I bought the MDv5 upgrade because I was interested in the chord track and chord recognition feature - I never apply any form of auto-processing to re-pitch vocals - always manual edits - so the issues in this area don't really affect me - I generally use Cubase variaudio 3 these days for fixing vocals coz it's 90% as good and far, far more convenient. But that said, I blindly upgraded so I'm stuck with whatever issues come with MDv5 - didn't realise the upgrade is effectively permanent!!

I am currently doing a remix of the first tracks that I ever recorded, 20 years ago.
I use Melodyne 5 assistant and Soothe 2 to treat the vocals in this video and thought people might find it informative.

Overall, I think that Melodyne 5 is a good update, but fairly buggy as well and in need of further updates.

I have experienced some quite bad audio artifacts with Melodyne 5 so far, that appear to mostly be related to the sibilant detection.
Also, when using ARA in Cubase, the vocals were detected as percussion and had to be re-scanned as melodic. This happened to all of the vocal takes in this particular project.
There were a few other quirks as well, like Melodyne not showing the playback of the vocal from the correct position or general laggy behavior.

This might just be a setting issue. Check to make sure "Melodic" is set as the default in the algorithm dropdown. That said, there was an issue in a previous release when I would set this and it wouldn't "stick" - in my case it kept changing back to "Universal".

Just wanted to re-iterate how damn annoying the whole vst2 being discontinued/not allowing us to use the old version or even just keep our old license so we can install the old version when it is needed for old projects thing is.

Yes. they make it perfectly clear that this is their policy.. This is not a communication issue. This is an annoying policy issue.
Good job looking towards the future etc etc. But crippling an old license with a new one whilst providing certain customers with no backwards compatibility is so infuriating (for certain customers).

They have literally made it impossible to maintain backwards compatibility for me. Even if I buy two separate licenses.

I agree. I haven't updated just yet to Studio 5 from 4 for this and other numerous "teething troubles" which have so far been mentioned.

I will update soon though but it would be good if they implemented backwards compatibility.

they just came out with I guess a bug fix update.

I was hoping the new update (5.0.2.003) would address some of these annoying artifacts with breaths, esses, etc. Or address the problem that when you separate notes on playback, the audio drops out for a split second. But neither of these issues seem to be addressed in this update as I'm still dealing with both of those issues.

I have found that if you separate the esses, etc, from the blobs, it usually fixes the artifact. But then you are back to editing like you do in Melodyne 4 where you separate everything.

I think everyone experiencing these issues should send something to Celemony about it. I sent one and they sent me back that the prior update should have fixed the problem, but it didn't. I'm still hearing artifacts on Esses, etc until I split them from the notes.

I am having the same problems (Pro Tools 2020.6).

I've written to Celemony support, and they asked for sound samples illustrating the problem. I sent them samples, along with a video showing other glitchy behavior, and they did reply, but would not acknowledge any issues with version 5.

Their help-center (http://helpcenter.celemony.com/M5/do...h?env=proTools) implies that they do not support Pro Tools 2020. I asked them whether or not this is true, and didn't get a reply.

I love the new features, but version 5 is overall sonically glitchy as compared to ver 4. I wish they would acknowledge the issues described by many users in this thread, and say that they're working on it.

Yeah, there was even an issue in version 4.2 that wasn't present in 4.1 - scrolling with the magic mouse in the edit window got significantly slowed down/laggy in standalone. I was beta testing for celemony at the time so I sent a bunch of videos, a session, as much as I could to illustrate the issue, but they wouldn't acknowledge the problem. Other colleagues have done the same to no avail.

I'm perfectly happy staying on 4.1.1 - it's the snappiest, most responsive, and most stable version I've used in recent memory. Workflow is the top priority!

Precisely my experience too! As a beta tester I got completely ignored after raising a problem. I also decided to not bother with version 5. Version 4.1.1 might be my last version for a very long time and it works great.

Of all the deleted comments, I really liked Will The Weirdo's best
A poll to ask everyone would be conspicuous anyway

Have you tried adjusting the algorithm?

Can anyone comment on how well the DNA Polyphonic tuning works with piano tracks? Also, will it work with choirs? I'm enquiring to see if it is worth upgrading to the Editor version over Assistant?

Thinking about potentially upgrading to Studio 5 from 4 but would really appreciate peoples' opinions who are currently using 5 whether it might be better to hold off for a little longer or whether everything is working sufficiently well now...

Thanks.

How was it moving from assistant to editor? What kind of functionality did you gain? I'm debating between the two options right now and can't figure out if it only adds polyphonic editing, or what.

Did you ever get any insight as to the differences between Assistant and Editor?

All I can say is I used it when it was Melodyne Assistant v4-to-Editor 4, then when v5 came out I lucked into that, and it was a big mess now ! It didn't live up to what I wanted it to do and when the first update came out I got that installed but I haven't messed with it since. I'm considering selling it but have never transferred an iLok license and it seems pretty scary.

Tip: get the demo and really go over it. You'll know if its for you or not pretty quickly.

Does anyone else feel like this upgrade is way worse than 4?

I only started really using Melodyne intensely in the last year or so but the new version seems to detect way less sensitively, so I have to go in and chop everything up. Instead there's a bunch of slide notes everywhere, how am I supposed to tune that?

Does anyone know how to tune slide notes actually? It's like if I break the note up and put them where they're supposed to be it sounds robotic, but if I leave it unbroken then the notes aren't accurate

I am also wondering whether anyone can comment on their experiences with version 5 -vs- version 4. Thanks.

Supply 30 seconds of audio with your choosen piano and tel me what you want doing with it - I'm happy to have a go and post the results.

Hi. Thanks for the offer. I have bought Melodyne 5 Editor now and it is excellent! A huge step up from VariAudio in Cubase!

I use Auto Tune, Melodyn, VariAudio and Revoice pro.

Autotune only when i really want the "auto tune" Effect.
Melodyn most of the time cause quality and ease of use gives me the best over all user experience. I like 5.
Revoice pro sounds the best imo but its a pita to use.
And variaudio just dont sound good enough.

Of course my personal opinion. So best to try for urself

Yeah I'm sticking with 4.1.1, the last version before the laggy scrolling bug was introduced. I'm not huge on the new features - I just need to tune a lot of vocals tastefully and efficiently, and I think melodyne reached its peak at 4.1.1. Version 5 is a lot slower and more cumbersome to use for me.

Does the timing stuff in Melodyne 5 stack up decently to Vocalign now?

No because Vocalign can automatically align time and pitch on many tracks in seconds.

Vielklang has the absolute best sounding pitch correction out of all of these.... unfortunately the workflow is cumbersome. I've pleaded with the developer to add ARA 2 to Vielklang, if he does it's game over as it's just so much more natural sounding IMHO. If you get a chance to demo it do it.

I wanna say that I still haven't upgraded to windows 10 and I'm still stuck with my non-functioning Melodyne 5 because of it. But I know you've mentioned Vielklang before - not sure if in this thread or another - like months ago and I ended up demoing it and buying it and that's what I've been using the past few months which is why I haven't bothered to roll back to Melodyne 4.

Clunky as all hell and a bit wonky - the vocals never import in the right place so I always have to slide them to the right measure before I work, but I do agree, the pitch correction is phenomenal so I put up with the clunkiness because of it.

Ara2 would be amazing. Great suggestion - thanks for mentioning it a few months back. Even if I eventually upgrade to Windows 10 and get Melodyne 5 to function, I'm not even sure at this point that I'd go back.

haha .. right now I really dont want another Pitch software. But when they add ARA I have to do it .. thanks for the hint ... I will save it somewhere

Yeah, I have to nudge too, glad you love it. I keep saying it but if they make Vielklang ARA it's OVER for every other pitch software for proper pitch correction.

Ι think Vocalign can automatically align only time between 2 or more tracks.
The one which is doing both time and pitch alignment is the Revoice Pro.