignments occur immediately when this command Is used any subsequent automatic note assignment operations will begin by wiping the slate clean and the manual assignments will therefore be lost Tone Scale Panel The Tone Scale Panel can be used for the more precise definition of the tuning system or temperament The temperament you define here will apply to the melody but not the entire arrangement Please note that the Scale Panel is context sensitive The tuning system displayed here will be that of whichever edit definition or arrangement window is currently in the foreground When any of the first four functions are used you can tell Melodyne that notes falling between the notes of the scale as defined should snap to the nearest member of the scale You can specify the catchment area Diatonic Snap Range for Note Assignment for the snap function as a percentage If the value is set to 100 all notes will snap to the nearest member of the defined diatonic scale If 172 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual O8 O9 Define Pitch Transition the value is set to 50 a note will be assigned to the next diatonic scale degree if its exact pitch is more than halfway in the direction of the neighboring note If the value is set to 0 no snapping will occur and notes lying between members of the scale will be left alone
53. ist best reproduced with the Melodic mode With Melodic mode the voice s formants will be preserved on pitch changes and can also be altered at will Percussive mode is the algorithm of choice for any other material such as percussion or drums but also for plucked sounds which have a very sharp attack followed by a rapid decay phase With Percussive mode the formants or sound character will change if the sound Is altered in pitch and cannot be adjusted independently from the pitch The automatic detection will set this algorithm if it finds the material to be percussive Polyphonic material like chords or full mixes can only be processed with the algorithm provided in Melodyne studio Please note that the initial setting is just the best guess the program makes You can always set the algorithm to different values if it fits the material better For example if you have a funky slap bass line this can be considered somewhere half way between melodic and percussive and if it is more important for your purpose to preserve a very clear attack on pitch changes you would choose the Percussive mode Or on the other hand if it is more important to preserve the formant on pitch changes you would choose the Melodic mode Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 97 O5 Other editing functions and options Plain Percussive Processed C Melodic cre8 s Percussive algorithm has no editable parameters Plain Percussive C Smooth Form
54. jJ vv AY YV Y Use Compound Notes X G Compound De Compound Notes G The Separate Selected Notes to Beats command 04 06 The Revert and Revert and reset Position commands These two commands in the Revert to Audio files sub menu of the Edit menu are used to undo all editing of pitch formants amplitude etc of a segment restoring it in other words to its original unedited state File zea Definition View Navigation MIDI Window Help Undo 7 1_WholeArrangement mar Redo THz E Undo History a Revert to Audio File gt Revert a Revert and Reset Position Cut oo C nnv er Whilst the first of the two commands does not restore the segment to its original position in the arrangement in the event that this has been changed the second returns the segment to the exact position in which it was originally recorded or else the position defined as its original position in the MDD file In this way if you wish you can restore the original time relationship with other recorded tracks Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 15 O5 Other editing functions and options O5 Other editing functions and options 05 01 The Melody Manager The Melody Manager is a file browser optimized for audio files It allows you to navigate swiftly through your library and is at the same time a very useful arranging tool Unlike the standard Open File dialog the Melody Manager is capable of displaying the musical contents of your audio fi
55. newly created separator to appear Slightly to the right or left of the point at which you clicked You can however override the split point chosen by dragging the separator to the exact position you want If you double click an existing note separator it will disappear If you hold the Alt key and move the pointer to a note separator it will become the Segment Separation tool in this case if you double click on the note separator it will become a segment separator which is denoted by a pair of square brackets placed back to back What is a segment separator you are probably asking Good question Unfortunately we can t answer it quite yet because there are one or two other things that have to be explained first Note whenever you select the Arrow tool the note separators will be displayed even if Always Show Note Separations is unchecked in the View menu 03 08 Lengthening and moving notes So far we have been dealing with contiguous notes and we have seen that since by default neither gaps nor overlapping are permitted the end of one note and the start of the next are by definition the same thing if you shorten the first note bringing the note ending forward in time you automatically bring the start of the following note forward in time by the same distance and to the same place and since the ending of the second note remains unchanged its length obviously is increased Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 53
56. of note transitions the choice of playback algorithm and the parameters thereof which is obviously far faster than altering the same parameters or options manually one by one The Reset Detection to commands are therefore macros that impose new settings for the interpretation of the analysis results and the playback algorithm with a definite purpose and in a single go The command Redetect Audio File triggers a fresh analysis of the material based upon the current settings the default being automatic detection If for example you wish to see what happens if you change one of the detection parameters select Detection gt Select Definition gt Select Detection Parameter Set make the desired changes and select Definition gt Redetect Audio File for them to take effect NB the commands in the Definition menu that we have just discussed are also available from context menus in correction mode see below and the MDD editor Correcting the automatic detection Melodyne s analysis or detection of an audio file when it Is first loaded is the basis for all subsequent editing It involves a determination as to whether the material is tonal polyphonic Melodyne studio only or percussive as to where each note ends and the next begins and as to the pitch and amplitude of the Signal at any point in time Usually the results are highly accurate but with certain types of material things can occasionally go wrong
57. or MIDI Time Code synchronization see the section on Synchronization earlier in this chapter o MIDI Remote Control 80 0 Here you can select the various MIDI Remote Contro ij options _ sh MIDI remote control options for E Generischer Controller 1 Melodyne These were described in detail earlier in this chapter Preferences 158 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual O7 O6 Preferences 00O Preferences Detection omis h Detection Oaa From this page you can switch ponies between Autodetect and your pelyphonkc own settings as well as adding and managing your own parameter sets The options on this page were discussed in detail in 05 O3 The Detection and Playback of Audio in Melodyne Shortcuts 800 references From the Shortcuts page of the ey Saas Preferences dialog you can PR OT export P windows Clear Selected Short Cut assign keyboard shortcuts to gt File Commands Reset to Factory Defaults gt Melody Manager Commands many different actions This IS gt Edit Commands gt Tools Commands done by selecting the action gt Transport and Navigation P Reatime Pay Offsets with the mouse and then Bainaniinan entering at the keyboard the key combination you wish to use as a shortcut From the Options drop down list you can export or import entire sets of keyboard shortcuts clear i e delete the selected shortcut or
58. pitch of such a note manually and here we are talking about changing the sound of the note not simply the way it is displayed you have to hold the Alt key and drag it to the center of the desired lane G This is Melodyne s manual fine tuning function which allows you to move notes through intervals smaller than a tone called microtrones or fractional tones If you were 42 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 03 03 Automatic pitch correction to do the same thing without holding the Alt key the note would move through an entire semitone which in this case is obviously no good instead of being on the borderline between G and G it would end up on the border between G and Gb So to recap if the note is in tune but just happens to be the wrong note such as when you play an F instead of an E on the piano all you do is click and drag with the Edit Pitch tool If on the other hand the note is out of tune i e it falls between two notes you must hold the Alt key and drag it carefully to the center of the desired lane This is how you correct wrong or out of tune notes manually using Melodyne Easy isn t it But don t go away because it s about to get even easier 03 03 Automatic pitch correction Melodyne can correct pitch automatically You can for example correct the intonation of an entire track in seconds causing every note that was slightly out of tune to snap to the correct pitch o
59. punching out Editing multiple tracks In the Editor you can have single or multiple files At any one time only one of these tracks the track currently selected can be edited and the others are displayed more palely in the background Tracks are transferred to the Editor either by double clicking in the Arrangement window or by selecting them from the list box just above the quantization menu in the Editor As in the Arrangement window you can display the currently selected track in notation form by clicking the staff symbol at the left hand edge of the Time Bar ruler Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4 Track 5 Track 6 Track 7 Track 8 Nothing in Editor You can select from the list box which tracks to display in the Editor O6 01 Importing audio files You can either load an audio file into a new arrangement or add it to an existing one If you know the tempo of the file select File gt New Arrangement followed by Window gt Transport Bar and enter the tempo in the edit box in the top right hand corner of the Transport bar this will now be applied by Melodyne s detection algorithms to every audio file imported into this arrangement If you are working with melodic material the key of which you already know select Window gt Tone Scale and click in the left hand column to define the tonality using the Shift key to toggle between the major and minor modes see Tone Scale Window above Now that you have prepare
60. reset to the factory defaults Most of these actions are self explanatory some can only be carried out by means of these keyboard shortcuts s CON E Language English rH Undo 50 Levels FH M Monitor Note Pitch on Editing _ Always use maximum processing quality _ Process Stereo Channels Separately M Consider Original Scale Notes on Scale Snap O th er M Make Group on Trill or Slide Separation C Double Click in Melody Manager opens File in MDD Editor Th e Ot h er page of th e ene ene ee ee ATN Preferences dialog brings _ Auto Update MDDs in Melody Manager Enable Spot to ProTools together a number of additional settings The Language list box is used to select the language of the user interface The Undo list box is used to select the number of working steps that can be undone or redone if Melodyne begins to react more and more slowly as editing progresses reduce the number of undo levels Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 159 O7 Integration and global functions When the Monitor Note Pitch on Editing checkbox is selected the local sound of the note is played this is called scrubbing when you drag blobs upwards or downwards in the Editor i e edit their pitch Always use maximum processing quality When saving audio files Melodyne uses a sound processing algorithm that increases the sound quality still further but which requires more time to process If you also wish to use this p
61. see what lies to the right or left of the area displayed or above or below it by holding the Command key and dragging the display in the desired direction using the hand that appears in place of the mouse pointer If you hold down the Alt key at the same time the hand becomes a magnifying glass and functions as a zoom tool Melodyne s zoom tool however works differently to those of other programs to zoom the display horizontally and vertically at the same time drag the pointer diagonally towards the top left to zoom out or bottom right to zoom in of the Editor to zoom either horizontally or vertically but not both drag the pointer sideways left to zoom out right to zoom in or vertically upwards to zoom out downwards to zoom in Melodyne also offers you horizontal and vertical scroll bars which can also be used to alter the display resolution drag the middle of the sliders to scroll the display and the sides of the sliders to zoom in or out You will see in the slider a miniaturized representation of the pitches or note positions material that lies outside the pitch range at the selected zoom resolution or that would do If you scrolled there is grayed out The vertical and horizontal Zoom Scroll sliders T rie ie A Pe eee wei p Drag the centre of the slider to move the SEERE display window and the sides to increase Sa ah or decrease the display resolution 38 Melodyne cre8 studio user man
62. selected arrangement in Melodyne When you are looking for sounds this new option allows you to audition a number of arrangements swiftly and easily loading the ones that interest you and copying the sounds you want into the current arrangement gt SunshineDay mar A Melodyne arrangement in SY the Melody Manager I Wrrale cna 05 02 Compound notes A useful aid when editing and handling notes is the ability to form a succession of single notes into a compound note This is particularly useful with ornaments as well as notes created using the commands Separate Note as Trill or Separate Note as Slide in the Edit gt Edit Note Separations submenu The advantage is that you 80 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 02 Compound notes can perform the same action on all of the notes of which a compound note consists simultaneously If later you need to edit the notes singly simply deselect the Use Compound Notes option rather than de compounding the note itself A Val aaa ney a ey iA ral Nr ac V w an tA A o W m v These notes which were created using the Separate Note as Trill command have been formed into a compound note to facilitate editing but you can still access the notes individually Important Please note that only adjacent notes such as those in the example above can be fused to form a compound note Compound notes are displayed in the notation as a single note running from the b
63. should initially be separated from any preceding or following main note and consist of only one note Select this slide note followed by the command Separate Note as Slide The Slide will then be broken down into its constituent notes e090 Preferences If the option Preferences gt Other gt Make Group on Trill Master Fader Default 6 db or Slide Separation is Language English lt checked the resulting scale Undo SOLevels tones are automatically F Monitor Note Pitch on Editing defined as a note group _ Always use maximum processing quality compound note F Consider Original Scale Notes on Scale Snap fi Make Group on Trill or Slide Separation _ Double Click in Melody Manager opens File in MDD Editor _ Update MDDs on Saving Arrangement _ Auto Update MDDs in Melody Manager C Enable Spot to ProTools 14 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 04 06 The Revert and Revert and reset Position commands The Separate Selected Notes to Beats command This command in the Edit Note Separations sub menu of the Ed t menu separates the selected notes in equal notes the size of the notes Is entered using the current grid setting top right of the window Edit Pitch Edit Formant Edit Amplitude Edit Notes Time Edit Note Separations Separate Note as Trill Separate Note as Slide Separate Selected Notes to Beats Change Tempo Autostretch Define Tempo Variable Tempo Editing Mode X
64. the Define Pitch Assignment tool The assignments appear as blue backgrounds on the semitone degrees these blue rectangles can be moved BOO KERERE pimmee Ss The Define Pitch Assignment tool A A R se ana lo ol See Ea Define Tare Scale E 40 Ab B Minor natural B Immediately after the pitch detection all there is a section of the pitch curve representing a note Melodyne then attempts to ascertain the pitch center which the hearer perceives as the pitch of the note of that curve Naturally this pitch center does not necessarily lie directly upon a degree given by a tone scale For this reason in a further step Melodyne assigns this pitch center to a degree of the Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 169 o8 The MDD Editor given tone scale This is the pitch to which the note would move if it were corrected to the tone scale These degrees are represented by the blue rectangles beneath the notes and necessarily coincide exactly with a key position whilst the pitch center of the notes found could also lie somewhere between the keys The Define Pitch Assignment tool serves to correct the assignment to a key of the pitch center found if the center lies too unclearly between the keys For this move the blue rectangle behind the note to the intended key position When this tool is active the notes are temporarily quantized to the pitches to which they are assigne
65. the position of the cursor corresponds with what you are hearing Please note however this parameter merely compensates for a possible discrepancy between what you see and what you hear the audible signal transmitted to the host is always in sync Tempo setting and synchronization The tempo in beats per minute BPM displayed in Melodyne s Transport Bar ought in principle to be that of the audio file loaded if the file was recorded at 100 BPM the tempo displayed should be 100 BPM and so on When Melodyne opens a new file Melodyne analyses the tempo of the material and suggests a tempo setting If this is not in fact the tempo of the file the user should enter the correct tempo with the Autostretch function deactivated and if need be 146 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 07 03 Synchronization via MIDI Clock and MTC drag the first beat to the beginning of a bar so as to ensure that the Bar Time Ruler is correctly aligned with the audio a sine qua non of correct timing editing in Melodyne Doing all this it should be understood only affects the tempo definition the spacing and alignment of the gridlines or columns in the background display and not the audio file itself It may be necessary to move the beginning of the first bar to the desired position by dragging the little grey 1 marker in the Bar Time Ruler again with the Timestretch function deactivated Double click the small grey
66. time After selecting this option click Continue The assistant will then display the activation page where you must first enter your serial number You will find this either in the printed Melodyne User Manual or in the e mail that confirmed your purchase from our Web Shop Now choose whether you wish to perform the activation online or offline or else activate Melodyne temporarily to start off with see below When you have made your choice click Continue Online Activation If you have not yet registered your Melodyne serial number the assistant will launch your web browser find the myCelemony web site and open the customer profile page On the Mac you will be asked in the course of the activation to enter the administrator password for your computer under Windows you must log on to an administrator account in order to activate Melodyne This is necessary so that Melodyne can store the license file from myCelemony in the root area of your computer Note If you already have a myCelemony account you do not have to open a second one and should avoid doing so in the interests of clarity Instead click the link on the customer profile page that takes you to the Login page for myCelemony where you can then log in by entering your user name and password This will ensure that your new Melodyne is registered in your existing myCelemony account On the myCelemony customer profile page enter the requisite data and confirm by clicking
67. to Original Fe Edit Amplitude gt Reset Pitch Drift to Original Bb Edit Notes Time gt Reset Pitch Transition to Original FA Edit Note Separations gt Reset All Pitch Related Changes to Original Mb Add Random Offset To Pitch Center Ec Change Tempo Autostretch gt Gb Define Tempo gt EF Variable Tempo Editing Mode X J Lh aa m Correct Pitch XP Quantize Time XET In the Edit gt Edit Pitch cascading submenu you will find a number of other functions The majority you will observe are designed to help you reverse whatever changes you have just made to the selected notes by allowing you to reset the pitch center pitch modulation pitch drift or pitch transition to their original state they are more flexible however than the Undo tool because they allow you for example to reverse the first of a series of four editing steps without reversing the second third and fourth You could for example by selecting Edit gt Edit Pitch gt Reset Pitch Modulation to Original restore the original vibrato of the recording without sacrificing whatever other editing you may have done subsequently Reset all Pitch related Changes to Original can be used when needed to reset the pitch modulation and drift in one go to the original saving you having to use the corresponding individual commands The command at the bottom of the Edit gt Edit Pitch submenu Add Random Offset to Pitch Center is of a different kind this can be
68. used to create a chorus like effect by copying the same part several times and adding random offsets to the notes of each file except the first you can simulate the effect of several musicians singing or playing in unison 04 02 The Edit Formant tool The next tool in the toolbar is dedicated to the editing of formants Formants are groups of emphasized harmonics arising in the case of the human voice from 66 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 04 02 The Edit Formant tool resonances in the vocal column they are the same whatever the pitch of the fundamental Crude transposition tools such as samplers when they transpose the fundamental transpose the formants along with it creating in the case of a transposition upwards an unnatural timbre as though the speaker or singer had just inhaled helium this is known as the Chipmunk effect and the converse produced by transposing formants downwards as the Darth Vader effect No disrespect to either gentleman but something better than this is called for in a musical context That is why Melodyne as a rule leaves JE GOE iyo the formants in place when transposing audio files yielding considerably more i 4 natural results You may wish on occasion however to make minor or for special effects even major adjustments to the formant structure manually and this is where the Edit Formant tool comes in When you select the Edit Formant tool a ho
69. using to implement portamento for example you might want to fuse adjacent notes or split single notes in two you may also wish to optimize the amplitude transitions or the rhythm for the destination instrument of course if you intend to carry on using the audio file as an audio file as well you should copy it to a separate track beforehand which will give you two versions one optimized for MIDI and the other for audio If you are using Melodyne in order to edit MIDI in this way it makes sense to copy the audio file onto an additional track and switch off the audio for the track upon which you are editing the melody as MIDI In this way you can edit audio and MIDI completely independently from one another Melodyne and plug in instruments As well as external MIDI instruments it is possible to load and use software instruments in the form of VST or AudioUnit plug ins To do this select Preferences gt Plug ins and activate the software instrument you plan to use select Window gt Mixer gt and from the Configure list box in the top right hand corner of the mixer nstrument Tracks gt Add Instrument Track a new channel 106 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 06 MIDI Out options named Inst 1 appears at the right hand extreme of the mixer click in the name field and give the instrument a more descriptive name from the second list box from the top in the channel strip select the desired instrument the user i
70. you can therefore control two Melodyne tracks at the same time You could also copy the same melody to several tracks and control these simultaneously using the same number of tracks of an external MIDI sequencer The MIDI Portamento Time parameter determines the speed of pitch changes during MIDI control This parameter only influences the changes that you hear directly when playing It has no effect upon the arrangement itself unlike the tool for the editing of pitch transitions in the Editor The remaining three commands in the MIDI menu cause the Audio to MIDI parameters and MIDI Ports and Remote Control preferences to be displayed in the former case above the toolbar and in the latter two cases in separate windows Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 131 O6 Working with multiple tracks O6 O6 Recording with Melodyne Within an arrangement you can record on a single track or several tracks simultaneously the exact number depending upon the audio driver and number of input channels available Melodyne can only record using ASIO Direct I O and Core Audio drivers with DirectX and Sound Manager only playback is supported The driver is determined using the Hardware page of the Preferences dialog whilst the file format you wish to be used when your recording Is stored on the hard disk is selected from the Recording page of the same dialog see also 07 06 Preferences When you record in an arrangement that has already been saved
71. 0 BPM and the filename git_160_clean wav you can just enter 1 It is only where the first digit in the filename relates to something other than the tempo e g 003_git_160_clean wav that you need to tell Melodyne to skip the O03 and begin reading at char 9 4 From File Duration the tempo is derived from the length of the file In the lower part of the window there are a number of parameters which whilst they have no influence upon the process of analysis itself do affect the way the audio material is handled at the editing stage and during playback Notation tonal rhythmic This determines whether the notes will all be displayed on the same line in the score like a snare drum part for example or like a normal melody where the position of each note depends upon its pitch This parameter too is accessible from the Definition menu so you can change your selection after the analysis is complete Portamento Treat notes separately Track portamento In the course of its own analysis of the audio data Melodyne always takes account of any portamentos sliding from one note to another but after dragging either or both notes to a different pitch in the course of your own editing you may feel that a portamento is no longer appropriate This parameter determines the global default whether the notes should in such cases be separated or the portamento retained though you can of course override it in individual
72. 1 and type in a value if you need to move the 1 by two or more bars As far as the tempo in ReWire client mode is concerned two situations have to be distinguished a the file to be opened is derived from the ReWire master where it has just been recorded in this case in all probability the file will already have the same tempo as the host which has already been detected and it is unnecessary and may even be counterproductive to let Melodyne determine the tempo instead you need Melodyne to adopt the tempo of the master as the tempo definition so select Newly Opened Files Adopt the Tempo of the ReWire Master b the file to be opened does not have the same tempo as the master in this case Melodyne should be allowed to analyse the material and suggest a tempo setting though again it may be necessary to correct this manually Once the tempo has been correctly defined Melodyne is able using a process that could be described as realtime time stretching to play back the audio file in time with the ReWire master During playback Melodyne s Tempo box is deactivated and simply displays the tempo of the master so you cannot enter a new value manually Note that when Melodyne adjusts the playback tempo of the audio file to match that of the host it is not altering the audio file itself if you do want to change the tempo of the audio file you have to halt the playback check the Autostretch box enter the desired tempo man
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74. 4 Arranging by copying and pasting You can move the cursor and left locator instantly to the start and the right locator to the end of any defined region in either of two ways and delete Markers Navigation gt Scroll to gt opens a drop down menu from which you can select the region moves the playback cursor to the start of the selected region scrolling the display if necessary to reveal as much of it as possible without altering the horizontal resolution Navigation gt Zoom to goes one further increasing or decreasing the horizontal resolution to ensure that only the selected region is displayed Navigation gt Delete Marker deletes the left and right markers and with it not the contents of the region but the region itself In other words if you have defined a region called Chorus running from bar 17 to bar 26 and you select Navigation gt Delete Marker gt Chorus the word Chorus will disappear from the Bar Time ruler and the region Chorus will no longer be available for selection from the Zoom to or Scroll to drop down menus but bars 17 26 themselves will not be deleted or changed in any other way Once a region has been defined the only way to move extend or truncate it Is to delete it and start again If in the previous example your chorus only in fact extends to the beginning of bar 25 and you have made a mistake select Navigation gt Scroll to gt Chorus which will move the left locator t
75. 91 O5 Other editing functions and options mode from the Editor to access the Reset and Redetect commands see the description above and open the MDD Editor in order to make far reaching changes to an MDD file You will also find two new commands With Save MDD from current Edit State you can apply the current state of the editing to the mdd file of the audio file which saves you switching to Correction Mode or opening the MDD Editor for small corrections When this command Is used the current state of the melody in the Editor note separations and tempo definition is saved for the current audio file in its mdd file alterations to the pitch and formants settings however are ignored This command can only be used when the audio file in the Editor has not yet been broken into small pieces and rearranged using the copy and paste functions or distorted in terms of time The Apply Arrangement Tempo and Tone Scale to all MDDs command does what you would expect and also makes these the standard settings for the audio files affected 05 04 Melodyne s playback algorithms Local Sound Synthesis a technology specially developed for Melodyne makes it possible to treat pitch and tempo as wholly separate entities You can for example bring the music to a halt without it falling silent as well as slowing down or speeding up the tempo without this having any effect upon the pitch or even creating unnatural artifacts Furthermore whe
76. Apple w AUFilter Apple 4 AUGraphicEQ Apple M1 AUHighShelfFilter Apple M AUHipass Apple GH AuLowpass Apple Rescan selected Plugins Show Log Plug ins The Plug ins page of the Preferences dialog is concerned with the plug ins that can be used in Melodyne as instruments and insert or auxiliary effects You will find more detailed information about the use of plug ins in the sections dealing with the MIDI Out options and the Mixer Under Mac OS X you can choose whether you wish to work with Audio Units with VST plug ins with both or with neither If you activate Audio Units or VSTs with the switches at the top of the window Melodyne searches in your system for corresponding plug ins and tries to load them If one of the plug in options has been activated when it launches Melodyne looks for plug ins that have been added or updated recently With the two buttons at the bottom of the page you Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 157 O7 Integration and global functions rescan the selected plug ins in the event of problems or show a log file with the results of the scan The Selected plug ins are those the names of which have been clicked on and are as a result displayed against the background selection color to select two or more plug ins Shift click their names in the normal way Whether or not the plug ins have been activated checked here is irrelevant As a rule not all the plug ins t
77. Continue Activation On the confirmation page that follows you will be requested by myCelemony to return to the activation assistant within Melodyne where you should click Continue Melodyne will then download the activation data from the myCelemony server and conclude the activation process 14 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 01 04 Online or Offline Activation If you have already registered Melodyne and wish to conduct a second or new activation for your laptop for example or after changing your hard disk after entering your serial number select Activate Online and click Continue Melodyne will then communicate automatically with the myCelemony server and conduct the activation itself Offline Activation Offline activation involves 3 steps 1 exporting an activation request file from the activation assistant 2 transferring this file to a computer that is capable of connecting to the Internet and uploading the file to myCelemony 3 downloading the activation file and dragging it to the activation assistant and dropping it If you have opted for offline activation the Export request file page will appear Export request file Melodyne serial number XXXX XXXX XXXX To activate Melodyne offline you must first export from Melodyne a request file containing the necessary data and later import an activation file that will activate Melodyne with lasting effect on your computer Drag the request file from the field
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79. Locator right L 4T 1 8 1 BT 1 16 1 16 T 1 32 1 32 T Seconds SMPTE Autostretch Quantization Grid Switch Activates or de activates the quantization grid Quantization Grid Selector List box from which to select quantization factor grid size Zoom Buttons Increase decrease the vertical y axis and horizontal x axis resolution of the display Zoom Scroll Bars With the scroll bars you can zoom and move forwards or backwards in time Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 29 01 What is Melodyne Melodyne Edit Definition View Navigation MIDI Window Help New Arrangement Open Open Recent File menu Commands for the creation loading and or saving of arrangements audio files and MIDI files as well as for opening the Melody Manager file browser and inser ting and removing tracks Melody Manager Import Audio File Insert Empty Tracks Remove Selected Track Save Arrangement Save Arrangement As Save Audio Save Audio to MIDI Revert to Saved Melodyne File Definition View Navigation MIDI Window Help Undo Changing Note Pitch Redo Undo History Revert to Audio File Edit menu Cut Melodyne s multi level Undo functi n on the standard Copy Cut and Delete Paste commands numerous selec Paste Special Select tion and Melodyne specific com mands as well as access to the Correct Pitch and Quantize Time macros Edit Pitch
80. ML file with a local web page that should open your browser automatically when you double click on it If this fails to happen open the file manually using the browser s Open Page command or something similar On the local web page that is displayed you will see a button Click this in order to establish the connection with myCelemony and transfer the data needed for the activation Note If you already have a myCelemony account you do not need to open another account and to do so with merely cause confusion Instead click the link on the Customer Profile page that takes you to the Log In page and log in using your user name and password 18 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 01 07 Activating an MSL title On the Customer Profile page of myCelemony enter the requisite data and confirm you entry with a click on Continue Activation This will take you to a page where you must enter the name of your iLok account iLok User ID Take care to enter this correctly it is case sensitive otherwise the license transfer will fail Then click on the Transfer key The myCelemony server will then connect to the server at www iLok com to see firstly whether or not an account with the given name exists and if so to transfer the license to it Once this transfer is complete you can close the myCelemony web site Transferring the license from your iLok account to your dongle Navigate to the iLok web site www ilok com and log in Your Melody
81. Playback Start and Opening Files takes Tempo from ReWire host i 0 OO Preferences With the former option you can ite ensure that Melodyne synchronizes SS ae with the ReWire host after a A Opening files takes tempo from ReWire host constant and considerably shorter delay than in earlier versions Of course considerably more RAM is required to implement this option as it involves reading the file from the hard disk and loading it in its entirety into RAM If your computer has a less than abundant supply of RAM it may be obliged to use virtual memory which involves using page or swap files to swap pages of data out of physical memory when necessary the upshot being that instead of the hoped for acceleration there is a marked slowdown in performance If this occurs it is better to deactivate the Fast Playback Start option Host latency 0 ms The option Opening Files takes Tempo from ReWire host causes Melodyne to adopt the current tempo of the ReWire master when defining the tempo Bar Time Ruler setting of newly opened files see below Latency matching in ReWire mode In ReWire mode Melodyne supports latency matching with the ReWire host if needed What this means is that in the event that the position of the song cursor in Melodyne does not correspond with the heard signal you can correct the problem As a starting point set the audio latency displayed in your host or else just experiment until
82. Replacing notes 127 Reset Detection to 87 ReWire 000 134 145 ReWire related preferences 146 S Sample Rate 005 154 Save Audio 0005 109 Save Audio 0 ee eae 48 Save MDD from current Edit State 92 save the MIDI data 107 Scala tuning systems 103 Scale Snap a4 kaa e oe ea ee 160 SCUD 24 4 e424 lt 304 36 63 160 Segment Separation tool 53 56 selecting deleting copying cutting and pasting of note blobs L23 Separate Note as Slide 74 Separate Note as Trill 73 SNOrIC TS ssrirererer iesi 159 OMFTE wane bees ce pe ae 148 solo a track oe wae amp Gee see es 117 Spot to Pro Tools 148 standard MIDI input 130 stretching a note inside the selection 54 synchro quantize tracks 5y synchronization 146 147 target positions for quantization 70 tempo 118 120 125 146 tempo changes 112 tempo parameter 47 tempo recognition 86 time stretching 48 Tone Scale and Tuning 99 Track list 2 2 200000 117 KANSIEN 26 ieee dee beware 121 Transition checkbox 64 transport controls 37 X Variable Tempo Editing mode 112 VIDIA pisi done Gee oes eae 44 vocal harmonies 124 zZ ZOON gate Beals ee tee 41 ZOOM TOO agi gaa ob 8 riram Se 38 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual
83. There however you only define the tuning of a melody not the tuning of the entire arrangement If the melody Is the first one loaded into an arrangement the melody automatically determines the scale of the arrangement You can of course still change the scale of the arrangement at all times The defining of a scale does not change the musical content of the recorded material contained in the arrangement the scale only becomes effective when editing notes with the note or scale snap option active Importing Scala tuning systems You can also import tuning systems in scala format Scala files have file ending scl The Scala Home Page http www xs4all nl huygensf scala index html offers a library of over 3000 scales in scl format which you can import into Melodyne for your own use Certain of these scales have more than 12 notes these are not currently supported by Melodyne With the others the Scala format defines neither the scale degrees used nor their absolute pitch For this reason Melodyne uses the following system when importing them if a Scala file contains exactly 12 notes these are assigned to the existing 12 notes of the chromatic scale and the scale itself the 7 degrees that are used are set to the 7 tones of the major scale If on the other hand a Scala file contains fewer than 12 degrees these are assigned to the nearest degrees to them in the even temperament scale and the other degrees left as multip
84. Transition Z Redo Undo History Reset to Original Cut Copy Paste Delete Paste Special Select Edit Pitch Edit Formant Edit Amplitude Edit Note Separations Edit Notes Time Change Tempo Autostretch Define Tempo Variable Tempo Editing Mode XS Reset Formants to Original Reset Formant Transition to Default vvvvvwasvy V V Correct Pitch XP Quantize Time XET The Edit gt Edit Formant cascading submenu offers two options Reset Formants to Original and Reset Formant Transition to Default that are useful because they are independent of the normal Undo function 04 03 The Amplitude Tool Dynamics obviously play a vital part in musical expression so Melodyne offers powerful functions to help you edit this aspect of a performance They are implemented with the help of the Amplitude tool If you click on a note with the Amplitude tool and drag upwards it becomes louder downwards softer the amount of change in decibels being indicated in each case in the Inspector area 68 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 04 03 The Amplitude Tool Dragging upwards increases the amplitude of the note Whilst dragging downwards has the opposite effect As usual one note selected notes or all notes can be edited with a single movement of the mouse or else if preferred by entering the desired value in the edit box near the Toolbar As with pitch and formants you can edit the amplitude transitio
85. a given track by punching in and out because it knows where each note begins and ends Select the notes you wish to replace Hold the Alt key and double click the Locator lower deck of the Bar Time ruler to place the left locator at the exact unquantized beginning of the first note of the group and the right locator at the exact end of the last Check the Punch In and Punch Out boxes in the Transport Bar Commence recording as described above Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 133 O6 Working with multiple tracks If the singer or instrumentalist begins to soon or holds the last note for too long Melodyne makes the necessary adjustments If he begins too soon it shortens which in Melodyne is not the same thing as truncating the preceding note i e the previously recorded note to the left of the left locator If he holds the last note for too long i e it overlaps the right locator Melodyne shortens it rather than making room for it by moving the notes to the right of the Right locator to the right In other words the rules are exactly the same as those that apply when you are editing an audio file using Copy and Paste O6 07 The Mixer The Mixer of the current arrangement which opens when you select Window gt Mixer or Command Shift M offers a channel strip for each track of the arrangement plus additional strips for group ReWire and instrument tracks if any are included in the arrangement
86. absolute frequency the tuning is based on using Frequency of the Keys text fields This process is comparable to tuning a piano as a whole higher or lower in pitch without changing the tonal intervals in relation to each other Finally you can specify with the Select Base Key buttons which key is Supposed to be the base key for the used scale steps defined before by Used Tonal Positions Saving loading and using tuning system If you have defined a new scale or tuning system you can give it a name by typing it into the text box provided second from the top at the right and Save it When you do so both the scale structure and the note currently defined as the key note 102 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 06 MIDI Out options will be saved along with any changes you have made to the tuning system If when you wish to open the file during a later session or reselect it from the list box during the same session you are working in a different key and are only interested in loading the new tuning structure check the Tuning only box before selecting the tuning system from the list box or loading it from the hard disk Melodyne Tone Scale files have the ending mts Whatever tone scale files you have created should be displayed automatically when you click the Open button at the bottom of the Tone Scale dialog The panel to define tuning and scale is also available in the Melody Definition Window
87. acks of the mixer will also appear in the MIDI Ports list box By clicking and dragging in the Velocity box on the left you can vary the shape of the Note On velocity curve it is also possible to determine the minimum and maximum values by dragging the horizontal lines located initially at the bottom and top of the rectangle If you wish Pitch Bend messages to be included in the transmitted MIDI data check the Pitch Bend box the edit box directly below is used to determine the Pitch Bend Range in semitones and should correspond with the same parameter of the MIDI instrument being controlled Any difference in the settings will lead to either a reduction or an intensification of the effect A problem that arises with MIDI when you have to use a Pitch Bend controller or in this case Pitch Bend messages to realize a portamento between two notes is that the controller is inevitably out of position at the instant the first note ends since in the course of the first note it moves further and further from the neutral position it needs to be in the instant the second note begins Even when the messages are generated by software rather than a physical controller the result is often a noticeable discontinuity 104 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 06 MIDI Out options Melodyne therefore offers three different algorithms Each Note Central Note and Alternating Channel for implementing passages in which the pitch glides smoothly rather tha
88. activate the key Snap function remembering to set the correct key and then drag the new part up a third Without the Key Snap function this wouldn t work properly as you would either have major thirds the whole time or minor thirds the whole time whereas the musical effect you are aiming for requires the superposition of major thirds on certain degrees of the scale Lin the major the tonic subdominant and dominant and minor thirds on the rest Note It is possible to select other modes besides the major and minor as well as define modes of your own see Section 05 04 Now that you have mastered the basic pitch editing functions of Melodyne it should be pointed out that these only work as described for monophonic audio material we re talking here about the number of parts not the number of speakers with monophonic material there are no chords so if more than one performer is involved they are by definition singing or playing in unison The problem with material composed of two or more parts is that Melodyne has no way of isolating the individual notes that make up each chord in the case of homophonic material or in the case polyphonic material of assigning notes correctly to the various parts so the set of functions available for editing the pitch are rather more limited Before we move on to consider Melodyne s other tools for the editing of pitch we will briefly introduce you to a number of other fundamental and no less f
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90. ae oe 38 CVOlIG ac eauoeas ee Enne eee 37 D Define Beat Assignment 168 Define Pitch Assignment 169 Define Pitch Transition 173 Define Score Time 166 Definition aana eee 87 detecting and setting the tempo voc uae eddaa 119 Detection 00 82 84 Detection parameters 84 88 detection results 83 Digital Performer 141 display modes for the audio files 17 displaying notes on a stave in the conventional manner 36 E Edit gt Edit Amplitude 70 Edit gt Edit Formant Edit gt Edit Note Separations 3 Edit gt Edit Notes Time 72 Edit gt Edit PitCh 44244044 4 66 Edit Formant tool 67 Edit Pitch tool aaaaaa 40 62 Editing multiple tracks 118 Editing timing 49 POWOk sagen s menini we 40 116 Equalizer 0000 135 Errors of intervals 88 E falsely detected note 83 file tablaloop wav 58 file browser 0000 76 fine tuning function 42 force Melodyne to adopt a particular interpretation 83 formant transitions 67 formants cacao cea 24 42 66 120 G generation of harmonies 46 gray l marker 37 Group track lt 4cesauKda aaan 137 ideal rhythmic positions 70 Import Audio File 40 118 Import Audio file 49 Instrument Track 106 138 integrated rev
91. alteration takes effect If you alter the global playback tempo this happens automatically so that plucking or breath noise as well as consonants in vocal parts retain their character despite tempo changes Another way of altering the attack is to enter a new attack speed in the box beside the toolbar whereby 100 represents the fastest and 100 the slowest possible attack From the Edit gt Edit Notes Time cascading submenu you can reset the various Time parameters of selected notes to their original values r Definition View Navigation MIDI Window Help Undo Changing Note Attack Z Redo TZ Undo History gt Revert to Audio File gt Melodyne File Cut 36X Copy C Paste V Delete Paste Special Select Edit Pitch Edit Formant Edit Amplitude Edit Notes Time Edit Note Separations Reset relative Time Course to Original Reset Time and Duration to Original Reset Note Time Handles to Original Change Tempo Autostretch Add Random Offset to Time Course Define Tempo Variable Tempo Editing Mode X jJ vv VAY YY VvV Y Adapt all Notes of Track to Arrangement Tempo Set all Notes of Track to half Tempo Set all Notes of Track to double Tempo Correct Pitch XP Quantize Time XET Reset Relative Time Course to Original re establishes the original time relationship between notes leaving their total length unchanged in the event that the area has been stretched or compressed Res
92. altic 7 toggle the display of the EQ Insert and Aux sections on and off pina Sr Instrument Tracks Show EQ Graph Group tracks which you can create and delete using the next item in the list are useful when you are happy with the balance between a group of instruments or voices such as the components of a drum set or the sopranos altos tenors and basses of a choir but wish to make the entire group quieter or louder relative to the rest of the channels Obviously if you had to move each of the faders in turn you would be in danger of mucking up the balance you had perhaps gone to some pains to establish so you begin Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 137 O7 Integration and global functions by creating a group track and routing the outputs of the member channels to It only then do you begin the difficult task of establishing the balance between members of the group which you only need to do once thereafter if you need to make the entire drum set or the entire choir louder without disturbing the level ratios between members of the group you will move the group fader leaving the channel faders untouched The inputs of a group track are not selected in the group channel instead the various channels that comprise the group select that group as their output which obviously comes to the same thing The nesting of groups Is also Supported all you do is route the output of one or more groups to a higher group you migh
93. ange list box are for Range As Reference Track From Start of Reference Track until End of Arrangement the most pa rt sel f exp la natory Channels Individual Range for each Track _ Individual File for each Marker Region Tracks Bechet i El et a If you select Entire Arrangement everything from the beginning of the first note of the arrangement to the end of the last will be saved f you select Between Locators the length will be determined by the current position of the left and right locators Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 109 O5 Other editing functions and options f you select As Reference Track a new list box opens to the right of the Range box from which you are invited to select a reference track the beginning and end of which will then serve the same function as the left and right markers in the previous option in other words data will be saved from all the active channels but only where it coincides with the reference track This is useful when you are working in another application and wish to export a passage for editing by Melodyne and then restore it to exactly the same slot If you select From the Start of the Reference Track to the End of the Arrangement the beginning of the range will be as per the previous option but tracks continuing beyond the end of the reference track will not in this case be truncated If you select ndividual Range for Each Track each track will be exporte
94. ant Corr Period m Processed i Melodic m Crisp a a 1 The parameters for Melodic mode Crisp or Smooth The terms Crisp and Smooth are used here to describe two varieties of internal sound processing If in doubt try both to see which works best The option Crisp is usually the better choice as it gives the sound greater presence and there is less loss besides which it makes more modest demands upon the capacity of the CPU allowing you to play back a greater number of tracks simultaneously There are however cases in which the Smooth algorithm delivers Superior results these include cases where extreme stretching is applied to a sound as well as well as those where there are sudden percussion like changes or clicks within individual notes the tendency is for the Crisp algorithm to render such irregularities even more obtrusive whereas the Smooth algorithm applies a gentle airbrush Formant Correction 0 100 When you alter the pitch of notes this parameter determines whether the formants should move en bloc with the fundamental in which case there is no formant correction 0 or whether the formants should remain in place in which case it is their relationship to the transposed fundamental that is being corrected The standard setting is 100 which means that the formant frequencies remain unchanged regardless of the pitch of the fundamental as they do for example when you sing or play on the vi
95. appears to extend over two and a half bars instead of only two Never mind in Melodyne such things are fixed easily and intuitively First make sure that Autostretch checkbox is not selected in the Transport Bar Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 47 O3 Loading and editing audio Now click on the Tempo box and drag the pointer in the vertical plane you will notice that the calibration of the Bar Time ruler as well as the chequered pattern of the background display in the Editor expands and contracts depending upon whether you drag the mouse upwards or downwards The 1 marker serves as a point of reference What we need to do in this case is alter the tempo so that the grid lines will match the audio data E k ALA A Now the bar time ruler indicates the true length of the loop What we have just done it should be noted has nothing whatever to do with time stretching we haven t yet changed the tempo of the loop all we have done is correct Melodyne s reading of the tempo so that the display now matches the data Having performed that task which as we have remarked is seldom necessary as Melodyne usually gets the tempo right automatically we can proceed if we wish to the actual business of time stretching To switch to time stretching mode check the Autostretch box 120 0 bpm O Bar L Cycle 0001 01 01 000 1 120 0 bom i Jaran oinin 0001 01 01 000 iiiam Mi Autostretch fale w o DB 0 jom o
96. arrangement In MIDI In Plays Notes mode all changes are only temporary realtime events they do not in other words alter the notes in the arrangement When MIDI In Edits Notes is selected you can use the MIDI keyboard to edit the notes in other words the notes in the arrangement are moved to the positions played and remain there As in MIDI In Plays Notes mode you can edit the sequence of notes in step mode If playback Is not running If playback Is running you can move notes in real time When editing in real time the actual movement of notes is rather different to what you hear as you play admittedly you hear the altered pitches at precisely the moment that you play a note but the actual movement of the notes is governed by the note separations defined in the audio file In this way more natural transitions between notes are obtained If you play a few shorter notes over a long original note the note is not separated if you want a separation cut the long note in the desired places with the Note Separation tool prior to playing 130 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual O6 05 MIDI In options When either MIDI In Transposes All from C3 0 or MIDI In Transposes Track from C3 0 is selected the entire arrangement or track is transposed through an interval calculated by subtracting Middle C from the key pressed up a tone in other words if you play the D above Middle C down a semitone if you play the B below Middle C and so on
97. ascinating functions this time for editing the tempo and timing of audio recordings 46 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 03 05 Any tempo you like O3 05 Any tempo you like We turn now to the general playback tempo of the audio file in Melodyne this is variable a fact that will hardly astound you in the light of what you have seen already The sound quality that Melodyne is able to achieve whilst implementing the most extreme degrees of time compression and stretching does however astound even hard bitten audio professionals and further vindicates the technological approach adopted by Celemony In the Transport Window which you can open from the Window menu or else using the shortcut Shift Command IT you will find Melodyne s tempo parameter 5 Tr Bar Mi Cycle 0001 01 01 000 4 120 0 E Punch in 0003 01 01 000 0001 01 01 000 4 Gao me ie e a Dp oO joe 4129 0 Autostretr In the course of its analysis of the recording Melodyne seeks to identify not only the pitch of each note but also the rhythm and tempo of the music when the analysis and loading of the first audio file is complete Melodyne s tempo parameter will very often be correct in the event however that further adjustments are needed they are easily made E E aaa SS The tempo displayed here is incorrect As you can see from the Bar Time ruler Melodyne has not interpreted the rhythm of the loop correctly and as a result it
98. ation on Melodyne s export options see section 05 07 Saving Audio Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 35 O2 General In the main display notes are represented by blobs the vertical extent of which is indicative of their amplitude at each instant as a result each blob displays the amplitude envelope of the note to which it refers i e the way the volume changes over time The average pitch of the note over the course of its duration where this has been identified can be discovered by referring to the Note ruler in the left hand margin as is intuitively obvious the higher the vertical position on the screen the higher the pitch whilst the precise pitch at any one point in time is indicated by the thin continuous line the Pitch Curve threaded through the blobs In addition to the blobs Melodyne is capable of displaying notes on a stave in the conventional manner select View gt Show Score Notes or click the stave icon in the top left hand corner of the Editor or Arrange window to the left of the Bar Time Ruler to toggle the display on and off Notes can also be a conventional notation y i After selecting one or multiple blobs you can delete them using the delete key DEL or BACKSPACE on the Mac or else cut or copy them with a view to pasting them into the same or some other document you will find all three commands in the Edit menu The first of a Sequence of notes inserted in this way will appea
99. atisfied with the results exit with OK if on the other hand you would prefer to leave things as they were before you opened the Correct Pitch dialog exit with Cancel Note if no notes are selected at the time you open the Correct Pitch dialog Melodyne understands you to mean correct the pitch of all the notes otherwise your action in opening the dialog would be pointless if on the other hand one or more notes are selected they and only they will be affected by whatever changes you make This applies to the Editor and the Arrangement window As well as selecting notes by rubber banding them as described above you can use the Select submenu to select only the notes between the two locators Edit gt Select gt Select Notes between Locators only those notes not currently selected gt Invert Selection or only notes of the same pitch as the note selected gt Select Same Notes and so on 03 04 Pitch Snap Now that you know how notes can be moved semitone wise manually as well as fine tuned or if you prefer corrected in pitch automatically and freed from unwanted pitch drift we would like to show you a practical help function for the editing of pitch the Pitch Snap function Look for a moment at the left hand side of the editing area or to be precise the lower edge of the window The snapping of note blobs in the editor to the nearest semitone can be disabled in the same way that you can disable snapping to t
100. below to your hard disk or straight to a portable storage medium e g a USB flash drive Copy the request file with a simple drag amp drop Find a computer that is connected to the Internet and visit the myCelemony web site www celemony com mycelemony To register your copy of Melodyne you must upload the request file and then download your personal activation file You will find detailed instructions as to how to do this at myCelemony Simply drag your personal activation file onto any page of this activation assistant That completes the activation process Cancel Continue Export the file by drag n drop to your hard disk and transfer it for example using a USB flash drive to a computer with Internet access The request file is a small HTML file with a local web page that should open your browser when you double click on it If it fails to do so open the file manually from your browser the relevant command should be called Open Page or something similar On the local web page displayed you will see a button Click on this to establish the connection with myCelemony and transfer the data required for the activation Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 15 01 Installation and activation Then enter the necessary data in the customer profile of your new myCelemony account and confirm your entries by clicking Continue Activation If you already have a myCelemony account you do not need to open a new one and doing
101. by wale Difference Tempo Tapping ift Tempo Tapping i4 Tempo Tapping i i Luman i Matlorrs b aru F fom b Com Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 115 O6 Working with multiple tracks O6 Working with multiple tracks In the first chapters of this manual we laid the emphasis upon Melodyne s Editor which allows you to edit audio material in a highly flexible way using a variety of tools Whilst the correction and creative editing performed in the Editor are among the most important uses for Melodyne they are by no means the only ones Melodyne is at its most versatile and powerful when you have loaded multiple tracks into the Arranger which offers you the degree of control you associate with a MIDI sequencer you can reshape melodies change the mode modify the timing alter the rhythm stretch or compress the material and even effect a global transposition of the entire arrangement as well as tweaking any of the other parameters offered by Melodyne for the editing of audio The Arrangement window and the Editor are of equal status both represent an Arrangement though they display different views of it in the Arrangement window the tracks are displayed one on top of the other whereas in the Editor they are in a sense behind one another with the one in the foreground being the edited track which you can edit using the various tools Opening am arrangement or creating a new arrangement causes the Arrangement window t
102. can use directly from within your sequencer as a VST AU or RTAS plug in In this way you can correct vocals quickly and without complications as well as editing other instruments with the most important Melodyne tools As a registered user of Melodyne studio 3 you receive upon request a Melodyne plugin licence free of charge whilst as a registered user of cre8 you can purchase Melodyne plugin at an especially favourable price see below If you are a user of Melodyne studio 3 here s how to obtain and install your free copy of Melodyne plugin register and activate your copy of Melodyne if you have not already done so In the process you will create a myCelemony account at www celemony com log in to your myCelemony account www celemony com mycelemony and navigate to the options for your registered Melodyne studio 3 click the option for requesting the plug in The myCelemony server will then provide you with a serial number and create a new product entry in your myCelemony account for Melodyne plugin download the latest Melodyne plugin installation program for your platform from myCelemony use the download link next to the plug in s name and perform the installation The plug in is independent of your Melodyne studio and can if desired be installed on a different computer Once the installation is complete Melodyne plugin must be activated to do this load the plug in into your host and follow the onscreen instructions g
103. case accompanied by an m in lower case represents the minor mode or some other mode such as the Dorian in which the third degree of the scale is a minor third above the tonic 170 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 08 08 Assignment to tone scales Another way of defining the tonality and mode is to use the drop down list boxes in the Inspector Here any of the church modes as well as other scales not forming part of the Major Minor system can be selected The tonalities are arranged in accordance with the circle of fifths to make It easier to switch between closely related keys To use anything other than concert pitch A 440Hz enter the desired offset in cents Double clicking on any of the gray beams redefines that note as the tonal center without altering the key signature If the key were C major clicking on the note E would select the Phrygian mode with E as the new tonal center In the pop up windows at the top E would be displayed as the tonality and Phrygian as the mode Clicking on the Key Buttons in the left margin of the window also changes the tonality but this time the mode remains unchanged e g C lonian to E lonian f you perform the same action with the Shift key held not only does the tonality change but also the mode the effect depending upon which mode you start from being to toggle between major and minor An analogous changes takes place if the original scal
104. checked you will hear the incoming signal with all the effects active in the signal chain the degree of latency delay is partly determined by the buffer size Preferences gt Hardware gt Buffer Size our G uffer size Prefer gt Hardware gt Buffer Size amp Rec Monitor Above this is a list box marked Out displaying the audio 6db 6db hardware channels of the main output The output channels available are dependent upon your audio hardware From the Aux list box es you can select from among the available VST plug ins or Audio Units Mac only one or more Aux effects the choice again being dependent upon the settings on the Plug ins page of the Preferences dialog Each time you select an effect a new list box appears to permit the selection of another At the same time a second row of rotary controls marked Ax appears in the channel strips Clicking the name of the selected effect in the Aux window of the Master Section opens a new window in which the parameters of the selected effect are displayed and can be adjusted After selecting a new effect this window opens automatically Master Out T Sync Faders ZF The box at the top displaying the word Configure is a cascading list box that combines the functions of a View menu with commands for adding and deleting group and instrument tracks Hide EQs Hide Inserts d d By checking and unchecking the first three items you can bas
105. ck of the ruler will cause the left and right locators to move to the beginning and end of the recording or rather to be more precise to the grid lines just to the left of the beginning and right of the end of it If blobs are selected the locators will move to the beginning and end of the selected notes without snapping if the Alt key is held The locators otherwise always snap to the nearest grid lines though they can be moved to intermediate positions if the Alt key is held By dragging the gray 1 marker you can realign the ruler with the audio data the ruler will move in other words whilst the audio data stays put Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 37 O3 Loading and editing audio To position the cursor click in the upper part of the ruler to commence playback from the new cursor position press the space bar To combine both operations double click in the upper part of the ruler and playback will commence immediately from the new cursor position By clicking in the top part of the ruler and dragging the mouse to the left or right you can scrub through the arrangement or the file in the Editor in order to scrutinize different parts of it freezing the playback on a single cycle of the waveform if you wish so that the music comes to a complete standstill an impressive example of the power of Melodyne s Local Sound Synthesis Where only part of the audio file is displayed in the Editor or Arrangement window you can
106. cking on the Control panel of the track in question in the Track list 124 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 06 04 Arranging by copying and pasting Select following Notes adds all the notes following the currently selected note to the selection This is useful for example when you have divided off a segment and wish to move it further to the right to allow space for the insertion of other notes Select same Notes selects all notes occupying the same semitone as the selected note This is useful if for example you wish to replace all the Middle C s in the piece with the note above C Select same Notes in all Octaves is the same except that it allows you to select all C s or all F sharps for that matter regardless of their octave Select same Beats allows you to select all the notes in an audio file that occur on the same beat of the bar as the note selected This is useful for example if you wish to alter the rhythm of a percussion track by making all the notes on the first beat sound slightly earlier By Shift clicking multiple notes before selecting Edit gt Select gt Select same Beats you can define and pick out a rhythmic pattern wherever it occurs in the audio file Select Notes between Locators is self explanatory Conversely you can move the locators to encompass the selected notes by double clicking in the lower deck of the Bar Time ruler Invert Note Selection selects all the notes that
107. cre8 studio user manual 05 03 The Analysis of audio by Melodyne Aurodetecr The Detection parameters in the SS Preferences dialog I perinky U ew Parameter bet Detection Parameter Title New Parameter Set Highest Note C8 4186 Hz Tempo io Automatic Detection O Given Tempo Separation Sensitivity 100 O From Name at Digit From File Duration Lowest Note CO 16 Hz Silence Note Limit 34 db Notation Rhythmic Melodic Tonal O Percussive O Polyphonic Portamento Treat Notes Separately O No Separation Track Portamento Play Algorithm Melodic O Poly Percussive To create a new parameter set select Add from the Options list box at the top right of the dialog A window opens offering various options which become the currently selected options as soon as you close the window The following options are available Highest Note Lowest Note this determines the range to which Melodyne will confine its search for notes fundamentals If you know the highest and lowest notes of a melody entering them here obviates the risk of Melodyne confusing the first harmonic with the fundamental or confusing a note with the note an octave lower because say the singer had a frog in his throat at that instant but as we ve said such errors are rare so this is seldom necessary If there is crosstalk on the recording such as the faint sound of the bass spilling into the flute
108. d and now by listening you can decide whether the ascertainment of the pitch center seems right O08 O8 Assignment to tone scales The Define Pitch Assignment tool is also used for the detection and establishing of the tonality and scale of the melody The scale set here has important implications among other things for the handling of chromatic notes foreign to the key or scale This is useful as it allows chromatic passing notes and therefore the integrity of the melody or phrase to be preserved during transposition when the Scale Snap function is active Although advanced functions like these are of more benefit to those with a grounding in musical theory other users too can profit from experimenting with different scale definitions even if they have no notion of the theory of harmony indeed the new display and adjustment possibilities may even offer a more intuitive approach to what might otherwise seem a rather dry subject The notes of the scale are indicated by gray beams making it easy to discover whether or not important melody notes form part of the scale if they do they will coincide with the gray beams if not they will fall between A number of commands are provided to make the various functions of the Tone Scale window available also in the MDD Editor In the left hand margin of the window the switches for selecting the tonality and mode are active as in Scale Snap mode in the Editor The name of the note in upper
109. d the arrangement it is time to import the first audio file File gt Import Audio File Once the tempo of the arrangement has been defined it will be adopted in the course of the detection by all files loaded Subsequently into the arrangement Alternatively you can choose how the tempo of a newly loaded file should be detected in the manually selectable detection parameters in the preferences 118 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 06 01 Importing audio files If you don t know the tempo of the audio file you are about to edit select File gt Open followed by the file and Melodyne will create a new arrangement as well as detecting and setting the tempo and if this is the first file in the arrangement to be opened that contains melodic material also the key automatically if you disagree with Melodyne s analysis you are of course free to redefine either the tempo see 05 07 Variable Tempo Editing Mode or the key as outlined in the previous paragraph manually If audio files contain information about the tempo as do Apple Loops and Acid files this is automatically adopted by Melodyne File and note based importation You can also drag and drop audio files directly from the Finder Mac Explorer Windows or easier still the Melody Manager see 05 01 The Melody Manager into Melodyne s Arrange window or Editor Where exactly they end up depends upon whether you are conducting a file or a note based import When yo
110. d with a separate starting point and length This is useful when you are editing samples of different lengths within the same arrangement If you select ndividual Audio File for Each Marker Region see Navigating with Markers the files will derive their names from the markers This option is only available when you are exporting audio data from a single usually long track Melodyne s Audio Export window also offers the option of exporting the audio material of a track blobwise for each detected or manually produced note Melodyne creates a separate audio file on the disk Provided this is one part melodic material and one extract defined as a note does not contain more than one pitch a MIDI root key is automatically written to the files produced This makes it possible to map the audio files automatically to the correct keys when they are used in a sampler When exporting give a name to the folder and the names of the individual files will then consist of the name of that folder followed by a number which is incremented with each successive file Save Audio Format AIFF rH f 44 100 kHz rH 32 bit floating Pcie Interleaved x The option Range Entire Arrangement permitting the E Between Locators ti f anne s As Reference Track crea ION ot an Tracks From Start of Reference Track until End of Arrangement A Trumpet individual file for Individual Range for each Track each note Individual File for each Mar
111. de to the original the amplitude transitions to the default and the mute state of the selected notes 04 04 The tools for editing the position and length of notes The next tool in the toolbar is the Move Notes tool This works in exactly the same way as the Main tool when positioned at the beginning or end of a note In this case however outlines in little blue frames indicate the positions that Melodyne s analysis has identified as the ideal rhythmic positions for the blobs and that are represented by the notation The blue frames also indicate the target positions for quantization that can be carried out using the Quantize Time macro Important these positions will only make sense if the tempo has been correctly 70 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 04 04 The tools for editing the position and length of notes identified and the grid properly aligned how to adjust the tempo to the material and realign the background where necessary is explained in 03 05 Any Tempo you Like and 05 07 Variable Tempo Editing mode The following experiment will help you to understand the blue frames Select the Time tool and make the notation visible From the Quantization drop down menu to the right of the Bar Time ruler select a smaller or triplet quantization factor Then select all notes and choose Edit gt Define Arrangement Tempo gt Reassign Notes to Beats This will cause the blue frames to jump to new positions in line with th
112. ded from the Celemony web site it may be necessary to unpack the installation program with a double click Simply follow the onscreen instructions for the installation Once the installation program has stored the files on the hard disk you can launch Melodyne with a double click The Melodyne installation program offers you a number of options because Melodyne works with various different plug in interfaces Not all the possible components form part of the standard installation In addition to Melodyne itself and ReWire support the Melodyne Bridge plug ins for the VST RTAS and AU interfaces the last named only on the Mac form part of the standard installation Support for DXi PC only does not form part of the standard installation please activate this option by hand if you need it Prior to the installation the installation program checks to see what components are already installed You could for example install Melodyne on its own and run it at first without plug in support The desired plug ins or other options can be added in the course of a second installation without damaging the original installation or the activation Under Windows a de installation program is available which you can use to uninstall the components you do not need To do this proceed as follows 1 from the Start menu open the Control Panel 2 double click on Add or Remove Programs 3 from the list of installed programs choose Melodyne and click R
113. dge Now you can edit the recorded material in Melodyne The Melodyne Bridge plug in switches automatically to playback mode after the data transfer if you now play back Bars 1 to 6 the Melodyne Bridge takes over the signal from Melodyne and routes it to the mixer of the host Where in Melodyne no audio material is present the original signal of the host program is looped right back to it Host Application Melodyne If you are using the transport functions of the host application the two programs will run in sync If on the other hand you start the playback in Melodyne whilst you will hear Melodyne s signal via the mixer of the host application the transport functions of the host application will be sidelined Thus depending upon which Transport Bar you use you have the choice of either listening in isolation to the signal from Melodyne as you will often need to do whilst editing or hearing the synchronized output of the two applications Note this only applies to host applications such as Cubase or Pro Tools that continuously render their plug ins With programs such as Logic or Digital Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 141 O7 Integration and global functions Performer this is not the case If with applications such as these you wish to hear the signal from Melodyne in isolation Melodyne can route the audio output to the first two channels of the audio hardware as soon as It is moved to the foreground This only works wi
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115. dio user manual 05 08 Variable Tempo Editing mode By typing in the desired values in the Bar Time ruler you define a different tempo and or time signature for each segment You can activate Variable Tempo Editing mode separately for the Arrangement and Editor When it is active you can enter values at any time in the Bar Time ruler Dragging the grid in the Editor is only possible when the Main tool the Arrow is selected The Change and Define Tempo submenus Further options for altering or redefining the tempo within a recording are provided by the Change Tempo auto stretch and Define Tempo submenus accessed from the Edit menu When you redefine the tempo all that happens is that the gridlines move the tempo of the audio itself is unchanged As you will have noticed the two sub menus have many commands in common Double Tempo and Half Tempo are self explanatory Equal Tempo is an Undo function it removes all the tempo changes you have introduced in the course of editing so that the same tempo obtains throughout the arrangement Same Tempo for Following Bars has the same effect except that tempo changes prior to the current bar are preserved Same Signature for Following Bars preserves all time signatures prior to the current bar but deletes any that follow Equal Beats in Current Bar and Equal Beats in Following Bars are also Undo functions and self explanatory Smooth Tempo Changes is used to imple
116. dow in which normally only the MIDI port and certain actions for user definable keys can be entered O7 O6 Preferences Here we would like quickly to familiarize you with Melodyne s Preferences Open the Preferences window from the menu The Preferences dialog contains several pages you choose between them using the drop down list at the top In ReWire mode as in Bridge mode a Special page appears with additional preference options the ReWire preferences are discussed in the ReWire section of this manual the Bridge settings in the section dealing with the Melodyne Bridge enn Preferences Device Driver CoreAudio MOTU Traveler Ke Sample Rate 44 100 kHz x Hardware Buffer Size 512 Samples B On the Hardware page you Ignore buffer underruns File Cache 10 sec KA will find the following parameters Device Driver This is used to select the audio driver On the Mac this is usually the Core Audio driver for the integrated or optional audio hardware under Windows a DirectX or preferably an ASIO driver for the audio hardware in use Sample Rate If the audio driver permits such a choice you can set the sample rate to be used for recording and playback with this parameter This value must not necessarily be the same as the sample rate of the audio files used The best audio quality however is obtained if the sample rates are the same 154 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual O7 O6 Preferences
117. dyne including the Transport Bar the Mixer and even Melodyne typical functions such as transposing the fundamentals or formants of individual tracks or the entire arrangement using an external MIDI controller either by assigning the various knobs switches and faders to Melodyne functions yourself which is not difficult or by choosing a controller already supported by Melodyne such as MackieControl LogicControl and Radical SAC in which case the work has already been done To assign functions to the controls of an external device not already supported by Melodyne choose Preferences gt MIDI Remote Control followed by Add gt Generic Controller from the Options list Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 151 O7 Integration and global functions e020 Preferences TRS Generic Controller B Generischer Controller 1 S SS CN Edit Logic Control Radikal SAC Control Import Export The MIDI Remote Control page of the Preferences dialog showing the cascading Options list By generic controller is meant simply any MIDI controller other than those specifically named below for which the assignments have already been defined It is also possible to import or export predefined controller assignments Once a controller has been registered with Melodyne in this way you can activate it using the checkbox to the left of its name on the MIDI Remote Control page of the Preferences dialog If you double click the
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119. e newly selected quantization factor The little blue frames and the notation jump to new positions representing the new target positions for quantization The little blue frames represent the target positions of the notes for quantization i PEAN A A T SS s ESAN he bak e vor n PA A a ee ey a ky ay A a A ote oe Vo wava These positions of the notes can be changed by dragging a note and moving it in a horizontal direction the exact distance being dependent upon the current quantization factor the notes in this case are always moved by the current quantization factor the horizontal difference between gridlines not onto the grid Double clicking on a note or selecting multiple notes and double clicking any one of them will cause the selected note or notes to snap to the nearest grid line and be stretched or compressed if necessary If you click the Move Notes tool in the toolbar and hold the mouse button you can select the Edit Time Handle sub tool from the drop down menu This tool can be used to speed up or slow down the attack of individual notes When the tool is active small blue levers appear within the blobs If you drag the blue point at the end of the lever upwards you give the note a faster attack if you drag it downwards it has the opposite effect If you stretch the lever itself you increase Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 71 O04 Other tools the range upon which this time
120. e parameters for Plain When Plain is selected you have two further choices that become important if you have altered the tempo if you select Original the tempo changes will be ignored and the audio will play back exactly as recorded If on the other hand you select Sampler the pitch of the playback becomes tempo dependent as is the case with a sampler or a tape recorder when you alter the speed at which the tape passes the playback head With the Sampler setting variable pitch courses within single notes also result from a variable time course in the notes The time course within the notes can be set with the Edit Time Handle tool in the Editor see Editor tools This allows you to create interesting effects above all with percussive material The algorithm options in Melodyne studio Melodic or Poly percussive Melodic mode is the algorithm of choice for any monophonic material like vocals all members of the woodwind and brass families solo guitar or bass lines etc Also speech ist best reproduced with the Melodic mode The voice s formants will be preserved on pitch changes and can also be altered at will Poly Percussive mode is the algorithm of choice for any other material such as percussion drums noises but also any sounds consisting of multiple voices like guitar or piano chords polyphonic voicings choirs and up to full mixes of arbitrary sources The automatic detection will set this algorithm if it fi
121. e pitch of out of tune notes therefore it is careful to do so without removing the vibrato which is an important element of musical expression When singers drift out of tune on long notes on the other hand this is seldom intentional but usually the result of poor breathing technique or inattention For this reason Melodyne offers you the possibility of correcting any unintentional drifting from the correct pitch without removing the vibrato You can of course remove the vibrato too if you wish or tone it down but we will deal with that later Pitch drift covers the case not only of singers or instrumentalists gradually going sharp or flat on long notes but also of performers with a tendency to err in both directions in the course of a single note How is this different from vibrato you might ask The answer is that vibrato is rapid good orchestral violinists favor a rate of around 6 or 7 Hz and cyclical whereas the type of aimless wandering Melodyne s Correct Pitch Drift function is designed to eliminate is far slower and irregular in terms of frequency and amplitude With the 100 setting the axis of each blob lies perfectly in the centre of the lane 44 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 03 04 Key Snap The two pitch correction parameters Correct Pitch Center and Correct Pitch Drift are completely independent i e you can set a different intensity from O 100 for each parameter If and when you are s
122. ecurity question The page for the export of the credit file will then appear The assistant page shown here allows you for example to drag the credit Export credit file file directly to a USB flash drive Melodyne serial number XXXX XXXX XXXX which you can then take to a computer Melodyne has been successfully deactivated on this computer The assistant has already placed the credit file MelodyneDeactivationCredit txt on your desktop You that does offer Intern et access At the can however also drag the credit file from this field onto your hard disk or a portable storage medium e g a USB flash drive same time as the Export credit page appears the file is placed on the desktop of your computer It is not Find a computer that is connected to the Internet go to the myCelemony web site absolutely necessary to use the drag www celemony com mycelemony and upload your credit file You will find detailed instructions as to how to do this at myCelemony aie drop option SO don t worry if you Serer not be credited with a new activation until you have have accidentally closed the assistant window You will in any case find the credit file you need on the desktop of your computer To upload the data and obtain an activation credit proceed as follows Copy the credit file with a simple drag amp drop 22 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 01 11 Background Information on Activation transfer the credit file to a comput
123. ed from its usual task controlling the volume and is used instead to govern the tone color The small rotary control to the right of the Envelope box governs the type of influence exercised by the envelope upon the beginning of each note When the knob is turned fully anticlockwise the original envelope of the melody determines the amplitude of the attack phase which is generally realistic except that the attack of the receiving instrument can sometimes be lost When the knob is rotated fully to the right the sound of the receiving instrument dominates the attack Not all MIDI instruments are capable of implementing gradual crescendos and generate what is known as zipper noise where the change Is heard as a succession of discrete steps rather than continuous change It s a question of resolution of course since only analogue technology is capable of smooth transitions You may therefore need to try various synthesizers or synthesizer plug ins before you find one capable of delivering convincing results Bear in mind that MIDI controller messages like Pitch Bend data apply to an entire MIDI channel so again you will need at least one MIDI channel for each of the tracks of your arrangement from which you intend to generate MIDI controller data Tip if you are outputting a track to a MIDI instrument you may wish to edit the audio in Melodyne first in order to obtain optimal MIDI results depending upon which system you are
124. eginning of the first of the notes of which It is composed to the end of the last The pitch displayed is that of the note defined as the compound main note Editing functions always affect all the notes of which the compound note is composed The options relating to compound notes are to be found in the Edit Note Separations submenu of the Edit menu To enter compound mode check the option Use Compound Notes in this submenu It is only in compound mode that compound notes are displayed and treated as such in which case only the compound note not the individual notes of which it composed is displayed in the staff or score beneath the Bar Time ruler selecting any of the individual notes of which the compound note is composed is equivalent to selecting all of them when stepping through the audio data using the Left and Right arrows selecting the compound note triggers the playback of the entire group of notes of which it is composed The second command Compound De Compound Notes is used to create a compound note from a succession of selected notes or undo such an action Subsequently There is no limit to the number of compound notes that can be created Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 81 O5 Other editing functions and options The command Set Compound Main Note determines the pitch assigned to a compound note which is not necessarily that of the longest note of which it is composed If to wish to designate
125. egrate Melodyne and use it as though it were a plug in even though both programs in fact remain independent Transfer i ea et Bt it Track 1 2 E O Playback Connect to System Load The interface of the Going to send audio Melodyne Bridge Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 139 O7 Integration and global functions The concept In your sequencing and recording application you have one or more audio tracks that are linked to one of its mixer channels Host Application To edit this audio track using the functions of Melodyne the Melodyne Bridge plug in must be inserted into the signal chain as the first insert effect Host Application As soon as the first Melodyne Bridge plug in is inserted Melodyne launches and creates a new empty arrangement If Melodyne isn t running the Melodyne Bridge is simply an empty loop If Melodyne is active the Melodyne Bridge serves two purposes In Transfer mode it transfers the audio signal from the recording program to Melodyne In Playback mode it is used to return the edited audio signal from Melodyne to the host mixer In Transfer mode the Melodyne Bridge copies the audio data during playback by the host to the Melodyne track selected from the drop down menu of the plug in If for example in Transfer mode you transfer Bars 3 to 5 the result is this Host Application Melodyne 140 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 07 01 Melodyne Bri
126. elds Proportions of the relative Tonal Positions define the actual tuning The values are entered in cents They always relate to the virtual tonic Do If the Editor Window is opened when you make these changes you can see how the background of tonal positions changes relative to the other tonal positions This procedure defines the relative tuning The buttons Assign relative to absolute specify which absolute tone is set to be the actual key note of the relative tuning If you press a button for the assignment you can see that the displayed cent value beside the absolute tone is set to O All other text fields now display values relative to that key note This procedure defines the absolute tuning of each key If you press the Absolute Tonal Positions buttons you can see which tonal relations result for each tone by the respective assignments in the Proportions of the absolute Tonal Positions text fields These buttons only have a display function and will not change the tuning If you changed the values in the Proportions of the absolute Tonal Positions text fields you would change the relative tonal positions at the same time only that here they would be changed from the point of view of absolute tonal positions This is just an alternative to editing the Proportions of the relative Tonal Positions first Now the actual tuning definition is complete we can still specify which
127. emove For further information about installation and the files that are stored in the course of it consult our FAQ at www celemony com faq Note Melodyne is continuously being improved During online activation a check is made to see whether a later version is available than the version installed Afterwards please check from time to time to see whether a newer version Is available than the one currently installed on your computer One easy way to do this is by choosing Check for Updates in the Help menu Alternatively you can do this by visiting www celemony com mycelemony Via Melodyne s Help menu or the Celemony web site you can also contact Support or consult our FAQ If the 10 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 01 02 Melodyne plugin free or at a bargain price computer you use for music is not connected to the Internet here s how to discover whether or not an update is available for your Melodyne find which version of Melodyne you are using this is displayed at start up but can also be discovered by selecting the About item in the menu visit the download area of the Celemony web site and check to see whether a newer version Is available all the current versions are listed there if there is a newer version log in to your myCelemony account see below and download the relevant installation program 01 02 Melodyne plugin free or at a bargain price Melodyne plugin is a practical edition of Melodyne that you
128. er that has access to the Internet double click the credit file this is a small HTLM file with a local web page that should open your browser when you double click on it if it fails to do so open the file manually from your browser the relevant command should be called Open Page or something of that kind On the local web page displayed you will see a button Click this in order to establish a connection with myCelemony and upload the data Once the data has been transferred to the server you will be credited with one activation You will see it indicated beside the relevant product entry in the overview 01 10 No Internet If you have no access to the Internet you can request an activation by post from Celemony Proceed as described above under Offline Activation and export the request file for the activation Burn the file onto a CD and sent us the CD You will then receive back from us an activation file on CD which you will then be able to import exactly as though you had downloaded it from myCelemony Please do not forget to send us your address Our address is Celemony Software GmbH Valleystrasse 25 81371 Munich Germany 01 11 Background Information on Activation Celemony has taken pains to make the activation process as simple and as transparent as possible for users In the following section we would like to answer some of the questions you might perhaps want to put to us What does Celemony do with the personal da
129. erb 8 K key snap 36 45 Keyboard shortcuts 34 L language of the user interface 00 159 load on the CPU 143 Local Sound Synthesis z130 82 A oe ee ee 92 121 OCITO G cu Been doe hae ee wad a7 LORIC sito e kee 141 144 M Mackie Control 154 magnifying glass 38 markers 6 oa weds baa eae wa 122 material for working with Melodyne 34 MDD 3b ace we Se ee ewe siira 160 MDD Editor 84 160 162 MDD files 2 160 Melodi lt acae06 wa ews 82 84 93 Melody Manager 76 Melodyne as a ReWire client with Pro Tools 149 Melodyne as ReWire client 145 Melodyne as ReWire host 145 Melodyne Bridge 139 MIDI gadis ee ehaaneee eed 130 WIDE CIOCK stead aentadad ia 147 MIDI hardware controller 152 MIDI DO a gare amp ee esas ia 154 MIDI ports 148 158 MIDI Remote Control 151 MIDI Send aoaoanuanananaana 104 MIXET a iiuna om oe wae 132 134 modify the playback parameters via MIDI 122 Move Notes tool 70 MITO og we nae ha be ee 147 multi level Undo function 9 multiprocessing architecture 143 mute state of the selected notes 70 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 177 index index N name of the track 136 non destructively 35 note separation 52 Note Separation tool 52 73 90 Note Separations
130. ers and navigating with their aid Melodyne File Edit Definition View Navigation EUDE Window Help No MIDI in to Tracks v MIDI In Plays Notes MIDI In Edits Notes MIDI in Transposes All from C3 0 MIDI In Transposes Track from C3 0 MIDI menu Various options for the transposition and editing of blobs using incoming MIDI notes as well as com mands for opening the MIDI preferences dialogs and audio to MIDI inspector All MIDI Channels to Selected Track MIDI Channels to Track Numbers MIDI Portamento Time gt Show Audio to MIDI Parameters XM Show MIDI Ports Preferences Show MIDI Remote Control Preferences Melodyne File Edit Definition View Navigation MIDI EZE Help Transport Bar Realtime Play Offsets Mixer Audio Files Window menu Tone Scale ReWire Devices Commands for opening the Editor Mixer and System Load Arrangement window along with a number of License Melodyne s other windows Show Arrangement QRA Show Editor OSE 1WholeArrangement mar 31 Miniaturize 38M Close W Melodyne File Edit Definition View Navigation MIDI Window EAN Show Manual FAQ Support Help menu l l Celemony Web Site Commands for opening the manual and going online to ep check for updates and access the FAQ and support pages on the Celemony web site Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 31 01 What is Melodyne Main tool At the beginning of a In the middle of anote At the end of a note note alter posi
131. es is neither major nor minor In this case the steps of the current scale move a minor third upwards or downwards if the current scale has the requisite third VocalsO mdd The actions in the Define Tone Scale drop Define Tone Scale 40 b RD Minor natura Find Scale with Standard Tuning considering Tuning Offset down list next to the toolbar on the right of the Find Scale with Standard Tuning ing Offset f screen help you locate the most probable key a eee Find Note Assignments for Current Tuning automatically Unclear note assignments in Reset all Manual Note Assignments relation to the scale can be improved Tone Scale Panel Find Scale with Standard Tuning considering Tuning Offset ascertains the tonality or mode and corrects the note assignments Here any deviation from standard tuning i e concert pitch A 440Hz is detected and used to improve the assignment of notes to a scale The scale and note assignments actually used however still relate to concert pitch The same happens implicitly during the automatic detection of the melody Redefining the pitch is nonetheless useful as otherwise notes may be divided erroneously or assigned to the wrong degrees of the scale in the course of later manual editing After conducting this type of rationalization of note divisions and note assignments Melodyne can often find a more suitable scale Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 171 o8 The MDD Editor
132. es not sell iLok dongles to open an iLok account at www ilock com unless you already have one to transfer your Melodyne license to your iLok account this is done via the myCelemony website which the assistant will open for you to transfer your Melodyne license from your iLok account to your iLok dongle this is done at www ilok com where you will find the necessary instructions Note if you opt for iLok activation you will no longer be entitled to a computer specific activation from Celemony When from the activation assistant s welcome page you select iLok activation and click on the Continue button a new page opens in the assistant for requesting an iLok license First enter your serial number You will find this either in the printed Melodyne User Manual or in the e mail that was sent to you confirming your purchase from our Web Shop You can transfer your license to your iLok account either online from your music computer or offline from another computer with Internet access Choose the desired option and click Continue Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 17 01 Installation and activation Requesting the transfer of your iLok license online Melodyne will launch your Internet browser open the myCelemony web site and connect you with the customer profile page Note If you already have a myCelemony account you do not need to open a second one and doing so will only cause confusion Instead click the correspondin
133. et Time Course and Duration to Original restores both the position and the length though the original length of notes that have been compressed can only be restored if enough space exists behind them to allow them to expand without invading the space occupied by another note Reset Note Time Handles to Original to the original whatever changes were made with the tool in question are undone and the original values are restored 72 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 04 05 Note separation tool Add Random Offset to Time Course is the companion to Add Random Offset to Pitch Center which we met in the Edit gt Edit Pitch cascading submenu both serve the same purpose to introduce minor variations to one or multiple copies of a part so that when these are played back together the effect is of a choir or chorus rather than a single voice or of two or more instruments playing in unison like the first violins in an orchestra for example rather than a single violin 04 05 Note separation tool Has the same function as the Note separation tool in the context sensitive Main tool You can use this to move the boundary between notes freely to the right or left by freely mean independently of the current quantization factor If you double click the note will be split at that point and a new note separator created If you double click an existing note separator without holding the Alt key it will disappea
134. fact that the notes are red rather than yellow indicates that this is the currently selected track To select all the notes of the currently selected track click the panel a second time To open a track in the Editor double click on its control panel in the Track list To increase or decrease the height of a track in the Arrangement window drag the dividing lines in the Track list To increase the width of the Track list in order to display longer names drag the dividing line between the Track list and the track display You can rearrange the order of the tracks in the Track list by dragging and dropping their control panels to new positions to promote a track click on its control panel and drag it upwards to demote a track drag its panel downwards To rename a track double click on its name and enter a new one the name initially given to a track is that of the audio file from which it is derived Click the button marked M to mute a track Click the button marked S to solo a track You can solo multiple tracks by Shift clicking their solo buttons this is equivalent to but often faster than muting the tracks you do not wish to hear Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 117 O6 Working with multiple tracks Click the button marked R to record enable a track Doing this whilst the recording is already in progress is equivalent to punching in deselecting it is equivalent to
135. fine Pitch Assignment tool cccccccececeeeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeees 169 08 08 Assignment to tone scales cccecececececececececeeeeeaeaeseeeeeeeaeaeaeaeees 170 06209 Denne Pitch WANS ION essien E EEEE REAS 173 ses 0 672180 RONCO eerie eee ee One ee AEEA E eee ee eee 175 M aE EE EE EEA AE EE NEES 176 6 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual What is Melodyne What is Melodyne By and large Melodyne behaves like an audio sequencer or digital audio workstation DAW you record audio files or load them from the hard disk arrange them into tracks edit them save the edited project to your hard disk and can then export individual edited tracks or the main L R mix of the entire arrangement in the form of an audio file to your hard disk But despite these superficial similarities Melodyne is very different from such applications the reason being this Melodyne analyses the audio files you record or load in order to identify key aspects of their musical content In other words instead of simply displaying the audio data in an editing window like conventional sequencer or editor Melodyne actually investigates the musical significance of that data The upshot in the case of monophonic audio material is that Melodyne is capable of recognizing the notes that have been played or sung pinpointing the beginning and end of each note classifying the nature of the transitions between individual notes assessing the rhythmic relationship betwee
136. for the first verse except that the words will be those of the second verse not those of the first The Paste Pitches function is also intelligent in the sense that it does not just take the first 8 notes say of the destination and apply to them the pitches of the first 8 notes of the source if it did it would make a nonsense whenever there was a Slight difference in the number of syllables in the source and destination lines Quite often in a song a minim in one verse is replaced by two crotchets or a dotted crotchet and a quaver to accommodate an extra syllable in the second verse in such cases Melodyne retains the rhythm of the second verse but applies the same pitch that of the minim in the first verse to both notes It may be that you would prefer to introduce some melodic variation at this point but in that case you must decide for yourself what notes you would prefer and make the adjustments manually Melodyne s intelligent but it can t read minds Replace Keeping Target Pitches does the exact opposite of Paste Pitches Take the song For he s a jolly good fellow The rhythm and the words of the first and second lines are the same it s only the pitches that are different Suppose the Subject of the eulogy were a woman and you started off For she s a jolly good fellow but then forgot and sang For he s a jolly good fellow in the second line Now the pitch is right both times you ve just got the wrong
137. functions of Melodyne straight away without further installation Podolski was kindly provided by Urs Heckmann www u he com Other synthesizers and effects can be used as well of course Please read this introduction through at least once to familiarize yourself with Melodyne it would be decidedly annoying would it not to realize too late when the production was already in the can that there was an easier or better way of doing something than the one you used and that you could have obtained better results with far less effort had you known about It 8 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual What is Melodyne Try whatever comes to mind experiment as much as you like no harm can come of it Melodyne has a multi level Undo function that allows you to backtrack if the changes you make don t turn out the way you want Besides which none of the changes made in the course of editing has the slightest impact upon the original file on your hard disk We begin this Introduction with some quick tips on Installation before getting down to the nitty gritty the key functions of the program We hope you will enjoy working with Melodyne and that it will help you to attain your musical objectives Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 9 01 Installation and activation O1 Installation and activation 01 01 Installation To install Melodyne launch the installation program which either you will find on your Melodyne CD or you will have downloa
138. g audio the Main tool and Macros 08 39 OS O1 Analysis and note DIODS secccescdaiegcsectielnescahanetece scan acesehanciecsesncedeecs 39 03 02 POEMS OE E E E A E cemennaalecciesans 40 03 09 Automate pth comecHON seisssrisesaresi inanin EnEn ERATAN RES 43 S20 PEN NA oct sete EERE REEE EAEE ER REAA RESURS 45 4 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 03 05 03 06 03 07 03 08 03 09 03 10 03 11 03 12 04 04 01 04 02 04 03 04 04 04 05 04 06 OS 05 01 05 02 05 03 05 04 05 05 05 06 05 07 05 08 05 09 OG 06 01 06 02 06 03 06 04 06 05 06 06 06 07 Any Tempo VOU MCs cece eet ce tal el aE AEEA AERAR 47 Editine THUNE sernir enera tt Ee E EEEE NEEE E EEPE EO REE RRE 49 Note SCD ail OMS wcncesitsancoscddeincyeecntnideamendiagaashnnanisidesudedidincnadiaepideinans 52 Lengthening and Moving NOTES ices cclccscscsccndecverdeutaneeht cemmnoaonacdennds 53 The behavior of contiguous notes and note segments c s0eeeees 55 AUTOMATIC TIMIINS COMECTION nicesncncsccuzdcasetacnnsnisdbeananeanthaciesedsebtenanace 56 Creative re quantization AN example ccccccececeeeececeeeceeeeaeseeeeans 58 Copying and pasting NOTES scree caciecs ccwescaeahsecesaciecndeancepaiceadancsdeaehanges 60 Other tOoOIS 0000 cece ccccceceeesstssseeeeeeeeseeenneas 62 TOONS ror editing PRO reesen RAE AEREA cena tae 62 The Egit FORMAT TOON scsce siete ciesanis dt ccc ancaties ocsandsascinacdeenipicegeandueecmnennes 66 The A
139. g link on the customer profile page in order to reach the login page of myCelemony Now log in using your user name and password This will ensure that your new Melodyne is registered in your existing myCelemony account On the myCelemony customer profile page enter the necessary data and confirm your entries by clicking Continue Activation This will take you to a page on which you must enter the name of your iLok account iLok User ID Make sure you enter this correctly the name is case sensitive otherwise the license transfer will fail Now click the Transfer button The myCelemony server will connect to the server of www ilok com to check whether an account with the name you have entered really does exist If so it will transfer your Melodyne license to this account Once the transfer has been initiated you can close the myCelemony page Requesting an iLok license transfer offline The offline transfer of a license involves two additional steps 1 exporting a request file from the activation assistant 2 transferring this file to a computer that is capable of connecting to the Internet and uploading the data to myCelemony When you opt for an offline activation the first page to appear is the one for exporting the request file Export the request file by drag n drop to your hard disk and transport the file for example using a USB flash drive to a computer that does have access to the Internet The request file is a small HT
140. g the Internet from any computer office Internet caf An activation assistant integrated into Melodyne offers you all the above mentioned Welcome options and guides you through all the E Aceon eA help you register and necessary steps for registration and activation g Iwould like to activate Melodyne on this computer online or offline and register The assistant runs automatically the first time with myCelemony if have not done so already you launch Melodyne and can be opened later SE bea aurea eta a E E iLok dongle all have to do is insert it in one of the computer s free USB ports through the License entry in the Window menu When you first launch Melodyne after the installation you see the Welcome page of the assistant 4 Back Continue Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 13 01 Installation and activation Choose whether you wish to activate the program or transfer a license to your iLok dongle Next click Continue If you already have an iLok with a valid Melodyne license insert the iLok dongle in a free USB port on your computer to use Melodyne As soon as Melodyne finds a valid license on the iLok the assistant informs you of this You can then close the window and work with Melodyne 01 04 Online or Offline Activation This makes it possible to activate Melodyne on a particular computer A single Melodyne serial number can be activated on a maximum of two computers at the same
141. hat are installed on the computer are used in Melodyne either because you simply do not need them in Melodyne or because they are Incompatible and could in the worst case crash For this reason you can choose in the Preferences dialog which of the available plug ins should appear in the Mixer by checking the box to the left of their names If the checkbox in front of the name of a plug in is cleared i e empty it will not appear in the Mixer When scanning Melodyne attempts to discover whether there are any incompatibilities and de activates the plug ins at first automatically you can however change this setting at any time manually The latest information on in compatible plug ins can be obtained from the Support section of the Celemony web site Under Windows you can select the folder for the VST plug ins used by Melodyne The standard folder is the Vstplugins folder in the Melodyne program directory but you can choose any folder you like Under both systems activate a plug in using the switch in front of its name It will then appear at once in the menus for plug in selection in the Mixer 00 Preferences MIDI Ports moi rors B From this page you can choose Default input Alls the default MIDI ports to be used Default Output al for the MIDI In and MIDI Out s L options in Melodyne see the E relevant sections of 5 and 6 Moi Clock out a You can also select the input and output ports for the MIDI Clock
142. he Formant Tuning slider is by default in the middle position in other words the formant correction function is activated and set at a level that has been determined empirically to be suitable for most material O Plain O Poly Percussive O Smooth Formant Corr Period Processed Melodic crisp A l The parameters for Melodic mode Formant Correction 0 100 When you alter the pitch of notes this parameter determines whether the formants should move en bloc with the fundamental in which case there is no formant correction 0 or whether the formants should remain in place in which case it is their relationship to the transposed fundamental that is being corrected The standard setting is 100 which means that the formant frequencies remain unchanged regardless of the pitch of the fundamental as they do for example when you sing or play on the violin a high note followed by a low one or vice versa Obviously unless have transposed at least one note of your audio file the value assigned to this parameter is irrelevant Transposing a note a fifth say with Formant Correction set to O is the same as transposing it a fifth with Formant Correction set to 100 and then moving the formants a fifth in the same direction however in the former case the formant bar will be superimposed on the note whilst in the latter case it will be displayed hovering a fifth above the note In either case dragging the bar u
143. he vertical time grid lines There is therefore a menu at the bottom left of the note ruler offering the options No Pitch Snap Note Snap and Scale Snap The menu for enabling and disabling the Pitch Snap function The Scale Snap function is now active and the Note ruler can be used to select the tonality and the mode Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 45 O3 Loading and editing audio When you activate the Scale Snap function the vertical list of notes in the left hand margin which we call the Note ruler lights up to indicate that the function is active and Melodyne displays the key identified in the course of its analysis If the key is F minor we describe F as the tonality and minor as the mode to select the key of F minor click F to select the tonality then Shift click to select the mode you will notice that repeatedly Shift clicking toggles between the major and minor modes The difference would be important say in the case of a note closer to A than to B in F minor it would snap to the B in F major to the A Besides being useful for the correction of wayward intonation the Key Snap function can be used to change the mode of a melody from major to minor or minor to major as well as for the generation of harmonies to double the melody at the third or tenth for example a harmonic technique known as the thickened line you would simply make a copy of the part
144. hese include cases where extreme stretching is applied to a sound as well as well as those where there are sudden percussion like changes or clicks within individual notes the tendency is for the Crisp algorithm to render such irregularities even more obtrusive whereas the Smooth algorithm applies a gentle airbrush When the algorithm for polyphonic or percussive material is selected the Smooth setting delivers cleaner and smoother results with held polyphonic sounds such as sustained guitar chords the Crisp setting is more useful with staccato sounds and gives percussive sounds greater incisiveness If the analysis has revealed the material to be polyphonic this parameter is generally set to Smooth whereas for percussive material the Crisp parameter is generally preferred Plain Poly Percussive C Smooth Transients Formant Tuning Processed O Melodic Crisp _ The parameters for Poly Percussive mode in Melodyne studio Poly Percussive mode also offers a parameter called Transients that determines the intensity of the attack phase of the notes in the audio file move the slider to 94 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 05 04 Melodyne s playback algorithms the left and the transients are less pronounced making the sound softer move the Slider to the right and the sound becomes more percussive The standard setting for material identified as percussive Is all the way to the right w
145. hilst for polyphonic material it is in the center If ever the algorithm for polyphonic material fails to deliver the expected results it is a good idea to begin by experimenting with this slider and checking the note separations With the other algorithms the note separations and with them the blobs represent only editing units and are of practically no acoustic relevance However with the polyphonic algorithm it is worth checking the note separations if you want to transpose or stretch an entire file as the separations determine how the transients in the audio material will be handled Add separations or move existing ones to better preserve the transients remove them if they lead to unwanted muttering during long sustained chords Melodyne studio s Polyphonic algorithm offers an option for the preservation or editing of formants This means you can modify the pitch of the formants of individual notes using the Formant tool just as you can with the Melodic algorithm The Formant Tuning parameter determines the way formants are affected when the Polyphonic algorithm is used With it you can determine the degree of formant correction range left to middle as well as its sound and character range middle to right Or to be more precise if the slider is at the left hand extreme no formant correction takes place i e when the fundamentals are transposed the formants are transposed along with them With the slider in th
146. hrough files and editing their properties in the MDD Editor Update MDDs on Saving Arrangement The format of the MDD files in which Melodyne stores the detection data relating to audio files varies depending upon the version of Melodyne used If you activate this option Melodyne will always save the files in the latest format when an arrangement Is saved Auto Update MDDs in Melody Manager With this option you can decide whether or not the Melody Manager should automatically update any MDDs it finds that are not in the latest format The MDD files of very early versions of Melodyne did not contain the information that now makes it possible to display 160 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 07 07 Audio file management their notes in the Melody Manager When the Melody Manager finds such MDD files it can either generate the note information without altering the existing MDD file or rewrite the MDD file in the latest format to speed up the note display in the future By default this option is not selected so that MDD files are not overwritten unintentionally It is not a case here of the general updating of MDD files only of the updating of those without information for the note display Enable Spot to Pro Tools With this option you can manually activate or deactivate the Spot to Pro Tools function which is described in a separate section of this chapter 07 07 Audio file management Melodyne s Audio Files window now d
147. icated by the thin blue lines by each beat can be created If need be the progression of recorded beats can be made smoother by selecting Edit gt Define Tempo gt Smooth Tempo Changes The commands for tempo tapping can be assigned in the preferences to keys on the computer keyboard but the implementation via MIDI is more exact The assignment via MIDI takes place in the MIDI Remote Control settings i Tinh Comrade we Teanupart sad Navigation Pw ea Pay ioe Record aniti Fast Feewues The entries for the assignment of the tapping key aaae l _ you can tap in a choice of half quarter eighth or Pay Ogna n sixteenth notes hay Detected Pitch PlayGack in Ehtor Seemed Traci PlyGack in Editor Viri Tracks Fayak in Editar Aminpement Tracks Cligh gia pe Hasit aiig yee tine parol hela Pay on off Tempe Tapgiog 1 4 Teman Tappieg 1 8 Teme Tapping 1 16 P Loebin Markers 16 5 5 Mew Window Tite Midi lank Manoing Gener Corzmlin kane BE mi BE a i a aaa parce Tide vent co inm Jarmon ch Jex ian Max feen tit fe Miner Wirin t i j j File Commana i The corresponding entries in eae Edit Commarea P the window for the MIDI controller assignments 1 May Original Pii Detected Pich Playback in Edi Selecned Track Payback in Editor Yisible Tracks Flayback in Edin Arranrgpenmen Tie Click enjolt par Master on off Dyar Surat niot Serub Fly onpa Scrub
148. ile containing the desired tempo definitions The Tempo from MIDI Clock option will be greyed out unless Melodyne is running in slave mode for MIDI clock i e when a MIDI port has been selected from the MIDI Clock In ist box of the MIDI Ports page of the Preferences dialog and Receive MIDI Sync option is selected in the Sync list box in the bottom left hand corner of the Transport Bar When you select Tempo from MIDI Clock the recording of the tempo progression will be activated and Melodyne will wait for playback to commence in the host application Once playback has finished the recorded tempo progression will be used for the current arrangement until such time as the process is repeated 05 09 Tempo tapping function Melodyne lets you define the tempo background in the absence of a strict tempo by tapping The command Enable Tempo Recording from Tempo Tapping in the Define Tempo sub menu of the Edit menu switches the Tempo track to record mode the Time ruler turns red The Time ruler also turns red to indicate record mode when you select Enable Tempo Recording from MIDI Clock In each case you can exit record mode by clearing the checkmark before the menu entry concerned After Play the playback runs at the original speed and the tapping serves to define the tempo After Stop the new tempo is adopted Even uneven beats 114 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 09 Tempo tapping Tempo tapping function within a bar ind
149. iles in the current folder in sequence Note the volume control to the right of the list box The Path drop down menu in the top left allows you to return quickly to a particular folder in the current tree The Action drop down offers a selection of commands relating to the currently selected file These are Open in New Arrangement works like the Open command in the Main menu Add to the Current Arrangement adds the selected file to a new track in the current arrangement at position O without tempo adjustment works like Import audio file in the main menu Open in the MDD editor use this to edit the results of the analysis if this is necessary Update MDD file if it was created with an older version of Melodyne Batch Detection triggers the analysis of the entire folder including any sub folders Rescan Directory causes Melody Manager to update its display of the file structure in the light of changes made using Finder Explorer Unregister Archives relates to the use of Liquid Sound banks see below 78 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 01 The Melody Manager Working with the Melodyne Sound Library and Ueberschall Liquid sound banks With Melodyne cre amp studio you can integrate titles from the Melodyne Sound Library MSL as well as Liquid sound banks from Ueberschall into your work These libraries offer you high quality phrases tailor made for use with Melodyne
150. ime Change Tempo Autostretch Define Tempo Copy and Paste Selection to Parallel Track Cut and Paste Selection to Parallel Track vvyvvvvvyvy VA Variable Tempo Editing Mode Correct Pitch Quantize Time Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 127 O6 Working with multiple tracks Pasting pitches Paste Pitches solves the problem that you cannot simply copy a correctly sung line from one verse to another unless the lyrics are the same Provided the rhythm is and that the only real problem is intonation all you need to do is make the pitch of the notes in the second verse conform to the pitch of the equivalent notes in the first Similarly if you are generating four part harmonies from a single vocal part and you intend to use the same harmonies in all three verses all you need to do is copy the original recording to four separate tracks create vocal harmonies for the first verse only by moving the notes of the three harmony tracks up and down in pitch and finally taking each of the harmony parts in turn and pasting the pitches of the first verse to the two following verses Taking the alto part as an example pasting the pitches involves nothing more than selecting the notes of the first verse followed by Edit gt Copy then selecting the notes of the second verse which at this stage are those of the melody followed by Edit gt Paste Special gt Paste Pitches and in place of the melody you will have the alto part created
151. ime tool The assignment of notes to time and measure bar is performed with the Define Score Time tool Melodyne attempts during the detection to determine the tempo automatically With markedly rhythmic material with a constant tempo the detected tempo will probably be right If the course of the tempo is In principle constant but individual notes are constantly falling slightly before or after the intended beat Melodyne will position the bar background in such a way as to find the best fit with the material played If the tempo detection Is correct you will only need occasionally to adjust the position of the beginning of the bar because the position of the first beat of the bar is not always clearly recognized You can do this most easily by selecting 1 4 from the Quantization menu and moving the small gray Il in the Bar Time ruler to the position where the first beat of the bar is found If the tempo has been correctly identified but you feel that where Melodyne has written crotchets quarter notes it should have written quavers eighth notes or vice versa you can put matters right by selecting Edit gt Define Tempo gt Half Tempo or Edit gt Define Tempo gt Double Tempo respectively If the tempo follows an uneven course it will usually need further editing For the work that follows activate the metronome click Then select the Define Score Time tool pM pl KREE 69 0 166 Melodyne cre amp studi
152. important role in determining how your audio material is presented and which functions are and not available when you come to edit it and although the process is fully automatic you can if you wish intervene in various ways on the rare occasions where the material is such that optimal results cannot be obtained without such intervention These include The ability to change the default parameters governing the analysis and trigger the process manually as was the standard procedure with earlier version of the program you might wish to do this if the material is in some way intractable or if you are batch processing a whole set of recordings of the same singer and want to ensure consistent results The parameters in question are accessed from the Detection page of the Preferences dialog where you are also offered the option of saving the newly modified parameter set for later use The significance of each of the individual parameters will be explained later in this section Using the Definition menu you can also force Melodyne to adopt a particular interpretation or treat the material differently as melodic for example rather than percussive and trigger a fresh analysis based upon the new parameters You have full control in other words over the way Melodyne displays and handles your audio material Melodyne s automatic detection copes with very diverse material and works as a rule very reliably without requi
153. ipped with ASIO drivers we recommend that you use this rather than your DirectX device If problems occur check to see whether a buffer size smaller than the default functions with your system if the buffer size is too small the result may be little clicks or playback interruptions Smaller buffers mean less latency and audibly increase the speed at which Melodyne responds to your actions at the controls You will find more information about these setting options in the section dealing with Preferences Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 25 01 What is Melodyne Time Ruler The time in bars and beats or seconds Notation The Stave icon toggles the Notation display on and off Track Title Fields Track title fields with solo mute and record switches Track Display The arrangement area showing Melodyne s tracks Transport Bar a Cycle OOS6 01L0000 aama A ee Ge E Punch in 0044 01 01 000 0032 01 01 002 O Punch Out syne x Transport Melodyne s transport controls including Cycle Key Signature Tempo Click Volume and Autostretch controls 26 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual Overview Arrangement Quantization Grid Switch and Selector Activates or de activa tes Quantization Grid selects quantization j factor grid size I i j Pr fo a m A la S fms l g a y j efi p p an r E c i i me ki T l l I a o SN a kone us e ay ema en re l 4 108 0 4 Autos
154. irectly onto a track in the host This is very easy to do you just select several tracks using the drop down menu of the Melodyne Bridge but it only makes sense if you have already transferred all the audio tracks to Melodyne and are only working in Playback mode When you have done all the editing you mean to do it makes sense to bounce the track s in the host thereby saving the changes you have made in a new audio file You can then deactivate the Melodyne Bridge plug in or remove it from the affected tracks and reduce the load on the CPU A point to note here is that the Melodyne Bridge requires two audio applications to run simultaneously on the same computer and to add to the gaiety communicate with one another at the same time It is therefore unrealistic to imagine that you can transfer an unlimited number of tracks especially if the host computer is already under pressure Unlike other plug ins the Melodyne Bridge does not provoke stuttering drop outs or crashing in the event of overload the only symptom is that communication between Melodyne and the host is broken off and the latter therefore behaves as though Melodyne were not even running In the worst case however at the threshold of overload the link between Melodyne and the host can flicker on and off producing strange sonic effects The load on the processor generated by the Melodyne Bridge is usually not taken into account by the CPU load display of the host
155. is position the load on the CPU Is around 20 less than when formant correction is activated as the slider is moved to the right for the first third of the way there is a gradual increase in the degree of formant correction the formants are no longer transposed to the same extent as the fundamentals the central third of the range serves primarily to adapt the sound to the material In the case of sensitive material an a cappella quartet for example the sound of the formant correction can be adjusted The balance lies between too little formant correction further to the left and the creation of false harmonic tones further to the right As a rule of thumb when the pitch of the dominant voice is higher the position of the slider is further to the left at lower pitches the slider is somewhat further to the right Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 95 O5 Other editing functions and options the right hand third of the slider range is reserved more for effects Here additional overtones are brought out The effect could be anything from a slight change in the character of a grand piano for example to the radical transformation of a drum loop A precondition for this is that a fairly strong formant adjustment and or transposition is also effective for example with the real time parameters Here extreme intervention in the character of the sound is possible In the case of newly detected polyphonic material t
156. istinguishes through the use of separate panes between files that are found in the audio files folder and those that are merely referenced Selected referenced files can be moved or copied to the audio folder and selected unused files deleted from it These commands make it easy to track down unused audio files and delete them from the folder of an arrangement or prepare an arrangement for transfer to another computer by copying all the referenced files into the audio folder eoo i Audio Files Referred Files Files in Audio Folder ns aero Copy Selected Referred Files to Audio Folder Move Selected Referred Files to Audio Folder Delete Selected Unused Files from Audio Folder amp a in Desktop Tour Name Drumloop130 wav Users ugh_allg Bass_S_Chorus aif Users ugh_allg in Desktop Tour i Bass_13_Verse aif Users ugh_allg in Desktop Tour Bass _44_Solo aif Users ugh_allg in Desktop Tour GuitarOffbeat aif Users ugh_allg in Desktop Tour Vocals_5_Chorus aif Users ugh_allg in Desktop Tour Vocals_13_Verse aif Users ugh_allg in Desktop Tour Vocals_20_Verse aif Users ugh_allg in Desktop Tour Trumpet_1 wav Users ugh_allg in Desktop Tour es m TEEN one a m soia O Lid aI III IIIu IIM Name Rate Path Duration Samples Format Size The Audio Files window with the new file management functions Melodyne c
157. iven by the activation assistant If you are a user of Melodyne cre8 here s how to obtain your copy of Melodyne plugin at a bargain price and install it register and activate your copy of Melodyne if you have not already done so In the process you will create a myCelemony account at www celemony com Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 11 01 Installation and activation purchase the Loyalty Offer for Melodyne plugin from your local music dealer or our Web Shop You will obtain a serial number for the plug in log in to your account at myCelemony using a browser and navigate to the options of your registered Melodyne alongside the corresponding option enter the serial number of your Melodyne plugin The myCelemony server will then create a new product entry for the plug in on your myCelemony account download the latest Melodyne plugin installation program for your platform from myCelemony use the download link next to the plug in s name and perform the installation The plug in is independent of your Melodyne and can if desired be installed on a different computer Once the installation is complete Melodyne plugin must be activated to do this load the plug in into your host and follow the onscreen instructions given by the activation assistant 01 03 Activation and myCelemony Before you can use Melodyne on your computer you must register at myCelemony as a user and activate Melodyne This procedure usually only takes a
158. ke either minor or radical changes to the rhythm simply by cutting and deleting here compressing there and filling the resulting gaps by pasting from the clipboard or stretching the notes on either side With commands like Cut Copy Delete and Paste in the Edit menu and the standard shortcuts used by word processors Melodyne makes audio files as easy to edit as text As you will doubtless have noticed in the course of your own experiments the default behavior of the program is to quantize note lengths in other words the Edit Time tool normally increases or decreases note lengths in a series of discrete steps rather than continuously The minimum amount by which you can increase or decrease the length of a note depends inter alia upon the display resolution a quarter of the distance between the grid lines if the resolution is reasonably high less if the display is more cramped Since the grid lines are generally spaced at crotchet quarter note intervals this means you can normally only increase or decrease the length of notes by so many semiquavers sixteenth notes at a time 50 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual O3 O6 Editing timing if you need still higher sensitivity you can reduce the quantize factor increasing the density of the mesh or override the quantization altogether by holding down the Alt key in the normal way With a switch in the upper right hand corner of the editing area you can change or deactivate the grid
159. ke hold of the front of the 54 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 03 09 The behavior of contiguous notes and note segments note the entire group is moved in the same way regardless of which note you take hold of If the Bar Snap function is active the position of the note boundary taken hold of is quantized O3 O9 The behavior of contiguous notes and note segments As we have mentioned and as you have doubtless observed in the course of your own experiments contiguous notes in Melodyne remain contiguous no gap is created when you shorten a note instead the following note begins earlier and is lengthened to take up the slack In this way the legato effect is maintained but there is another reason for this that will become clearer if you look again at the Pitch Curve that Melodyne displays after analyzing monophonic material Contiguous notes in Melodyne uno are not treated as independent entities the nature of the transitions between them are always respected With the human voice and most instruments other than keyboard and percussion instruments the start of a note is dependent upon what went before the note at the beginning of each phrase is liable to have a sharper and cleaner attack than the notes that follow which tend to melt into each other often with a more or less pronounced portamento a gliding from note to note between them Depending upon the nature of the audio file you have loaded this may be obvious from
160. ker Region F Dombak Individual File for each Note Sample rate is limited by active plug ins Save as 110 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 08 Variable Tempo Editing mode The Channels radio buttons allow you to elect either to save all the active channels in a single audio file to which you will be invited to supply a name or as so many individual files in which case these will take their names from the tracks themselves Finally using the check boxes at the bottom of the dialog select the tracks from which you wish to save data and exit with Save As If you are exporting individual files the settings of each track the volume EQ and insert effects settings will be exported but not those of the Master section or aux effects If you select Save each track as a single file every active track will be saved as a separate audio file either mono or stereo depending upon whether the mixer channel assigned to the track in question is defined there as mono or stereo You have the additional option of writing or not saving an MDD file at the Same time and in the same folder as each of the exported audio files which will allow you to edit the file at a later date without waiting for it to be analyzed a second time If you have compiled group tracks or ReWire tracks these will also be exported at the same time If ReWire or instrument tracks are being used or MIDI transmitted in real time the export process will als
161. l find the buttons for the selection of the key note of the scale i e the key by clicking on a p H LA between major and minor modes button the key note for the arrangement is defined With a mouse click with the Shift key pressed you toggle 330 To the right you find text fields in which the frequency of ETTE each key of the scale is displayed Here you can enter the A E m mul sJ AEE EE Ne blu tuning of a reference note in Hertz All other fields will change according to the tuning chosen in a text field Thus you cannot enter different frequencies for different 262 notes of the scale here the chosen tuning sets the relation between the tones For example if a piece has Offset U been recorded in a tuning with A 415 Hz you should enter 415 into the text field defining A and all other frequencies will change accordingly At the bottom there is a text field which is labeled Offset this field allows you to enter the deviation from standard tuning A 440 Hz in cents If you enter a frequency in the note fields this field will always also show the deviation from standard pitch in cents At the top left of the Tone Scale window there is a drop down list from which you can select from a large number of different scale structures These include not only the harmonic and melodic ascending forms of the minor mode but the church modes major and minor
162. l to musical parameters is examined and if necessary modified O8 O1 The tools in the MDD Editor Definition in the MDD Editor should follow a set procedure First the pitch of any wrongly detected notes should be corrected and the note separations checked before the tempo is defined The order of tools in the MDD Editor corresponds to the sequence in which the working steps are best performed It can in certain cases also be necessary to switch back and forth between the tools 08 O2 The Main multi function tool As is the case in the normal editor the first tool in the MDD Editor is a multi function tool and serves for the correction of any falsely detected pitches and the correction of note separations The occasional pitch errors are almost always cases where the note has simply been placed in the wrong octave You can find these easily by playing through the melody with the function Play detected pitch assigned to p on the keyboard before dragging wrongly positioned notes to the correct pitch using this tool You will find more on this subject in 05 03 The detection and playback of audio in Melodyne where we introduce the Correction mode for the detection In this mode you can remove this type of detection error more quickly and simply than in the MDD Editor when working on an arrangement There you will also find explanations as to the options in the two drop down list boxes
163. le a part to make it sound as though two people rather than one are performing it is more convincing and produces rich chorus like effects if slight variations in intonation and timing are introduced in the course of or subsequent to the copying If you are working in the Editor and copy a part by Shift Alt dragging this is done automatically Otherwise select the part followed by Edit gt Edit Pitch gt Add Random Offset to Pitch Center and or Edit gt Edit Notes Time gt Add Random Offset to Time Course from the Edit menu You can also rearrange the structure of a composition on a single track using commands like Cut Copy and Paste In addition to the usual Select All the Edit gt Select sub menu offers you a variety of other options Melodyne File Definition View Navigation MIDI Window Help Undo Create Marker Z Redo 0 Z Undo History gt Reset to Original Paste Special Select All HA Select following Notes Edit Pitch P Select same Notes Edit Formant gt Select same Notes in all Octaves Edit Amplitude P Select same Beats Edit Note Separations gt Select Notes between Locators Edit Notes Time gt Invert Note Selection Change Tempo Autostretch gt Define Tempo d Variable Tempo Editing Mode X3 KEP XET Correct Pitch Quantize Time Select All selects all the notes of the current audio file In the Arrange window this can also be done by cli
164. les allowing you to audition and select parts of individual files and drag them to the desired position in your arrangement Open the Melody Manager from the Fi e menu 000 Melody Manager Patho Actions Show pav Anselms HD Est gt Brass music_film ExperienceTour 01 gt Flutes files_backups Instruments gt Guitar ANSELMS SHU Tutorial b MultiSamples 4 Ueberschall Demo Sar gt Other Percussion Plucked Saxes Speech Strings v vyv YYYY V VY Y v Vocals Woodwinds v 4i 76 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 05 01 The Melody Manager At the top left you will see all the hard disks partitions and CDs that are available When you click on one of them in the next column to the right you will see the audio files or sub folders through which you can then navigate further The lower area on the left is where you store your Favorites by dragging them from the tree on the right This will allow you to access them more rapidly The audio files in a folder are represented by a Play button When you click on this you can listen to the file You can also see the contents of the file dragging the edges of the window if need be so that you can see more of it Using the second list box from the right you can select between various display modes for the audio files You can display SaxSolo01_B snd arily hie titie SaxSolo01_B snd i ob ae Bal a gt ile fa a EH gt only the waveform
165. les of a 100 At the same time the notes defined by the file automatically become the scale degrees used 05 06 MIDI Out options You can use Melodyne as a flexible audio to MIDI converter and play back the detected or edited melodies using an external MIDI synthesizer or a software instrument loaded into Melodyne Pitch bend and controller data are used to permit the continuous variation in pitch and amplitude of the audio to be Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 103 O5 Other editing functions and options reproduced precisely by MIDI instruments As an alternative to the realtime transmission of the MIDI data Melodyne can export it as a file that you can then load into a variety of other MIDI programs for further editing To activate the output of MIDI data select View gt Show Audio to M ID Parameters or MIDI gt Show Audio to MIDI Parameters and these will then be displayed beneath the Menu bar in the Editor or Arranger window All the settings relate to the currently selected track Velocity y C Pitch Bend C Envelope y Realtime Midi Send 2 Each Note wm ui O None a The audio to MIDI parameters When Realtime MIDI Send is checked in the rightmost pane of the Audio to MIDI parameter set the list box below can be used to select the MIDI port to be used and the edit box to the right of it to determine the MIDI channel If you have loaded software instruments into Melodyne s mixer the names of the instrument tr
166. lter At the end of a note alter position of note if the Alt key is held without length if the Alt key is Snapping Double click quantize to the next held without snapping Suitable time unit silhouette in the blue frame Sub tool tool to govern the starting speed of notes Note separation tool Above below a note create a note separation where none exists otherwise delete double click or move one If the Alt key is held segments can be created or reunited the latter presupposes of course that they once belonged together Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 33 O2 General O2 General Before we begin to examine the editing possibilities of Melodyne we would like briefly to discuss the structure of the program as well as making a few preliminary remarks concerning the user interface and file handling Keyboard shortcuts Melodyne is available for both the PC and the Mac and the keyboard shortcuts for both versions are essentially the same However where in this manual you see the word Command i e in square brackets Mac users should understand this to mean the Apple key and PC users the Ctrl key There are no other complications AIt means the Alt key and Shift the Shift key on both platforms The ideal material for working with Melodyne is monophonic in the sense of comprising a single Unaccompanied melodic line rather than containing chords The human voice obviously is mo
167. ment an accelerando or rallentando in other words the tempo increases or decreases gradually between the two tempo indications instead of changing suddenly Set Tempo Zero to Sound Zero is used to synchronize the first beat with the beginning of the audio For obvious reasons this command only appears in the Define Tempo sub menu Derive Tempo from Audio File Duration This command in the Define Tempo sub menu of the Ed t menu sets the tempo of the arrangement to ensure that the audio file lasts an integral number of bars The time signature currently selected Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 113 O5 Other editing functions and options is adopted This command is useful for example when you know the recording lasts an integral number of bars but this is not the case with the tempo currently detected Set Bar Duration to Current Selection This command in the Define Tempo sub menu of the Ed t menu sets the tempo and the beginning of the bar in such a way that the currently selected notes comprise one bar exactly The time Signature currently selected is adopted This command is useful for example to establish at the beginning of a recording as accurate a starting value for the tempo tapping as possible Tempo from MDD applies the tempo detected for the selected audio file to the entire arrangement You can also import tempos If you select Tempo from MIDI File the Open dialog appears and you can select the f
168. mput de WOO etcece es ece ahs chee aenn nE ceansatanh endeenes 68 The tools for editing the position and length of notes eceeeees 70 Note separation TOON seci cen created secant ASAA RE 73 The Revert and Revert and reset Position commands 0s0sseeee 79 Other editing functions and options 76 The Melody MANAGE ls siccccnes dca imcsannatinccsnendketdesscdieia AARAA 76 Working with the Melodyne Sound Library and Ueberschall Haud souna Danke eseria as AE ENERE 79 Arrangements in the Melody Manager csccececeseeeeaeeeeeeees 80 Compound BOS sete ace eae ders S EERE 80 The Analysis of audio by Melodyne cccccececeeeeeeeeesceeeaeeeeeeess 82 Melodyne s playback algorithMS nnonnenonnensnnensrnersrrorsrrsrerrsreresene 92 Defining the Tone Scale and Tuning ccccceceeeeceeeeeeeeseseeeeeeeees 99 WID OUCODHON eee nee eee EA EAER A ee 103 SEE o E E EE E A A 109 Variable Tempo Editing MO Cty iscccccpscetdccctncetidcneteawscedeatsceetedbestivece 112 Tempo tapping TUMCU ON precy 2tcccecncsccsacienccasbaneesncmehoapesnatatncssaeeoeeacars 114 Working with multiple tracks 00000 116 TORUS audio NSS eserse 118 Real time PATA GUCNS x ccncnccstececsecachcacannedesncncaeceabsencpieackencnedscteccecs 120 Navigating with markel S pieces tt cesctndcenencteancenniucdssdcnpepseaesebendeanesse 122 Arranging by copying and PASTING 242 sac crcaccncnpdenciasscumwdinesi
169. n also hear the tracks already recorded To obtain a metronome check the Click box in the Transport Bar Finally to commence recording click the Play button in the Transport Bar When the recording is complete the newly created audio files will be detected i e analyzed and their notes displayed in the appropriate tracks You can record on the fly by clicking the Record button in the Transport Window during playback in which case recording will only proceed on the tracks currently armed Conversely if recording is already underway on other tracks you can extend it to new ones i e punch in by record enabling them on the fly Punch In Out You can program recording to commence and or end Transport Bar automatically at the current left and right locator M cycle 0001 01 01 000 0001 01 a C Punch in 0003 01 01 000 Aaa positions respectively by checking the Punch In and or Puech Ove ea maer Punch Out boxes in the Transport Bar In other words sme wl A OM Poy if you want recording to commence at the left locator and continue until you click the Stop button check the Punch In box only if you wish recording to commence at the current cursor position and end at the right locator click the Punch Out box only if you wish both the beginning and the end of the recording to be determined by the locator positions check both boxes Melodyne offers a very useful way of replacing a sequence of notes on
170. n between notes to introduce subtle variations into the dynamics of a performance When after dragging to alter the amplitude of a note you later move the Amplitude tool to the latter part of the note blue lines appear indicating the steepness of the amplitude transition to the next note This too can be modified by dragging the lines in the normal way When you double click with the Amplitude tool on one or a selection of blobs the note or notes in question are temporarily muted and their blobs replaced by a Straight line Double clicking a second time unmutes the notes in question The selected notes have been muted here with a double _ Click Dut it is still possible to select and edit them Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 69 O04 Other tools Melodyne File Definition View Navigation MIDI Window Help Undo Muting Note 3Z Redo OZ Undo History gt Reset to Original Cut Copy 3C Paste 36V Delete Paste Special Select Edit Pitch Edit Formant Edit Amplitude Edit Note Separations Reset Amplitudes to Original Reset Amplitude Transitions to Default YY vV VYVBA Y Y vy Edit Notes Time Mute Notes Change Tempo Autostretch Reset Mute State Define Tempo Variable Tempo Editing Mode XC3j KEP XET Correct Pitch Quantize Time The Edit gt Edit Amplitude cascading submenu contains the items you would expect commands for resetting the amplitu
171. n moving stepwise from note to note If the default Each Note in which Note On and Note Off messages are sent for each blob in the display i e each note results in discontinuities of the type described which is often the case if the sound selected has an audible release phase the other two algorithms are designed to address the problem either by sending the same Note On message each time throughout the portamento passage and implementing the variations in pitch within the passage using Pitch Bend data and nothing else Central Note in which case if the melody has a compass of an octave the Pitch Bend range needs to be 6 semitones and the Pitch Bend resolution of the MIDI tone generator receiving the messages needs to be high or else by distributing the notes alternately between two neighboring MIDI channels which gives each of them time to recover and ensures that as each Note On message is sent the Pitch Bend status of the channel sending it is neutral If you use this third mode make sure that the same sound program is selected on both channels and that the second channel is not being used for a different channel If for example you have assigned Channel 1 to a particular track in Alternating Channel mode Channels 1 and 2 will now be used Remember that Pitch Bend data invariably applies to an entire MIDI channel so you will need at least one MIDI channel for each of the tracks of your arrangement from which you intend
172. n notes and much else besides to Melodyne a vocal track is not simply a succession of digital sampling values but rea music the aspects of which it recognizes is capable of quantifying and if the word isn t too fanciful can be said to understand A unique process of analysis and the program s consequent ability to appreciate the musical aspects of the material form the foundation upon which an elaborate structure of editing functions themselves unique has been erected You can for example correct the pitch of out of tune notes whether sung or played with a single mouse click transpose a melody or instrumental solo into a different key or register without depriving it of its natural sound character copy the melody and only the melody of one audio recording to another increase the intensity of the vibrato applied to individual syllables whilst removing altogether any unwanted wavering of pitch adjust the volume of individual notes increase the playback speed of the recording without altering the pitch or reduce it to a standstill if you like lengthen individual notes to give them their correct note values or alter the tempo of entire passages refashion creatively the rhythmic Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 7 What is Melodyne pattern of recordings and exploit a wealth of possibilities that go way beyond mere Slicing for the creation of new loops With Melodyne Studio it is even possible to edit p
173. n notes are stretched or compressed they retain their essential character by which mean that the Starting transients that are characteristic of the instrument or singer in question remain unmodified the acceleration or slowing down of the material is performed by stretching or compressing the sustain or steady state phase of notes and as a result it really does sound as though the instrument or vocalist in question is simply performing the same piece at a different tempo Melodyne offers a number of options and parameters that allow you to tailor Local Sound Synthesis to the musical context These are displayed in a separate pane above the toolbar when you select View gt Show Play Algorithm Parameters The parameters displayed relate to the selected segment for more on segments see 03 09 The behavior of contiguous notes and note segments Plain or Processed This determines whether or not processing is applied to the sound during playback When Melodyne completes its detection of the audio material the parameter Processed is selected If however you only wish to edit certain notes and would prefer the rest of the recording to be played back 92 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 04 Melodyne s playback algorithms normally you can divide the recording into a number of segments selecting Processed for those you have edited and Plain for the rest f Plain fy Original Processed Sampler Th
174. n you next launch Melodyne you will be asked to confirm that you still wish to use them This is to prevent you carrying on for weeks using non standard settings and in all probability obtaining inferior results without realizing it Reset or repeat detection The Definition menu allows you the option of resetting or repeating the detection with fresh parameters as well as offering a shortcut to the Detection page of the Preferences dialog the contents of which we have just been describing r Melodyne File Edit View Navigation MIDI Window Help Correct Detection D Save MDD from Current Edit State THS Reset Detection to Melodic Mode Reset Detection to Percussive Mode Reset Detection to Polyphonic Mode Redetect Audio File Select Detection Parameter Set The Definition menu Apply Arrangement Tempo and Tone Scale to all MDDs X D Open MDD Editor Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 87 O5 Other editing functions and options Using the Reset Detection to commands you can tell Melodyne to treat a recording as melodic for example when its own analysis of the material may have concluded that it was polyphonic or rhythmic where its own analysis may have concluded that it was melodic As a result Melodyne adopts a whole swathe of different parameters or options relating to things such as the type of note separation the type of notation the interpretation
175. name or select Edit from the Options drop down list you open a window in which you can define your controller assignments These can be organized into several banks so that you can assign to elements of your MIDI hardware controller in each bank a different function for the operation of Melodyne When a controller is first added it has an empty bank without assignments or mappings First click the Title field and name the new controller before selecting from the MIDI In list box the MIDI In port to which your controller is connected With the Mapping Add key you can add as many assignments as necessary Each assignment is displayed as a line in a table In the first column you can give to each of your control elements such as faders buttons and so on a name of your choosing The next three columns show the MIDI value that the control element in question sends You can enter the type MIDI channel and number either manually or directly via MIDI When the MIDI connection Is active in which case the box beside its name in the Preferences dialog is checked the values of the selected controller mappings are determined by the incoming MIDI events These could be either controller Note On Off program change or pitch bend messages The first four columns remain the same for all banks since they represent the hardware device itself 152 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 07 05 Remote control using a MIDI controller enn New Window
176. ncates it If on the other hand the beginning of the last note falls outside the paste area you will see the error message Not enough space after paste position With single notes therefore you are allowed to paste a note lasting three beats into a rest lasting only two Melodyne simply truncates the note making it a minim half note instead of a dotted minim Replacing notes The same is true when you are replacing one note with another the two notes don t have to be the same length if the new note Is too long Melodyne simply truncates it Where for example a vocalist has made a hash of a high note on the second repetition of the chorus but got it right in the first you simply select the note that was correctly sung followed by Command C or Edit gt Copy then select the botched note followed by Command IV or Edit gt Paste and Melodyne will replace the botched note with the correctly sung one truncating the latter in the event that it overruns the start of the next note Melodyne s Edit gt Paste Special menu contains a number of unusual but very useful functions r Melodyne File Definition View Navigation MIDI Undo zZ Redo TEZ Undo History Reset to Original Window Help Cut Copy C Paste V Delete Paste Special Select Paste Pitches TEV Replace Keeping Target Pitches Edit Pitch Edit Formant Edit Amplitude Edit Note Separations Edit Notes T
177. nchecked in which case only the grid that forms the background in the Editor expands or contracts whilst the notes themselves remain fixed If however there are tempo changes within the audio file either because it was played rubato or because the time signature changes at some point in the score or you wish to introduce tempo changes to your arrangement select Edit gt Variable Tempo Editing Mode When this mode is active whenever the mouse pointer passes over the gridline separating two crotchets or quarter notes in the Arrangement window or Editor it changes its appearance to become the Time tool You will notice that when you drag a gridline to the right using the Time tool the entire grid expands horizontally whereas when the gridline is dragged to the right the grid contracts horizontally Whether the tempo of the audio is reduced or increased when you do this depends upon whether or not the Autostretch box in the Transport Bar Is checked If so it is if not all you are doing is adjusting the grid to fit the notes If you double click at the beginning of a bar a blue line will appear You can set a different tempo each side of the line Ec Between the blue lines different tempo settings are possible Above each blue line in the Bar Time ruler you will see a time signature and tempo indication To change any of the values displayed double click on it and type in something different 112 Melodyne cre8 stu
178. nd Library MSL from Celemony To activate your MSL please proceed as follows Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 19 01 Installation and activation From the Window menu select License to open the activation assistant You will see the status page confirming that Melodyne has been successfully activated Click the Activate Sound Bank button The sound bank activation page appears from which you can choose whether you wish to activate an MSL or a Liquid sound bank see below Select the option for MSL and click Continue The MSL activation page will appear Here you must first enter the serial number of your MSL title You will find this in the User Manual of your MSL Now choose whether you wish to activate the MSL title online or offline The rest of the procedure is similar to the one you used to activate Melodyne itself so read the passage above marked Online Activation or Offline Activation as appropriate An MSL activation applies to all the products registered on your myCelemony account that are capable of reading MSL sound banks That is why it makes sense to use a single myCelemony account to register all your Celemony products The same applies to offline registration You cannot and should not try to open a new myCelemony account for an MSL title The MSL should be registered to the same account as your copy of Melodyne Once the activation is successful the activated MSL title will be Melodyne is activated on thi
179. nd Note Assignments for Current Tuning if you wish the tonality to be analysed automatically use function Find Scale with Standard Tuning considering Tuning Offset after using Find Tuning Offset from Standard Tuning or Find Note Assignments for Current Tuning listen to the melody again The notes in these modes are quantized to the assigned pitches Correct any false assignments manually O08 O9 Define Pitch Transition Melodyne can recognize whether a gradual transition in pitch exists between two notes or whether the following note represents in this respect a new start Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 173 o8 The MDD Editor Depending upon which is the case the phrasing and legato of a melody can be developed in a musical way Whether a gradual pitch transition between two notes exists can also be decided in the normal Editor after the detection with the Pitch Transitions tool However these changes only apply to the current instance of the melody in a specific arrangement and are not be included in the definition of the melody for general use The Define Pitch Transition tool offers the same functionality as the equivalent tool in the Editor except that the changes here are stored in the MDD file and therefore affect every new use of the audio file in an arrangement POD Mhm k jja 7 ee E tue p i The Define Pitch Transition tool Change Notes Reset Notes m Transition
180. ndividual Sound File for each Marker Region under Range a The Save Audio window with the aoee e e Spot to Pro Tools checkbox uap 1S Aa Dessi bemi iaa h umi agp e ei Til Spot To ProTools When saving audio files Melodyne generates suggested names automatically by inserting the characters melo before the file ending or channel index if present Examples Hallo aif gt Hallo melo aif Hallo L aif gt Hallo melo L aif If this name already exists melo 1 is used and so on If you don t mind overwriting the original file of course you can simply use the same name again NB When Melodyne saves a file that contained regions when it was opened it saves a time stamp with it This will ensure that if you import it manually into a Pro Tools session it will automatically be put in the right place Editing audio files in split stereo format From version 3 onwards Melodyne supports audio files in split stereo format i e files in which the data for the left and right channels are stored in separate files 150 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 07 05 Remote control using a MIDI controller with the suffixes L and R respectively Like the Spot to Pro Tools function this audio file format is almost exclusively of importance when working with Pro Tools Opening split stereo files If you open a file that is part of a split stereo file Melodyne will look for and open automatically the
181. nds the material to be either polyphonic or percussive but will adjust the other parameters descibed below slightly different depending upon the material being more percussive or more polyphonic Please note that the initial setting is just the best guess the program makes You can always set the algorithm to different values if it fits the material better For example if you have a funky slap bass line this can be considered somewhere half way between melodic and percussive and if it is more important for your Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 93 O5 Other editing functions and options purpose to preserve a very clear attack on pitch changes you would choose the Poly percussive mode Both Poly Percussive mode and Melodic mode offer the following additional options and parameters Crisp or Smooth The terms Crisp and Smooth are used here to describe two varieties of internal sound processing the precise nature of which depends upon whether Melodic or Poly Percussive has been chosen If in doubt try both to see which works best When the algorithm for melodic material has been selected the option Crisp is usually the better choice as it gives the sound greater presence and there Is less loss besides which it makes more modest demands upon the capacity of the CPU allowing you to play back a greater number of tracks simultaneously There are however cases in which the Smooth algorithm delivers superior results t
182. ne license should by now be on your account Following the instructions given on the iLok site transfer the license to your iLok dongle Once the transfer has been completed you can close your browser From now on simply by inserting the dongle into a spare USB port you will be able to activate Melodyne on any computer you like provided of course that it meets Melodyne s system requirements and that Melodyne the actual program has first been installed on it If not you must Install the application in the normal way the iLok only holds the license not the program itself Note that if you are using Melodyne on several different computers your preferences audio driver selection keyboard shortcuts program behaviour etc on each computer will be independent In other words they are stored on the computer itself not the iLok dongle If you ve assigned a whole series of keyboard shortcuts to various functions on one computer and wish to transfer them to another you can do this by copying the Preferences file which you will find at the following location to the same location on the target computer Mac your user name Library Preferences Melodyne Preferences Windows XP C Program Files Celemony Melodyne 3 x Melodyne pref Windows Vista C Users lyour user name AppData Roaming Celemony Software GmbH Melodyne pref 01 07 Activating an MSL title The activation assistant is also used to activate the sound banks of the Melodyne Sou
183. ne will have no difficulty in pasting a lick or a vocal harmony taken from the first verse into the last in such a way that all the notes fall on the correct beats of the bar Needless to say intelligent pasting is only possible if both the source and the target arrangements have at some stage been detected i e analyzed by Melodyne The clipboard is intelligent but not inflexible it is up to you to choose the principle that determines where the pasted notes will end up one of the key parameters being the quantization factor which you select using the drop down menu at the right hand end of the Bar Time ruler Normally you will want a phrase that begins on the fourth beat of a bar and runs until the third beat of the second following bar in the verse or arrangement from which it is taken to do the same in the verse or arrangement into which it is being pasted in that case select Bar as the quantization factor If on the other hand you want it to start this time on the second beat and run to the first beat of the second following bar select 1 4 as the quantization factor In the latter case of course you will need to be careful to position the cursor closer to the second beat than to either the first or the third so that it snaps to the correct beat whereas in the former case when Bar is selected as the quantization factor provided you place the cursor somewhere within the right bar Melodyne will do the rest Of co
184. non destructively implementing in real time whatever changes you have made in the course of editing An arrangement in Melodyne is therefore equivalent to a session or song in other sequencers and encapsulates an entire multi track production in a single file Sometimes if say you wish to export to a different sequencer vocal tracks edited or vocal harmonies generated using Melodyne you may prefer to save audio tracks individually If so select File gt Save Audio The Save Audio dialog that opens you will note bears a striking resemblance to the Save MIDI dialog we have just described Save Audio Format WAVE H 44 100 kHz H 16 bit linear ecv Interleaved H Range As Reference Track ES Reference Track Vocals0 Ea Channels Stereo Mix Save each track as a single file C Write MDDs The Save Audio dia log Tracks f Vocalso Track 4 Track 7 Track 2 Track 5 Track 8 9 Track 3 Track 6 From the list boxes in the first line you can select the audio format sampling rate audio resolution wordlength and between interleaved and split stereo formats an interleaved file contains both the left and right channels whereas in split stereo format a separate file is assigned to each Note that if you are using plug ins in the mixer you cannot select a sampling rate other than the one selected in the Preferences dialog Entire Arrangement Format Between Locators The options in the R
185. nophonic as are all members of the woodwind and brass families It is with this type of material that Melodyne offers you the widest range of editing options Percussion instruments of all kinds drum loops and speech also constitute Suitable material Melodyne automatically inserts breaks between hits and syllables which therefore retain their character even after the material has been stretched or compressed You are therefore not confined to melodies but can edit rhythmic or noise like material though not with quite the same degree of freedom as you can melodic material Users of Melodyne studio can also edit material in which multiple notes sound simultaneously which for the sake of brevity we will call polyphonic such as guitar and piano recordings Not only can the program be used to stretch compress or transpose such material but the results exhibit the unique excellence in terms of sound quality for which Melodyne is famous Melodyne studio can even be used to edit tracks on which several musicians are playing simultaneously 34 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual O2 General and even complete mixes no matter how complex the arrangement This offers you the ultimate in freedom when arranging or editing audio With Melodyne you can open and edit audio files in the following formats WAV AIFF SND or Sound Designer II the latter only on the Mac 8 to 24 bit Melodyne cre8 or to 32 bit Melodyne studio resolu
186. not the case previously the segment separator between them cannot be removed You can create segments in another way select a blob or several then cut and paste it into the same place This will also sever its connection with the adjacent blobs and create a new segment You can now move the blob s without dragging the adjacent blobs at the same time Segment separations between notes 03 10 Automatic timing correction As with the correction of pitch Melodyne offers the possibility of correcting timing errors automatically this means that instead of laboriously correcting each note in turn you can just leave it to the program to make musically intelligent adjustments to the timing of all or selected notes If you have read the sections above dealing with adjusting the length and position of notes you will probably have guessed what this involves the beginnings of notes snap to the nearest grid line whereupon Melodyne makes whatever further adjustments are necessary to preserve the naturalness in terms of pitch timbre and volume of the transitions between them 56 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 03 10 Automatic timing correction Try out the function now Select a few notes the timing of which needs improving or click in the background of the Editor to cancel the current selection and choose Edit gt Quantize Time oe mane pa The Quantize Time dialog aa at aye ave 1716
187. ns and their course In the Melody Manager you will find the samples for such ensembles in sub folders You will also always find there an arrangement that you can audition directly in the Melody Manager as though it were a sample in order to hear all the voices in context and with it the entire ensemble You can only at that time import the contained samples individually either by selecting them in the Melody Manager and dragging them one by one into your arrangement or by loading the audition arrangement parallel to your own and copying the samples from one arrangement to the other Files from a Melodyne Sound Library or Liquid sound bank are marked in the Audio window and cannot be moved or copied into the audio file folder of an arrangement If you wish to transfer an arrangement that uses files from a Melodyne Sound Library or Liquid sound bank to another computer the relevant library or sound bank must also be available and activated there though it does not matter where on the second computer the requisite library file is stored Arrangements in the Melody Manager The Melody Manager displays not only samples but also Melodyne arrangements An arrangement is represented by a miniaturized image of the Arrangement window and Mixer Using the Playback switch you can now audition i e listen to without loading arrangements along with all the tracks they contain just as though they were samples A double click on the title bar opens the
188. nsible values but you can change these values as you wish For example for the action Track Pitch Change the Min and Max parameters are set to 24 to 24 semitones but if you only want to use this action for fine tuning you can also set the values e g to 0 5 to 0 5 If you add a new bank for other mappings the current one is always copied so that you do not have to enter all the mappings again in the event that you only wish to change some of them in the new bank If you are working with several banks you should always assign one of the actions Select Bank by Index Select Bank by Value or Select Next Bank and Select Previous Bank to a definite control element of your hardware so that you can select between banks using your MIDI hardware Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 153 O7 Integration and global functions As long as the window for the controller definition is open the assignment to the selected mapping is determined by incoming MIDI events As soon as the window is closed or moved to the background the MIDI events produce the defined effects MIDI keyboard keys or controllers that are assigned to an action can no longer be used for normal playing in other words if the lowest keys of your keyboard have been assigned to the actions Start and Stop for example they can no longer used to play notes The specific control devices such as Mackie Control have their own definition win
189. nspected in any text editor The contents of the HTML file are transferred to myCelemony as soon as you establish a connection with the server using the button in the browser What data does the myCelemony server send back for the activation myCelemony sends an encoded file back You receive an activation code that allows your Melodyne software to run without restriction on your computer The contents of this file too can in the case of offline registration be opened and inspected in a text editor Since it is encoded however it contains nothing you can read How long and under what circumstances does the activation on a given computer remain valid The activation for a particular computer is based upon its fingerprint which is generated for the computer at the time of the activation request and transferred to the myCelemony server As long as this fingerprint does not change the activation for your software will also remain effective The fingerprint and activation are therefore unaffected when you update the operating system or install a new one change hardware components such as your hard disk or monitor with the exception of your network card update your Melodyne software provided it is a free update reinstall your Melodyne software What needs to be borne in mind for a successful iLok activation If you are using or wish to use an iLok from Pace for the activation of Melodyne you need
190. nt Between Locators f you select Entire Arrangement Channels As Reference Track everyth j ng from the begi nni ng of Tracks From Start of Reference Track until End of Arrangement Individual Range for each Track the first note of the arrangement to Individual File for each Marker Region the end of the last will be saved Track 3 Trace Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 107 O5 Other editing functions and options f you select Between Locators the length will be determined by the current position of the left and right locators f you select As Reference Track a new list box opens to the right of the Range box from which you are invited to select a reference track the beginning and end of which will then serve the same purpose as the left and right markers in the previous option in other words MIDI data will be saved from all the active channels but only where it coincides with the reference track If you select From the Start of the Reference Track to the End of the Arrangement the beginning of the range will be as per the previous option but tracks continuing beyond the end of the reference track will not in this case be truncated If you select ndividual Range for Each Track each track will be saved with a separate starting point and length If you select ndividual File for Each Marker Region see Navigating with Markers the files will derive their names from the markers This option i
191. nt since in this and only in this temperament the intervals of all tonal positions are exactly equal to each other This means that a C major scale on a piano which is tuned in equal temperament has the same intervals as an E major scale All other tunings do not share this characteristic The relative intervals Do Re Mi are used at first as a construction plan to specify a tuning relative to the imagined key note or tonic Do The second step is to specify where this tonic is located in an absolute system i e like on a piano key C D E Tone Scale Equal Temperam BE RA Tuning only Equal Temperament Major B Finish Edit Used Tonal Positions gt W A Proportions of the relative Tonal Positions Al a a gt gt o Assign relative to absolute A H wi Ww Ww N E 700 Absolute Tonal Positions Eso 600 YA 349 fi 500 Proportions of the absolute Tonal m _ Positions 330 Fmi 400 Fwi 311 300 pe 300 294 Re 200 fifo 200 c 277 100 Ifc 100 22 r Ba pe o MSIE ETC Offset 0 New Open Save Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 101 O5 Other editing functions and options The buttons Used Tonal Positions define which tonal positions of 12 possibilities appear in the scale These then become the positions that notes can snap to if Scale Snap is activated The text fi
192. ntelligence of the program They offer not only powerful editing functions for the swift correction of timing problems but also a wealth of creative possibilities To give you an idea of just some of them we will show how the rhythm of a tabla loop can be radically transformed with a few mouse clicks At this point please load the file tablaloop wav which you will find in the Audio Files subfolder of the folder Manual You will see the following two bar loop displayed in the Editor The original tempo is 104 BPM Begin playback of the tabla loop and open the Quantize Time dialog from the Edit menu Click the 1 8 push button in the Groove Reference group and set the Quantize Timing control to 100 not that this makes much difference here as the performance Is reasonably tight to begin with 58 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual O3 11 Creative re quantization an example Now push the 1 16 T semiquaver triplets button and the tabla loop will begin to swing Sees eae though in a somewhat stilted fashion at first SE move the Quantize Timing slider to somewhere between 30 and 60 for a pleasantly understated swing Another interesting perspective is offered by the Secmoasemrens setting 1 4 T crotchet triplets with the SS Quantize Timing slider moved all the way to the SS lox w right 100 co ces now the rhythmic
193. nterface of the selected instrument opens allowing you to adjust the parameters as desired if after closing this you need to make further adjustments click the same list box as before finally select MIDI gt Show audio to M DI parameters followed by the new mixer channel you have just created which you will find displayed in the Port list box below the word Real time MIDI Send Saving MIDI data If you wish to save the MIDI data rather than using it to control i e play a MIDI instrument in real time after setting the audio to MIDI parameters as described above select File gt Save Audio to MIDI Save MIDI Format As Specified in Tracks H Range Entire Arrangement H Channels All O Save each track as a single file Tracks f Vocalso E Track 4 E Track 7 Track 2 Track 5 Track 8 Track 3 Track 6 The Save MIDI dialog Format As Specified in Tracks ri Quantized for Notati Depending upon what you plan to do next print out PER ocean the score in which case the notes need to be quantized but you don t need the Pitch Bend Velocity Scaling and Controller data or edit the file in a MIDI sequencer choose either Quantized for Notation or As Specified in Tracks from the Format list box in the Save MIDI dialog that opens The options in the Range list box are Format As Specified in Tracks for the most part self explanatory ormar As Specified in Tracks Range Entire Arrangeme
194. o Cancel If you wanted to transpose up a tone the trio section only of a minuet and trio or the last verse only of a song simply place the left and right markers at the beginning and end of the passage you wish to transpose select Window gt Realtime Play Offsets and enter 200 in the Pitch field Then click Fix to Arrangement followed by Change between Locators and the job is done You can if you prefer apply the realtime play offsets for Pitch and Formant to individual tracks instead of to the entire arrangement To do this choose Selected Track in place of Global from the list box at the top of the Realtime Play Offsets dialog set the Pitch and Formant parameters to the desired values and replace Selected Track with Global using the same list box only then can you exit with Fix Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 121 O6 Working with multiple tracks to Arrangement When you do this not only whatever Global offsets you have selected but also the offsets you have chosen for the Selected Track will be applied to the arrangement and track respectively It is also possible to exclude individual tracks from the global changes so as to exclude the drum track for example from a global transposition In this case select the drum track open the Realtime Play Offsets window choose Selected Track from the list box at the top and clear the Globals checkbox which is checked by default When you do this the selected track will no longe
195. o be performed in real time When you first open the Save Audio dialog you will see from the check boxes at the bottom that all active tracks that are currently unmuted are initially selected but of course you can deselect any of these and select others if you wish If you have selected Save each track as a single file after clicking Save As you can select a folder the files will automatically be given the same names as the tracks from which they are derived Cmd A selects all tracks in the Save Audio window whenever at least one track remains unselected and deselects all whenever all are selected If in the course of an audio export operation the level is too high the error will be reported at the end and you will be advised to adjust the mixer settings to prevent a recurrence when the material is exported a second time A separate section is devoted in Chapter 7 to the Spot to Pro Tools option that appears under certain circumstances in the Save Audio dialog so we will not deal with it here Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 111 O5 Other editing functions and options 05 08 Variable Tempo Editing mode When there are no tempo changes within an audio file or arrangement the tempo is determined by the value in the top right hand corner of the Transport bar The effect of altering this depends upon whether Autostretch is checked in which case the audio material is stretched or compressed to correspond with the new tempo or u
196. o open whereas opening an audio file results in the Editor opening This is simply because if you open an audio file you will normally wish to edit it first before entering the arranger The Arrangement window and the Editor are as we have said of equal status An arrangement is closed when the last arrangement or editing window is closed Please note that all audio editing in Melodyne is performed in real time and non destructively As with most sequencers the file type usually saved is an arrangement file ending mar If you are editing an individual audio file as you would in a sample editor and wish to save the edited version as a new audio file select File gt Save Audio For more on saving audio see section 05 06 Audio above 116 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual O6 Working with multiple tracks Fa i Transport Bar cee F Cycle 0005 01 01 000 C Punch in 0009 01 01 000 0007 01 01 004 T ye a r e e eeuk 1 e Ee O Joo e 4 108 0 P IRGO 4 l Autostretch Tracks in Melodyne s Arrangement window The functions of the Track list The left hand margin in the Arrangement window is occupied by the Track list within which each track is assigned a control panel containing its name and a number of buttons To select a track click on its control panel in the Track list or if it already contains audio data on one of its notes the bold outline of the panel in the Track list and the
197. o the beginning of bar 17 right and the right locator to the beginning of bar 26 wrong then select Navigation gt Delete Marker gt Chorus move the right locator to the beginning of bar 25 which is where it ought to have been in the first place and define the region a second time by selecting Navigation gt Create Marker and typing in the name Chorus as before You can also define and use keyboard shortcuts for navigating swiftly between regions see 07 06 Preferences Customizing shortcut key assignments below 06 04 Arranging by copying and pasting Melodyne offers you numerous interesting possibilities for the creative editing and reshaping of melodies and rhythms In the following section we would like to look at these in greater detail The main techniques include the selecting deleting copying cutting and pasting of note blobs and the most used shortcuts Command IA Select All Command X Cut Command I C Copy and Command V Paste Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 123 O6 Working with multiple tracks To create vocal harmonies from a single part for example all you need to do is copy the melody into one or more new tracks and edit the pitch of the notes on the new tracks until the desired results are achieved You could equally well select the notes you wish to copy and drag them to a new track whilst holding the Shift and Alt keys If rather than generating harmonies you wish simply to doub
198. o user manual 08 05 The Define Score Time tool First enter the time signature in the Inspector area unless the piece is in 4 4 time which is the default As soon as you select the Define Score Time tool a red line appears at the beginning of the first bar This is the Time Anchor if you drag it the entire bar background moves with it Moving the small gray I in the Bar Time ruler has the same effect but its movement is subject to the selected quantization factor If on the other hand you position the Define Score Time tool in another part of the background at the very beginning of a beat and then drag the result will be an alteration of the tempo the Time Anchor will remain in place With a recording that has been played or sung in a very free tempo with a great deal of variation you can and should define a separate tempo for each bar if you wish notes to be assigned to their ideal positions such as those displayed in the score This is essential too if you are going to want later to adapt the recording to an arrangement with a different tempo For this purpose click on any quarter note dividing line in the grid hold the mouse key and drag the mouse to the left or the right and the grid will be stretched or compressed accordingly By double clicking in the grid at the beginning of a bar you can fix the set tempo there a vertical red line will appear at this position If you double click on the line again you can rem
199. odyne cre amp studio user manual 08 04 Correcting the note separations selection rectangle and double click one of them These will then unite to form a single note Tip a convenient way of examining and editing the note separations quickly Is to step through them with the arrow keys on the computer Position the playback cursor before the first note and press the right arrow key You will hear the first note right up to its separation position You can go through the notes one by one in either direction using the arrow keys listening to each one in turn When you hear two notes that ought to be separated press the down arrow key and Melodyne will separate the note heard most recently in the position it considers most likely If the separation does not occur in the correct place drag the dividing line with the mouse and move it to the correct place If when you are going through the material you hear two separated notes that actually should be united to form one note press the up arrow and the two notes last listened to will be united ae emt e The Inspector area for the Pitch Note a Separation tool l f gt D 4 310Hz Special Separation 200 Silence 26 0 db Melodic Separation B The Separation parameter determines the sensitivity of the note separation i e whether a greater or lesser number of sections of the audio file should be recognized as separate notes
200. of a note Double clicking a note using the Pitch Drift tool toggles between the original drift and no drift You can read the existing drift intensity from the box next to the tool bar or enter a new value if you wish Note Whenever you select one of the Pitch tools from the toolbar the pitch curve will be superimposed on the note blobs even though you may have unchecked Always Show Pitch Curve in the View menu The context sensitive Pitch Transitions tool is also available with the tools for Pitch Drift and Vibrato Tip It can happen as a result of drift or vibrato editing the cutting up of notes and transposition of the parts that discontinuities appear in the Pitch Curve introducing a harshness or jerkiness to the transitions That may be the effect you intend but in the event that it is not you can use the Pitch Transition tool to Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 65 O04 Other tools smooth the transitions What this does is to introduce a portamento the intensity of which you can control between adjacent notes Melodyne File Eg Definition View Navigation MIDI Window Help 00e Undo Changing Pitch Drift 82 Redo HZ Untitlec O Plain O Poly Pe Undo History gt Processed Melodic Revert to Audio File gt Cut 3X Paste V Delete Paste Special pe Select Eb _D Edit Pitch P Reset Pitch Center to Original Edit Formant gt Reset Pitch Modulation
201. of the blobs all the others follow the movement If you click in the center of a blob you can drag it any number of semitones up or down Tip when you have loaded a really long file the blobs may be too small to be easily manipulated in this case click on the horizontal and vertical zoom icons in the bottom right hand corner of the screen to increase the display resolution Another way of zooming the display is to hold the Command and ALT keys and drag the pointer which has now taken on the aspect of a magnifying glass upwards to decrease the vertical resolution downwards to increase the vertical resolution to the left to decrease the horizontal resolution or to the right to increase the horizontal resolution When you transpose a note or series of notes over some interval larger than a semitone a fifth say you will notice that the characteristic timbre of the source be it a voice or instrument Is preserved instead of the dreaded Chipmunk or Darth Vader effects of conventional transposition tools you get something that sounds remarkably similar to the same voice singing or the same instrument playing in a different register Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 41 o3 Loading and editing audio If you are familiar with the acoustic principles at work here you will have guessed why this is so when it transposes the sound of a voice or instrument Melodyne leaves the formants its acoustic
202. olin a high note followed by a low one or vice versa Obviously unless have transposed at least one note of your audio file the value assigned to this parameter is irrelevant Transposing a note a fifth say with Formant Correction set to O is the same as transposing it a fifth with Forman Correction set to 100 and then moving the formants a fifth in the same direction however in the former case the formant bar will be superimposed on the note whilst in the latter case it will be displayed hovering a fifth above the note In either case dragging the bar upwards or 98 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 05 Defining the Tone Scale and Tuning downwards by a given interval will result in the formants being moved by the same interval from their current position Period 1 6 The normal value for this parameter is 1 Other values result in the algorithm behaving as though the recording had been detected with 2 3 times the period i e an octave twelfth deeper This can improve the sound of things like very high flute and string parts particularly when elements of the octave below are present as is often the case when flutes are overblown or when a vocalist has a particularly gravelly voice It is worth experimenting with this parameter when dealing with problematic material If the aim is realism however you are seldom going to need a value higher than 2 and even then the Formant Correction parameter should be set
203. olyphonic material in an extraordinarily flexible and fascinating way You can do all this and more with Melodyne quickly easily in a way that imposes astonishingly modest demands on the resources of your system and most importantly achieve results for the unique sound quality of which Melodyne is world famous This introduction is designed to give you the basic information needed for working with the program You will find more detailed and continually updated information should you require it on our web site www celemony com Please bear in mind however that some of the functions described such as the time stretching of polyphonic audio material are only available with the studio edition Here are the main points of difference between the two programs Melodyne cre8 studio Tracks 8 unlimited Max resolution 24 bits 96 kHz 32 bit 192 kHz Stereo yes new yes Stretching for polyphonic material no yes Tip for your first experiments with Melodyne we recommend the interactive Experience Tour which you can open from the program s Help menu In the Experience Tour we give you a quick roundup of the most important of Melodyne s functions It s interactive too so you can participate and try everything out for yourself To help you hit the ground running Melodyne comes with an integrated reverb effect and a small but pleasant sounding software synthesizer called Podolski with which you can try out the Audio to MIDI
204. osoft Corporation Celemony Software GmbH 2007 All rights reserved 2 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual Hello and a warm welcome to Melodyne Many thanks for purchasing Melodyne and welcome to the program Melodyne offers a new musical and intuitive way of working with audio data that we re confident you ll enjoy This user manual explains the individual functions of Melodyne as well as the underlying concept Please take the time to read it through carefully You will find the latest news interesting tips and tricks and useful FAQs on our web site www celemony com along with background reports from the development department tutorials and practical examples It s well worth a visit Our software is constantly being further developed and improved Please always make sure that you are working with the latest version of Melodyne The Updates function in the Help menu checks via Internet to see whether or not a later version exists You can always find the latest version in the myCelemony area of our website www celemony com mycelemony If you have any questions concerning Melodyne first please read the relevant pages in this handbook and consult our FAQ pages to see whether we ve already answered the same question there www celemony com faq If any questions remain please contact support celemony com and we will be happy to help you further We hope you enjoy working with Melodyne All at Celemony Melo
205. ove the tempo fixation at the place in question The procedure here is exactly the same as the one described in 05 07 Variable Tempo Editing mode in the context of the editing of variable tempo in the Arrangement window or Editor It is possible not only to set a different tempo but also a different time signature for each bar both can be done by typing in new values in the Inspector area or by double clicking the values displayed in the Bar Time ruler You can set the tempo and time signature for each bar separately in the Inspector or Bar ruler If you wish to remove all tempo changes you can do this by selecting Edit gt Define Tempo gt Equal Tempo The Define Tempo sub menu contains a number of other useful commands f you wish to delete all tempo definitions after a given bar select Same tempo for following bars If you wish to remove all time signature changes after a given bar select Same time signature for following bars Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 167 o8 The MDD Editor If you have defined irregular beats within a bar and you want to make them uniform again select Equal beats in Current bar or Equal beats in Following bars lf you have defined an irregular tempo by setting a separate tempo for each bar the tempo changes normally only occur at the bar lines If however you select Smooth tempo changes the tempo will speed up or slow down in the course of the bar which means of course that the
206. pasted note simply shrinks to fit the hole left by the note it is replacing The same applies when replacing one series of notes with another If quantization is inactive the first note will be pasted at the cursor position and the others will follow at the same intervals as in the passage from which they have been copied Otherwise the exact position to which notes are pasted depends not only upon the position of the cursor but also upon the quantization factor which Is indicated by the blue box at the right hand end of the Bar Time ruler If for example Bar 1 1 is selected notes will be pasted to the same positions in the 60 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 03 12 Copying and pasting notes bar in which the cursor is currently located as they occupied in the bar from which they were copied Note you can learn more about copying and pasting notes and the effect of the Autostretch function in this context from 06 04 Arranging by copying and pasting When a melody has been put together by copying and pasting more than once it will consist of the same number of segments see the section on note separation and segments above You can move the beginning and end of the segment boundaries if there is enough room respectively before the beginning and after the end of the segment If you extend the boundaries of the segment in this way part of the recording will be audible that was previously defined as not belonging to the note Thi
207. pentatonic whole tone and diminished scales as well as scale structures employed in the music of Asia and the Middle East 100 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual Major Minor natural Minor harmonic Minor melodic lonian Major Dorian Phrygian Lydian Mixolydian Aeolian nat Minor Locrian Major Pentatonic Minor Pentatonic Blues Bop Augmented Diminished Whole Tone Hungarian Major Hungarian Minor Neapolitan Major Neapolitan Minor Spanish Arabian Persian Hindu Oriental Japanese 05 05 Defining the Tone Scale and Tuning Editing Tone scales The Edit button opens the extended tone scale panel as displayed to the right Here you can define any tuning that you want to apply to the arrangement If you do not intend to work with historical ethnic or experimental tunings you can skip the following sections For a better comprehension of working with tone scales we must distinguish between relative and absolute tone positions In Melodyne the relative positions are called Do Re Mi the absolute positions are called C D E in most Latin countries the names Do Re Mi are used as having the same meaning as C D E we will not do this here since we would lose the difference between relative and absolute positions It would have been best to use the Hindu names Sa Re Ga as these only intend relative positions This discrimination would be irrelevant for equal temperame
208. possible to begin work immediately Temporary activation is only possible after the first installation of Melodyne on a computer 16 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 01 06 iLok Activation After selecting this option click Continue The assistant will then inform you that Melodyne has been activated for a period of ten days You can now close the assistant and use Melodyne We recommend however that you undertake the definitive activation as soon as possible Otherwise the temporary activation period is liable to expire at precisely the wrong moment 01 06 iLok Activation You can also activate Melodyne using an iLok USB copy protection dongle manu factured by Pace www pace com When this solution is chosen your Melodyne license is transferred to an iLok dongle making it possible to use the software on a variety of computers provided obviously Melodyne has been installed on each of them and you insert the dongle into a USB port each time you wish to run it This allows you in effect to carry your copy of Melodyne about with you if you work regularly in a number of different studios One iLok is capable of storing many different licenses including those of other manufacturers so you do not need a different dongle for each item of software you have chosen to activate in this way To use the iLok activation system you need an iLok copy protection dongle which you can purchase from your local music store Celemony do
209. pwards or downwards by a given interval will result in the formants being moved by the same interval from their current position Period 1 6 The normal value for this parameter is 1 Other values result in the algorithm behaving as though the recording had been detected with 2 3 times 96 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 04 Melodyne s playback algorithms the period i e an octave twelfth deeper This can improve the sound of things like very high flute and string parts particularly when elements of the octave below are present as is often the case when flutes are overblown or when a vocalist has a particularly gravelly voice It is worth experimenting with this parameter when dealing with problematic material If the aim is realism however you are seldom going to need a value higher than 2 and even then the Formant Correction parameter should be set to 0 Period values greater than 2 or greater than 1 where formant correction is applied lead to unnatural results and are only useful for the creation of special effects If only the tempo of the recording has been altered and the Period parameter has been modified the setting of the Formant Correction slider is ignored The algorithm options offered by Melodyne cre8 Melodic or Percussive Melodic mode is the algorithm of choice for any monophonic material like vocals all members of the woodwind and brass families solo guitar or bass lines etc Also speech
210. r If you hold the Alt key and move the pointer to a note separator it will become the Segment Separation tool in this case if you double click on the note separator it will become a segment separator The Segment separation toll is also available as a sub tool of the Note separation tool In the Edit gt Edit Note Separations cascading submenu you will find the following commands Separate Note as Trill reinterprets a note containing a strong vibrato as being in fact a trill and accordingly what was displayed previously as a single note Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 73 O04 Other tools ls broken down into a succession of individual notes alternating in pitch and capable of being edited individually Without more however the command has no influence upon the sound The command Separate Note as Slide is designed to separate notes created for example when a guitarist or bass player slides the finger stopping the string up or down the string in other words it breaks a rising or descending glissando into a series of discrete semitone steps Where the potential for a glissando exists a continuous rising or falling pitch curve is displayed which with fretted instruments may take on a step like appearance for it to be recognized as such by Melodyne a slide must cover at least three semitones with the first and last notes defining the range of the slide The note range that you wish to treat and separate as a slide
211. r if you prefer c oser to the correct pitch Here s how commence playback so that you can hear what happens click somewhere in the background of the Editor to deselect all notes and choose Fdit gt Correct Pitch Correct Pitch Correct Pitch Center E 100 The Correct Pitch dialog Correct Pitch Drift opens displaying two slider 100 controls or trackbars Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 43 O3 Loading and editing audio The upper trackbar is used to specify the extent to which the pitch center of errant notes in the case of a note to which vibrato has been applied this would be the axis about which the oscillation occurs should be moved closer to what is assumed to be the intended pitch The default setting 100 you will observe leaves all blobs bang in the center of their various lanes whilst more moderate settings improve the intonation without imposing what might seem an overly mechanical perfection Move the slider and experiment until you find the balance that feels most satisfying musically Melodyne makes an important distinction between vibrato which is usually intentional and drift which is not When a string player or classical guitarist for example shakes his left wrist whilst playing he does so in order to impart vibrato a rapid fluctuation in the pitch of the note that gives the sound greater fullness and vibrancy When Melodyne corrects th
212. r at the current cursor position the cursor being the vertical red line that moves from left to right across the screen as the audio plays back with the others following at the expected intervals The copying of blobs from one document to another is realized intelligently if the key snap function is activated in the recipient document the new notes will adapt to the selected tonality and mode if the Autostretch box in the Transport Bar is checked the blobs will be stretched or squeezed to suit the selected tempo if in the original there are minor deviations from the set tempo a note falls for example a semiquaver 16 note before the beat in 4 4 time these will be respected when the notes are copied to a different document provided the quantization factor in both documents is the same i e 1 4 If on the other hand you want the note in question to fall on the beat change the quantization factor to the right of the Bar Time Ruler to 1 16 in the receiving document prior to pasting You can of course always correct the position of a pasted note manually just like that of any other note 36 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual O2 General Melodyne s transport controls doubtless have a familiar look to them being identical to those offered by conventional sequencing applications not to mention cassette and video recorders You can also use the space bar Space of your computer keyboard to pause or re
213. r react to global changes in the Pitch or Formant realtime play offsets You can also modify the playback parameters via MIDI either by transposing semitone wise by playing variations with the MIDI keyboard or continuously via MIDI controller see 06 05 MIDI In options and 07 05 Remote control using a MIDI controller Note You can now enter percentage values e g 50 in the Tempo fields of the Transport bar and of the window with the real time parameters as well as in the Time ruler if Variable Tempo Editing Mode is selected The percentage is in each case that of the last applicable value for example if the tempo set is 100 BPM typing in 50 will reduce it to 50 BPM If you want to double it so that it returns to 100 BPM enter 200 not 100 06 03 Navigating with markers By creating markers each time at the current locator positions you can divide the file into regions either to facilitate navigation or with a view to saving parts only of a selected audio file as described in Section 05 06 Saving Audio Individual Audio File for Each Marker Region above Melodyne File Edit Definition View EER MIDI Window Help Create Marker XC Scroll to gt Zoom to a Delete Marker b To create and name a region select Navigation gt Create Marker and enter the name in the edit box that appears in the Bar Time ruler A marker region in the Bar Time ruler 122 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 06 0
214. r stretched nor compressed when you alter the tempo an error message will appear if ever you seek to affect such an exaggerated acceleration of the playback that unless the transients of adjacent notes were compressed they would be forced to overlap If you have modified the Pitch Formant or Tempo parameters in the Realtime Play Offsets dialog you can restore the original values by clicking the appropriate Reset buttons Changing any of these parameters does not of itself change your arrangement it only changes the way Melodyne plays it back If for example your song is in C minor and you enter 100 in the Pitch field of the Realtime Play Offsets dialog Melodyne will play back the song in B minor but the notes displayed in the Editor will still be in C minor It is only when you click the Fix to Arrangement button at the bottom of the dialog that the arrangement itself will be transposed then and only then will what you see be what you hear The same goes for the tempo and formant offsets initially the arrangement itself is unaffected only if you click Fix to Arrangement will the arrangement itself be modified When you click Fix to Arrangement the Fix Play Offsets dialog appears inviting you to select the range within which the offsets should be applied to the whole arrangement only to that part of the arrangement that is encompassed by the right and left locators or to none of the arrangement at all No here is equivalent t
215. rameters can be edited Giobat independently e g slowing down the Pitch 0 0 cent Reset tempo does not lower the pitch either by Formant 0 0 cent Reset typing in a new value or by clicking in the Tempo 120 0 bpm Reset box and dragging the pointer upwards to AAGU increment or downwards to decrement this can even be done during playback The Realtime Play Offsets dialog The values in the Pitch and Formant fields are expressed in cents hundredths of a semitone in equal temperament so to transpose up a perfect fifth the Pitch parameter should be set to 700 The formants are corrected automatically as you transpose so you don t need in this case to enter 700 in the Formant field unless you intend to alter not only the pitch but also the character of the sound Assuming that you want it to sound like the same vocalist singing or the same instrument playing a fifth higher leave the Formant parameter set to O Note that 120 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual O6 O02 Real time parameters if a playback algorithm other than that for melodic material has been selected for the track in question changing the Formant parameter has no effect The tempo displayed is always that of the first bar of the arrangement but altering the displayed value affects all the tempos within the arrangement proportionally Note that since for Melodyne s Local Sound Synthesis preserving the transients is of paramount importance these are neithe
216. re8 studio user manual 161 O8 The MDD Editor o8 The MDD Editor Melodyne permits not only the correction of possible discrepancies in the detection but also the detailed and varied fine tuning of its detection results you remember the file with the file ending MDD created by Melodyne to store the results of the detection This process takes place in the MDD Editor which you can open with the entry Open MDD Editor in the Definition menu or from the action menu of the Melody Manager e0e Vocals0 mdd MEERE oe ove Gei J seamen sox tenes 250 ier FAJ _ EM The MDD Editor is used for perfecting the detection results and is distinguished by its red background The MDD Editor has a similar structure to the normal editor but is used not for the modification of audio files but when necessary for fine tuning the results of the analysis Melodyne performed when it detected the file If all you want to do is edit the tempo of an audio file or correct its intonation you will only very seldom need the MDD Editor If on the other hand you want to work with a recording intensively 162 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 08 02 The Main multi function tool and perhaps use it later again in other arrangements you should examine its detection in the MDD editor and if need be fine tune it NB An audio file is never musically or sonically altered in the MDD Editor all that happens Is that the assignment of the audio materia
217. reely mean independently of the current quantization factor the boundary does not in other words snap to the nearest grid line The Arrow also becomes the Note Separation tool when you place it just above or below a note if you now double click the note will be split at that point and a new note separator created This in itself will make no difference to the sound but allows you for example to change the pitch of the first part of the note the part to the left of the newly created separator without changing that of the second part or vice versa Suppose for example you wish to introduce an chapp e or a cambiata or any other ornament for that matter that isn t contained in the original performance The note to be split Now split the note we ll say it s a minim with the Note Separation tool to create two crotchets quarter notes The note that follows is a major second lower so the melodic tendency is downward The original minim has heen split into two crotchets Now you can drag the second half in the middle with the Edit Pitch tool and transpose it independently of the first 52 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 03 08 Lengthening and moving notes Here we have introduced an chapp e Note when you create a division within a note Melodyne calculates the average pitch of each of the two parts separately and then tries to select the most appropriate split point This may cause the
218. ring any intervention by the user Occasionally however there is material with which Melodyne interprets individual notes an octave too high or too low As soon as you edit such a falsely detected note in the Editor unwanted sonic artifacts can appear For this reason Melodyne offers a Correction Mode in which you can correct the automatic detection if necessary You reach this mode from the Editor of Melodyne to which you return seamlessly after a successful correction thereafter no further artifacts appear You will learn more about this Correction Mode further down Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 83 O5 Other editing functions and options Melodyne allows you not only to correct possible discrepancies in the detection but also to edit in a detailed and diverse way Melodyne s detection results Remember the file created by Melodyne with the detection results has the file ending mdd This editing takes place in the MDD Editor and is as a rule not necessary in everyday work with Melodyne It is however of importance if you wish to perfect a file for repeated use in Melodyne for example for the building of a sample library optimized for Melodyne Then in addition to the possible correction of detection errors it will also be of interest to examine the rhythmic interpretation of the material and the detected scale For such tasks which have nothing to do with the arrangement currently being edited but with the audio file it
219. rizontal beam appears in the middle of each blob If you drag the beam upwards you transpose the formants upwards giving the voice a more feminine sound do the same to a musical instrument and it is equivalent to giving it a smaller resonating chamber turning a guitar into a ukulele or a viola into a violin Transposing the formants downwards is equivalent to giving an instrument a more voluminous resonating chamber Again you can apply the same changes to all or only selected notes and type in the desired value in cents for the latter if you prefer that to using the mouse If you wish to restore the original formants of a note simply double click on it with the Edit Formant tool The Edit Formant tool is context sensitive when you hold it over the last part of a note it governs formant transitions This tool works in much the same way as the tool for pitch transitions With the formants transitions are created automatically whenever you shift the formants of a note Here too the blue lines appear representing a transition As with the pitch transition tool by dragging the mouse pointer upwards or downwards level with the end of a note you can set the speed of the formant transition to the next note with the blue line between the two notes becoming correspondingly shallower or steeper Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 67 O04 Other tools Melodyne File Definition View Navigation MIDI Window Help Undo Changing Formant
220. rocess during normal playback activate this option If you are working with arrangements with very many tracks or many plug in effects and you have very little processing capacity left do not activate this option Consider Original Scale Notes on Scale Snap When converting melody notes to a different key Melodyne distinguishes between notes found in the original scale and notes foreign to it Notes that were not part of the original scale are not forced to snap to the degrees of the new scale and can when moved take any semitone positions By preserving such notes the character of the melody Is retained This is most noticeable when melodies are dragged from the Melody Manager into the Editor with the Scale Snap function active The described behavior also affects changing the key of selected notes when Scale Snap is active If you wish to force all the notes of an imported melody to snap to scale notes clear the Consider Original Scale Notes on Scale Snap checkbox Make Group on Trill or Slide Separation When this option is activated compound notes are formed automatically from the separated notes that were generated with the Separate as Trill or Separate as Slide commands this makes them easier to work with See also 05 O2 Compound Notes Double click in Melody Manager opens File in MDD Editor This option is useful when you are perfecting your Melodyne sample library It streamlines the process of sifting t
221. rrect Detection mode In Correct Detection mode the mouse pointer is again context sensitive when you move it to the center of a blob it becomes the Pitch Correction tool though the effect of dragging a note here to a new location Is not to alter its pitch as would be the case in the normal Editor but to trigger a fresh search at the new position it s a hint in other words the equivalent of saying try looking here If Melodyne is successful the pitch curve will be redrawn to take account of the newly detected note If however the redrawn pitch curve seems implausible by double clicking the blob you can trigger a fresh search at the designated location In Correct Detection mode the blobs do not necessarily move by an integral number of semitones and the results of your editing are stored in the mdd file that accompanies the audio file so your corrections are never lost when the audio file is next loaded notes will be displayed at their corrected locations When you move the pointer to a position above or below or to the beginning or Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 89 O5 Other editing functions and options end of a note it changes to the Note Separation tool which you can use to split or move the boundaries between notes as in the ordinary Editor The difference between this and altering the note separations in the normal editor is that here the new separations go into the definition of the melody and
222. s computer displayed on the status page of Melodyne serial number YOO HOO HOOK the activation assistant ae MSL the voice 1 V 1 x XXXX XXXX XXXX Double clicking the entry for an activated sound bank has two possible effects if Melodyne does not yet know where the sound bank is stored a file select box opens which you can use to localize the sound bank if Melodyne already knows where the sound bank is stored double clicking opens the Melody Manager window from which you can access the sound bank s samples 20 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 01 09 Deactivation 01 08 Activating a Liquid sound bank from Ueberschall The activation assistant is also used to activate the sound banks of the Liquid series from Ueberschall The activation in this case has nothing to do with myCelemony but is handled by Ueberschall itself To activate your Liquid sound bank please proceed as follows From the Window menu select License to open the activation assistant You will see the status page confirming that Melodyne has been successfully activated Click the Activate Sound Bank button From the page that appears you can choose whether you wish to activate an MSL or a Liquid sound bank Select the option for Liquid and click Continue The Liquid activation page appears click the Add button to select and register a Liquid sound bank copy the challenge code displayed click the Web Page button to acce
223. s is useful for example when you have copied and pasted a vocal line but not the intake of breath that preceded it but decide after all that you d like the intake of breath to be heard prior to the pasted line as well In such cases you just drag to the left the segment boundary at the start of the pasted line until the intake of breath becomes visible and therefore audible Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 61 O04 Other tools O04 Other tools In the preceding chapters we encountered Melodyne s Main tool the aspect of which you will remember depends upon its position relative to the nearest blob Positioned in the middle of a note it becomes the Edit Pitch tool positioned at the beginning or end it becomes the Edit Time tool positioned above or beneath a blob or else above the note separator between blobs it becomes the Note Separation tool With this multi function tool alone you have what is obviously a very powerful set of editing options but these are by no means all that Melodyne has to offer In this chapter we will be looking at the other tools which offer additional ways of editing audio data These are also accessed by right clicking or Ctrl clicking on the Mac 04 01 Tools for editing pitch The first tool in the series should have a familiar enough look to it it s the Edit Pitch tool we met earlier There however it was a context sensitive form of the Main tool it appeared as you moved the arrow over the
224. s only available when you are saving MIDI data from a single usually long track In the next line you can stipulate whether the active tracks of the arrangement should be saved to a single file or whether each track should be assigned to a separate file Depending upon your selection either a single multichannel MIDI file or a separate MIDI file for each track will be created It is possible to set the Velocity Scaling Pitch Bend and Envelope curves independently for each track if you wish this data to be saved along with the other MIDI messages select As Specified in Tracks The Channels radio buttons allow you to elect either to save all the active channels in a single MIDI file to which you will be invited to supply a name in the normal way or as so many individual files in which case the name you enter will be assigned to the folder in which the files are stored and the files themselves will take their names from the tracks from which they are derived Finally using the check boxes at the bottom of the dialog select the tracks from which you wish to save MIDI data and exit with Save As By default all active unmuted tracks are selected but you are free to vary this selection 108 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 05 07 Saving audio 05 07 Saving audio Usually you will want to save your entire arrangement which may be derived many different audio files these needless to say will remain untouched since Melodyne edits
225. sed for selecting the output channels If you select Main the signal will be routed to the output channels of the Master Section If you select one of the numerical values it will be routed to the selected channel s of your audio hardware If you have created any group tracks by selecting Configure Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 135 O6 Working with multiple tracks gt Group Tracks gt Add Group Track using the cascading list at the top of the Master section these too will be listed as alternative targets for the output of the channel in question From the bottommost list box you can select whether the track should be processed in mono or stereo If the audio file is in stereo Stereo will be selected here by default though you can always switch to mono if you prefer The setting of this switch affects the choice of available insert effects if you wish to use a stereo insert effect in a track with a mono source you must first select Stereo from this list box The pan pot which is only active if a stereo output has been selected sits just above the fader with the current value is displayed to the right of it The channel fader is located to the right of the meter the current value being displayed above the slider The three switches marked S M and R beneath the channel fader and level display are the Solo Mute and Record buttons the functions of which are identical to those of the equivalen
226. self or to be more precise its MDD file Melodyne provides the MDD Editor to which a separate chapter is devoted As well as being able to influence manually the otherwise automatic process of analysis correct detection errors in the Correction mode offered by the normal editor and edit and perfect an audio file using the more powerful functions of the MDD editor which is independent of the current arrangement you can select for each separate segment whether or not Melodyne s Local Sound Synthesis should control the playback of the audio material and if so whether the algorithm for melodic material or that for polyphonic and percussive material should be employed of which more later The introduction over we would like to go into each of these areas in greater detail beginning with the detection parameters Detection parameters Melodyne 3 adapts automatically to the material at hand there is generally no need to modify any of the defaults simply load the file and Melodyne itself will decide whether it is melodic or polyphonic percussive and act accordingly It may be however that in certain situations for example when batch processing multiple recordings by the same singer more consistent results can be obtained through the use of detection templates which you can create save and reload for subsequent use This involves overriding the default Auto detect and entering storing and reloading new parameters 84 Melodyne
227. so will only cause confusion Instead click the link on the Customer Profile page that takes you to the Log In page and then log in using your existing user name and password Your new Melodyne will then be registered to your existing myCelemony account As soon as the data has been transferred to the myCelemony server and processed myCelemony will offer you the activation file to download Clicking the link will commence the download Where exactly the downloaded file is stored on your computer depends upon your browser settings Please check these if you cannot find the file after downloading it Take this file to your music computer and launch Melodyne When the activation assistant appears simply drag n drop the activation file into its window You will be asked again for the administrator password of your computer whereupon the assistant s status Melodyne serial number _ XXXX XXXX WXXX page will appear to confirm that Activated Soundbanks the activation has been successful Melodyne is activated on this computer Once you see this page you know the process of activation has been concluded You can now close the assistant and work with Melodyne without restriction 01 05 Temporary Activation If you cannot decide right away which form of activation to use Melodyne allows you time to think about it after the first installation you can use the software for ten days after entering the serial number which makes it
228. some other note as the main compound note you need first to select it individually which is not easily done if Use Compound Notes is checked since selecting any one of the notes of which a compound note is composed will select the entire group There are two ways to get round this either by rubber banding the note you wish to designate as the compound main note or by unchecking Use Compound Notes and then selecting it in the normal way The command Show Compound Main Note limits the selection to the main note of a compound note With certain tools because they are concerned with the definition of individual notes it would make no sense for all the constituents of a compound note to be selected automatically whenever the compound note was selected so compound mode is temporarily disabled when such tools which include the tools for note separation and pitch definition are active When editing pitch in the Editor on the other hand compound mode remains active 05 03 The Analysis of audio by Melodyne As we said at the outset for Melodyne to be able to render audio malleable and offer such powerful editing functions it must first analyze and interpret the file loaded or recorded This process which is called detection is usually carried out automatically and results in the creation of a file containing the results of the analysis and having the same filename as the original but with an additional suffix mdd Detection is a
229. ss the Ueberschall web site From there navi gate to the User Area and click the link for the activation of a Liquid sound bank enter your challenge code to obtain the response code for your computer copy the response code into the corresponding field on the assistant page displayed above The activation is now complete and you can close the assistant Double clicking the entry for an activated sound bank has two possible effects if Melodyne does not yet know where the sound bank is stored a file select box opens which you can use to localize the sound bank if Melodyne already knows where the sound bank is stored double clicking opens the Melody Manager window from which you can access the sound bank s samples 01 09 Deactivation If you are selling your computer or no longer wish to use it for making music you should deactivate Melodyne Obviously this is only possible if Melodyne has been activated on the computer not if you are using an iLok to activate It Once you have deactivated Melodyne your myCelemony account can be credited with a new activation Deactivation is performed using the activation assistant Please note that you will not be able to launch Melodyne again after the deactivation You can however get started again with a deactivated computer by activating Melodyne a second time on it This assumes that another activation is available on your myCelemony account Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 21 01
230. sume playback of the entire audio file as well as Alt Space if only part of the file has been selected to play back that part only It is also possible to step through the audio recording on the selected track or of the Editor in either direction hopping from blob to blob as though they were stepping stones using the left and right arrows lt and gt of your computer keyboard auditioning i e listening to each blob as it is selected In the Transport panel in O Transport Bar addition to the Start Stop Ef Cycl 0001 01 01 000 4 120 0 p 9 Be in 0001 0 1 01 000 4 C Autostretch Fast Forward and Rewind buttons you will see a Record button you can record directly with Melodyne and a Cycle button which when depressed causes Melodyne to loop between the left and right locators like a conventional sequencer When depressed i e in their down position the transport buttons are gray when released white a i mie 7 OB Gen You can position the left and right cycle locators by clicking and dragging in the lower darker gray deck of the Bar Time ruler either click at the start of the desired loop and drag the mouse to the right to mark the end or click at the end of the desired loop and drag the mouse pointer to the right to mark the beginning Melodyne s Bar Time ruler showing the left and right locators and the cursor If no blobs are selected double clicking anywhere in the lower de
231. t for example wish to route the output of the group comprising the three backing vocalists to a higher group that included the lead vocals or unite the components of the drum set in one group the other percussion instruments in a second group and then create a third group uniting both drums and percussion By default newly created group tracks are stereo if you wish to use them mono select Mono from the list box above the Pan pot Instrument tracks which are created and deleted in the same way serve as containers for VST or Audio Unit Mac only instruments These are played by audio tracks using Melodyne s Audio to MIDI function as described in 05 05 MIDI Out Options The final command in the Configure drop down is Show EQ Graph This displays the combined effect of all the equalizer bands in the channel the EQ parameters of which were last modified i e the frequency response of the EQ section as a whole By selecting a point and dragging it vertically or horizontally you can set the Gain and Frequency parameters of the selected band The Q factor however can only be controlled using the rotary control in the channel strip O OO EQ Track 1 The EQ Graph 138 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 07 01 Melodyne Bridge 07 Integration and global functions 07 01 Melodyne Bridge The Melodyne Bridge is a small effect plug in that establishes a link to Melodyne The Melodyne Bridge enables another application to int
232. t buttons in the Track list clicking the Solo button in a channel for example mutes all the other channels whilst Shift clicking it mutes all the other channels except those already soloed f the Record button in the Transport bar is selected you can punch in and out on the fly by clicking the Record buttons of the desired channels during playback At the bottom of each channel strip there is an edit box displaying the name of the track assigned to the channel Changing the name here produces a corresponding change in the name displayed in the Arrange window and vice versa The Master Section To the right of the channel strips you will see the Master Section where the level of the Main L R output the auxiliary effects to be used and various other global settings are determined To the right of the channel faders you will see the meters and faders of the Master L R output If at any stage in the playback the output level of either the left or right channel goes above O dB this fact is indicated by the presence of a red rectangle at the top of the meter of the offending channel this rectangle remains visible until either the playback stops or you click the meter 136 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual O6 0O7 The Mixer If the Sync Faders box at the bottom of the Master Section is cleared you can move the left and right master faders independently otherwise they are yoked together f the Rec Monitor box is
233. ta had to enter in order to open an account at myCelemony Your data is treated as confidential and is not passed on to any third party It is used by Celemony for the management of your myCelemony account as well as making it possible for us to send you if you wish an e mail newsletter that takes your nationality into account What data is transferred to my myCelemony server in the course of activation The data exchanged is the same regardless of whether you opt for online or offline activation The following data is transferred to the myCelemony server in the Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 23 01 Installation and activation course of activation the edition of Melodyne to which the activation relates i e essential uno plugin cre8 or studio the version number of the software so that the server can keep you informed about updates an automatically generated computer serial number which serves as a fingerprint to identify your computer formerly known as a User ID depending upon the equipment of the computer there could be several of these the name of your computer this is displayed by myCelemony to make it easier for you to keep track The files described above are transferred automatically in the case of online registration In the case of offline activation this is included in the request file to be uploaded to the myCelemony web page This is a simple HTML file the contents of which can be i
234. take Pro Tools defines at least one region encompassing the entire sound file The order in which the regions that comprise each track are played back is determined by a playlist When a region is created it is given an Original Time Stamp and a User Time Stamp which are initially identical and reflect the SMPTE time at which the audio was recorded The User Time Stamp can later be redefined with the Time Stamp Selected command in the Regions List pop up menu If you open a time stamped region in Melodyne while it is linked to Pro Tools via ReWire the data will be placed in exactly the same ruler position in Melodyne as in the host application Once the file has been saved it can therefore be reinserted with sample accuracy into the host application at exactly the right place How to use Spot to Pro Tools when you are running Melodyne as a ReWire client with Pro Tools In Pro Tools select the audio file or region that you wish to edit using Melodyne Choose Export Region Definitions from the Audio Regions List pop up menu or in the case of audio files Time Stamp Selected from the Audio menu Now open Melodyne as the first insert effect on the track the program should launch automatically If no ReWire channel is selected please select one This should happen automatically in the case of stereo files but has to be done manually when working with mono files Inside Melodyne select Open from the File menu and navigate to the
235. th hardware accessed via Core Audio and therefore only on the Mac and also not with all types of driver you just have to try it out to discover whether or not it works with a concrete configuration You can switch this feature on and off on the audio page of the preferences dialog when Melodyne is operated with the Bridge the option is named Use Audio Hardware for Non Synchronous Playback The Melodyne Bridge plug in reports by means of lines of text in the bottom left hand corner whether or not a connection with Melodyne is active as well as its current status Transfer and Playback modes are displayed in a graphic of the Signal flow In the rectangular field on the right the name of the Melodyne arrangement being used for the editing is displayed at the top If you have saved the arrangement and later open the song in the host you can open the Melodyne arrangement in Melodyne using the drop down menu next to the arrangement name and should it also be necessary launch Melodyne or else localize the arrangement on your hard disk Working with the Melodyne Bridge Start your audio sequencer e g Cubase SX and load a file containing a vocal track In the signal path of this track load the Melodyne Bridge as the first insert effect If Melodyne is not already running it should launch automatically and create an empty arrangement It is advisable to save this arrangement at once in the project folder of your Cubase song for example Now ret
236. that which is indicated by the notation If the notation does not correspond to the material you can drag the little frames to 168 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 08 07 The Define Pitch Assignment tool their correct positions This can be done either by dragging the notes in the staff at the top or by dragging the outlines in the display beneath They will then sound different from a rhythmic point of view If you then select another tool the temporary quantization will be nullified since we are in Definition mode and nothing in the recording itself is being changed we are only editing the detection Note that in the Quantization menu to the right of the Bar Time ruler you decide what is the smallest note unit by which you can move the note assignment If a note was set by its automatic assignment on a beat the unit of which is smaller than that set in the quantization menu when it is moved it will initially be moved to the nearest defined unit The Quantization menu also determines how finely the beats are assigned in general The option that permits you to set triplet values here is important If for example some notes are understood or noted as triplets select these notes and double click with this tool or else select Edit gt Define Tempo gt Reassign Notes to Beats 08 07 The Define Pitch Assignment tool If the pitch of a note does not lie clearly enough on a degree of the scale its assignment to a semitone can be fixed using
237. the next begins If the Arrow tool is selected in Melodyne s Editor or Always Show Note Separations is checked in the View menu this information is displayed in the form of thin vertical lines You may have noticed when you were editing the pitch of notes that the appearance of the Main tool an arrow in most areas of the screen changes as it approaches and passes over a blob in the center of a note it takes the form of the Edit Pitch tool whereas when you move it to the beginning or end of a note it changes shape again to become the Edit Time tool By clicking with this tool at the beginning of a note and dragging the pointer to the right or left you can move the beginning of that note with the result that as the note is lengthened the one that precedes it is shortened and by the same amount One use for this type of function obviously is tidying up the timing of sloppy performances hesitation attributable to memory lapses or defective technique can be removed from recordings simply by lengthening or shortening notes as appropriate Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 49 O3 Loading and editing audio The thin vertical lines indicate the boundaries between notes We move the beginning of a note to the left Or to the right the lengths of the two notes are complementary shorten the one and you lengthen the other Being able to stretch and squeeze notes at will has creative implications as well you can ma
238. tion if alter pitch if the Alt alter length if the Alt key the Alt key is held key is held in steps of is held without snapping without snapping a cent instead of a semitone Above below a note create a note separation where none exists otherwise delete double click or move one If the Alt key is held segments can be created or reunited the latter presupposes of course that they once belonged together Pitch tool At the beginning or middle or a note At the end of a note control double click quantize pitch to the nearest the pitch transition to the Suitable semitone blue frame next note Double click transistion on or off Sub tools for pitch modulation i e vibrato or drift These tools are not context sensitive double clicking on a note removes the vibrato or drift altogether or restores it Formant tool At the beginning or middle of a note alter At the end of a note control formants bear in mind that this is only formant transition to the possible if the melodic playback algorithm next note has been selected Double click restore formant beams to their original positions 32 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual Overview tools Amplitude tool At the beginning and middle of a note alter At the end of a note control amplitude Double click mute or else unmute amplitude transition to next notes toggle note Time tool At the beginning or middle of a note a
239. tion sampling rates of 22 05 44 1 48 88 2 or 96 kHz Melodyne cre8 and 192 kHz Melodyne studio mono or stereo Melodyne offers two main windows the Arrange window in which the tracks are displayed in a manner similar to that of an audio sequencer and the Editor which opens automatically when you load a single audio file and which is reserved for the functions that make Melodyne unique To open the Arrange window pull down the Window menu and select Show Arrangement Whenever incidentally you have to make a sequence of selections whether from menus or dialog boxes for brevity we will write the names of the items to be selected in italics linking successive items with the symbol gt The procedure for opening the Editor for example is Window gt Show Editor This is how audio is displayed in Melodyne Note that all audio editing in Melodyne is performed in real time and non destructively The standard file type when saving is an arrangement as is the case with most sequencers the suffix being mar When you are editing a single audio file as if working with a sample editor and want to save the edited version as a new audio file select Save Audio from the File menu If you are still working on an audio file but want to save it with a view to opening it again later to continue work you can of course save the individual file initially as an arrangement and only later export it For more inform
240. to Melodic Mode remedies the error This and the similar commands Reset Detection to Polyphonic Mode and Reset Detection to Percussive Mode allow you to determine manually how Melodyne interprets the material and influence the playback algorithm the blob and note display the type of note separation and the pitch connections between the notes The command Redetect Audio File triggers a fresh analysis of the material based on the current parameters if you wish to modify these beforehand the command Select Detection Parameter Set opens the Detection page of the Preferences dialog so that you can make the necessary changes These commands too are also available from the Definition menu To leave Correct Detection mode either uncheck the menu item Definition gt Correct Detection or select any tool from the Toolbar NB When you correct the note separations in Correct Detection mode your corrections are stored in the mdd analysis file and will therefore be displayed and acted upon when the audio file is next loaded Secondly you can only edit note separations in Correct Detection mode if the audio file is undamaged in the sense that no copy and paste operations have been performed on it and no new segments created The Definition menu The Definition menu brings together those functions relating to editing the mdd files of audio files You can use this menu for example to activate Correction Melodyne cre8 studio user manual
241. to O Period values greater than 2 or greater than 1 where formant correction is applied lead to unnatural results and are only useful for the creation of special effects If only the tempo of the recording has been altered and the Period parameter has been modified the setting of the Formant Correction slider is ignored 05 05 Defining the Tone Scale and Tuning In Melodyne you can work with any scale or tuning you like The scale defines which tonal positions of a scale can be used The tuning defines the exact pitch that the different tonal positions have relative to each other It also defines the tuning pitch of the key note Scales are used by Melodyne to define to which tonal snap to positions notes can be moved by the pitch change tool in the Editor Window when Scale Snap is activated Tuning is used by Melodyne to define the exact pitch of the individual tonal positions if the intonation of notes is to be corrected Scale and tuning are always defined for an entire arrangement The panel to define and edit the scale can be opened from the menu Windows gt Tone Scale Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 99 O5 Other editing functions and options Tone Scale Major i 494 here will be sufficient The tone scale panel always first appears in the form in which it is displayed in the picture to the left For most applications the editing functions that are at your disposal To the left you wil
242. to be aware above all of the following points 24 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 01 12 Choice of audio drivers once you have opted for iLok activation you can no longer request any computer specific activations from myCelemony Your iLok in other words becomes the exclusive key affording you access to Melodyne Celemony can accept no liability in the case of loss or damage for a license that has been transferred to an iLok Please make sure that your iLok is suitably insured You will find information about this too at www ilok com If you have any further questions concerning activation please consult our FAQ at www celemony com which you can also access from inside the program using the Help menu If you have any problems with the activation consult our support at registration celemony com Please contact us if you purchased your Melodyne second hand so that we can change the registration for you 01 12 Choice of audio drivers Under Mac OS X Melodyne automatically uses the Core Audio drivers and the integrated audio hardware of the Mac If you have connected other audio hardware to the computer you can select it using the Preferences dialog Under Windows a small window appears from which you can select a driver The default is DirectX since this audio interface is present in most PCs DirectX drivers however are seldom optimised for delay free audio playback If you have other audio hardware available that is equ
243. to generate pitch bend data Not only the pitch but also the amplitude of the original melody can be used to modulate parameters such as the corner frequency of filters as well obviously as the volume itself the result being a far more vibrant and realistic performance To take advantage of this option check the Envelope box and select from the edit box below the number of the MIDI controller you wish to be governed by the amplitude the default is Controller 11 Expression Pedal but you can select Controller 7 Volume or indeed any other controller you like if you wish the amplitude of the audio to govern the timbre of the sound generated by the MIDI instrument rather than simply its volume The rectangular box to the right of the Envelope checkbox operates in the same way as the Velocity box described a few paragraphs back to alter the shape of the curve click within the box and drag the pointer upwards or downwards and click and drag the upper and lower extent of the rectangle to define the range Note that if both key velocity and Controller 7 are being used to control the volume of the receiving instrument quiet notes are in danger of becoming inaudible unless either the velocity curve is programmed to ensure that only values at or near the top of the available range are sent or the Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 105 O5 Other editing functions and options receiving instrument is programmed in such a way that velocity data Is divert
244. tretch Su G tick Tt gt e haa ay am eea r P i one Zoom Buttons Increase decrease the vertical y axis and horizontal x axis resolution of the display p et f a we it 7 eee dian ma m A i ae al A di hi I 5st E E i i D G II i i YW I mat i ml ij SOCR Zoom Scroll Bars With the scroll bars you can zoom and move forwards or backwards in time Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 27 01 What is Melodyne Time Ruler Editor Display The time in bars and The Edit pane of a beats or seconds Melodyne uno window plotting Locator Time x axis against left Pitch y axis The Tools Melodyne s tool box Notation The Stave icon toggles the Notation display on and off Blob With monophonic audio material Melodyne is capable of identifying and displaying the individual notes constituting the melody for the pitch refer to the left hand margin Note Ruler When Scale Snap mode is activated click on the tonic to identify the tonality and the Shift key to toggle between major and minor modes Note w lt gt eS i Pitch Snap The menu for enabling and disabling the Pitch Snap function 28 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual Overview Editor Play mode Track select Plays selected select from the list box which tracks visible or the to display in the Editor whole Arrangement
245. u conduct a file based import the contents of the file are ignored Melodyne simply drops the beginning of the file down in the place indicated like a conventional sequencer even if the file begins with 20 bars of silence If however Melodyne has already analyzed in the jargon detected the file and therefore knows its tempo and time signature and where in the bar each note falls it is capable of performing a note based import adjusting the tempo of the file to that of the arrangement even if the latter is irregular and positioning the notes intelligently When you drag an audio file over one of Melodyne s windows a transparent rectangle appears indicating where the file would be placed if you were to release the mouse button at that moment In the top left hand corner of the rectangle are two lines of text that indicate whether or not the original tempo and pitch will be retained or whether they will be adjusted to those of the arrangement If an audio file has not yet been detected by Melodyne the insert point invariably coincides with the start of the file the precise insert point of course depends upon whether or not quantization is active and if so the quantization factor this is displayed to the right of the Bar Time ruler at the top of the Arrangement window If an audio file has already been detected by Melodyne you can determine using the Autostretch option whether the position and tempo of the file should be
246. u will observe the effects at once grid lines appear at the intervals you have specified and the beginnings and ends of all selected notes adjust accordingly In addition it is also possible to synchro quantize tracks by selecting from the list box on the right of the panel the track you wish to serve as a model Experiment awhile with the quantization functions as the musical implications of the various options are more easily understood by listening Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 57 O3 Loading and editing audio If you have ever used a MIDI sequencer you will doubtless have done much the same thing with MIDI data but here there is one important difference Melodyne quantizes intelligently not mechanically so you are not obliged to set the quantization factor to the smallest note value of the piece the fact that you have set the quantization factor to 1 4 T does not mean that smaller note values will automatically be rounded up and that all note beginnings and endings will snap to the nearest grid line or move whatever percentage of the way is stipulated by the Quantize Timing slider instead Melodyne tries to interpret the underlying rhythm and rhythmic emphasis this is something far more sophisticated and tolerant of musical expression than the Procrustean bed inflicted on it by conventional quantization algorithms 03 11 Creative re quantization an example Melodyne s Quantize Time functions are further proof of the musical i
247. ual 03 01 Analysis and note blobs O3 Loading and editing audio the Main tool and Macros We would now like to show you the basic functions of Melodyne so you need at this point to load an audio file please use the file vocal wav which you will find in the Audio Files sub folder of the Manual folder You can of course choose some other file if you prefer but make sure it is one with a single melodic line such as an unaccompanied solo on a monophonic instrument such as a saxophone or flute or something of that nature as it is upon this type of material that Melodyne s editing functions can most usefully be demonstrated k Melodyne H l Edit Definition View Navigation MIDI Window Help New Arrangement Open Recent Melody Manager Import Audio File insert Empty Tracks Rerun arr a vac Open an audio file with Open or Import Audio File Save Arrangement Save Arrangement As Save Audio Save Audio to MIDI Close Arrangement 03 01 Analysis and note blobs Once you have selected a file from the Open dialog and clicked OK Melodyne will open and analyze the file This analysis is a background process that is essential to the unique editing functions offered by Melodyne loading a small file into a fast computer you may scarcely be aware that it is taking place but if the Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 39 O3 Loading and editing audio necessary processing requires more time
248. ually and save the file You can find more information concerning Melodyne and ReWire current compatibility lists and configuration tips at http Awww celemony com support 07 03 Synchronization via MIDI Clock and MTC Melodyne can be synchronized with other programs via MIDI using either MIDI Clock or MIDI Time Code Melodyne can also transmit these synchronization codes and act as the master Melodyne is also capable of adjusting to variable tempos in real time but if you wish to take advantage of this capability it generally makes sense to use MIDI Clock as MIDI Clock unlike MIDI Time Code Is based on musical beats Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 147 O7 Integration and global functions To employ synchronization first select which MIDI ports should be used to send or receive the signals and whether the MIDI Time Code or the MIDI Clock protocol should be used using the list boxes provided on the MIDI Ports page of the Preferences dialog which you can open either in the normal way Preferences gt MIDI Ports or by selecting Open Port Settings from the Sync drop down list in the Transport Bar When you have finished in the Preferences dialog return to the Sync list box in the Transport Bar and select Send MIDI Sync or Receive MIDI Sync as appropriate Melodyne File Edit Definition UGUA Navigation MIDI Window Help y Autoscrolling XEF v Always Show Pitch Curve Y C Always Show Note Separations X E
249. ucing dropouts in the audio stream High values on the other hand can impose heavy storage demands In most cases 5 or 10 seconds will be a good setting for this parameter Preferences o0 File Format AIFF H Resolution 16 bit linear PCM E Recording Kaa FOIE TO ARI AORE The Recording page of the Users Audio Preferences dialog is concerned with the preferred audio file format for recording Loaded and edited files are always saved in Melodyne in their original format With these parameters you choose the format of files recorded or created in Melodyne File Format Here you have the choice between the same formats as those that Melodyne can also load AIFF WAV SND and Sound Designer II this last on the Mac only Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 155 O7 Integration and global functions Resolution The wordlength of the audio file in bits 8 16 or 24 bits in Melodyne studio if desired 32 bits is also possible In the lowest line after clicking the Set button you can select a folder for recordings that are created in an arrangement that has not yet been saved As soon as you save the arrangement the recorded files are moved from this folder to a newly created folder that has the same name as the arrangement and Is stored in the same place Appearance The Appearance page brings together a Style Classie A Se number of options concerning the appearance suk and behavior of Melodyne
250. unt of vibrato applied to the selected note or notes The amplitude of the vibrato applied to this note for example 64 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 04 01 Tools for editing pitch can be reduced to i nothing with a simple drag E of the mouse If you carry on dragging in a downward direction you can even phase reverse the vibrato To increase the amplitude of the vibrato of a selection click on any note within it and drag the pointer upwards The Pitch Modulation tool provides an interesting way of modifying one crucial aspect of the musical expression of a performance not only can you tone down the vibrato throughout the entire track or wherever it descends into a tasteless warble but you can also add it in areas where a performance perhaps lacks lustre or seems thin Double clicking a note using the Pitch Modulation tool toggles between the original vibrato and no vibrato You can read the existing vibrato intensity from the box next to the tool bar or enter a new value if you wish The second tool down is the Pitch Drift tool Pitch drift you will remember is the term reserved for divagations in pitch other than vibrato the difference being primarily that vibrato is faster The Pitch Drift tool works like the same parameter in the Correct Pitch panel with the added possibility of increasing or reversing the pitch drift This makes it a more powerful tool for redrawing the pitch envelope
251. urn to the Melodyne Bridge in Cubase The Bridge will now display the names of the tracks of the Melodyne arrangement in the Connect To drop down menu Connect to Select Track 1 from the drop down menu Now the vocal track on CH 1 in Cubase the channel in which the Melodyne Bridge is loaded as an insert is linked with Track 1 in Melodyne Place the playback cursor in Cubase at the bar from which you wish to begin transferring the vocals to Melodyne Activate if necessary Transfer mode using the switch in the signal flow graphic Start playback in Cubase allow 2 bars to elapse and stop playback Note the way the mode switches automatically from Transfer to Playback In Melodyne the audio material that has been transferred is now detected automatically and displayed on Track 1 Track 1 _ A 142 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 07 01 Melodyne Bridge Return to Cubase and create a loop encompassing the region that has been transferred but including also material that has not Commence playback in Cubase Now return to Melodyne and open Track 1 in the Editor Move a few notes around in the usual way varying their pitch or position In this way you can edit your material in real time with the signal all the time transmitted to the mixer of your host application Tip for the creation of choirs for example it can make sense to route several tracks from Melodyne on one Bridge so as to bounce the material mixed in Melodyne d
252. urse if the rhythm of the material you are working with is of no consequence if it s speech for example you should uncheck the Autostretch box in the Transport bar prior to pasting as there is no need in such cases for Melodyne to do anything clever A simple copy and paste will suffice Pasting notes You can paste notes to any part of the arrangement where there is sufficient room where in other words there is a rest of sufficient length in the score If therefore the desired insert point falls in the middle of an unbroken sequence of notes before you can perform the paste you have to split the sequence of notes in two at the desired insert point and move everything that follows to the right Suppose for example you wish to insert a new line four bars in length that begins on the fourth beat of the bar Set the quantization factor to Bar and select the first of the notes following the desired insert point followed by Edit gt Select gt Select 126 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 06 04 Arranging by copying and pasting following notes and drag the entire selection four bars to the right using the Move Notes tool Now you have room to insert a new line The statement above that the rest must be of sufficient length to accommodate the material to be inserted needs to be qualified in one respect if the last of the inserted notes overruns the start of the following material that s no problem Melodyne simply tru
253. useful to introduce random but slight variations in pitch and timing to suggest two different performances rather than two copies of the same one this can be done using Edit gt Edit Pitch gt Add Random Offset to Pitch Center and or Edit gt Edit Notes Time gt Add Random Offset to Time Course from the Edit menu If the purpose of making the copy is two generate two part harmonies from a single part a faster way of doing this is to begin by selecting the notes in the Editor and dragging them up a third say whilst holding the Shift and Alt keys as Melodyne then copies them to a new track as well as introducing the desired discrepancies without waiting to be asked Further editing of course will be necessary to obtain a musically satisfying second part but a copy with random offsets represents a promising start The second of the two commands Cut and Paste Selection to Parallel Track is useful in cases where you wish to add separate processing to elements within a track you could select all the kick drum notes from a drum loop for example and move them to a different track with this in mind Incidentally both of these actions can be performed in the Arrangement window without recourse to the Edit gt Paste Special submenu simply by selecting the notes and dragging them to a new track If you hold down the Shift and Alt keys as you do so it is equivalent to Copy and Paste Selection to a Parallel Track Otherwise the effect is the same as
254. with the imported file now displayed on the next free track Incidentally any time you wish to open the arrangement window from the editor either select Window gt Show Arrangement or use the shortcut Command Shift IAl 03 02 Editing pitch Move the mouse pointer in the Editor to the center of one of the blobs You will notice that the appearance of the pointer changes as it transforms into the Edit Pitch tool click on a blob and drag it to the rectangle above when you release the mouse button you will find that you have raised the pitch of the note one semitone as effortlessly as if the note were MIDI and you were using a Sequencer Using this drag n drop method you can transpose notes upwards or downwards by any number of semitones Melodyne s scrub mode is activated as you are moving the note which means that if you move the tool to the right or left as you 40 Melodyne cre8 studio user manual 03 02 Editing pitch In the left hand margin you can see the names of the notes are dragging a note you can hear the waveform at the points through which it passes If you find this distracting select Fdit gt Preferences gt Other and uncheck Monitor Note Pitch on Editing You aren t of course obliged to move notes one at a time you can select an entire phrase and transpose it upwards or downwards in the same way by rubber banding multiple notes or holding the Shift key as you select them When you then move one
255. word in the second line so you select the word she s OK it s two words in the first line copy select he s in the second followed by Edit gt Paste Special gt Replace Keeping Target Pitches and the he s will be replaced by she s in both lines but the pitches will be different This is useful too for instrumental parts where the note 128 Melodyne cre amp studio user manual 06 04 Arranging by copying and pasting you have played is fine but the tone color leaves something to be desired when you re playing tirando on the guitar for example and the string gets caught under the nail making a thunk sound even though the two notes may be of different pitches you can simply apply the timbre of the note before which you played well to the note you botched The last two commands in the Edit gt Paste Special submenu are self explanatory assuming you know the difference between cutting and copying which is perhaps not obvious from the words themselves Copy and Paste Selection to Parallel Track creates a new track and copies the selected notes to it without removing them from the source Cut and Paste Selection to Parallel Track does the same thing except that this time the selected notes are removed from the source The first of these commands is useful for doubling a classic technique used to give more body and vibrancy to a vocal or instrumental part Here as we said earlier it is

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