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1. 80 4 Melodyne essential user manual Updates Updates Melodyne essential is constantly being improved and further developed Make sure that you are working with the latest version of the program Clicking Check for Updates in the menu offers an easy way to do this You will find the latest version of the program in your myCelemony account www celemony com mycelemony Melodyne essential user manual 5 A Step into the World of Melodyne A Step into the World of Melodyne A warm welcome to Melodyne essential Presumably you obtained this version of Melodyne through the purchase of a hardware product We are pleased that you are interested and have taken the trouble to open this manual Let us first just explain quickly what Melodyne essential is all about Melodyne essential is not a product you can buy independently it is only available bundled with a hardware product However although Melodyne essential may not have cost you anything extra it isn t just a demo version it s a program you can really work with Melodyne essential offers you very special editing possibilities that are unmatched in terms of sound quality for your vocal tracks and other recordings of melodic and rhythmic instruments with Melodyne essential you can correct the pitch and timing of notes in audio material in a very musical and intuitive way or even fully refashion the material if you wish In other words it offers you the most essential of
2. DE essential user manual version 1 8 Celemony Software GmbH 2007 Melodyne essential user manual Version 1 8 This printed documentation refers to Melodyne essential 1 8 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 Translation Ewan Whyte Celemony Software GmbH Valleystr 25 81371 Miinchen Germany www celemony com 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 Computer Inc Windows 98 Windows ME Windows 2000 Windows XP and DirectX are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation
3. Celemony Software GmbH 2007 All rights reserved 2 Melodyne essential user manual 01 01 01 01 02 01 03 01 04 01 05 01 06 01 07 01 08 01 09 oz 03 03 01 03 02 03 03 03 04 03 05 03 06 03 07 03 08 03 09 03 10 03 11 What is Melodyne essential 2 8 Installation Activation and Getting Started 1 1 2 10 Iristallationz iiees es eoru AG KAGAT 10 Melodyne plugin at a bargain price 11 Activation and myCelemony 11 Online Or OMMMESACTIVATION c s d sad a 13 erred 13 Offline AcTIVALION samaan LANANG aerea do de cue vd tede ga 14 Temporary Activation 16 DeactiVvationiscsisce spese eurn sd e Rhe an 16 Online DEACTIVATION ss ecoute KAN ANG en ly ara a a d 16 Offline DeactiVallOn is coute NANANG ae ea 17 No Internet E 18 Background Information on Activation 19 Choice of audio drivers sa ANN Aa 21 General 25 2 te eee edu dads 22 Loading and editing audio the first Steps oeste sie ette 30 Analysis and note 10 5 30 Editing the Pite hores n aaa ANA kanaan 3l Automatic pitch correction 33 AA a s ao la AE 36 Any tempo you kE 2
4. 38 keyboard shortcuts 24 L Level display 27 M mono or a stereo file 72 N Note Separation 43 64 NOTES aa usur RR aha a ears 25 P Pitch Editing eons 31 Pitch Modulation and Pitch Drift tools 56 pitch quantization 34 playback algorithms 69 playback tempo 38 Preferences 6 9 R re quantization 49 Record button 27 Recording Folder 72 regionS 75 Resolution 72 ReWire Client 73 ReWire Host 73 s Sample Rate 70 72 SCal amp s did eave tetra wants 2b 36 SETUD mak ea eae Kua 27 31 54 segment separator 46 64 segments 69 NI PP 65 SND ewe a ate anes 72 Sound Designer Il 72 Spot to Pro Tools 75 step through 27 T Transition 55 59 61 kn saa NA 64 very slow computer 71 Volume fader 27 WwW WAN Baar 72 Z ZOOM TOON CP 28 Melodyne essential user manual 81 Index
5. even if you have Melodyne essential user manual 53 04 02 Expert tools for pitch editing unchecked the option Always Show Pitch Curve in the View menu Transition What is nice about using the expert version of the Edit Pitch tool is that you get a read out in the Inspector area to the right of the Expert toolbar 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 436 Hz instead of the 440 required by concert pitch 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 A 4 l ct 435 Hz Melotiyne essential provides a precise read out of the pitch and frequency of the selected note 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
6. zl celd access the same tools by Ctrl right clicking anywhere in the Edit window Demo only 04 01 Main tool Let s look more closely at some of these tools The one on the left the mouse pointer needs no introduction it s Melodyne uno s context sensitive Main tool which can be used for selecting objects of all kinds as well as altering the pitch length and position of notes as well as note and segment separations Main tool At the beginning of a In the middle of a note At the end of a note note alter position 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 O4 O2 Expert tools for pitch editing The next tool in the series should have a familiar enough look to it it s the Edit Pitch tool we met in section 03 02 there however it was a context sensitive avatar manifestation of the Main tool it appeared as you moved the arrow over the centre of a note and disappeared just as rapidly when you moved it away When you select it from the Expert toolbar however it stays put Whenever you select this tool incidentally the Pitch curve will appear
7. Another interesting perspective is offered by the HERA Gs Y an 32 setting 1 4 T crotchet triplets with the Quantize Timing slider moved all the way to the FEES Mov right 10096 now the rhythmic emphasis is transformed and the entire feel of the loop changes It may not be visually obvious that any transformation has occurred but the loop now has a very different groove 50 Melodyne essential user manual 03 11 Creative re quantization an example 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 2 c o 0 Q Stretch check box is cleared we don t want to 2 change the playback speed and increase the tempo from 104 to 130 BPM Now the background of the Edit window shows the loop extending over two bars of five beats each The notes naturally do not correspond with the grid 101911111 a Now open the Quantize Time dialog push the 1 4 button in the Apply Groove Reference group S lox FF box and move the Quantize Timing slider all the way to the right 100 Finally the loop really is in 5 4 time and the notes correspond with the grid lines kag Pree ee xe eben beliebter epee tl Melodyne essential user manual 51 04 Editing audio using the Expert tools Demo only In what follows the functions h
8. In Pitch Correction mode blobs do not snap to the centre of lanes and unlike the case with normal editing it is the analysis file the one with the file ending mdd rather than the audio file that is affected As a result of these revisions to the analysis file when you next load the audio file itself whatever notes you have corrected will appear at the correct pitch When you move the pointer in any direction from the centre of a blob towards its outline it changes from the Pitch Correction tool to the Note Separation tool With this tool just as in normal Edit mode you can create new note separations or move note boundaries When Melodyne essential is in correction mode the Inspector area displays various parameters to assist with correcting the results of the analysis The Note Separation tool 68 Melodyne essential user manual 05 02 Preferences The setting of the Separations slider affects where Melodyne essential inserts note separations the closer the Separations slider is to its maximum setting more the more likely it is that minor discontinuities will be interpreted as evidence that one note has ended and another begun a greater number of individual notes will therefore be detected If the Use Pitch option is cleared evidence of the existence of note breaks will be based primarily upon variations in amplitude if selected the pitch will be taken into account which option is most useful depen
9. things can nonetheless be misinterpreted Notes are sometimes placed in the wrong octave this can happen for example if as a result of filtering poor choice or positioning of microphones or some other defect in the audio chain the fundamental is absent or too weak to be detected and the first harmonic is therefore wrongly interpreted as the fundamental conversely the roughness of certain sounds can result in the fundamental being mistaken for the first harmonic The result in the former case is that Melodyne essential assigns the note to the octave above and in the latter to the octave below the correct pitch Pitch recognition errors other than the placing of notes in the wrong octave are extremely rare Notes that ought to be separate are sometimes conflated Melodic material is sometimes mistaken for percussive and vice versa though this is hardly surprising often it s a very fine line think of scat and even the human ear can be pushed to decide often where speech ends and singing begins and as to whether or not a sound has a definite pitch The significance of the distinction is this if Melodyne essential decides that a sound is percussive rather than melodic it will move the formants in the course of transposition and prevent you correcting them manually unless and until you have corrected the classification error 66 Melodyne essential user manual 5 01 Correcting the automatic note detection Fortunately M
10. 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 20 Melodyne essential user manual 01 09 Choice of audio drivers 01 09 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 equipped 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 essential user manual 21 02 General
11. 07 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 18 Melodyne essential user manual 01 08 Background Information on Activation 01 08 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 data 1 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
12. And detailed Instructions as to how to do this at myCelemony Please note Your account will not be credited with a new activation until you have uploaded the file The assistant page shown here allows you for example to drag the credit file directly to a USB flash drive which you can then take to a computer that does offer Internet access At the same time as the Export credit page appears the file is placed on the desktop of your computer It is not absolutely necessary to use the drag n drop option so don t worry if you 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 transfer the credit file to a computer that has access to the Internet double click the credit file this is a small HTLM file with a local web page that Melodyne essential user manual 17 01 07 No Internet 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
13. 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 uncheck Monitor Note Pitch on Editing in the Preferences 54 Melodyne essential user manual 04 02 Expert tools for pitch editing gt As you move the Edit Pitch tool to the end of a note its shape changes and it 5 becomes the Pitch Transitions tool o Q VVhen 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 V linking the two notes affected If this transition is deactivated aie Nag 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 Discontinuities in the Pitch Curve can be observed at the after altering the pitch of a note end of the selected 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
14. No Internet 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 to be aware above all of the following points 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
15. Since Melodyne essential allows you to modify the pitch of individual notes it must obviously know where one note ends and the next begins if you select Always Show Note Separations from 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 mouse pointer varies as it passes over different areas of each blob in the centre it assumes the aspect 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 you can move the beginning of that note with the result that as the note is shortened the one that precedes it is lengthened and by the same amount 40 Melodyne essential user manual 03 06 Editing timing 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 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 Being able to stretch and squeeze notes at will has creative imp
16. Y EPA Correct Pitch The Quantize Time button at the top right hand corner of the screen is used to access Melodyne essential s automatic timing correction functions The Quantize Time dialog opens displaying the Apply Groove Reference group in the upper pane and the Quantize Timing slider with its default setting of 8096 below Quantize Time Select Groove Reference 174 i47 f 1 8 116 ane 132 1 32T You can experiment with different settings without Quantize Intensity closing the Quantize Time 80 E ban 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 group box at the top of the Quantize Time dialog beneath the words Apply Groove Reference you will see a row of push buttons 48 Melodyne essential user manual 03 11 Creative re quantization an example As you can see the default option is None in which case Melodyne uno makes an intelligent guess based upon its prior analysis of the
17. audio hardware The smaller the value the lower the latency but there is a trade off here because the lower latency is achieved in some cases at the expense of a more sluggish response from the user interface or dropouts in the course of playback If using DirectX 2048 is a sensible size whilst 512 is recommended for all other drivers The degree of latency is also partly dependent upon the hardware and the sample rate selected the higher the sample rate the lower the latency 70 Melodyne essential user manual 05 02 Preferences Output If you are using multi channel audio hardware you can select the output pair for Melodyne essential to use when playing back files Input This setting determines the input channel of your hardware when recording If you choose to record a mono file see file format parameters below Melodyne essential records from the selected input If you choose to record a stereo file Melodyne essential records from the selected input and the next input Ignore buffer underruns If Melodyne essential is running on a very slow computer you can elect by checking this box to endure the occasion pop or crackle during playback in preference to a dropout as the lesser of two evils so to speak the point being that certain sound cards react badly to such dropouts on occasion even causing the computer to crash You should only check this box if you really are encountering problems most users will never need t
18. 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 2 c o o E 0 a 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 you 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 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 uno 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 8 T i e 12 8 time 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 uno 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 q
19. by default to show it select Preferences gt Configuration gt Enable 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 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 Melodyne essential user manual 75 05 04 The function Spot to Pro Tools 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 essential 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 essential as a ReWire client with Pro Tools In Pro Tools select the audio file or region that you wish to edit using Melodyne essential Choose Export Region Definitions from the Audio Regions List pop up menu or in the case
20. click mute or else unmute amplitude transition to next notes toggle note Melodyne essential user manual 61 04 05 Expert time editing tool o o E 0 Q 04 05 Expert time editing tool The next tool in the toolbar is the Time editing tool This works in exactly the same way as the Main tool when positioned at the beginning or end of a note JETE 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 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 The little frames represent the target positions of the notes for quantization The following experiment will help you to understand the blue frames Select the Time tool and make the notation v 1 4 visible From the Quantization drop down menu to the right 1 4 T of the Bar Time ruler select a smaller or triplet quantization factor Then select all notes and choose Edit Edit Note i 1 8T Separations 5 Reassign Notes to Beats This will cause the 1 16 blue frames to jump to new positio
21. drag the pointer to the corner diagonally opposite If you click in the centre of a blob you can drag it any number of semitones up or down Melodyne essential user manual 31 03 02 Editing the pitch Unless you were pretty ham fisted or forgot to hold down the left mouse button in which case you moved the pointer rather than dragging it you should find that all the notes within your imaginary rectangle have lost their creamy yellow tummies this means they have been selected and when you move any one of them they will all move en bloc Try it drag any one of the selected notes upwards or downwards That s how easy it is to transpose a phrase in Melodyne essential and transposing an entire file is even easier instead of rubber banding the blobs use the shortcut Command A to select all of them instantly 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 In icons in the bottom right hand corner of the screen to increase the display 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
22. in the same way Here a smoother transition has fi MINA h been achieved by irst make the selection then doubleclicking and dragging create and or edit the transition with the Pitch Transition tool between any pair and similar transitions will appear throughout the selection Melodyne essential user manual 55 04 02 Expert tools for pitch editing o o E 0 A 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 amount of vibrato applied to the selected note or notes The amplitude of the vibrato applied to this note for example can be reduced to nothing with a simple drag 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
23. note 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 Time tool At the beginning or middle of a note alter 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 Melodyne essential user manual 63 04 06 Expert tools for note and segment separation o o E 0 Q 04 06 Expert tools for note and segment separation The last pair of tools in the Expert toolbar are the Note Separation and Segment Separation tools You can use the Note Separation tool 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 disappear If you hold the Alt key and
24. of audio files Time Stamp Selected from the Audio menu Now open Melodyne essential 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 essential select Open from the File menu and navigate to the 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 essential opens a dialog window from which you can elect to edit the entire original file or a copy based only one region It is advisable to work with a copy Names are assigned automatically to copies by inserting essential 1 in front of the file extension or channel index like this Hallo aif gt Hallo essential 1 aif Hallo L aif gt Hallo essential 1 L aif If this name exists already essential 2 is used instead and so on Open Region The selected soundfile contains regions O Open original file edit destructively m Create new file by copy This is the window that appears when you open an Audio Flow F audio file containing one or more regions Start 0 2 361769 End 0 6 956508 User Time 0 6 000000 Cam C 2 16 Melodyne essential user manual 05 04 The function Spot to Pro Tools Open the file or region selected and edit it usin
25. open strings in the background Percussion instruments of all kinds drum loops and speech provide ideal material whereas as we have said recordings of more than one performer unless playing or singing in unison and finished productions unless of monophonic material are obviously unsuitable Note Melodyne essential can only edit files loaded from mediums that are capable of being written to such as hard disks please don t try to load audio files directly from a CD ROM With Melodyne essential you can open and edit audio files in the following formats WAV AIFF SND or Sound Designer Il Mac only 8 to 24 bit resolution sampling rates of 22 050 44 100 48 000 or 96 000 Hz mono or stereo By default when you save a file using Save from the File menu the original file will be overwritten this is standard behaviour for sample editing software If you wish to retain both the original and the newly edited version of the file you have two alternatives you can either assign a new name to the newly edited version using the Save As dialog or tell Melodyne essential to rename the original file and assign the original name to the newly edited version To do the latter open the Preferences dialog Menu Edit Preferences select Configuration from the list box and click the Keep original files when saving check box As long as this option is checked the original file will be renamed in the course of each save opera
26. red means that Melodyne essential s output Volume is overloaded at least one note must be too loud Pakain PB 60 Melodyne essential user manual 04 04 Expert tool for editing the amplitude 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 2 c o E 0 a As with pitch and formants you can edit the amplitude transition between notes to introduce subtle variations into the dynamics of a performance After dragging to alter the amplitude of a 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 vvay 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 c have been muted here with a double click but it is still possible to select B and edit them The Edit x Edit Amplitude cascading submenu contains the items you vvould expect commands for resetting the amplitude to the original the amplitude transitions to the default and the mute state of the selected notes Amplitude tool At the beginning and middle of a note alter At the end of a note control amplitude Double
27. 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 28 Melodyne essential user manual 02 General 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 horizontal and vertical Drag the centre of the slider to move the display window and the m Wa sides to increase or decrease the display resolution Melodyne essential user manual 29 03 Loading and editing audio the first steps 03 Loading and editing audio the first steps We would now like to show you the basic functions of Melodyne essential 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 melodyne manua
28. 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 The option Opening Files takes Tempo from ReWire host causes Melodyne essential to adopt the current tempo of the ReWire master when defining the tempo Bar Time Ruler setting of newly opened files see be ow 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 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 essential 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 essential opens a new file it 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 ente
29. tabs Note if you are using Melodyne essential with ReWire you will see the ReWire parameters on this page rather than those illustrated here and described in the following paragraphs for the differences see ReWire below Melodyne essential user manual 69 05 02 Preferences CAEN File Edit Preferences View Window Help Services gt Hide MelodyneUno 3H Hide Others XH Show All Accessing the Preferences dialog on the Mac Quit MelodyneUno Q If not using ReWire you will see 800 Preferences Device Driver CoreAudio Audio integriert Hardware page Sample Rate 44 100 kHz HJ of the Preferences dialog qo foso Samples m Output 1 2 HJ Input 1 HJ C ignore buffer underruns the following parameters Device Driver On the Mac this will usually be the Core Audio driver for the integrated hardware unless you are using optional audio hardware under Windows you should select an ASIO driver if one is available otherwise use DirectX Sample Rate This is where you select the sample rate to be used during recording and playback always assuming your audio driver offers you choice it does not have to be the same as the sample rate of the audio files you are using though you will achieve better audio quality if the two rates are the same Buffer Size This parameter determines the size of the buffer used for communicating with the
30. words instead of simply displaying the audio data in an editing window the way conventional sample editors do it actually investigates the musical significance of that data The upshot in the case of monophonic audio material is that Melodyne essential 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 between notes and much else besides to Melodyne essential a vocal track is not simply a succession of digital sampling values but real music the aspects of which it recognizes is capable of quantifying and if the word isn t too fanciful can be said to understand The unique Analyse function 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 increase the playback speed of the recording without altering the pitch or reduce it to a virtual standstill if you like lengthen individual notes to give them their correct note values or alter the tempo of entire passages refashion creatively
31. 2 21 22 9 vtto aaa a aaa aaa Da 38 Editing Im Naa AA AALALA 40 INOte SeparatOls naasa nan AA NAAN AGA 43 Lengthening and moving notes 45 The behaviour of contiguous notes and segment separators 46 Automatic timing COMECTIOMN mas AA GA daustge dae 47 Creative re quantization an example 49 Melodyne essential user manual 3 Contents Contents 04 Editing audio using the Expert tools 52 04 01 Ya s si 53 04 02 Expert tools for pitch editing 53 04 03 Expert tool for editing formants 58 04 04 Expert tool for editing the amplitude 60 04 05 Expert time editing tool acabe tette ad AA 62 04 06 Expert tools for note and segment separation 64 05 Other matters of importance 66 05 01 Correcting the automatic note detection 66 05 02 PTeferentesz aaa AA AA AAP e E ROM REOS 79 05 03 REWIND ANAN AG 73 05 04 The function Spot to Pro Tools 75 05 05 Melodyne essential and the other versions of Melodyne 78 Keyboard 5 5 79 j des
32. Master Transport Tempo Master volume control Melodyne essential s transport Key Signature and level display controls including Record Tempo Click Volume mono or stereo Enable and Cycle buttons and Stretch controls eoo Untitled mo un Volume Transport 0001 02 01 005 4 Tempo Q Click r I BELL I Time Ruler En Ch Bt ses Osee The time in bars and beats or seconds E E O cami Notation The Stave icon m 1 toggles the Notation display on and off Melody Display The Edit pane of a Melodyne essential window plotting Time x axis against Pitch y axis 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 xo l A Co C hand margin Note Ruler When Scale Snap 4 4440 mode is activated click on the tonic to identify the tonality and the Shift key to Scale Snap toggle between major When the Scale Snap push button is and minor modes selected blobs snap to the nearest degrees of the selected scale 22 Melodyne essential user manual 02 General Correction Macros Buttons to access the Correct Pitch and Quantize
33. Pro Tools With this option you can manually activate or deactivate the Spot to Pro Tools function which is described below Master tune Melodyne essential s Master tune setting Language This is where you choose the language of the user interface 05 03 ReWire Instead of running Melodyne essential in stand alone mode you can run itas a ReWire Client in conjunction with a ReWire Host You should see this message First start the ReWire host program then Melodyne essential In the ReWire Preferences which are 800 Preferences only accessible in ReWire mode you CC will find two options Fast Playback If Fast Playback Start loads audio file into RAM Opening files rakes tempo from ReWire host Start and Opening Files takes Tempo 5 k5 from ReWire host VVith the former option you can When the program is run as a ReWire client the Hardware page of the ensure that Melodyne essential Preferences dialog looks like this synchronizes with the ReWire host after a constant and considerably Melodyne essential user manual 73 05 03 ReWire 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
34. Time parameters E E m Quantization Grid Switch EE Activates or de activates yy ia the quantization grid pL n T as ayer 1 16 Quantization Grid Selector 1 16 T List box from which to select 1 32 quantization factor grid size 1 32T Seconds b Zoom Buttons lt gt lasts 7 Increase decrease the vertical y axis and horizontal x axis resolution of the displa Zoom Scroll Bars With the scroll bars you move forwards or backwards in time as well as upwards or downwards in pitch Melodyne essential user manual 23 O2 General O2 General Before we begin to examine the editing possibilities of Melodyne essential 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 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 AltT means the Alt key and Shift the Shift key on both platforms First of all to what type of audio material is Melodyne essential best suited In principle Melodyne essential is suitable for the editing of any material provided that it i
35. XoeqKe d dojs ueis 3e1P Y 1001 awl Upa u18ue uonisod ysn pe aul4 unu 0 dois SeJp 1 v 100 4211 4 uonoe es 1 1 unu 19103 fe d Sunipa UOHES AEN 79 Melodyne essential user manual Index MAA waks Phan aa 31 playback of the entire audio file 27 A AFE uz s m RU ane ean 72 analysis 38 analysis file 31 2500000 70 audio files 25 B basic functions 30 D ODS AAP 25 Buffer Size is iss s Nae a d 70 characteristic timbre 32 confusing it with the same note an octave higher or lower 32 conventional notation 26 copying of blobs 26 Core Audio 70 Correct Pitch saa makaiwas 33 Correct Pitch dialog 34 correct the pitch of all notes automatically correcting detection errors 32 66 correcting timing errors 47 Cycle button 27 D Default File Format 71 Device Driver 70 DirectX isch 70 80 Melodyne essential user manual E Edit Formant 58 Edit PIG en 40 53 edit the amplitude 61 Edit Time 40 62 Expert Tools 52 F File Format 72 fine tuning option 33 formants WAW sen 32 1 Ignore buffer underruns 71 input z s s 71 nspector area 54 K key signature and tempo parameters
36. ansitions What this does is to introduce a portamento the intensity of which you can control between adjacent notes 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 F These tools are not context sensitive double clicking on a note removes the vibrato or drift altogether or restores it In the Edit 5 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 Melodyne essential user manual 57 m o o 2 0 Q 04 03 Expert tool for editing formants o o E 0 Q 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 5 Edit Pitch 5 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 ne
37. ave 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 Melodyne essential user manual 13 01 04 Online or Offline Activation 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 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 If you have already registered Melodyne and wish to conduct a second or new activation for your laptop for example or after c
38. ching mode check the Stretch box When the Time stretch function is active not only the 4 Tempo Q Click bar time ruler but also the data itself expands and contracts as you click on the Tempo box and drag the mouse pointer 4 104 0 stretch respectively downwards or upwards Melodyne essential user manual 39 03 06 Editing timing 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 Tip You can enter percentage values e g 50 96 in the Tempo field The percentage is in each case that of the last applicable value for example if the tempo set is 100 BPM typing in 50 26 will reduce it to 50 BPM If you want to double it so that it returns to 100 BPM enter 200 96 not 100 96 This makes it possible to use Melodyne essential 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 save the edited version the tempo of the saved file will be the tempo displayed in the Tempo pane at the moment the file was saved If audio files contain information about the tempo as do Apple Loops and Acid files this is automatically adopted by Melodyne essential 03 06 Editing timing Melodyne essential allows you to adjust not only the overall tempo but also the timing of individual notes
39. d Scale Snap The menu for enabling and disabling the Pitch Snap function Note Snap Scale Snap The Scale Snap function is now active and the Note ruler can be used to select the tonality and the mode No Pitch Snap Note Snap 36 Melodyne essential user manual 03 04 Scale Snap 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 Scale 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 activate the Scale Snap function remembering to set the correct key and then drag the new part up a third Without the Scale 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 certai
40. d by Melodyne essential cannot be read by Melodyne 2 x so if you are working with both Melodyne essential and v2 x of cre8 or studio please make copies of all important mda files 78 Melodyne essential user manual Keyboard Shortcuts 953 99UE2 YUM 1X3 19103 MO U1M 1X3 9 d uomnejedes 91oN sjaued o12e A G4 aw Upa vd 1ip4 M PwW9 9so 2 43 1p3 IN pu42 9ZIWIUI N ci uod nu ul MOPUIM I4 eut HPF YOU HPF M041Y VIEN 5 001 g pui3 nuaw M l 32JP 11Y 9U1J 401820 l 19S 491 9 PWD 1814 4016201 l S Yt pwd uonoejeq 1984102 X912 ulus H T 4016201 l Jas PWD l 19 l s unu T I 91149 Ino 1 007 At PWD 91sed unu J 91149A Ul 0007 94 pW7 Kdo5 unu Z 1810021104 1no W007 X PWD ino unu 6 E U0Z1J0Y Ul u1007 Z pub lus opay unu G 4 1YS 0 1500 JUNI 0 019s 7 4802 opun unu c UMOP 049S nuaw J p3 unu 8 dn 0J09 unu 9 44511 0428 S PWJ H HIYS SY anes unu y Ye 1049S St PW anes SM0J2 74814 48T11 01V Jeq euo puIMaM pJeM04 O pu12 uedo swoue u814 J91 qolq 1xeu N pw9 MON snoi ajd uonipne pue 12 l s nuaw 2 14 unu x 9 qeue ploday 0 l 8018100 W014 uorejes Ae y r lqnop e eds iv uone es Kel v 100 uoljesedas 9joN 88 uorjejedegs UdWBAS 910N eoeds x
41. diting Enable Spot to ProTools The Configuration page of the Preferences dialog Mastertune 440 0 Hz Language English The options are as follows Keep original files when saving When you select this option Melodyne essential renames the original file before saving reserving the name you have chosen for the latest version In renaming the file the characters orig and a number are added to the original filename successive versions of the file are numbered incrementally orig1 orig2 etc allowing you to backtrack in the event that things go awry Create Empty File on Start up If you select this option when you launch the program Melodyne essential will automatically give you a blank sheet so to speak to work with 72 Melodyne essential user manual 05 03 ReWire Monitor Note Pitch on Editing When this 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 Show Tool Tips With this option selected as you click and hold on the right hand side of a tool a small text box appears displaying the name of the tool Show Slider Values while Editing With this option selected as you move the Volume slider and also the Click rotary control that provides you with a metronome when recording their values are displayed in small pop up windows beside the control Enable Spot to
42. ds upon the type of material being edited The options Percussive and Melodic selected from the Play Algorithm drop down list determine which of the two playback algorithms should be used enabling you to correct classification errors where melodic material has incorrectly been classed as percussive making it impossible thereafter to edit the formants or vice versa This parameter acts upon segments of the audio material See the section on the Note Separation tool of the Expert toolbar If with a note selected you click the arrow to the left of the Play Algorithm list box you will find the option Separate Note as Trill which fulfils the same function as the equivalent entry in the action menu of the Note Separation tool in the Expert toolbar it could prove useful in Correct Detection mode as well which is why it is made available here Note that as was the case with corrections to the pitch detection corrections relating to note separation affect the analysis mdd file next time you load the file you will find whatever changes you have made manually have already been taken into account 05 02 Preferences We would like briefly to familiarize you with the Preferences dialog On the PC this is accessed from the Edit menu on the Mac from the Melodyne essential menu The Preferences dialog comprises three pages unlike a standard property sheet these are accessed via the list box at the top rather than using
43. e the temporary activation period is liable to expire at precisely the wrong moment 01 06 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 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 myCel
44. e left and right locators like a conventional sequencer 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 If no blobs are selected double clicking anywhere in the lower deck 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 Melodyne essential s Bar Time ss ruler showing the left and right J locators and the cursor Melodyne essential user manual 27 O2 General The beginning and end of the audio file and therefore its extent are indicated by the grey S Start and E End delimiters i e boundary markers which if you uncheck Lock File Range in the Edit menu you will see in the top deck of the bar time ruler The same information can be inferred from the main display as the background in the area span
45. eded 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 5 Edit Pitch submenu Add Random Offset to Pitch Center is of a different kind this can be 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 03 Expert tool for editing formants The next tool in the toolbar is dedicated to NG _ eat GC the editing of formants Formants are groups of emphasized harmonics arising 1 p in the case of the human voice from m 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 the formants in place when transposing audio files yielding considerably more natural results You may wish on occasio
46. elodyne essential offers a special editing mode that allows you to reclassify notes wrongly identified as percussive Edit gt Correct Detection Correct Detection Lock File Range mode is entered from the Edit menu v Correct Detection K When you check the item Correct Detection in the Edit menu the blobs in the Edit window turn yellow and the Pitch Curve a brighter red b E In Pitch Correction mode the blobs become fainter and the Pitch Curve is more boldly delineated As is the case in normal Edit mode the mouse pointer in Pitch Correction mode is multi functional and changes its appearance depending upon its position relative to the blobs and upon the function it is performing When you move the pointer to the centre of a blob it becomes the Pitch Correction tool Melodyne essential user manual 67 5 01 Correcting the automatic note detection The Pitch Correction tool Although you can move blobs up and down in pitch with this tool exactly as you did with the Edit Pitch tool in normal Edit mode the effect of your actions in the two cases is quite different when you correct a wrongly identified note you are telling Melodyne essential to search again for the pitch in the position indicated In this way you can help the program with difficult material by indicating manually where it should look Once it has found the note you have told it to search for it will redraw the Pitch Curve to take account of it
47. emony account will also automatically be credited with one activation 16 Melodyne essential user manual 01 06 Deactivation 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 security question The page for the export of the credit file will then appear Activation Assistant Export credit file Melodyne serial number XXXX XXXX XXXX Melodyne has been successfully deactivated on this computer The assistant has already placed the credit file MelodyneDeactivationCredit txt on your desktop You can however also drag the credi Mile from this field onto your hard disk or a portable storage medium e g a USB flash drive Copy the credit file with a simple drag amp drop Find a computer that is Connected to the Internet go to the myCelemoey web sae www celemony com mycelemony and upload your credi Mile You will
48. file to be opened does not have the same tempo as the master in this case Melodyne essential 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 essential 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 essential 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 Stretch box enter the desired tempo manually and save the file You can find more information concerning Melodyne essential and ReWire current compatibility lists and configuration tips at http www celemony com support 05 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 essential is used in combination with Pro Tools especially when it 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
49. 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 essential will look for and open automatically the 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 essential 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 Melodyne essential user manual 77 05 05 Melodyne essential and the other versions of Melodyne 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 essential 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 essential 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 tho
50. g Melodyne essential Select Save and spot to Pro Tools from the File menu This first saves the file and then instructs Pro Tools if it is running at the time to insert the file into the selected track of the active session The file is placed at the current cursor position so keep the edited region selected to replace it by the edited file Even if you opted initially to edit the original file rather than a copy Melodyne essential offers you the option of saving the file you have been editing under a different name thereby leaving the original file to which Pro Tools retains access unchanged MelodyneUno Would you really like to overwrite this file If ProTools is using the file already it is recommened to use a different filename like Vocals0 uno If you have been working with a copy this will be inserted into the track without further ado For the file to be played back in Pro Tools the Melodyne essential ReWire plug in must now be deactivated again If Melodyne essential saves a file which had regions when being opened a single region is exported As that region is also time stamped these files can also be imported and spot in ProTools manually Editing audio files in split stereo format Melodyne essential 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 with the suffixes L and R respectively Like the Spot to Pro Tools
51. gram Nay been on Dos comanies The venant Copy t eee Mie with a smp drag amp drop Fed a campuses that i connected v the interner qo to the myCalamony web vt Term tiom and apiid yon UY Me Vins wet And deu NG bow b do Uhr at Means note You account not be LUANG mth a mew activation unt you hawa 5 920 That the eive pa Activation is the process of authorizing the use of your of Melodyne on a particular computer You have to activate Melodyne before you can use it for any length of time We distinguish two ways of activating Melodyne online activation whereby Melodyne establishes a direct link with the myCelemony server and therefore requires your music computer to be hooked up to the Internet offline activation which is done by exporting and importing small files and only requires you to have access to the Internet from a computer office Internet cafe 12 Melodyne essential user manual 01 04 Online or Offline Activation An activation assistant integrated into Melodyne offers you all the above mentioned options and guides you through all the necessary steps for registration and activation The assistant runs automatically the first time you launch Melodyne and can be opened later through the License entry in the Activation Assistant Window menu When you first Welcome We
52. hanging 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 Activation Assistant 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 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 pe
53. he Edit menu The first of a sequence of notes inserted in this way will appear 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 Scale Snap is activated in the recipient document the new notes will adapt to the selected tonality and mode if the Stretch box in the Tempo pane to the right of the Transport controls is checked the blobs will be stretched or squeezed to suit the selected tempo if there are minor deviations from the set tempo in the original a note falls for example a semiquaver 16th 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 any other 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
54. heir 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 i VVith the 10092 setting the axis of each blob lies perfectly in the centre of the lane 34 Melodyne essential user manual 03 03 Automatic pitch correction Melodyne uno makes an important distinction between vibrato which is usually intentional and drift which is not When string players and classical guitarists for example deliberately shake the hand stopping the string they do so in order to impart vibrato a rapid fluctuation in the pitch of the note that gives the sound 2 c o o E 0 a greater fullness and vibrancy good singers can achieve the same effect by other means and when Melodyne uno corrects the pitch of out of tune notes 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 intended but usually the result of poor breathing technique or inattention For this reason Melodyne uno 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 no
55. his option and can Safely ignore it The next page of the Preferences dialog is devoted to the Default File Format for recording When you load and edit a file using Melodyne essential it is always saved in the original format The Default File Format page of the Preferences dialog is therefore only used when you are recording or creating files from within Melodyne essential itself eoo Preferences File Format AIFF The Default File Format page only cou IPTE m governs the format of files created by a TS 2 Melodyne essential os sure a Recording Folder Users ugh_allgemein Desktop Set Melodyne essential user manual 71 05 02 Preferences The parameters are as follows File Format Melodyne essential can save files in any of the formats it is capable of reading i e AIFF WAV SND and Sound Designer II Mac only Resolution The word length of the audio file in bits 8 16 or 24 Sample Rate The sampling frequency to be employed 22 05 44 1 48 kHz or 96 kHz Channel Format You can elect to create either a mono or a stereo file Recording Folder Selects the recording folder The Configuration page of the Preferences dialog is concerned with file management and the user interface 200 Preferences Configuration H3 S Keep original files when saving M Create empty file on startup Monitor Note Pitch on Editing F show Tool Tips E Show Slider Values while E
56. ht of what you have seen already The sound quality that Melodyne essential is able to achieve whilst implementing the most extreme degrees of time compression and stretching of monophonic material in particular does however astound even hard bitten audio professionals and further vindicates the technological approach adopted by Celemony Above the data display and next to the transport controls you will notice a pane displaying the key signature and tempo parameters 4 Tempo Click The Tempo pane displays not only the 4 120 0 Stretch tempo but also the time signature In the course of its analysis of the audio file Melodyne essential finds out a great deal not only about the pitch of the notes but also about the rhythm and tempo of the music when the analysis is complete the information displayed in the tempo pane will very often be correct in the event however that further adjustments are needed they are easily made Take the case of the two bar loop displayed below AA Tempo Q Click B a bi E 4 70 0 Stretch i bee z5 The tempo displayed here is incorrect As you can see Melodyne essential has not interpreted the rhythm of the loop correctly and as a result it appears to extend over two and a half bars instead of only two Never mind in Melodyne essential such things are fixed easily and intuitively 38 Melodyne essential user manual 03 05 Any tempo you like First make s
57. iates the need for Melodyne essential to analyse the file a second time when you reload it the next day Melodyne essential creates an analysis file for each new audio file you load Once the process of analysis is complete the Edit window opens replete with Melodyne s famous blobs displaying the exact pitch centre and amplitude envelope of each note 03 02 Editing the pitch Move the mouse pointer to the centre of one of the blobs You will notice that the appearance of the pointer changes to indicate that it is now in Pitch Editing mode 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 are dragging a note you can hear the waveform at the points through which it passes If you find this distracting uncheck Monitor Note Pitch on Editing in the Preferences You aren t of course obliged to move notes one at a time you can rubber band an entire phrase and transpose it upwards or downwards in the same way to do this visualize a rectangle encompassing only the notes you wish to select click in any of its four corners and
58. ighlighted in color are only available in Melodyne uno and also together with considerably extended possibilities in Melodyne cre8 and Melodyne studio They can however be tested in demo mode with Melodyne essential O4 Editing audio using the Expert tools In the preceding chapters we encountered Melodyne uno s default tool the aspect of which you will remember depends upon whether it is in the centre of a blob the beginning or end of a blob or some other part of the screen With this multi function tool alone you have a powerful and unique set of editing options but these are by no means all that Melodyne uno has to offer In this chapter we will be looking at the Expert tools which offer additional ways of editing audio data To begin select Show Expert Tools from the Edit menu Edit YAYA Window Help v Autoscrolling 36B v Always Show Pitch Curve Always Show Note Separations Show Score Notes MelodyneUno File The Expert toolbar is accessed via the View menu Show Expert Tools When you check the option Show Expert Tools a new toolbar appears beneath the Volume slider and Level meter The Expert toolbar further facilitates editing and navigation HMG 202 52 Melodyne essential user manual 04 01 Main tool You can access the same tools by right clicking PC or Ctrl clicking Mac anywhere in the edit window Once the Show Expert Tools option has been selected you can
59. l 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 essential s editing functions can most usefully be demonstrated MelodyneUno Edit View Window Help Open Recent gt Save 885 Save As 2365 You open an audio file in the normal way note the keyboard shortcuts Cmd Mac Ctri PC 4 0 in this case alongside each command 03 01 Analysis and note blobs Once you have selected a file from the Open dialog and clicked OK Melodyne essential will open and analyse 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 necessary processing requires more time a progress bar a rectangle that is gradually filled from left to right with the system highlight colour as the 30 Melodyne essential user manual 03 02 Editing the pitch operation proceeds will appear to give you some idea of how long the process can be expected to take FYI Melodyne essential 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 obv
60. lcome to the Melodyne Activation Assistant which will help you register and la unc h M e odyne after the activate your copy of the program Once activated Melodyne will be capable of running on this computer First enter your serial number You will find it in the installation you see the Welcome Melodyne packaging or in the e mail confirming your online purchase from the Celemony Web Shop page of the assistant Melodyne serial number I would like to activate Melodyne online For online activation your computer must be capable of connecting to the Internet 1 would like to activate Melodyne offline Offline activation involves exporting and importing a small file and using some other computer to connect to the Internet Back Continue 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 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 h
61. le melodic line Melodyne cre8 provides an entry into the world of multi track audio sequencing with Melodyne and can be connected to other sequencers via ReWire or the Melodyne Bridge plug in Melodyne studio contains all the functions of cre8 but differs not only in offering an unlimited number of tracks and greater format compatibility sampling rates up to 192 kHz but above all in the provision of an additional algorithm that allows you to work even with multi part signals With Melodyne studio you can also time stretch or squeeze material such as piano or guitar parts choral music and even complete mixes as well as doing a great deal else to such material including requantizing it or giving it a shuffle rhythm No other software offers you comparable possibilities for the handling of audio Demo versions recorded examples videos and other information about the Melodyne product family can be found at www celemony com What is Melodyne essential What is Melodyne essential The basic procedure when working with Melodyne essential is that of any conventional sample editor you load an audio file edit it and save the results to your hard disc nothing very unusual about that But despite these superficial similarities Melodyne essential is very different from a conventional sample editor the reason being this Melodyne essential analyses the audio files you load in order to identify key aspects of their musical content In other
62. lications as well you can make both minor and 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 essential makes audio files as easy to edit as text Melodyne essential user manual 41 03 06 Editing timing As you will doubtless have noticed in the course of your own experiments the default behaviour 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 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 Note that what is happening here is that the quantization factor is de
63. 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 tool 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 is 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 A note with vibrato 64 Melodyne essential user manual 04 06 Expert tools for note and segment separation Demo only The same note reinterpreted as a trill 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 defi
64. multi level Undo function that allows you to backtrack if the changes you have made don t turn out the way you wanted Besides which unless and until you actually save your work and to a file of the same name none of the changes made in the course of an entire session has the slightest impact upon the original file on your hard disk it remains unaffected what you are editing is a copy of the file in RAM 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 essential and that it will help you to attain your musical objectives Melodyne essential user manual 9 01 01 Installation Activation and Getting Started O1 Installation Activation and Getting Started 01 01 Installation To install Melodyne launch the installation program which either you will find on your Melodyne CD or you will have downloaded 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 Under Windows a de installation program is available which you can use to uninstall Melodyne To do this proceed as follows 1 from the Start menu open the Control Panel 2 double click on Add or Remove Programs 3 f
65. n 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 58 Melodyne essential user manual 04 03 Expert tool for editing formants When you select the Edit Formant tool a horizontal 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 2 c o o E 0 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 formants of this note have been transposed upwards the steepness of the blue line indicates the speed of theformant transition 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
66. n degrees of the scale in the major the tonic subdominant and dominant and minor thirds on the rest Now that you have the mastered basic pitch editing functions of Melodyne essential 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 essential 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 nonetheless the program does offer some interesting pitch editing possibilities even for these types of material as you will soon see Before we move on to consider Melodyne essential s Expert tools for the editing of pitch we will briefly introduce you to a number of other fundamental and no less fascinating functions this time for editing the tempo and timing of the audio file Melodyne essential user manual 37 03 05 Any tempo you like 03 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 lig
67. ned by the audio file is duller than that of the rest of the display The boundaries of the file are elastic expanding to accommodate new material whenever audio material spills into an area lying outside the previous limits as a result perhaps of a move copy or stretch operation If you do not want to extend the bounds of the audio file in the course of editing perhaps because you have already integrated the file into a sequencer arrangement check Lock File Range in the Edit menu Sddddddi e i5 ND o delimiters as well as the bolder l The grey Start S and End E shading of the background in hy p A dn nu the Edit window indicate the Mi VU EAA extent of the audio file By dragging the grey l marker in the vertical centre of the bar time ruler you can realign the ruler with the audio data the ruler will move in other words whilst the audio data stays put Double click the small grey 1 and type in a value if you need to move the 1 by two or more bars Where only part of the audio file is displayed in the window you can 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
68. ning the range of the slide The note range that you wish to treat and separate as a slide 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 The command Reassign Notes to Beats will cause the blue frames to jump to new positions in line with the newly selected quantization factor The little blue frames and the notation jump to new positions representing the new target positions for quantization Note separation tool 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 essential user manual 65 05 Other matters of importance 05 Other matters of importance 5 01 Correcting the automatic note detection The analysis of the audio material conducted by Melodyne essential each time you load a new file is the key to the powerful editing functions offered by the program it distinguishes automatically between melodic and percussive material recognizes where each note ends and the next begins as well as identifying the precise pitch and amplitude envelope of each note For the most part the results of this analysis are very accurate but with certain types of audio material
69. ns in line with the newly selected quantization factor The little blue frames and the is T notation jump to new positions representing the new target B Seconds positions for quantization Setting the These positions of the notes can be changed by dragging a quantization factor 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 62 Melodyne essential user manual 04 05 Expert time editing tool 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 Demo only From the Edit 5 Edit Notes Time cascading submenu you can reset the various Time parameters of selected notes to their original values 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 Reset 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
70. omatic pitch correction This note can t seem to decide whether it s an Ast or a B In the opposite case as with the note illustrated here which is neither fish nor fowl you may have to make up its mind for it Here moving it exactly a semitone would not resolve the ambiguity but simply move it instead of being midway between A and B it would be midway between B and C what is needed then is the fine tuning option which allows you to move notes through intervals smaller than a tone called microtrones or fractional tones hold the Alt key and drag the note precisely to the centre of the lane of whichever note Ast or B it is supposed to be That s how easy it is to correct errors of intonation with Melodyne Easy isn t it together with considerably extended possibilities in Melodyne cre8 and Melodyne studio In what follows the functions highlighted in color are only available in Melodyne uno and also They can however be tested in demo mode with Melodyne essential 03 03 Automatic pitch correction 2 E o E It would be even more practical of course if instead of having to correct each 0 out of tune note individually you could just tell uno to correct the pitch of all Q notes automatically and in fact you can commence playback of the recording if you haven t done so already click somewhere in the background to deselect all notes and then click the Correct Pitch button in the top right corne
71. omputer 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 page will appear to confirm that the activation has been successful Activation Assistant Melodyne is activated on this computer Melodyne serial number 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 Melodyne essential user manual 15 01 05 Temporary Activation 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 possible to begin work immediately Temporary activation is only possible after the first installation of Melodyne on a computer 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 Otherwis
72. ot 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 l 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 original minim has been 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 Melodyne essential user manual 43 03 07 Note separators 5 T 7 i E Here we have introduced an chapp e 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 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
73. r of the window This button is used to open the Correct Pitch dialog QumzeTme Melodyne essential user manual 33 03 03 Automatic pitch correction o o E 0 A The Correct Pitch dialog opens displaying two slider controls or trackbars Correct Pitch Correct Pitch Center 100 The Pitch Correct dialog with trackbars governing the extent to which errant notes should he moved top bar 100 96 Sa and or drift within them eliminated lower bar The upper trackbar is used to specify the extent to which the pitch centre 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 At concert pitch for example the A above middle C has a frequency of 440 Hz whilst the frequency of the note above A Bb is 466 16 Hz if the pitch centre of the note actually sung or played is 450 Hz therefore it is reasonable to assume that the performer was aiming for A rather than Bb so depending upon the setting of the Pitch Centre slider after correction the new pitch centre of the note will be to give a few examples 449 Hz 10 445 Hz 50 442 Hz 80 441 Hz 90 or 440 Hz 100 This process is sometimes called pitch quantization The default setting 10096 you will observe leaves all blobs bang in the centre of t
74. r the correct tempo with the Stretch function deactivated and if need be 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 essential 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 Stretch function deactivated Double click the small grey 1 and type in a value if you need to move the 1 by two or more bars Hold the Alt key to move it without quantization As far as the tempo in ReWire mode is concerned two situations have to be distinguished T4 Melodyne essential user manual 05 04 The function Spot to Pro Tools 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 essential determine the tempo Instead you need Melodyne essential to adopt the tempo of the master as the tempo definition so select Opening Files takes Tempo from ReWire host b the
75. 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 The Edit 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 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 possible formant transition to the with melodic material Double click restore next note formant beams to their original positions Melodyne essential user manual 59 04 04 Expert tool for editing the amplitude 04 04 Expert tool for editing the amplitude 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 2 c o o 2 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 R Dragging upwards increases the if amplitude of the note Whilst dragging downwards has the opposite effect The
76. rom the list of installed programs choose Melodyne and click Remove 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 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 can be discovered by selecting the About item in the menu 10 Melodyne essential user manual 01 03 Activation and myCelemony 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 at a bargain price Melodyne plugin is a practical edition of Melodyne that you can
77. rsonal activation file onto any page of this activation assistant That completes the activation process 14 Melodyne essential user manual 01 04 Online or Offline Activation 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 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 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 c
78. s monophonic in the sense of comprising a single unaccompanied melodic line it may be of course that the accompaniment is provided by other tracks in the case of a multi track production that poses no problem The essential thing is that the track to be edited should not contain chords The human voice obviously is monophonic as are instruments such as woodwind and brass instruments String instruments are also suitable though with certain qualifications double stopping in the case of bowed instruments and the plucking or strumming of more than one string simultaneously in the case of the guitar introduces a chordal element that can throw Melodyne essential s note recognition algorithms as can the vibration of open strings in sympathy with those carrying the melody The piano could be used as a source provided no use were made of the sustain pedal and only one note were played at a time but this of course would hardly be playing to the instrument s strengths Instruments such as the harp the strings of which even when plucked separately take a long time to decay also cause problems since more than one string is usually sounding at any given moment arpeggios on the Spanish guitar 24 Melodyne essential user manual O2 General pose the same problem but lead guitar solos consisting of a single melodic line plucked with the plectrum can be edited with Melodyne essential provided there is not too much droning of
79. simply moves rather than stretching If it has an immediate successor however dragging its start to the left causes it to stretch 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 Melodyne essential user manual 45 03 09 The behaviour of contiguous notes What if you select three or more adjacent notes and drag one of the internal partitions The answer is that the notes on either side of the partition in question form into two groups if you move the partition to the right the notes to the left of it are stretched and the notes to the right move if there is space for them to move into or are compressed if there isn t if you move the partition to the left the opposite occurs Note that when quantization is ac
80. t 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 violinist favour a rate of around 6 or 7Hz and cyclical whereas the type of aimless wandering Melodyne uno s Correct Pitch Drift function is designed to eliminate is far slower and probably irregular too in terms of both frequency and amplitude The two pitch correction parameters Correct Pitch Centre and Correct Pitch Drift are completely independent you can set any intensity from 0 100756 for each parameter If and when you are satisfied with the results exit with OK if 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 uno 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 As well as selecting notes by rubber banding them as described above you can use the Select drop down menu Menu Edit Select to select e g only the notes between the two locators only those notes not currently selected i e to invert
81. tant 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 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 Melodyne essential user manual 11 01 03 Activation and myCelemony 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 Activabon Aswatant Melodyne is activated on this computer iv a t mem Msi m te compen Mode trai s r IS 3 An activation assistant m Vae Activarea Matan integrated into Melodyne Export credit file guides you through all the 000007 necessary steps for registration and activation s t yer copy of m pro
82. termining 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 mesh of the grid is also zoom dependent since if you zoom a long way out reducing the display resolution considerably Melodyne essential may sometimes be forced to display fewer grid lines than you would normally expect to see given the setting in the Quantize Factor list box Clicking on this button toggles the quantization on and E off in the off Y 1 4 position the bar time 1 4T ruler turns pale to mU Em indicate that 1 8T continuous 1 16 adjustment of note 16T To change the quantization lengths is now 1 32 factor as indicated by the possible mesh of the grid click and M32T hold or drag this button to Seconds open the Quantization list box 42 Melodyne essential user manual 03 07 Note separators 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 freely mean independently of the current quantization factor the boundary does n
83. tet the multi track Melodyne cre8 Integrates even multi part material into the Melodyne working environment the full Melodyne studio The Melodyne Family The Melodyne Family Melodyne uno is the single track and most affordable version of Melodyne Like essential in terms of its concept and way of working it corresponds to a sample editor but it can also be integrated into host applications via ReWire With your Melodyne essential you can test in demo mode the entire range of functions offered by uno These additional functions are described here in the essential user manual Melodyne plugin integrates the most important of Melodyne s functions directly into a host sequencer Correct pitch and timing quantize audio restructure melodies and more it has never been so easy Thanks to its musical display unique time stretching and pitch shifting algorithms unmatched sound quality and intuitive operation Melodyne plugin makes the resolution of timing and intonation problems child s play thereby simplifying and increasing the efficiency of day to day music production in the studio Melodyne cre8 offers up to eight parallel audio tracks as well as numerous other functions and possibilities over and above those offered by Melodyne essential uno and plugin including for example audio to MIDI Since Melodyne cre8 supports multi track operation this version is particularly suitable for the creation of multiple parts from a sing
84. 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 Main tool the note separators will be displayed even if Always Show Note Separations is unchecked in the View menu 44 Melodyne essential user manual 03 08 Lengthening and moving notes 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 For notes that stand in isolation on the other hand different rules apply f you drag the start of an isolated note to the left the note
85. the existing vibrato Intensity from the box next to the tool bar or enter a new value if you wish 56 Melodyne essential user manual 04 02 Expert tools for pitch editing 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 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 The context sensitive Pitch Transitions tool is also available with the tools for Pitch Drift and Vibrato 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 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 smooth the tr
86. the functions that have made Melodyne software famous throughout the world Melodyne essential is therefore your first step into the world of Melodyne All you need do is register the software on the Celemony web site and then activate it on your computer this doesn t cost you a cent Once the program has been activated you can use the function set of essential without limitations With your Melodyne essential you can also test some of the functions of the larger versions of Melodyne in demo mode If you like the special possibilities that Melodyne technology offers for the handling of your audio material Celemony has a number of upgrade options that are available on favorable terms to registered users of Melodyne essential These are well worth looking into Have fun with Melodyne Your team at Celemony P S On the next page is a quick guide to the versions of Melodyne for which bargain upgrades from Melodyne essential are available You will find more information and the prices at www celemony com in fact if you follow the link in the Help menu of Melodyne essential it will take you straight to the web page containing the upgrade offers 6 Melodyne essential user manual melodyne ST mm A sample editor of a special kind the smart Melodyne uno melodyne i 1 1 b The fast way to perfect tracks From one voice to a whole choir from a violin to a string quar
87. the new cursor position By clicking in the top part of the ruler 26 Melodyne essential user manual O2 General and dragging the mouse to the left or right you can scrub through 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 You will doubtless be familiar with the Transport Controls if not from a sequencing application then from your cassette or video recorder You can also use the Space Bar Space of your computer keyboard to pause or resume playback of the entire audio file as well as Alt Spacel if only part of the file has been selected to play back that part only It is also possible to step through the audio file in either direction hopping from blob to blob like stepping stones using the left and right arrows and 51 of your computer keyboard Near the top left hand corner of the window you can see the Volume fader and the Level display a single horizontal meter in case of a mono file or meters for both the left and right channels if the file is in stereo In the Transport panel in addition to the Start Stop Fast Forward and Rewind buttons you will see a Record button you can record directly with Melodyne essential and a Cycle button which when depressed causes Melodyne essential to loop between th
88. the rhythmic pattern of recordings and exploit a wealth of possibilities that go way beyond mere slicing for the creation of new loops 8 Melodyne essential user manual What is Melodyne essential You can do all this and more with Melodyne essential quickly and easily and most importantly achieve results the sound quality of which has made Melodyne famous and which essential takes to a higher level still This introduction aims to give you the basic information required to work with the program Should you need it you can find more detailed information which is constantly updated on our web site www celemony com Tip for your first experiments with Melodyne we recommend the Experience Tour which you can open from essential s menu The Experience Tour provides a brief guide to the most important functions of Melodyne essential not only does it explain how the program works it is also interactive so you can try out the various functions as you go along Please read this introduction through at least once even if you are already familiar with Melodyne there are almost certainly functions here that you haven t yet discovered and 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 Try whatever comes to mind experiment as much as you like no harm can come of it Melodyne has a
89. the same voice singing or the same instrument playing in a different register If you are familiar with the acoustic principles at work here you will have guessed why this is so when it transposes audio Melodyne essential leaves the formants its acoustic 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 waveforms moving the formant structure into the bargain Note it can happen from time to time that Melodyne essential fails to identify correctly the intended pitch of a note usually confusing it with the same note an octave higher or lower in such cases as we have seen the error is easily corrected manually with the Main tool in pitch editing mode This subject is dealt with in greater detail in the section on correcting detection errors If the sound source is the human voice or an instrument like the violin that is not always easy to play precisely in tune you may notice that Melodyne essential plots the exact pitch of each note and that if instead of a G you sing or play a note halfway in pitch between G and G that is precisely where Melodyne essential will display it on the line between G and G With some other instruments the digital piano for example the intonation looks after itself and each blob will land precisely in the centre of its lane 32 Melodyne essential user manual 03 03 Aut
90. the selection or only notes of the same pitch as the note selected and so on Melodyne essential user manual 35 03 04 Scale Snap 03 04 Scale Snap We have seen how the intonation of single notes groups of notes and even all notes can be corrected manually or automatically and how unwanted wavering from the correct pitch can be reduced or eliminated altogether we saw too how errant notes can be made to snap to the nearest semitone but if the resulting note is not in fact part of the scale this may not be the result desired you may for example have sung the note F so flat that you are closer to F than to F nonetheless if the key is B Major in which the note F is used somewhat infrequently you might find it more useful for the default behaviour of the program in such cases to be that the note snaps to F the dominant of the key rather than F which is not even part of it even though F may be closer to the note you actually sang This is one reason why Melodyne essential provides a Scale Snap function whereby notes snap to the nearest member of the scale rather than the nearest semitone on those hopefully rare occasions where the two are different 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 the 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 an
91. tion and the original name assigned to the newly edited version of the file In the main display notes are represented by blobs the vertical thickness of which is indicative of their amplitude as a result each blob displays the am plitude 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 can be discovered by referring to the scale 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 Melodyne essential user manual 25 O2 General By This is how audio is displayed in Melodyne essential if you prefer you can hide the Pitch Curve In addition to the blobs Melodyne essential is capable of displaying notes on a stave in the conventional manner Menu View gt Show Score Notes or click the Stave icon in the top left hand corner of the Edit window to toggle the display on and off Notes can also be displayed in conventional notation click end of the Bar Time ruler to 9 view or hide the stave After selecting one or multiple blobs you can delete them using the delete key DEL 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 t
92. tive only the partition you are dragging is governed by it the partitions within the left and right hand groups adjust in such a way that the relative lengths of the notes within the group are maintained regardless of the position of the grid lines 03 09 The behaviour of contiguous notes and segment separators As we have mentioned and as you have doubtless observed in the course of your own experiments contiguous notes in Melodyne essential 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 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 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 essential are not treated as independent entities the nature of the transitions between them are always respected Contiguo
93. to the myCelemony server in the 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 D 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 inspected 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 Melodyne essential user manual 19 01 08
94. uantization algorithms 03 11 Creative re quantization an example Melodyne uno s Quantize Time functions are further proof of the musical intelligence 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 folder You will see the following two bar loop displayed in the Edit window The original tempo is 104 BPM Melodyne essential user manual 49 03 11 Creative re quantization an example Begin playback of the tabla loop and open the Quantize Time dialog by clicking on the button of the same name in the top right hand corner of quan ze Time 4 the window Click the 1 8 push button in the Apply Groove Ca Cee ti C a a D Reference group and set the Quantize Timing 5 Ws fe control to 100 not that this makes much difference here as the performance is CI reasonably tight to begin with m Now push the 1 16 T semiquaver triplets button and the tabla loop will begin to swing though in a somewhat stilted fashion at first SS x RR move the Quantize Timing slider to somewhere between 30 and 60 for a pleasantly understated swing
95. ugh 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 essential will create an analysis file called Audio L wav mdd containing the analysis data for both channels 05 05 Melodyne essential and the other versions of Melodyne compatibility and upgrades As you are perhaps aware in addition to Melodyne essential Celemony produces three other versions of Melodyne uno cre8 and the large studio edition The essential difference between essential uno and cre8 studio is that whilst from the standpoint of functions Melodyne essential uno are more like a sample editor the two other versions more closely resemble audio sequencers allowing the creation of multi track audio productions with the familiar Melodyne essential functions as well as numerous other editing possibilities available in every track As a result it is possible to construct complete arrangements with these versions of the program assisted by powerful and flexible editing tools every step of the way We would encourage you to download the demo versions of Melodyne studio and Melodyne cre8 to obtain an insight into the possibilities they offer and would be delighted if you were to decide to take advantage of one of our attractive upgrade offers Note For Melodyne essential the audio analysis engine of versions 2 x of Melodyne has been further improved As a result mdd files create
96. ure that the Stretch box in the Tempo pane is unchecked and that the stretch function is therefore deactivated 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 Edit window expands and contracts depending upon whether you drag the mouse upwards or downwards while the left hand edge of the ruler indicated by the 1 marker in its upper deck remains nailed to the start of the file serving as an anchor 4 Tempo Q Click 4 104 0 Stretch Now that the tempo has been adjusted the bar time ruler indicates the true length of the loop What we need to do in this case is reduce the tempo by clicking on the Tempo control and dragging downwards this will cause the grid to expand until the grid lines match the audio data as shown in the illustration the correct tempo it transpires is just under 90 BPM 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 essential 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 essential usually gets the tempo right automatically we can proceed if we wish to the actual business of time stretching To switch to time stret
97. us notes in 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 beginning of a note without this affecting the notes around it in other words to 46 Melodyne essential user manual 03 10 Automatic timing correction 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 f 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 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
98. 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 essential you can purchase Melodyne plugin at an especially favourable price 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 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 assis
99. with the adjacent E blobs and create a new segment You can now move the blob s without dragging the adjacent blobs at the same time together with considerably extended possibilities in Melodyne cre8 and Melodyne studio In what follows the functions highlighted in color are only available in Melodyne uno and also Q They can however be tested in demo mode with Melodyne essential 03 10 Automatic timing correction 2 E o As with the correction of pitch Melodyne uno offers the possibility of correcting E timing errors automatically this means that instead of laboriously correcting each 0 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 uno makes whatever Melodyne essential user manual 47 03 10 Automatic timing correction o o E 0 Q further adjustments are necessary to preserve the naturalness in terms of pitch timbre and volume of the transitions between them Try out the function now Select a few notes the timing of which needs improving or click in the background of the Edit window to cancel the current selection equivalent here to Select All and click on the Quantize Time button f

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