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sedohr · 23rd June 2006

Hi

Just my experience:
I have been using Melodyne 2.6 for the last year. I´ve used it on many albums. But there are some things that have been bothering me about it.

It doesn´t always detect the notes right. And then it becomes very hard to pitch them. Besides, it introduces artifacts, clicks, when it tries to play the wrongly detected notes. So often I have had to copy from the original take unaltered notes to get rid of the clicks.

It´s so easy to flatten the vibratos that you can squeeze the life out of a performance without really noticing it. (That´s of course not a bad thing, to be able to do it, it´s only a bad thing if you do)

So I turned back to Auto-tune last week and a was pretty amazed by the sound quality. And the real-time option is wonderful.

But I´ve been told that Melodyne 3.0 is much better than the old one so I´m going to check that one out. And now they even have 3.1!

Kalli

23rd June 2006	#1
sedohr Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2005 Location: Lund, Sweden Posts: 1,115 Thread Starter	Melodyne and Auto-tune Hi Just my experience: I have been using Melodyne 2.6 for the last year. I´ve used it on many albums. But there are some things that have been bothering me about it. It doesn´t always detect the notes right. And then it becomes very hard to pitch them. Besides, it introduces artifacts, clicks, when it tries to play the wrongly detected notes. So often I have had to copy from the original take unaltered notes to get rid of the clicks. It´s so easy to flatten the vibratos that you can squeeze the life out of a performance without really noticing it. (That´s of course not a bad thing, to be able to do it, it´s only a bad thing if you do) So I turned back to Auto-tune last week and a was pretty amazed by the sound quality. And the real-time option is wonderful. But I´ve been told that Melodyne 3.0 is much better than the old one so I´m going to check that one out. And now they even have 3.1! Kalli