Melodyne Editor released – Change your audio world!

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melodyne-editor-2It’s here, it’s arrived, and quite frankly, it’s gonna change your world of audio manipulation completely. In its new ‘now known as’ guise, Celemony’s ‘Melodyne Editor‘ is about to become the de facto application for analysing, editing, morphing, blending, removing and supplementing polyphonic audio content. We blogged about this ‘D.N.A. (direct note access) miracle a few months ago when it was in beta mode, but today’s actual release puts a stupidly gargantuan amount of power and creativity at the pro-audio users fingertips.

So just how is Melodyne Editor, gonna rock your world? Applications are numerous and exciting. It’s first and foremost ability is, and I quote from my previous blog: “Feed in for example a piano line full of chords and single notes, and DNA will allow the user to change tuning, formant, volume, duration and timing of any individual note or group of notes” I mean ‘really?!?! Well, yes.. it does. That single statement alone would bestow the equivalent of the Pulitzer prize to Celemony for just how radically it will change your workflow, boost your creativity, and even become a scientific learning tool for the further understanding of musical theory and getting inside the minds of great musicians.

melodyne editorFor audio engineers (and let’s face it, we all either dabble or obsess in this area), Melodyne Editor permits such real time manipulation of (and I have to stress this word again) polyphonic material, even down to the nitty gritty of nuances and performance aspects, that it actually makes this application pretty scary in terms of what it can achieve for you. As somewhat of an added bonus, ‘Editor’ has, on occasions, the potential to partially remove a vocal from a performance, which opens up all manor of analysis sessions and oh yes, ‘fun’ for DJ/Producer/Mash Up fans. With that in mind, and the software’s many other mind-freakin’ possibilities, I for one am looking forward to doing a full review for DV247 in the forthcoming days. Remember to RSS this blog, as you definitely do not want to miss that one.

This software’s power curve is steep and possibly endless, and with some great v.f.m. upgrade deals on previous Melodyne incarnations over at DV and already in place, there’s really no excuse not to jump aboard this next generation starship of a programme – Engage!

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Paul Dakeyne is a DJ/Producer who has dedicated the past two decades of his life to dance music production and DJ'ing. For six years, he toured globally for the world famous Ministry of Sound and has played DJ sets for the likes of U2 and for the legendary, Kraftwerk, Although remixing around 250 records in his career, as an artist in his own right, Paul landed one of dance music's seminal crossover moments with his "18 Strings' monster hit by Tinman - scoring a UK top ten in 1994. He also co-wrote and produced the music for BBC's Watchdog and Crimewatch when they were both revamped in 2001 and '06 respectively. His other career highlights have included an A&R stint for Mercury Records, lecturing in 'DJ culture and music technology' and creating mash-up mixes for Radio 1's, Chris Moyles. Paul joined the DV group in 2003 leading to his role as blog and feature author here at the DV Mag.

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One Response to “Melodyne Editor released – Change your audio world!”

  1. totti says:
    June 28, 2010 at 15:06

    I was playing a gig and recording it,but the mc spoke during the recording.so i am asking if there is a software that i can use to remove it.thanks

      

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