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1. In this document where we use the term Command key we mean the key on the Mac described either as the Command Key or the Apple Key on a PC it Is marked Ctrl The other keys used have the same names on the Mac as the PC Transfer Before you can work with Melodyne essential RTAS you must first transfer to it from Pro Tools the passages you wish to edit each passage is played back by Pro Tools and recorded simultaneously by Melodyne essential only then after a short pause as the material is analyzed is it ready for editing The plug in does not operate in any conventional sense like a real time insert effect e Activate the Transfer key in Melodyne essential play the desired track segment in Pro Tools and when it s finished stop the playback in Pro Tools You can transfer multiple extracts from different regions of the Pro Tools track Replace Ranges During playback after one or several transfers those passages that have been transferred to Melodyne essential will be played back by Melodyne essential all other parts of the original track by Pro Tools From the View menu choose Show Replace Ranges All sections or regions that will be played back by Melodyne essential as opposed to Pro Tools will now be marked Such regions can be extended simply by dragging their borders with the mouse To shorten a playback region delete a few blobs and select Set Replace Ranges to Notes from the context menu of the
2. Displaying navigating and playing back audio Related topics e Checking and editing the note detection within melodic material e Checking and editing the note detection within rhythmic material e Working with the Main Tool e Managing transferred audio files and assigning missing files Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 19 Displaying navigating and playing back audio Playback navigation and zooming In this tour you will learn how to navigate through Melodyne essential s blobs play them back and zoom the display to suit your wishes SUMMARY 20 e Playback functions when Pro Tools is stopped e Click in the Bar Ruler to position the Playback cursor e Double click in the Bar Ruler to start playback from that position e Alt double click anywhere in the Bar Ruler to play back the current selection e Pressing the Spacebar stops the local playback of Melodyne essential e Use the Arrow keys to select and play the next previous blob e Click in the Bar Ruler to stop the playback and position the playback cursor e Click and drag in the Bar Ruler to commence scrubbing Navigation and zoom functions e To resize the window drag the bottom right corner e Hold down the Command key and drag the editing background to move the area displayed e Use the Mouse Wheel to scroll up and down or else holding the Shift key left and right e Command Alt drag in the editing area to zoom the display horizontally and o
3. 38 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid Defining the Pitch Grid Scale and Reference Pitch In this tour you will learn how to activate and deactivate the Pitch Grid when moving notes and how you can use a scale as a grid When a scale is selected and you move notes these will gravitate only towards tones that belong to that scale e When moving notes vertically either no grid a semitone grid or a scale grid can be active e To define a scale grid first the tonality must be selected then the scale pat tern itself e If you hold down the Alt key when moving notes the Grid has no effect SUMMARY e You can change the frequency of the Reference Tone A the new setting can be used as the default for new documents Setting the Pitch Grid Click at the intersection between the Time and Pitch Rulers to open a context menu of grid options You can open the same menu by right clicking on the Pitch Ruler If from the Pitch Grid menu you select No Snap you can move notes freely in pitch When the Pitch Grid is inactive no lines separate the notes in the Pitch Ruler 0 Time Grid gt View gt Semitone Snap x Scale Snap Select Scale gt Reference Pitch If you select Semitone Snap notes will gravitate towards the nearest semitone when moved The same offset if any as exists between the pitch of a tone prior to its being moved and the nearest sem
4. Notice that as you move the beginning or end of a note in this way the preced ing or following note if adjacent is either stretched or compressed by the same amount to avoid either the two notes overlapping or white space silence appear ing between them This happens whenever a Pitch Transition between the two notes has been detected w You can deactivate this pitch transition and with it the mutual interdependence of the two notes simply by tearing them apart i e dragging one of them to a new location A bracket then appears at the point of rupture this indicates that the two notes are now fully independent You can drag notes that have been torn apart or copied to positions that overlap thereby creating polyphony aS me S Editing note separations If you move the mouse pointer to the upper part of a note above the horizontal line the Main Tool adopts the appearance and emulates the functions of the Note Separation Tool If you double click now you can create a note separation i e Slice the note in two 62 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Selecting and editing audio notes Don t be surprised if the two notes that result move apart in pitch this is because a new tonal center is calculated for each of the newly created notes and that may differ from the tonal center they shared when they were one note In such cases each therefore moves to a new vertical position based on its newly calcula
5. essential RTAS user manual Melodyne essential RTAS user manual This documentation refers to Melodyne essential RTAS 1 0 Authors Uwe G Hoenig Stefan Lindlahr Alex Schmidt Translation Ewan Whyte Layout Saskia K lliker Celemony Software GmbH Valleystr 25 81371 M nchen Germany www celemony com Support 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 agree ment 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 con tained 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 Melodyne and DNA Direct Note Access areregistered trademarks of Celemony Software GmbH All product and company names are registered trademarks or brands of their respective holders Apple Mac AudioUnit and Mac OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Inc in the United States and or other countries Windows XP Vista and Windows 7 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corpo ration in the USA and or other countries Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation AMD is a
6. Bar Ruler Detection and algorithms The audio material must first of all be analyzed by Melodyne essential so that notes within it can be detected and later edited Melodyne essential can edit monophonic melodic and rhythmic unpitched material It is Melodyne essential itself that decides based on its own analysis what type of material it is You can however manually select a different playback algorithm to force the program to Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 11 For those in a hurry Melodyne essential in 10 minutes reanalyze the material This can be useful if the material has been interpreted in a way that makes it unsuitable for your editing needs You might wish to switch from algorithm to algorithm anyway simply to experiment with different representations of the material Melodyne essential affords e Select the other algorithm from the Algorithms menu to force a reinterpretation of the material Editing the detection With melodic material a tone may occasionally be confused with the same note an octave higher or lower Before editing such material you need to reassign these notes correctly otherwise tonal artifacts could be produced when the material comes to be edited Select the Note Assignment Tool which is set slightly apart from the others to switch to Note Assignment mode To quit Note Assignment mode simply select some other tool e The Note Assignment Tool switches to Note Assignment mode where notes dete
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8. Pitch Grid Scale and Reference Pitch 24 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Displaying navigating and playing back audio Activating and setting a cycle range In this tour you will learn how to perform cycling using Melodyne essential Cycling here means playing a selected passage repeatedly in a loop You can only activate Cycle Mode when Pro Tools is stopped If Pro Tools is run ning any cycling like the playback itself is controlled by it e Drag horizontally in the lower part of the Bar Ruler to define the Cycle Zone e Double click in the cycle zone to toggle Cycle Mode on and off e To move either of the cycle locators simply click on it and drag e Drag the center of the Cycle Zone to move the entire zone to the left or right e If active the selected Time Grid influences the position of the Cycle Locators e Holding the Alt key as you drag the Cycle Locators causes the Time Grid to be ignored SUMMARY e Shift clicking near a Cycle Locator moves it to the position designed e Shift double clicking anywhere in the Cycle Zone moves the loca tors to the first and last selected blob snapping to the nearest grid line Shift Alt double clicking moves them directly to the beginning of the first and end of the last blob in the selection ignoring the grid The procedure To define a cycle range click and drag in the lower part of the Bar Ruler If as you do so you hold down the Alt key th
9. agreement between the displayed notes and to create the es sential foundation for subsequent editing N C 32 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Checking and editing the note detection Against the editing background you see in this mode solid active and hollow potential notes The active notes are those for which Melodyne essential in the course of the detection has assigned the greatest plausibility The program proceeds on the assumption that these are the notes that were actually played and can be heard in the material The hollow potential notes represent alternative notes with the next highest plausibility It might also be these notes that are heard in the material although the probability is greater that the active notes are the right ones It is a question here of recognizing the right notes in the audio material and although Melodyne essential has a high hit quota the detection can sometimes be wrong In the illustration above for example you will see an octave beneath the active detected notes the same notes again but this time as hollow potential notes The reason Melodyne essential cannot be sure whether the sound of the recorded in strument might not have a pronounced overtone an octave above the fundamental If it has such an overtone it could be that the entire melody has been detected an octave too high The octave beneath the detected notes in other words is the next most pla
10. by default if you now open the Quantize Time macro with no notes selected and begin making changes all notes will be affected except these If you wish the position of these also to be affected by the macro check Include notes already edited manually The option is grayed out of course as being of no relevance if no manual editing of note positions has been performed notes already edited manually Cancel Exit with OK to keep your changes or Cancel to discard them Naturally the fact that you have used the Quantize Time macro in no way precludes your moving notes at any time subsequently by hand If you select a note that has already been edited using the macro and then open the macro again the settings previously applied to it will be displayed the macro remembers in other words the parameters previously applied to each note If the current selection includes notes to which different settings have been applied a mean value for each parameter will be displayed Even after exiting with OK you can still reverse the effects of the macro editing by using the Undo function Related topics e Selecting notes e Time Grid selection Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 59 Selecting and editing audio notes Working with the Main Tool In this tour you will learn how to work with Melodyne essential s Main Tool The Main Tool is context sensitive and therefore exercises different functions de pending
11. notes that have been 54 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Selecting and editing audio notes tuned manually are not affected by the macro If you wish the pitch of these also to be affected by the macro check Include notes already edited manually The option is grayed out of course as being of no relevance if no manual editing of intonation has been performed Fo notes already edited manually Cancel Exit with OK to keep your changes or Cancel to discard them Naturally the fact that you have used the Correct Intonation macro in no way precludes your fine tuning notes at any time subsequently by hand If you select a note that has already been edited using the macro and then open the macro again the settings previously applied to it will be displayed the macro remembers in other words the parameters previously applied to each note If the current selection includes notes to which different settings have been applied a mean value for each parameter will be displayed Even after exiting with OK you can still reverse the effects of the macro editing by using the Undo function Related topics e Selecting notes e Defining the Pitch Grid Scale and Reference Pitch Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 55 Selecting and editing audio notes Correcting timing with the Macro In this tour you will learn how to work with the Quantize Time macro in order to correct the timing of notes swiftly and ea
12. rial and how to reassign notes Occasionally the pitch of a note may on account of its pronounced overtone con tent be displayed an octave too high or there may be a note separation too many or too few among the detected tones You can correct these things very easily e To reassign falsely detected notes either double click the right potential note or drag the wrong note to the correct pitch e Use the Monitoring Synthesizer to hear the detected melody divorced from the original sound which facilitates the checking process e Set or remove note separations by double clicking in the upper part of the note or move existing note separations for which purpose the option Show Note Separations must be selected in the Preferences menu SUMMARY The procedure After transferring or loading audio select the Note Assignment tool which is set Slightly apart from the others to change to Note Assignment mode Please note that for technical reasons when you switch to this mode the Undo history will be deleted so any actions taken prior to the mode change cannot subsequently be undone a The editing background Is indicated by different coloring to remind you that in Note Assignment mode no audible editing of the notes takes place In this mode you check through and alter Melodyne essential s interpretation of the notes in the audio material You assign falsely interpreted notes to the correct pitches in order to achieve perfect
13. slave to Pro Tools It is not possible to start stop or reposition Pro Tools playback cursor from within Melodyne essential As soon as Melodyne essential has been opened and is in the foreground you can use the Shift Alt Command keys as well as the Arrow keys for working within Melodyne essential but all the transport functions and keyboard commands of your computer keyboard will continue to govern Pro Tools You can select successive blobs in the display by stepping through them with the Arrow keys on the computer keyboard As each blob is selected the tone it represents will sound Controlling playback and scrubbing using the Bar Ruler These functions are only available when Pro Tools is stopped As soon as Pro Tools starts again Melodyne essential reverts to the slave status described above and resumes its shadowing of Pro Tools Double click in the Bar Ruler or alternatively directly on the editing background to commence playback from the position in question If you hold down the AIt key as you double click playback will be confined to the current selection Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 21 Displaying navigating and playing back audio Click somewhere in the Bar Ruler to move the playback cursor to that point at the same time stopping the playback Ce P Click and drag in the Bar Ruler to scrub through the audio material Navigating through the blobs and zooming Select the Scroll To
14. this causes the sound of a synthesizer to replace the normal sound of each blob To turn the knob click on it and drag the mouse pointer to the right or left thereby increasing or decreasing respec tively the volume of the synthesized sound v But why should you do this Simple The Monitoring Synthesizer allows you to hear the notes that you can see and that are currently active making it easy to check whether these notes correspond to those that can be heard in the material Think of the solid blobs as representing a transcription of the music in the audio file The synthesizer allows you now to check this transcription with a MIDI tone generator and therefore easily determine whether all the notes are at the right octave You can carry on reassigning notes as described above and arrive more swiftly at the ideal where the solid blobs displayed represent all and only the notes actually played Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 35 Checking and editing the note detection Note separation When you place the mouse pointer somewhat above a blob the arrow turns into the Note Separation Tool With this you can separate notes or remove separations in exactly the same way as when the Main Tool undergoes the same transforma tion Leaving Note Assignment mode To quit Note Assignment Mode simply select one of the other tools As you leave the mode based on your changes the detection will perform a fresh analysis which c
15. this tour you will learn about the options Melodyne essential offers you for working with your audio notes All the following options are to be found in the View menu e Auto Scroll makes the display track the playback cursor e Show Pitch Curve shows the exact pitch of each tone at each instant e Show Note Separations indicates the borders of notes by means of vertical lines e Show Blob Info facilitates use of the context sensitive tools and draws a second pitch ruler SUMMARY e Show Intended Notes draws frames indicating to which beat tones are as signed e Show Playback Regions draws the ruler more palely wherever Plugin rather than Pro Tools is to be heard during playback Auto Scroll If you activate auto scrolling by checking the Auto Scroll entry in the menu the note display in Melodyne essential will follow the playback cursor Algorithm Help 120 00 Show Pitch Curve k ee 09 j Show Note Separations Show Blob Info Show Intended Notes L 4 a Show Replace Ranges 4 If you have selected one or several notes Melodyne essential assumes that you want to see the selection and edit it For this reason the Auto Scroll function is temporarily deactivated at such times As soon as the note s are deselected as a result for example of your clicking in the editing background the display will resume tracking the playback cursor Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 27 Displaying navigat
16. will not form part of the grid nor will blobs gravitate towards them during quantization First activate the option Scale Snap To set the scale select from the Pitch Grid gt Select Scale cascading menus first the tonality or tonic then the scale or mode itself When a scale based Pitch Grid is active notes not included in the scale are grayed out in the Pitch Ruler and a bold line appears in each octave beneath the tonic Timing Grid No Snap View 7 Semitone Snap ST v Scale Snap e Select Scale Cc I Reference Pitch aw F eee Major Minor Natural h S c mam Minor Harmonic Minor Melodic lonian Major Dorian Phrygian m Lydian gt SF an 40 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid You can later switch freely between No Snap Semitone Snap and Scale Snap in the Pitch Grid menu without your scale selection being lost If you now double click on a blob or one of a selection of blobs with the Pitch Tool the tone or tones they represent will snap to the nearest degree of the scale selected If you hold the Alt key as you move one or more notes upwards or downwards in pitch you will be able to position them freely in other words the Pitch Grid even if active will have no effect Selecting a reference pitch If instead of Concert Pitch A 440 Hz you want to adopt some other standard and for the Pit
17. This is invariably aligned with the grid line that represents the beat to which Melodyne essential in the course of its analysis assigned the note On the whole the system functions very well but it can happen that Melodyne essential gets it wrong and that after Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 57 Selecting and editing audio notes quantization you have to move the note manually to the preceding or following beat By selecting None in other words you are telling the Quantize Time macro to move notes to or towards the beats assigned them by Melodyne essential based on its own analysis of the material None is not the only option of course which explains the presence of the radio buttons to its left If you select 1 4 as the groove reference to give one example the grey frames will move to the nearest quarter note or crotchet and this will then become the ultimate destination for any quantization The quantization is in telligent coherent phrases made up of short notes remain together and these are moved en bloc in the direction of the quarter note So Melodyne does not move all notes mechanically to the gridlines during quantization but rather moves your material s points of rhythmic emphasis there The Intensity slider determines what percentage of the distance to this ultimate destination the notes will travel in the course of quantization If you select 0 for example they ll not budge 50 a
18. Tools timeline Clicking the Transfer button during playback by Pro Tools toggles Melodyne essential s Enable Transfer function on and off enabling you to transfer only the passages you wish to edit In other words you can punch in and out as the playback proceeds Alternatively as you reach the end of each of the passages you wish to transfer you can halt the playback in Pro Tools find the start of the next passage transfer enable Melodyne essential again recommence playback in Pro Tools stop it again and so on If you wish you can just transfer the entire track to Melodyne essential or even several tracks simulta neously to multiple instances of the plug in Replace Ranges During playback those passages that have been transferred to Melodyne essential will be played back by Melodyne essential all others by Pro Tools In other words wherever it has material to play back Melodyne essential s signal replaces that of the original track From the View menu choose Show Replace Ranges All the passages that will be played back by Melodyne essential as opposed to the host will now be marked Such regions can be extended simply by dragging their borders with the mouse To shorten a playback region delete a few blobs and select Set Replace Ranges to Notes from the context menu of the Bar Ruler 1 v Activate Grid v Dynamic Bar v 1 4 1 8 1 16 1 32 Triplets Seconds 18 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual
19. al is access ing files that are stored in two different locations Regardless of how this situa tion came about there s a simple remedy select in the File Manager once again the desired project path this can even be the same path as already entered The renewed selection of the project path causes Melodyne essential to move all the files in use to the chosen location thereby solving the problem of the scattered files Related topics e Transferring audio material to Melodyne essential e The Preferences of Melodyne essential Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 73 File Management and Preferences The Preferences of Melodyne essential In this tour you will learn about Melodyne essential s Preferences e The Preferences property sheet governs Melodyne essential s language refer ence tone update schedule and default path for transfers SUMMARY The various settings and their significance Open the Preferences window in the Settings menu Edit Algorithm View He File Manager 1 120 000 e 1 The Preferences window offers a number of options governing the behavior of Melodyne essential Language English Reference Pitch 440 0 Hz This Version Melodyne essential 1 0 6 b 077 Check for Updates Weekly Last Check 11 04 2009 11 43 Status version is up to date Next Check 11 11 2009 Default Path for Transfers Users media V Extended Keyboard Support _ Dete
20. ases where you haven t specified a project path For example when you perform your first transfer without having set a specific project path the cur rent Default Path for Transfers will be used as your project path You can change the Project Path for Transfers later on In other words changing the deafult path will not influence your current session since this session already has its own project path which is either a specific loca tion given by you at some point in time or still the old Default Path for Transfers that was taken as a project path during your first transfer Changing the default Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 71 File Management and Preferences path therefore only has an influence on future sessions and not on the current session This choice only has to be made once and affects all instances of Melodyne es sential that are used After choosing a new storage location save your Pro Tools project to update the references to the files Deleting unwanted files The list in the File Manager shows you the audio files of all segments that have been transferred to the relevant instance of Melodyne essential The entries for those segments all the notes of which have been deleted in Melodyne essential that are unused in other words are displayed in gray whereas those in use are displayed in black The audio files appertaining to no longer used segments are retained and not automatically deleted so that y
21. asis for intonation correction If a note wavers slightly in pitch it cannot be guaranteed that after 100 correction has been applied it will sound right at the new pitch especially since what is the correct pitch at any given moment depends upon the musical context When editing intonation trust your ears first and foremost rather than whether the pitch of the note looks right or not Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 53 Selecting and editing audio notes The processes involved are no different in principle whether intonation is correct ed automatically with the Correct Intonation macro or by hand with the Main Tool Oe ee rd With the lower slider you can progressively reduce the amount of pitch drift exhib ited by the notes in question By pitch drift we mean the kind of slow wavering in pitch that is symptomatic of poor technique More rapid fluctuations in pitch such as pitch modulation or vibrato remain unaffected You can modify both intonation parameters in real time as the audio plays back and hear but also see by the movement of the blobs in the editing area the ef fect of different settings If you have already fine tuned notes using the Pitch Tool Melodyne essential will assume you are satisfied with the results this means that by default if you now open the Correct Intonation macro with no notes selected and begin making changes all notes will be affected except these By default
22. ay it should at www celemony com we re always there for you We hope your work with Melodyne essential will be productive and that you ll have fun with it at the same time Kindest regards all at Celemony Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 5 Melodyne essential Introduction Melodyne essential Introduction About this manual This manual deals with the actual operation and use of Melodyne essential You will find information about the installation and activation of the program in a separate document We know no one likes reading user manuals It s far more exciting just to dive in and pick up the essentials as you work So as not to bore you unnecessarily and as far as possible reduce your error rate as you investigate Melodyne essential we have condensed the essence of everything worth knowing into a short section that you will find at the end of the introductory chapter For those in a hurry Melodyne essential in 10 minutes Inveterate hater of user manuals or the most wised up of pros we do still urge you to read this section because at the end of the day it will cost you more time not to read it than to read it For those of you that are rather more receptive to user manuals we would like at this point to draw your attention to what else here is on offer e This introductory chapter contains in addition to the crash course already men tioned a few general explanations that should help to give you a better pic
23. ch Ruler to move up or down accordingly select Reference Pitch from the Pitch Grid menu Time Grid gt No Snap View gt v Semitone Snap Scale Snap Select Scale gt Reference Pitch XN A small window opens allowing you to assign A to some other frequency Here your setting only applies to the passages transferred to the current instance of Melodyne essential You can however make this setting the new default in which case the value for the Reference Pitch in the Preferences will be changed automatically A 440H2 s Make this the default a CO Cancebi bem OK The combo box in the Reference Pitch window may contain several suggestions from which you can choose a new reference pitch otherwise you can type in the value of your choice The frequencies Melodyne essential offers for your consid eration are based upon its earlier analysis of the audio material If for example Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 41 Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid you have transferred to Melodyne essential the recording of an instrument tuned Slightly lower than normal Melodyne essential will take note of that fact as it ana lyzes the material and you will find waiting for you as an option in the combo box when you open the window a new value for A based upon that analysis If you now select this value the entire ruler will move and the grid will match more closely the tones ac
24. ct audio after transfer to reduce CPU load 14 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual File Management and Preferences Top frame e Language determines the language of the user interface e Reference Pitch defines the frequency of the reference tone i e A e This Version states which version of Melodyne essential is currently installed e Check for updates lets you decide how often the program checks automatically for updates on the web e Check Now triggers an immediate search e Last Check Status Next Check the date of the most recent check what it ascer tained the date scheduled for the next check Bottom frame e Default Path for Transfers determines the general storage location for transfers e Extended Keyboard Support when this option is selected you can use the Arrow keys to navigate through the blobs and the Spacebar to stop the local playback in Melodyne essential when this is open If the option is not selected Pro Tools has the exclusive use of these keys e Detect audio after transfer If you activate this option the analysis of the audio material only begins when the transfer has been completed rather than during it thereby considerably reducing the load on the computer Activate this option therefore on less powerful computers if during the transfer bottlenecks occur indicated by clicks dropouts extreme slowing down etc Related topics e Transferring audio material to Melodyne essential e Time
25. cted on wrong pitches can be moved to their right pitches e The waveform icon beside it switches from the original sound to the Monitoring Synthesizer of which it is also the volume control The Monitoring Synthesizer makes it easier to discern whether or not the assigned notes correspond to those actually played e Shift double click in the Bar Ruler switches the playback between the original sound and the Monitoring Synthesizer User interface and navigation All the detected tones are displayed as blobs in the editing area The size of the editing area can be altered and the blob display zoomed and scrolled e To resize the window also in Plugin drag the bottom right corner e Hold down the Command key and drag the editing background to move the area displayed same functionality as the Hand Tool e Use the Mouse Wheel to scroll up and down or else holding the Shift key left and right e Press Command IAlt and drag in the editing area to zoom the display horizon tally and or vertically same functionality as the Magnifying Glass e Press Command Alt and use the Mouse Wheel to zoom both axes simultane ously 12 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual For those in a hurry Melodyne essential in 10 minutes e Press Command and double click to zoom in on a blob or the current selection e Press Command and double click in the editing background to zoom back e Drag the Scrollers to move the display horizontally or vertica
26. d between the two rulers can be restored To do this proceed as follows While the Tempo dialog is open stop the playback in Pro Tools and move its playback cursor to a position prior to the variation in tempo Now for the benefit of Melodyne essential play through the entire passage in Pro Tools containing the tempo variation until a level tempo is once again reached Note you should always play through the entire passage containing the tempo variation beginning with one level tempo and ending when a new level tempo is reached even if you have only changed a small passage within the tempo variation When you have done so you will notice that the Tempo window has been updated to display the newly acquired information Have you changed the tempo in the DAW If so is this a new fixed tempo for the whole song or a tempo variation within it Constant Tempo Tempo Variation 108 000 BPM 120 000 BPM SWStretch Audio Cancel Specify once more whether you want the audio material itself to be stretched or compressed to reflect the tempo variation or simply the grid Exit with OK to apply your settings or Cancel to discard them Related topics e Transferring audio material to Melodyne essential 48 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Selecting and editing audio notes Selecting notes In this tour you will learn which techniques you can use to select notes in Melo dyne essential prior to editing
27. d down the Alt key as you drag the note the Pitch or Time Grid even if active will temporarily be ignored allowing you to position the note exactly where you want it 60 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Selecting and editing audio notes es xan Modifying note lengths In the View menu check the option Show Blob Info Zoom in on a few individual blobs so that you can study them more closely Now as you move the mouse pointer over a blob thin lines appear indicating the zones in which the Main Tool performs particular functions For illustrative purposes the lines here have been drawn more boldly than in the program itself The central area you already know about Different are the front back and upper regions of the blob As you move the mouse pointer from one of these regions to another it changes its appearance to emulate whichever of the more specialized tools is most appropriate to that zone adopting its functions at the same time Drag the front part of the note to the right or left Hold down the Alt key as you do so to position the note more finely than the Time Grid if active will allow Now only the beginning of the note moves the end remains anchored so the note is either being stretched or compressed In the same way you can move only the rightmost part of the blob corresponding to the end of the note Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 61 Selecting and editing audio notes e R
28. d or set to Seconds the beginning of the note will be perfectly aligned with the playback cursor Again its length will remain unchanged 3 Replacing a note If after copying a note you select another note prior to pasting the selected note will be replaced In the context of adjacent notes the pasted note will be time stretched or compressed until its length is the same as that of the note it is replacing The note pasted does retain however its original pitch Here for exam ple if you were to copy the selected note select a second note Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 65 Selecting and editing audio notes and then paste the second note would disappear The note copied would oc cupy the same space in time beginning at the same instant and lasting the same amount of time but would sound at the same pitch as it did before Of course you will be able to drag the new note subsequently to any pitch you like including that of the note replaced When replacing notes in this way the Time Grid settings are of no relevance Copying and pasting multiple notes If several notes are copied and pasted simultaneously the following rules apply If we begin with these notes and copy them W lf no other notes are selected and the Time Grid activated when pasted both notes as we saw earlier with an individual note will be inserted at positions be ginning with the quarter note gridline closest to the
29. dio as to the intended pitch of the note and its intended position within the measure or bar These assumptions generally turn out to be correct but are not inevitably so They are to be thought of as suggestions The frames also display the positions in pitch and time towards which the notes in question will gravitate if partial quantization is applied to them with the macros Man s Show Replace Ranges If you check this option those passages will be indicated that have been trans ferred to Melodyne essential from your host and for the playback of which in consequence the plug in rather than Pro Tools is responsible Algorithm U Help SSS v Auto Scroll b 120 000 Show Pitch Curve es 09 a Show Note Separations Show Blob Info i SS E ss Show Intended Notes ER Sho epiac Ranges f 4 30 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Displaying navigating and playing back audio This information is conveyed by the fact that the ruler is shaded more palely throughout the entire length of all such passages Related topics e Playback navigation and zooming e Time Grid selection e Defining the Pitch Grid Scale and Reference Pitch Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 31 Checking and editing the note detection Checking and editing the note detection within melodic material In this tour you will learn how to check the note detection in monophonic mate
30. dio segments that Melodyne essential generates during transfer e From the Preferences you can select a default path to serve as the general storage location for transfers e In the File Manager you can at any time select a project path for transfers which will cause the data of all instances of Plugin to be moved to an indi vidual location in which newly transferred segments will also be stored e The File Manager allows you to delete unused files either from one or all instances SUMMARY e Through a further selection of the project path for transfers you can gather scattered files and move them to the desired storage location The Default Path for Transfers With each transfer Melodyne essential creates an audio file for the transferred passage All such files are needed for the playback in Melodyne essential and by default stored in a global location that you can select from Melodyne essential s Preferences page A Edit Algorithm View He File Manager z E ER 120 000 ej You can select a storage path other than the default one simply by clicking the button to the right of the entry Default Path for Transfers and navigating to the desired location Please bear in mind however that the new path will only take effect from the next project onwards and have no effect upon the current one To move the files of a particular project to a different location you should take advantage of the project fold
31. ds or beats If desired notes can also be made to snap to the nearest gridline as you drop them which means they should sound precisely on the beat e If the Time Grid is active tones are attracted to gridlines when moved hori zontally e The Grid can be set to a fixed note value or can adjust automatically to the zoom level e Any offset of tones from gridlines is retained when they are moved the move ment is influenced by the grid but notes do not necessarily finish exactly on the gridlines SUMMARY e If you hold down the Alt key when moving notes the Grid has no effect The procedure Click at the intersection between the Time and Pitch Rulers to open a context menu of grid options Alternatively open the menu by right clicking on the Time Ruler Eb As you move the mouse pointer over the first entry in the list Time Grid a cascad ing menu opens with which you can activate or deactivate the grid Pitch Grid Y Dynamic View D Bar w 1 4 oo E 1 8 6 1 16 1 32 Triplets Seconds Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 43 Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid When the grid is active the calibration markers extend from the top to the bottom of the Bar Ruler When the Grid is inactive these shrink to around a quarter the height of the ruler 1l 2 1 2 If you select the option Dynamic from the cascading Time Grid menu the grid will adjust automatically to the current horizontal zo
32. e Pitch centers and pitch drift e Include notes already edited manually Correcting timing with the Macro c cccccccececeeeceeeeeeeeseeeeeesseeeaeeeeaeaeaeeeeaes 56 The intended position Edit only selected or all notes Opening the Quantize Time macro e The groove references and the intensity of timing correction Include notes already edited manually Working with the Main TOool ccccccccceececeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeaeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeaees 60 Modify pitch Modify timing Modify note lengths e Edit note separations DV INS MOTOS se ssi peer cc eta in ena aeaa ab baud ausuadsacbanaduannd REA 64 Copying notes Pasting notes with and without target selection The significance of the Time Grid when pasting notes File Management and Preferences Managing transferred audio files and assigning missing files cccccceeeeeeees 70 Default and project related storage paths Deleting unused files e Reassigning missing files Repairing references to multiple storage locations The Preferences of Melodyne essential cccccccceececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeaeaees 74 Language of the interface Frequency of the reference pitch e Checking for updates The default path for transfers 4 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Melodyne essential Introduction Welcome Many thanks for your interest in Melodyne essential RTAS and a warm welcome to the circle of Melodyne
33. e Time Grid will be ignored allowing you to position the start and end points freely Double click on the cycle range to toggle Cycle Mode on and off When inactive the cycle range is light grey Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 25 Displaying navigating and playing back audio Drag the right or left hand borders of the cycle zone to alter its length If as you do so you hold down the Alt key the Time Grid will be ignored allowing you to position the start and end points freely Drag the middle of the cycle zone to move it en bloc to the left or right If as you do so you hold down the AIt key the Time Grid will be ignored If you Shift click near either of the cycle borders it will move to the desig nated position If as you do so you hold down the Alt key the Time Grid will be ignored To move the cycle locators to the beginning and end of the current blob selection Snapping to the grid hold the Shift key and double click anywhere in the Cycle Zone If you hold the Alt key as well as the Shift key as you do this instead of Snapping to the grid the locators will be placed at the beginning of the first and end of the last blob in the selection Related topics e Playback navigation and zooming e Time Grid selection e Selecting notes 26 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Displaying navigating and playing back audio Select display options In
34. er in the manner we are about to describe Default Path for Transfers Users media 70 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual File Management and Preferences Saving transferred files with a Pro Tools project Open after a few transfers have been performed the entry File Manager in Melo dyne essential s Settings menu e Edit Algorithm View He Preferences 120 000 e h In the File Manager window you will find a list of the transferred audio segments stored as files by Melodyne essential as well as a number of utility functions for these files If you wish to transfer a project to another computer it is necessary to transfer not only the project files from Pro Tools but also the audio files created by Melodyne essential since otherwise no further playback of such passages will be possible on the other computer Click the button next to the Project Path for Transfers item and select an individual and project related storage location for these files preferably the project folder of Pro Tools All the files already transferred will then be moved from the default storage location to the newly selected storage location for the project Project Path for Transfers Users media a 2 Files Name Location The Project Path for Transfers determines a folder that is used for all transfers in your current session The Default Path for Transfers determines a folder that is only used in c
35. ing and playing back audio Show Pitch Curve If you check the option Show Pitch Curve a thin line tracing the exact pitch of the tone at each instant will be superimposed on the corresponding blob Algorithm Help v Auto Scroll aes STII Show Pitch Curve he 9 Show Note Separations Show Blob Info ite 4 Show Intended Notes Show Replace Ranges 4 On the left you can see the naked blobs with none of the View options selected and to the right the same blobs with the Pitch Curve cote ao Show Note Separations If you select the option Show Note Separations gray vertical lines appear at the beginning and end of each note marking its boundaries Algorithm L Help v Auto Scroll 120 00 _ Show Pitch Curve Show Note Separations Show Blob Info a Show Intended Notes gt Show Replace Ranges 4 2 4 FP Note separations provide a clearer overview at times moreover they can be dragged using the Main Tool in order to move the frontiers between adjacent notes With notes that are fully or semi detached the note separation lines are replaced by somewhat bolder brackets These also can be moved as a way of trimming the beginnings or endings of notes or to set them further apart from the notes they precede or follow 28 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Displaying navigating and playing back audio Show Blob Info W
36. ing playback in all other places the Pro Tools track SUMMARY e The playback regions for Melodyne essential can be indicated in the display and edited in the Bar Ruler Transferring audio Open in Pro Tools the project you wish to edit Load Melodyne essential as an audio insert effect in the audio track containing the material you wish to edit Position Melodyne essential above any insert effects you may be using in the track if in doubt put it in the first insert slot For the analysis or detection to achieve the best possible results Melodyne essential needs to be given as dry and clean an input signal as possible Move the playback cursor in Pro Tools to a point before the beginning of the pas sage you wish to edit with Melodyne essential Click the Transfer button at the top left of the Melodyne essential window to prepare it to accept the transfer TARS eor 120 000 e Start Pro Tools to transfer the material which Melodyne essential will import automatically Stop the playback when the end of the passage you wish to edit is reached Stopping Pro Tools automatically brings to an end Melodyne essential s Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 17 Displaying navigating and playing back audio transfer readiness You can also interrupt a transfer in progress at any time by clicking the Transfer button If you wish you can transfer to Melodyne essential further passages from differ ent parts of the Pro
37. ith the option Show Blob Info you can elect to show or hide a variety of display elements designed to facilitate working with individual tones Algorithm Help Sad v Auto Scroll _ 120 00 Show Pitch Curve Show Note Separations 3 Show Intended Notes Pi Show Replace Ranges The most striking of these elements is an additional Pitch Ruler that appears di rectly in front of any note over which you move the mouse pointer Within the blob itself thin red lines mark the drag zones of the context sensitive tools If you drag a blob when the Show Blob Info option is checked a vertical line also appears in the Bar Ruler aligned with the exact start of the note This makes more precise positioning possible Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 29 Displaying navigating and playing back audio Show Intended Notes If you check the option Show Intended Notes what Melodyne has identified as the starting point of each note is indicated by a vertical red line and gray frames appear around each blob t Algorithm K Help roy v Auto Scroll i m 120 000 Show Pitch Curve he 2 r A Pi Show Note Separations Show Blob Info _ Show Intended Notes h Show Replace Ranges RP These invariably lie directly on the semitone and begin precisely on a gridline They represent in other words Melodyne s assumptions based on its own analy Sis of the au
38. itone will exist subsequently between that tone and the nearest semitone at its new location it will be sharp or flat in other Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 39 Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid words by the same amount When the Semitone Grid is active lines appear in the Pitch Ruler between all the notes of the chromatic scale 0 Time Grid gt Pi No Snap View gt Semitone Snap Scale Snap R Select Scale gt Reference Pitch Regarding the correct pitch Notes often fluctuate slightly in pitch so their posi tion is based on a mean pitch for the entire note which is something Melodyne essential has to calculate If a tone wavers slightly in pitch it cannot be guaran teed that after snapping directly to the nearest semitone it will sound right at the new pitch especially since correct pitch is not an absolute but something that depends at all times upon the musical context When editing intonation trust your ears first and foremost rather than your eyes the fact that a blob appears to be per fectly positioned does not invariably mean the tone it represents is perfectly in tune Selecting a scale As an alternative to semitones you can model the grid on any of a variety of scales A scale here is a subset of the twelve tones into which an octave is di vided options include major and minor scales as well as more esoteric varieties Notes not included in the scale selected
39. ld be applied to audio to take account of tempo changes Saving and making permanent your editing The contents of Melodyne essential are automatically saved with the Pro Tools project If you want to render permanent the contents of Melodyne essential as an audio file you must use Pro Tools Bounce function File management Each time audio material is transferred Melodyne essential makes a copy of the new segment These files are stored by default in the folder indicated by Settings gt Preferences gt Default Path for Transfers This is simply a central storage loca tion that is non project specific If you want to store files belonging to a particular project somewhere else such as the project folder you can change the path at any time now or in the future by choosing Settings gt File Manager gt Project Path for Transfers 16 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Displaying navigating and playing back audio Transferring audio material to Mielodyne essential In this tour you will learn how to transfer audio material to Melodyne essential as well as the fundamentals of its use e Before any editing can take place audio must be transferred from a Pro Tools track to Melodyne essential e The transfer readiness is activated with the Transfer button any number of extracts from any part of the Pro Tools track can be transferred e In the areas where material has been transferred it is Melodyne essential that is heard dur
40. lly e Drag the ends of the slider to zoom horizontally or vertically e Pull the left or right hand ends of the horizontal slider as far as they will go to increase the length of the section displayed important when for example you have only transferred the first four bars and wish to confine navigation to this area but wish to insert something at Bar 20 eDouble click the scrollers to zoom horizontally or vertically on all notes eThe slider in the bottom right corner governs the size of the blobs Playback functions When Pro Tools is stopped you can scrub through the material in the Bar Ruler and start the local playback of the plug in by double clicking on the Bar Ruler in the desired place It is not possible to control Pro Tools playback functions from within Melodyne essential Playback functions when Pro Tools is stopped e Click in the Bar Ruler to position the Playback cursor e Double click in the Bar Ruler to start playback from the place you click e Alt double click anywhere in the Bar Ruler to play back the current selection e With most hosts pressing the Spacebar stops the local Plugin playback e Use the Arrow keys to select and play the next previous blob e Click in the Bar Ruler to stop the playback and position the cursor e Click and drag in the Bar Ruler to perform scrubbing Cycle Mode In addition to local playback Melodyne essential offers a Cycle Mode which again can only be activated when Pro Tools is
41. lso you can Shift click or Shift drag to add or remove notes from the selection e In the Edit menu you will find the usual Select All command Copying and pasting Melodyne essential allows you to cut copy and paste blobs If prior to pasting a blob the source blob you select another the target blob when you paste the former will replace the latter If no blob is selected at the time of pasting the source blob will be pasted at the cursor position If however the blob was offset from the grid prior to copying it will be offset from the playback cursor after past ing and by the same amount if you want the insert point and the cursor position to coincide exactly set the Time Grid to Seconds prior to pasting Macros and tools The pitch and time correction macros reached via the buttons in the top right corner can be applied to a selection If no tones are selected the macro in ques tion operates on all the notes Manual editing is performed using Main Tool on the left in the Toolbox This tool is context sensitive offering different functions when moved over different parts of a blob For finer adjustment hold the Alt key when changing parameters You can also open the Toolbox by right clicking in the editing area 14 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual For those in a hurry Melodyne essential in 10 minutes The shortcut Command Up Down Arrow applies the primary functions of the Main Tool m
42. lways coincides exactly with a gridline If you now quantize notes the starting point of each note will snap to the beginning of its gray frame This is the fundamental principle of quantization in Melodyne essential It is important to understand however that what is regarded as the starting point of a note is not necessarily the exact left hand extremity of the blob you see on the screen Think of a brass instrument for example where each actual tone is often heralded by a certain amount of wind noise Admittedly this noise belongs to the note but from the standpoint of timing what is of relevance is the moment the tone really unfolds and the pitch first becomes discernible that is the timing critical moment so it is this that Melodyne essential regards as the starting point Use of the Quantize Time macro Select the notes you wish to edit If no notes are selected macro editing will by default affect all notes To open the Quantize Time macro click on the button in the top right corner of the window Correct Pitch Quantize Time First the groove reference if any that will govern the time correction must be selected i Select Groove Reference ol 4 E 144 1 2 4 7 a48 248 7 aga6 6T a32 1 327 la 4 z c If None is selected the target or ultimate destination of any quantization will be the left hand edge of the grey frame as already described
43. nd that it should adjust its own Bar Ruler accordingly If you want Melodyne essential to stretch or compress the audio material to reflect the new tempo check the box below Stretch Audio If you check this option Melodyne essential will employ time stretching or compression to adjust the material already transferred to the new tempo If on the other hand you clear this option only the grid beneath the audio material will change when tempo changes occur the audio material itself will not be influ enced A variation in tempo If the tempo change in Pro Tools applies only to part of the song select the option Tempo Variation in the Tempo window Have you changed the tempo in the DAW If so is this a new fixed tempo for the whole song or a tempo variation within it Constant Tempo Tempo Variation Play back all passages with tempo variations Stretch Audio Cancel 41 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid Melodyne essential is perfectly capable of registering tempo changes and im plementing them correctly without any assistance but it can only do so if they occur within a passage it has heard If a variation in tempo occurs between two transferred passages Melodyne essential is obviously in the dark For this reason you should play to Melodyne essential the passage containing the tempo variation so it can learn about it this way concor
44. nd they ll go half way 100 and they ll travel the full distance ending up precisely on the beat You can modify both the groove reference and the intensity of the quantization in real time as the audio plays back and hear but also see by the movement of the blobs in the editing area the effect of different settings Select Groove Reference Jaat ays a8 T a16 1s26 T 1 32 1 32 T None Intensity 80 Include notes already edited manually Experiment with the various possibilities but always when adjusting the timing of your audio rely on your ears rather than your eyes The timing may look correct without being so Besides it does not always make musical sense nor is it desir able for notes to snap directly to the Time Grid as the results then sound lifeless Furthermore Melodyne essential when assigning notes to their intended beats can get things wrong to the detriment of the ensuing quantization So regard the position of the notes after quantization as suggestions only and not written in 58 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Selecting and editing audio notes stone Don t be afraid to tinker further dragging and nudging them this way and that until the results sound rather than simply looking perfect If you have already fine adjusted the position of notes using the Timing Tool Melodyne essential will assume you are satisfied with the results this means that
45. note assignments e Editing note separations Checking and editing the note detection within rhythmic material 008 37 The Note Assignment Tool Editing note separations Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid Defining the Pitch Grid Scale and Reference Pitch ccccececeeeeeeeeeteeeeeeeees 39 The No Snap and Semitone Snap grid options Choosing a tonality and scale Use of the Alt key for grid independent movement Selecting a reference tone Time Grid selection 2 0 0 c cece ccc cece eccececeenaeecaeecaeenaeenaeenaeecaeesaeeeanenuaetanetguennneeanes 43 Activating Deactivating the Time grid e Mesh widths and the dynamic grid Relation of notes to the grid The Alt key for grid independent movement Adjusting to tempo variations in Pro Tools ccccececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetersteeeeeteeeess 46 The Chain icon e Constant or Varying Tempo Playing tempo changes through Stretch ing compressing audio to reflect tempo changes Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 3 Content Selecting and editing audio notes SOIC UNE MOLES sos cicsurssiataceh arent tien Vedi mmveniuniceuiarerahi stake eas urate Ee 49 Standard selection techniques Snake Selection Selection using the Note Ruler Correcting intonation with the Macro cccccccceececeeeeeeceseeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeaeaeeeeaes 53 Edit only selected or all notes e Opening the Correct Intonation macro
46. nting The plug in Melodyne essential RTAS After the installation you will find Melodyne essential among Pro Tools insert effects plug ins not among the instrument plug ins Once you have opened Melo dyne essential within an audio track transfer the desired passages to the plug in where you will be able to see and edit them This transfer process is tantamount to a recording of the relevant passages in Melodyne essential Later the playback of the passages you have transferred will be handled by Melodyne essential whilst the material preceding and following such passages will continue to come from the original audio track i e from Pro Tools Melodyne essential and Pro Tools are in a sense yoked together and remain at all times perfectly in step which offers you the perfect working environment because it lets you edit a track and hear the results within the context of the entire song You can launch and run simultaneously as many instances of Melodyne essential as your computer s memory and processing power will permit When you have finished working on a passage you can bounce the results in Pro Tools insert the resulting audio file into the original track and then remove Melodyne essential altogether from the track Fully integrated into your DAW Melodyne es sential lets you work swiftly and easily Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 9 Melodyne essential Introduction Detection fir
47. odification of the pitch and position to the selected blob s Hold the Alt key to change the values by finer increments Here you see an overview of the functions of the various tools indicating how these vary depending upon which part of the blob is clicked or dragged and upon whether you single or double click The shape of the mouse pointer provides a further indication of the function a given tool will perform in a given context Single click Double click PART OF BLOB Middle Left main function Right Middle Main Tool move start shift pitch move end insert delete note position separation top of blob Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 15 For those in a hurry Melodyne essential in 10 minutes Tempo functions Next to the Tempo box there is a button that opens a tempo dialog The Tempo box and dialog have the following functions The Tempo box merely displays the tempo this cannot be adjusted because the tempo is determined exclusively by Pro Tools When the tempo in Pro Tools changes you should open the dialog and tell Melodyne essential about the nature and intent of the change Have you simply selected a new level tempo or Is a grad ual tempo change e g a ritardando intended In the latter case you need to play through the passage containing it to Melodyne essential so that it can learn about the tempo progression In the Tempo dialog you can also select whether or not time stretching and time compression shou
48. odyne essential s interpretation of the notes in the audio material In the case of rhythmic material it is simply a case here of remedying any excess or shortage of note separations in the detected material The correctness of the note separations is a precondition for subsequent editing of the material including for example any time stretching achieving results of the highest possible quality Ra w ND Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 37 Checking and editing the note detection phe aidia Aan aidia AANA The simplest way now of checking the note separations is to select the first of the blobs and step forwards and backwards through them using the Arrow keys If a blob contains two drum strokes double click in the upper part of the blob at the point at which you wish the second stroke to begin in order to introduce a note separation If on the other hand a single stroke has wrongly been split by a note separation double click the dividing line to remove the note separation If ever a note separation is wrongly situated you can simply drag it horizontally to the correct place 5 Leaving Note Assignment mode To quit Note Assignment Mode simply select one of the other tools As you leave the mode based on your changes the detection will perform a fresh analysis which could take a moment Related topics e Checking and editing the note detection within melodic material
49. ol the hand icon next to the Main Tool or hold down the Command key to move the display area by dragging it with the mouse lt gt y Ie Select the Zoom Tool the magnifying glass icon next to the Main Tool or press Command IAlt to zoom the display with the mouse You can zoom horizontally or vertically with the Magnifying Glass in each case though with different levels of intensity Ti 22 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Displaying navigating and playing back audio Command double click zooms in on one blob or several if several are select ed Double click in the editing background to return to the previous zoom level a Drag the Horizontal or Vertical Scrollers i e the scroll boxes or thumbs to move the display The Horizontal Scroller contains a miniaturized image of the contents as an orientation aid Double click in the center of the Scroller to zoom in or out just enough to ensure that all the blobs are displayed Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 23 Displaying navigating and playing back audio Use the Slider in the bottom right corner to make the blobs bigger This does not alter their volume Your likely motive will be to obtain a clearer view of material containing a lot of quiet notes Related topics e Selecting notes e Activating and setting a cycle range e Select display options e Time Grid selection e Defining the
50. om level in other words the further in you zoom the finer the mesh of the grid The entries below Dynamic allow you to base the coarseness or fineness of the grid on note values The current setting at any given time is reflected in the spac ing of the calibration markers in the Bar Ruler Select Triplets if your material is in triple time If you select Seconds the ruler will display the elapsed time from the effective starting point In this case even if the option Activate Grid is selected the ruler will have no influence on the position of any notes you choose to move You will notice that note values are also selectable if you have set the grid to Dy namic This should make sensible working with triplets possible even when using the Dynamic grid Since there are not just triplets in themselves but eighth note quaver triplets quarter note crotchet triplets etc you can select the desired note value so that the dynamic grid is drawn and behaves correctly v Activate Grid Pitch Grid gt View Bar v 1 4 1 8 1 16 1 32 Triplets Seconds When the Time Grid is active and Seconds is not checked notes moved from one beat to another will end up the same distance from the new beat as they were from the old one In other words whilst the grid does influence their position they don t snap exactly to the nearest gridline unless they were on a gridline to begin with The note depicted below for example sound
51. on with the Macro In this tour you will learn how you can correct out of tune notes or unwanted wavering in pitch quickly and easily with the Correct Intonation macro e The Correct Intonation macro affects only the notes selected unless none at all are selected in which case by default it affects them all e The effects of the macro can be extended to or withheld from notes already edited manually whichever you please e You can adjust during playback and independently of one another the inten sity of the pitch center and pitch drift correction SUMMARY e Exit with OK to preserve the results of the macro session or with Cancel to restore the notes to their prior pitches e The Undo function has the same effect once the window has closed should you inadvertently have clicked OK when you meant Cancel The procedure Select the notes you wish to edit If no notes are selected macro editing will by default affect all notes To open the Correct Intonation macro click on the button in the top right corner of the window Correct ts a Quantize Tim Here with the upper slider you can move the pitch center of the note or notes selected anywhere from 0 to 100 closer to the nearest semitone A word of caution here notes often fluctuate slightly in pitch so their position is based on a mean pitch that Melodyne essential has to calculate This mean pitch or Pitch Center forms the b
52. ou can should you wish recover them using the Undo function which would not be possible if the files in question had been deleted immediately If you are sure that you will no longer be needing the unused files you can delete them according to choice either for the current instance only or for all instances of the project in order to free up storage space Once you have finished editing in an instance of Melodyne essential and saved the results as an audio file by bouncing or rendering you should delete all files pertaining to the instance using the button provided at the bottom of the window in order to free up storage space before closing and removing Melodyne essential from the Pro Tools track The assignment of missing files If Melodyne essential cannot find the transferred files when it opens a project either because they have been deleted moved or not transferred when the project was moved to a different computer it will gray them out in the editing area and they will remain mute during playback In the File Manager they will be listed in red _ Project Path for Transfers Users media Files Name Location BB6BAEED4 47A9 41 FF 8FA2 076729250BF4 w Users media BBEEBAE4 23B4 4A51 BDAF F6D9694F 2966 Users media E1A23B08 23BC 4F28 9C2D AF65CF74E24E Users media 72 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual File Management and Preferences If you know in which folder the missing files are to be found y
53. ou can use the drop down menu Find file in the File Manager Select the entry Find Missing Files 7 Find File PE Maing ma a j Copy Selected Filenames tance elete Unuse es Delete Navigate then in the file selection box to the folder containing the missing files and exit with OK The missing files in the folder will then be reassigned Be care ful though for this assignment you do not have to select the files themselves which would in any case be somewhat tricky given their automatically generated and somewhat unhandy names but simply the folder in which they are located Its contents will then be searched automatically for the missing files Bear in mind however that sub folders will not be searched only files found directly in the folder selected For any sub folders containing missing files you will have to go through the same procedure in order that they too can be searched What if you have received a project with missing files from someone else and they want to give you by e mail for example the names of the missing files Here the command Copy Selected Filenames comes in useful This copies the names of all files selected in the list multiple selection with Shift to the clipboard Repairing references to scattered storage locations If you have reassigned missing files or unwittingly altered in a project the default path instead of the project path it can happen that Melodyne essenti
54. ould take a moment Related topics e Checking and editing the note detection within rhythmic material 36 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Checking and editing the note detection Checking and editing the note detection within rhythmic material In this tour you will learn how to check the note detection in rhythmic material and reassign notes Since in the case of rhythmic material there are no tonal assignments to be performed it is only the checking and correction of note separations that need concern us e To enter Note Assignment mode select the Note Assignment tool e Fditing the detection in the case of percussive material involves only the insertion or removal of note separations e To display these check the item Show Note Separations in the View menu e Double click the upper part of a blob to insert a note separation SUMMARY e Double click an existing note separation to remove it e To exit Note Assignment mode simply select a different tool from the Toolbar The procedure After transferring or loading audio select the Note Assignment tool which is set slightly apart from the others to change to Note Assignment mode Please note that for technical reasons when you switch to this mode the Undo history will be deleted so any actions taken prior to the mode change cannot be undone In Note Assignment mode no audible editing of the notes takes place In this mode you check through and alter Mel
55. playback cursor The length of 66 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Selecting and editing audio notes the notes will remain unchanged the existing offset from the quarter note will be retained and the result will look like this If the Time Grid is not active or is set to Seconds the beginning of the first pasted note will coincide exactly with the Playback Cursor Again the original length of the notes will be preserved 3 t 5 6 If prior to pasting another note is selected it will be deleted when pasting occurs and the pasted notes will be stretched or squeezed to fill the space it has left Again the pitch of the copied notes will be retained Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 67 Selecting and editing audio notes If prior to pasting multiple adjacent notes are selected these will be deleted in the same way and the pasted notes stretched or squeezed to occupy the same time interval as the deleted selection If for example these are the notes selected 68 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Selecting and editing audio notes the result after pasting will look like this Related topics e Selecting notes e Time Grid selection e Working with the Main Tool Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 69 File Management and Preferences Managing transferred audio files and assigning missing files In this tour you will learn what management functions exist for the copied au
56. r vertically e Press Command IAlt and use the Mouse Wheel to zoom both axes simul taneously e Press Command and double click to zoom in on a blob or the current selec tion of blobs e Command double click in the editing background to restore the previous zoom setting e Drag the Scrollers to move the display horizontally or vertically e Drag the ends of the Scroller to zoom the display horizontally or vertically e Pull the left or right hand ends of the horizontal slider as far as they will go to increase the length of the section displayed important when for example you have only transferred the first four bars and are able to navigate only in this area but wish to insert something at bar 20 e Double click the Scrollers to zoom horizontally or vertically on all notes e The Slider in the bottom right corner governs the size of the blobs Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Displaying navigating and playing back audio Resizing the window To change the size of the window click and drag the bottom right hand corner Controlling playback using the onscreen controls and the keyboard Melodyne essential is integrated into Pro Tools and remains perfectly in step with it during playback When you reposition playback cursor in Pro Tools this information is conveyed to Melodyne essential which mirrors the new position As soon as Pro Tools starts Melodyne essential also starts It is so to speak forever the
57. red by typical sample editors and audio sequencers With Melodyne essential you don t just see which parts of a recording are loud and which quiet you see where tones begin and end as well as the pitch of each That is obviously a huge difference Settings Edit Algorithm View Help Transfer 120 000 e RISO 30 comeapen Quantize Time l l my u _ Yall Melodyne essential It is possible not simply to observe but also to seize hold of and modify the tones displayed If a tone is flat for example you can drag it to the correct pitch if It s too short you can make it longer if it s too quiet you can make it louder and much else besides But as well as being a highly sensitive tool for correcting and optimizing your recordings it also offers you the possibility of profoundly altering your audio material restructuring it and creating from it something new Melodyne has for years enjoyed an outstanding reputation for its editing of lead vocals since corrections can be made in a musical and intuitive manner and are virtually undetectable by ear And what works for this most critical of disciplines works wonders as well with other instruments Once you ve worked for a while with Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 7 Melodyne essential Introduction Melodyne essential you ll realize that aside from the correction of errors there s a wealth of other valuable applica
58. registered trademark of Advanced Micro Devices Inc Celemony Software GmbH M nchen 2009 All rights reserved 2 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Content Content Melodyne essential Introduction cece cc cece eee ee seen eeeneeeeeneeeees 6 For those in a hurry Melodyne essential in 10 minutesg 11 Displaying navigating and playing back audio Transferring audio material to Melodyne essential ccccceceeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 17 Plugin in Pro Tools e The Transfer button e Performing multiple transfers e Playback regions Playback navigation and zooming cccccccceceecee see eeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeaeeeeneaeseees 20 Window size Playing back blobs Playback and scrubbing using the Bar Ruler e The Scroll and Zoom tools Scroll bars Scrolling and zooming using the mouse and keyboard Activating and setting a cycle range cccc ccc cccececeeeee eens sees eee eaeaeeseaeaeaeeeeaeaes 25 Defining and moving the cycle range Adjusting the cycle limits Select display Options ccccccccecececeeeeceeeeeececeegeeeeeseeeeeeseeeeeeesgeeeaeseeeeaeaeeeeaes 27 Auto Scroll e Show Pitch Curve Show Note Separations Show Blob Info Show Intended Notes Show Playback Regions Checking and editing the note detection Checking and editing the note detection within melodic material 0008 32 The Note Assignment Tool Changing
59. s slightly after the first beat of the bar 44 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid m If while the Grid is active this is moved to the second beat there too it will sound slightly after the beat the offset in the two cases being identical Even if the Grid is active you can still adjust the position of a note or a selec tion of notes independently of the grid by holding down the Alt key as you move them Related topics e Correcting timing with the macro e Defining the Pitch Grid Scale and Reference Pitch Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 45 Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid Adjusting to tempo variations in Pro Tools In this tour you ll learn how to handle tempo variations in your Pro Tools project Normally Melodyne essential remains perfectly in step with Pro Tools and the Bar Rulers as well as the Tempo displays of Pro Tools and Plugin show the same thing If of course between two transferred passages there is a tempo change in Pro Tools or you have changed the overall tempo in Pro Tools you must inform Melo dyne essential about this tempo change so that the Bar Rulers remain in sync In this tour you will learn how to do this e Whenever Melodyne essential registers a tempo change in Pro Tools that it doesn t know about the Chain icon near the tempo display will flash e When you click the icon a new dialog opens State whether you ve selec
60. sily e The Quantize Time macro affects only the notes selected unless none at all are selected in which case by default it affects all notes e You can try out different groove references and settings of the Intensity slider during playback e The effects of the macro can be extended to or withheld from notes already edited manually whichever you please SUMMARY e Exit with OK to preserve the results of the macro session or with Cancel to restore the notes to their prior positions e The Undo function has the same effect once the window has closed should you inadvertently have clicked OK when you meant Cancel Correcting Timing the what and the where Before examining the operation of the Quantize Time macro we should clarify a few basic concepts and relationships To understand these better let s begin by checking the option Show Intended Notes in the View menu Algorithm VE Help v Auto Scroll 120 00 Show Pitch Curve j Show Note Separations Show Blob Info _ Show Intended Notes Show Replace Ranges 7 4 Small gray frames appear around the notes When it first analyzes the material Melodyne essential calculates the beat in the bar to which each note is to be assigned This is indicated by the start of the gray 56 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Selecting and editing audio notes frame As you can see the beginning of the frame a
61. st editing later the governing principle How does Melodyne essential manage to find the tones in audio material The answer or the crux of it is this through its analysis of the material As soon as audio is loaded or transferred to Melodyne essential it examines the entire file and seeks to detect the tones within it This process takes place mark you not as but shortly after the file is loaded or the transfer complete The time required depends upon the processing power of the computer As soon as you open or transfer a file Melodyne essential detects the notes in the mate SOR Cm I eng GIHE tial only this makes i possible the unique editing possibilities the program affords The need for this analysis explains why Melodyne essential cannot operate as a real time effect like a reverb or an echo only when the analysis is complete can the tones be displayed and the unique functions of Melodyne used These of course do work in real time every alteration you make to the audio tones in Melo dyne essential can be heard instantly with no delay 10 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual For those in a hurry Melodyne essential in 10 minutes For those in a hurry Melodyne essential in 10 minutes The following section delivers in a nutshell everything you need to know in order to make successful use of Melodyne essential The rest of the introduction con tains more detailed information on each of the points addressed
62. stopped e Drag horizontally in the lower part of the Bar Ruler to define the Cycle Zone e Double click in the cycle zone to toggle Cycle Mode on and off e To move either of the cycle locators simply click on it and drag e Drag the center of the Cycle Zone to move the entire zone to the left or right e f active the selected Time Grid influences the position of the Cycle Locators e Holding the Alt key as you drag the Cycle Locators causes the Time Grid to be ignored e Shift clicking near a Cycle Locator moves it to the designated position Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 13 For those in a hurry Melodyne essential in 10 minutes e Shift double clicking anywhere in the Cycle Zone moves the locators to the first and last selected blob Shift Alt double clicking sets them exactly to the selected notes Note selection Blobs in the editing area can be selected using all the standard techniques clicking Shift clicking marquee lasso rubber band selection etc In addition the Edit menu offers a Select All command To make a selection use one of the following techniques e Standard techniques such as clicking Shift clicking and lassoing to select and deselect notes e Shift click and then drag the mouse to enter Snake Selection mode e Select notes by clicking or dragging in the Pitch Ruler double clicking selects notes with the same name in all octaves rather than simply at the pitch clicked e In the Pitch Ruler a
63. ted a new constant tempo for the whole song or whether tempo variation occurs within it e In the latter case Melodyne essential needs to hear the passage in which the variation occurs SUMMARY e Regardless of whether the tempo is constant or varies you can decide whether or not you want Melodyne essential to stretch compress the audio material or simply adjust the grid to reflect the change A new constant tempo Whenever Melodyne essential registers a tempo change in Pro Tools the Chain icon near the Tempo display will flash orange to indicate that a matter requires your attention If you do nothing you must expect a disagreement between the Bar Ruler in Pro Tools and that of Melodyne essential 120 000 ial h Click the Chain icon to open the Tempo window Here you can inform Melodyne essential of the nature of the tempo change it has detected in order to ensure that the two Bar Rulers remain in step 46 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid Have you changed the tempo in the DAW If so is this a new fixed tempo for the whole song or a tempo variation within it Constant Tempo 115 000 BPM _ Tempo Variation SM Stretch Audio Cancel If you have simply changed the overall tempo in Pro Tools and there are no tempo changes within the song itself select Constant Tempo This tells Melodyne es sential that the new tempo registered applies to the entire song a
64. ted pitch center You can move an existing note separation horizontally with the Note Separation Tool ea ea You can double click a note separation to get rid of it Related topics e Selecting notes e Time Grid selection e Defining the Pitch Grid Scale and Reference Pitch e Copying notes Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 63 Selecting and editing audio notes Copying notes In this tour you will learn how to use Melodyne essential s command set for the copying and pasting of notes e When notes are pasted a distinction is drawn between inserting and replac ing which occurs depends upon whether or not other notes are selected at the time of pasting e If inserting with the Time Grid active the notes pasted will begin on the quar ter note closest to the playback cursor whereby the original offset from the quarter note will be preserved as well as the length of the notes copied e If inserting with the Time Grid inactive or active but set to Seconds the pasted notes will begin at the playback cursor with their length again un changed e When replacing a distinction is drawn between adjacent notes and non adja cent notes though in each case the selected target notes are deleted e If both the source and target selection are made up of adjacent notes the source selection when pasted will be stretched or squeezed to the same length as the target selection unless this would involve an excessive amo
65. them e The standard selection techniques such as clicking Shiftl clicking and rubber banding can be used for the selection and deselection of notes e Press the Shift key when clicking a note and then remove the pointer to make a Snake Selection e Select notes by clicking or dragging in the Pitch Ruler double clicking here selects the same note in all octaves SUMMARY e Use the Shift key in the Pitch Ruler to add or remove notes from the selection e The Edit menu contains the standard Select All command Standard selection techniques Click a note in the editing area to select it Selected notes are more boldly colored Shift click additional notes to add them to the selection bs Shift clicking a selected note removes it from the selection Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 49 Selecting and editing audio notes Another way of selecting multiple blobs is to lasso them by clicking in the editing background in one corner of the desired selection and then dragging the pointer to the corner diagonally opposite This is sometimes called rubber banding r Snake Selection If you press the Shift key click a note and then move the mouse pointer away Melodyne essential s Snake Selection mode is activated You can now add notes to the selection by painting over them with the snake AA If you move the mouse and thereby the snake backwards again you can remove notes previousl
66. tions for you to discover A few examples e the creation of second voices or entire ensembles simply by copying the original track e the introduction of melodic variations when phrases are repeated e correcting and reconciling the timing of drums and bass e tidying up rhythms or using quantization techniques to alter them e creating breaks and variations in drum loops e and standard disciplines like pitch shifting and time stretching too of which Melodyne essential offers complete mastery and outstanding sound quality into the bargain With Melodyne essential you can edit monophonic lead vocals sax solos flute and rhythmic unpitched audio material Such as drum loops percussion ambient sounds and noise These illustrations should give you an idea of what audio mate rial looks like in Melodyne essential Melodic material in Melodyne essential he Pa Rhythmic material in Melodyne essential The willful use of unsuitable material or editing of suitable material in inap propriate ways can yield a multitude of interesting effects Melodyne offers you 8 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Melodyne essential Introduction the highest possible sound quality and authenticity for normal audio editing but that s not to say rewarding results can t be obtained through the creative misuse of its functions by transforming radically the sound or structure of the original track Have fun experime
67. tually played by the instrument If on the other hand you choose to stick with Concert Pitch A 440 Hz all the blobs will be slightly offset from the gridlines something you can swiftly remedy with the Correct Intonation macro should you wish ex post facto to retune the instrument to Concert Pitch If you check the option Make this the default the reference pitch selected will be adopted automatically by further instances of Melodyne essential This is the most sensible option if for example you invariably work with instruments tuned Slightly sharper than Concert Pitch e g A 442 Hz By adopting this as the default you will spare yourself the bother of having to redefine the reference pitch constantly by hand Naturally you can change the default setting any time you like either here or from the Settings tab of the Preferences property sheet ae I Make this the default Cancel Exit the Reference Pitch window with OK to confirm any changes you have made or with Cancel to discard them Related topics e Correcting intonation with the macro e Time Grid selection 42 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid Time Grid selection In this tour you will learn how to set the time grid in the editing area and work with it The grid serves to provide a clearer overview of the audio data by displaying in the editing background a meshwork of either secon
68. ture of the operation and possible applications of Melodyne essential e In the Guided Tours we describe step by step various procedures for working with Melodyne essential This is where you can look things up if there s some thing particular you want to know or can t for the time being remember how something works Fuller information on Melodyne essential can be found on the support pages of the Celemony web site www celemony com which you can access directly from the Help menu inside Melodyne essential You ll find there our Help Center with numerous video tutorials on the operation of Melodyne essential more detailed information as well as the latest tips and workarounds for problems In our forum you can benefit from the experience of other users and exchange Ideas And if ever you re still stuck for an answer you can reach us any time via the web site or directly by e mail at support celemony com 6 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Melodyne essential Introduction What Melodyne essential is and what it s for Melodyne essential allows you edit and display different types of audio mate rial such as vocals saxophone flute or even drum loops and percussion ina highly musical way What s special about it is that Melodyne recognizes the musical tones in the audio data and displays them on pitch and time grids This is far more informative than the kind of display of amplitude values along a time axis offe
69. unt of time stretching or compression in which case pasting will be disabled and the command grayed out The Paste command is similarly unavailable when the target notes comprise a multiple selection interrupted in time SUMMARY e In the case of non adjacent notes the target selection is deleted if the Grid at the time of pasting is inactive or set to Seconds the start of the source selection after pasting will exactly coincide with the playback cursor and the lengths of the notes will remain unchanged If the Bar grid is active and the tempo of the destination different from that of the source the material will adjust in length to the grid at the destination to ensure that each of the copied notes is assigned to the correct beat Inserting one note Let s begin by copying a single note select a note followed by Copy from the Edit menu or the context menu Select All D Delete Paste A Cut k FAR a 64 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Selecting and editing audio notes Move the playback cursor to the destination by clicking dragging in the Bar Ruler Select Paste from the Edit menu or the context menu If the Time Grid is active the note is inserted on the quarter note closest to the playback cursor If the origi nal note was slightly offset from the nearest quarter note the same offset will be preserved The length of the note will remain unchanged 3 If however the Time Grid is deactivate
70. upon its position with relation to the blob The two tools next to the Main Tool the Hand and the Magnifying Glass serve respectively to scroll and zoom the display and perform no editing functions e To move an entire note horizontally or vertically position the Main Too near the center of the blob and drag e Hold the Alt key as you do this if you want the Time or Pitch Grid to be temporarily deactivated e If you drag the left or right hand extremes of a blob you will move only the beginning or ending of the note it represents e When you move the Main Tool over the upper portion of a note you can cre ate a new note separation or remove an existing one with a double click or else drag an existing note separation to the left or right SUMMARY e To snap the link between adjacent notes you can temporarily tear them apart Modifying Pitch and Timing Select the Main Tool from the Toolbar You ll find this beneath the Help item in the menu or in the context menu that opens when you right click in the editing area With the Main Tool move the arrow to a point near the center of a blob and press and hold the mouse button as you drag it upwards or downwards to alter its pitch or else left or right to move it forwards or backwards in time It is the initial movement whether vertical or horizontal that decides whether the pitch or timing of the note is altered Before changing axis you must first release the note If you hol
71. users Melodyne is at home in all the great studios of the world and has for years been appreciated for its intuitive editing possibilities and the high quality of its sound In actual fact there must be very few professional productions in recent years in which Melodyne at one point or another has not been used whether for unobtrusive correction for the generation of second voices and variations or for the creative restructuring of audio material What does that mean for you Simply that as a Melodyne user you are in the finest the most illustrious even of company Melodyne essential RTAS offers you the essential functions of Melodyne for the editing of pitch and timing in a particularly intuitive and compact format as a plug in directly within your Pro Tools environment Melodyne essential RTAS respects fully the tradition of the previous editions of Melodyne but has been re designed and reprogrammed from the bottom up As a result Melodyne essential is faster easier to use and sounds even better than previous editions of Melodyne We at Celemony have worked hard to make Melodyne essential as pleasant to use as powerful and as useful as possible We really hope that Melodyne essential will make your life in the studio easier be a delight to use and inspire you to greater heights of creativity Let us know how you like it and what we could improve And don t hesitate to contact us if anything doesn t work quite the w
72. usible location for the notes of the melody which is why these notes are offered here as potential alternatives to the detected notes Now it can happen that one note in a melody because of the way it was played or sung has a different overtone structure and is for that reason detected an octave too low A telltale indicator of such an error is often the presence of a steep notch in the path traced by the melody Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 33 Checking and editing the note detection To correct this error of interpretation one way is to double click the potential note at the correct pitch As a result the potential note will be activated and the falsely assigned note deactivated Alternatively you can simply drag the falsely assigned note towards the correct pitch in this case obviously upwards it is not neces sary to drop the note exactly on the correct pitch The dragging triggers a new detection for the note with the guideline Look for the correct pitch higher up When you then release the note it jumps to the next most plausible higher pitch which in all likelihood will be the correct one 34 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Checking and editing the note detection The Monitoring Synthesizer A considerable aid when checking and correcting note assignments is accessed by clicking the Sine Wave icon which you will see beneath the Toolbar This is both a switch and a rotary control When activated
73. y painted over from the selection 50 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Selecting and editing audio notes Selection using the Pitch Ruler Click a note in the Pitch Ruler to select notes of the corresponding pitch Qo n gt gt 0 0 w a amp x 5 D it e a T 4 aoe 2 0 0 l o z R R D D i e qaaa If Cycle Mode is active the selection only affects such notes if they lie within the cycle range By Shift clicking other notes in the Pitch Ruler you can add them to the selec tion and later remove them by the same means a 3 gt 5 0 o 1 bo e79 If you double click as opposed to single clicking a note in the Pitch Ruler you will select the same note in all octaves rather than simply that single instance of the note Click and drag in the Pitch Ruler to select a range of notes Melodyne essential RTAS user manual 51 Selecting and editing audio notes gt p i 0 C gt be 8 a E d O o 4 gt gt gt C S ob bo st re qo O 6 By using the Shift key in the Pitch Ruler you can remove from the selection a range of notes or individual notes Here too if a cycle is active only notes within the cycle range will be selected Related topics e Working with the Main Tool e Correcting intonation with the macro e Copying notes 52 Melodyne essential RTAS user manual Selecting and editing audio notes Correcting intonati

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