CELEMONY Melodyne 4 Studio

Details

Kit Melodyne 4 Studio

Manufacturer Celemony

Price €699

Web www.celemony.com

• Key Features

• Grammy Award-winning Melodyne technology

• Unlimited tracks with multitrack note editing

• Sound Editor with unique capabilities

• Precise tempodetection and editing

• Audio-to-MIDI export

First released back in 2001, Celemony’s Melodyne was one of a series of tools that revolutionised the public perception of recorded music. Alongside the infamous Auto-Tune, Melodyne had the potential to correct even the most un-musical of performances, modifying pitch, intonation, and, in Melodyne’s case, timing inconstencies. However, whereas Auto-Tune attracted the majority of the bad press (certainly, it became synonymous with the perceived sanitisation of modern music), Melodyne went about its business in a more transparent and musically sensitive way.

From the very beginning, Melodyne’s strength has been an almost-scientific understanding of the principles of sound and pitch perception. Developed by Peter Neubäcker, Melodyne worked as an offline pitch and timing correction system – an approach that contrasted with Auto-Tune, which worked as a real-time plug-in. Although Auto-Tune’s results were more immediate (and more noticeably ‘modified’, for that matter), Melodyne’s scientific accuracy meant the results had a transparency which few solutions could match. In short, you didn’t hear Melodyne working, just a fault-free performance.

Melodyne’s scientific accuracy gave it a transparency few solutions could match

Musical DNA

Since the initial inception, the evolution of Melodyne has witnessed some