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1. 100 96 Cancel The Correct Pitch dialog opens displaying two slider controls or trackbars The upper trackbar is used to specify the extent to which the pitch center of errant notes should be moved closer to what is assumed to be the intended pitch The default setting 100 you will observe moves all the blobs to the exact center of their respective lanes whilst more moderate settings improve the intonation without imposing what might seem an overly mechanical perfection at a setting of 50 for example errant notes move halfway towards perfection and no further Move the slider and experiment until you find the balance that feels most satisfying musically Melodyne plugin makes an important distinction between vibrato which is usually intentional and drift which is not When a string player or classical guitarist for example shakes his left wrist whilst playing he does so in order to impart vibrato a rapid fluctuation in the pitch of the note that gives the sound greater fullness and vibrancy When Melodyne plugin corrects the pitch of out of tune notes therefore it is careful to do so without removing the vibrato which is an important element of musical expression When singers drift out of tune on long notes on the other hand this is seldom intentional but usually the result of poor breathing technique or inattention For this reason Melodyne plugin offers you the possibil ity of correcting any unin
2. user manual Melodyne plugin Version 1 0 user manual This printed documentation refers to Melodyne plugin 1 0 Please check your program folder for updated documentations in pdf format In addition the latest documentation can always be downloaded from www celemony com Author Uwe G Hoenig Stefan Lindlahr Translation Ewan Whyte 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 contained in the manual The manual and any parts thereof must not be repro duced or transmitted without the prior and explicit permission of Celemony Software GmbH Melodyne is a registered trademark 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 Compu ter Inc in the United States and or other countries Windows XP is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other
3. Correct Pitch Pitch Formant Volume 5 Quantize Time Playback or transfer 0 00 0 00 0 Beneath it on the left of the screen is the Transfer pane containing the Transfer button a toggle used to activate and deactivate the transfer of data to the plug in the functioning of which was described in Chapter 3 To either side of it are level display meters marked Host and Plugin If what you are hearing is the signal from the host the word Host will be illuminated in green and the meter beneath it will indicate the level of the signal if on the other hand what you are hearing is the signal from the plug in the word Plugin will be illuminated in green and the meter beneath it will indicate the level of the signal This enables you to tell at a glance which signal you are hearing at any given instant Beneath the Transfer button is a line of text that indicates the current transfer status The second frame from the left contains the tools for editing the audio material as well as the Inspector which displays information about the selected notes and can be used to enter new values The button that is detached somewhat from the others and displays a spanner is used to activate Correct Detection mode in which you can move any notes the pitch of which Melodyne plugin has failed to identify correctly usually by placing them one or more octaves too low or too high to the correct pitch You will find more detailed informatio
4. same way as the Main tool when the latter is positioned at the beginning or end of a note The Time tool In this case however outlines in little gray frames indicate the positions that Melodyne plugin s analysis has identified as the ideal rhythmic positions for the blobs these being also the positions indicated by the notation The gray frames also indicate the target positions for quantization that can be carried out using the Quantize Time macro The following experiment will help you to understand the gray frames Select the Time tool and make the notation visible From the Quantization drop down menu to the right of the Bar Time ruler select a smaller quantization factor or triplets Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 61 5 Tools and Editing Functions say Then select all notes and choose Edit gt Define Arrangement Tempo gt Reassign Notes to Beats This will cause the gray frames to jump to new positions in line with the newly selected quantization factor The little gray frames represent the target positions of the notes for quantization These positions of the notes can be changed by dragging a note and moving it in a horizontal direction the exact distance being dependent upon the current quantization factor the notes in this case are always moved by the current quanti zation factor the horizontal difference between gridlines not onto the grid Double clicking on a note or selecting multiple notes an
5. the material has been identified as percussive or non melodic the blobs will be displayed in a horizontal line and there will be no pitch curve Now you can begin editing Editing the pitch with the Main tool Make sure that the tool with the standard arrow shaped mouse pointer is selected this is what we call the Main tool in Melodyne plugin Pda c The Main tool Move the mouse pointer in the editing area to the center of one of the blobs You will notice that the appearance of the pointer changes as it transforms into the Edit Pitch tool click on a blob and drag it up or down when you release the mouse button you will find that you have raised or lowered the pitch of the note Using this drag n drop method you can transpose notes upwards or downwards by any number of semitones just as if you moving MIDI notes in a sequencer You aren t of course obliged to move notes one at a time you can select an entire phrase and transpose it upwards or downwards in the same way by rubber banding multiple notes or by holding the Shift key as you select them in either case when you then move one of the blobs the others follow the movement Clicking on the center area of a blob and dragging it up or down raises or lowers the pitch of the note Tip when you have transferred a fairly long file the blobs may be too small for you to be grabbed and moved easily in the manner described in this case click on the Melodyne plugin 1
6. the notes of the transferred material the host tracks will burst in To avoid this happening replace the original tracks in the host with silent audio With certain hosts such as Logic as explained in Chapter 2 this silent audio must run the length of the entire song otherwise as we have already explained the absence of audio at any point in the host track will mute the playback from the plug in 28 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 3 Operation Once you have settled on a new tempo it is a good idea to bounce all the audio tracks individually and replace the silent audio on the host tracks with the bounced files Once you have done this the waveforms displayed on screen will once again match the audio you are hearing in other words the display and the playback will again be in sync If you want to make regular and intensive use of Melodyne to experiment with different tempos we should in all fairness point out that the multi track editions of Melodyne Melodyne cre8 and Melodyne studio when connected via the MelodyneBridge or ReWire to the host offer an even faster and more intuitive way of doing this Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 29 4 The Interface and Menu Functions 4 The Interface and Mienu Functions Overview The Menu bar is at the top of the Melodyne plugin window A tour of the various menus follows the introduction Settings Select Edit Algorithm View Help melodyne Host Transfer Plugin hot ds ced v
7. Playback Melodyne plugin switches automatically between signals from the host track and those of the plug in This sample accurate mechanism makes it possible for you to transfer single notes from the host to the plug in if you so desire to do this transfer to the plug in a short passage containing the wrong note then delete all the notes around it so that only the note you wish to correct remains When playback reaches the note in question Melodyne plugin will switch from the output of the host track to its own output and then back again as soon as the note ends In other words only the note you wish to correct will be affected the others will play back from the host track exactly as before Now that you know how Melodyne plugin functions and the way it switches automatically between its own signals and those of the host a number of Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 19 2 Introduction How Melodyne plugin functions questions arise concerning your own working strategy since there are now two audio levels the original signal on the host track and the passages you have transferred to the plug in What happens if after transferring a passage to the plugin you modify delete or re record it in the host The answer to that question constitutes our third key fact Melodyne plugin has no way of knowing when something changes on the host track If you rearrange the material on the host track and these changes affect pa
8. Transfer button will now flash in a chase pattern and the orange color in the Editor will indicate that recording is in progress You can also activate the Transfer button while the host is already running in which case Melodyne plugin wil switch instantly to record mode 4 Stop playback in the host or press the plug in s Transfer button again to stop the transfer Melodyne plugin will now analyze the transferred material displaying a progress bar as it does so As soon as the analysis is complete the notes will be displayed in the form of blobs in Melodyne plugin s Editor Depending upon its characteristics Melodyne plugin wil interpret the material as either melodic or percussive and select automatically the corresponding playback algorithm as well as the appropriate way to display the material in the Editor If the material is melodic the blobs are shown on different vertical positions indicating their individual pitch Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 25 3 Operation Dy Ch A Qor C 3 H WAS Av A A melodic audio segment in the Editor With percussive material on the other hand the blobs are displayed on a standard note since no pitch has been detected for the same reason there is also no pitch curve Di At M He H8 l A A segment containing percussive material in the Editor The editing possibilities for melodic and percussive material are somewhat differ ent You can read more about t
9. changes you make In this context take note of the various note selection options offered by the sub menu of the Edit menu Now that you have mastered the basic pitch editing functions of Melodyne plugin it should be pointed out that these only work as described for monophonic audio material The problem with polyphonic material is that Melodyne plugin has no way of isolating just one of multiple notes sounding at the same time so the set of functions available for editing the pitch are rather more limited The same applies to percussive material Before we introduce still more functions for the editing of pitch in connection with the other tools offered by Melodyne plugin we will deal briefly with a number of other fundamental and no less fascinating possibilities those for manipulating the timing and tempo of audio recordings Editing timing with the Main tool Melodyne plugin alows you to alter not only the pitch but also the position and length of individual notes with the Main tool It is with these possibilities that we will concern ourselves in the following paragraphs Transfer a drum loop from the audio files supplied with Melodyne plugin and use it to try out the techniques we are about to describe Since Melodyne plugin allows you to modify the pitch of individual notes it must obviously know where one note ends and the next begins If the Arrow Tool is selected in Melodyne plugin s editing area or the option A ways Show Note se
10. notes are displayed at the same pitch when it is transposed the formants are also transposed and no manual editing of formants is possible If Melodyne plugin s categorization of your material does not correspond with your own thoughts on the matter you can simply select manually the playback algorithm you prefer from the A gorithm menu Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 67 5 Tools and Editing Functions Appendix Overview of the Functions of Special Keys and Right clicking Alter the range of pitch or formant controls Right click Ctrl click on the Mac opens context menu Reset control to zero Command click on the control Toggle between major and minor with Scale Snap activated Shift click on the desired keynote in the Note Ruler Select tools in editing area Right click Ctrl click on the Mac opens the Toolbar Context Menu Toggle context sensitive Main tool between note and segment separation Hold down Alt key as you double click on the separator Navigate using Hand tool in the editing area Hold down Command key as you click and drag Zoom horizontally and vertically with the Magnifying Glass in the editing area Hold down the Command and Alt keys as you click and drag Temporarily deactivate horizontal time or vertical pitch grid whilst editing Hold down the Alt key as you click on the blob and move it Move the Scroll Slider with higher resolution Hold down the Alt key as y
11. on a segment separator changes it back into a normal note separator But take care this is only possible in places where the adjacent note sections were touching before the segment separation If this was not the case previously the segment separator between them cannot be removed Connecting two adjacent transfers is impossible The tools for editing pitch In Melodyne plugin s Main tool you have already what is obviously a very powerful set of editing options but these are by no means all that Melodyne plugin has to offer In this chapter we will be looking at the other tools which offer additional ways of editing audio data These are accessed by clicking on the user interface or by right clicking or Ctrl clicking on the Mac in the editing area The first tool in the series after the Arrow tool should have a familiar look to it it s the Edit Pitch tool we met earlier There however it was a context sensitive form of the Main tool it appeared as you moved the arrow over the center of a note and disappeared just as rapidly when you moved it away But whereas the Main tool may be more useful if you are planning to edit the timing as well as the pitch of a note the dedicated Edit Pitch tool offers a wider range of functions for correcting intonation problems alone When this tool is active at the semitone nearest to each blob or the nearest note of the selected scale if the Scale Snap function is active you will see a little grey bo
12. plugin 1 0 user manual 69 Index Index L Level display meters 30 License Key less 15 License window less 14 Limitations of the plug in interface 22 Little gray frames 61 65 M Main tool 10 41 46 51 Major and minor 32 90 Me wt iad oe Pea eee See eee 40 Melodic or Percussive 25 35 41 Menu Dal eee ae dee rea 30 More fewer Separations 65 Move record Files to 33 Moving and resizing notes 48 Muting notes 35 60 N Normal time stretching 50 Note ruler cose ee bee edn ees 42 43 Note separation tool 11 51 Note separations and segments 36 46 51 Note Snap 344 442 rieri tis 38 43 O OUI ce ica ke aie hake dh we aed 0 54 P Peculiarities of certain host applications 22 Percussive or Melodic 25 41 Pitch curve 36 52 57 Pitch Dritt tool sek ees 57 Pitch Modulation tool 56 PREN ONGD 3 333 3792673 839 38 43 Plt6h to0l 22 2222x 53 x8 10 54 Pitch Transitions tool 55 57 10 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual Plugin and host interaction 18 Preferences lle 34 Q Quantization factor 50 Quantize Time macro 49 61 H Realtime 0000 eee 17 Reassign Notes to Beats 65 Render lessen 21 27 Replace the passage originally transferred 28 S Scale Snap 32 90 43 54
13. the timeline from which nothing has been transferred to the plug in or in which no notes are visible in its editor you will hear the host track not the plug in You can transfer to the plug in as many passages from as many different parts of the host track as you like the plug in retains the overall picture Wherever there are notes in its editor it plays them back and at the same time mutes the host track in all other places it is the plug in that is silent allowing the host signal to pass You can think of it if you like as an automatic railway switch or point that gives priority to the plug in whenever it has notes to play but allows the host signal to pass at all other times 18 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 2 Introduction How Melodyne plugin functions Host Transfer 1 gt gt gt Playing back Host audio Host Transfer Plugin gt gt E ssas Playing back Host audio Plugin Host Transfer Plugin Li gt gt Recording audio Transfer An audio segment is transferred to Melodyne plugin eee agp p mee Host Transfer Plugin ial E Playing back Plugin audio Host r p Playing back Host audio Host Ed Playing back Host audio Transfer Plugin Transfer Plugin gt gt gt gt gt gt
14. to increase or V decrease the display resolution Finally there are two additional tools that allow you to scroll or zoom the display horizontally and vertically at the same time If you hold down the Command key the Apple key on the Mac the Ctrl key on the PC the cursor changes to a hand that can be used to move the focus of the Editor s display window in any direction If at the same time you hold down the Alt key the cursor changes to a magnifying glass that you can use to increase or decrease the display resolution by clicking and dragging upwards or downwards to change the vertical resolution and or to the side to change the horizontal resolution Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 39 5 Tools and Editing Functions 5 Tools and Editing Functions In this chapter you will learn about the various editing options that Melodyne plugin offers and how to use the corresponding tools and functions If confusion and frustration are to be avoided it is not merely advisable but of crucial importance that you understand how Melodyne plugin works before experi menting with it if you have not already done so please read Chapter 2 which sets out the basic principles To try out the techniques described below you must first transfer an audio file to the plug in how to do this is explained in Chapter 3 To begin with choose a recording with a purely melodic content such as a solo voice or saxophone or something of that kind a
15. 0 user manual 41 5 Tools and Editing Functions horizontal and vertical zoom icons in the bottom right hand corner of the screen or use the Scroll Zoom sliders in the scroll bars to increase the display resolution With the Navigation tool the Hand which you activate by holding down the Command key you can grab the screen content and move it You can also use this tool for zooming by holding down the ALT key in addition before or during the movement whereupon the horizontal and or vertical display resolution will increase or decrease When you transpose a note or series of notes over some interval larger than a semitone a fifth say you will notice that the characteristic timbre of the source be it a voice or instrument is preserved instead of the dreaded Chipmunk or Darth Vader effects of conventional transposition tools you get something that sounds remarkably similar to the same voice singing or the same instrument playing in a different register If you are familiar with the acoustic principles at work here you will have guessed why this is so when it transposes the sound of a voice or instrument Melodyne plugin leaves the formants its acoustic fingerprint if you like where they are thereby obtaining a far more realistic effect than conventional pitch shifters which simply increase or decrease the frequency of the entire waveform moving the formants into the bargain Note it can happen on rare occas
16. EQ and or compression will be transferred at the same time which means you will no longer be able to change them 24 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 3 Operation 2 Position the host s playback cursor at the beginning of the notes you wish to edit and click on the Transfer button at the top left of the Melodyne plugin interface The three arrows in the key will flash red to indicate that Melodyne plugin is ready to record i e armed for recording Host Transfer Plugin P p P The Transfer button arms Melodyne plugin for recordin Waiting for audio yne plug g Note The first time you use Melodyne plugin you will be asked to select a tempo rary recording folder which will be the one Melodyne uses to store the passages of audio it records You can select a different temporary folder later using Melodyne plugin s Preferences dialog If you like you can also move the data in a project recorded by one instance of the plug in to an individual folder preferably in your project folder and cause further recordings within this instance to be written to this folder Doing this is useful if instead of rendering the material immediately you wish to pass on a project with Melodyne plugin open along with the material already transferred to it You will find more information about file management in the section describing the menu commands 3 Commence playback in the host in order to transfer the material to the plug in The arrows in the
17. If you wish to delete a note from inside the plug in you have to do so using the Delete command in the Edit menu rather than the Delete key of your keyboard otherwise what you will in fact delete is the currently selected object in the host application The same goes for the Undo and Redo functions the conventional keyboard shortcuts for these will cause the host not the plug in to Undo or Redo its last action If you wish to use the Undo or Redo functions within Melodyne plugin you can only access these commands through the Menu or via the corresponding buttons on the plugin surface Other wise the results will not be those you expect To use Melodyne plugin to edit the audio material on one of the tracks of your host application proceed as follows 1 Load Melodyne plugin into the track as an insert effect f possible select the first insert slot relegating whatever other effects you wish to use to a later point in the signal chain Melodyne plugin works best with cleanly recorded dry material for this reason it is best to avoid placing effects in front of it The most problematic effects in this respect are reverb echo chorus and the like since they make it more difficult or even impossible to detect the notes in the audio material EQ and compression pose less of a problem but you should still place them after Melodyne plugin in the signal chain because otherwise when the results of your editing are transferred the
18. Segment Separation tool 52 53 Select Menu sc soc kie ees 34 select Pitch grid 38 Select Time Grid 37 Selection of notes 34 Separate According to Pitch 65 Separate Note as Slide 64 Separate Note as Trill 63 Serial Number sss 15 Settings menu 3e Show Hide Stave 38 Sliders to zoom in or out 39 Shap IO GET sos dos een tans ids 37 Special Keys and Right clicking 68 Speed up or slow down the playback 28 Stretching a note inside the selection 48 sno wav wed ees ded td odes 8 T Target positions for quantization 61 Tempo ca sac Sont ep nd RE 50 Tempo changes xw acack e 2 28 Temporary recording folder 25 Time signature changes 2 Time tool 11 46 61 TONG SCONE free ead Bek eee ee 92 Tonic of the key 43 no cM 10 Tools for scrolling or zooming 39 Transfer the material to the plug in 29 Trash Recorded files 33 U Undo and Redo 31 35 Undo the transfer 26 v MIBEdEIO 2 0 4 5 0 d e be Soe dn wh 44 56 View menu 224 eee ee mE 36 W Window size ananuna aoaaa aaau 34 Working strategies 20 Z Zooming and Scrolling 39 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 71 Index
19. T Install v Melodyne plugin RTAS install Thereafter follow the onscreen instructions Within a few minutes the installation will be complete and you can proceed to the authorization stage Installation under Windows Launch the installation program If you downloaded Melodyne plugin from the Internet you will already have selected the appropriate plug in for the interface you plan to use VST AU or RTAS If however you are installing the software from the CD by default plug ins for all the available interfaces will be installed To limit the installation to one or two interfaces only click on the Options button in the installation program and select the interface s you plan to use Matedyne pluglm legtaleuhinbd Wizard Select Femur Teed the latua setup wi nial Select the interface s you wish to use Select the leahunes pour erent to inital and cerneiecr the Jesuan you do nof seni o motel F Haish pign ATAS thal brise of bus Mathie plucgn Los it path Cubans 5X Nuendo Song or VST he If VST is the interface or one of the inter faces you have selected you will be ee invited to choose the VST plug in folder a tienen for the installation Mntasdyne phia Teiallshimbd Wizard Choose VST Destination Location Choose the VST plug in folder you wish to use inil Hedra plugin VET bc Pi nme beca Pe Thereafter follow the onscreen instruc tions Within a few minutes the installa tion will be complete and yo
20. a note you later move the Amplitude tool to the end of it orange lines appear indicating the steepness of the amplitude transition to the next note which you can then modify by dragging the lines in the normal way Please note that such transitions are only possible within segments and not at segment boundaries When you double click with the Amplitude tool on a blob or a selection of blobs the note or notes in question are temporarily muted and the blobs replaced by 60 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions straight lines Double clicking a second time unmutes the notes in question Please remember that unlike the case when you delete notes when you mute notes in the plug in the result is silence you do not hear the underlying material on the host track The Edit Edit Amplitude cascading submenu contains the items you would expect commands for resetting the amplitude to the original the amplitude transitions to the default and the mute state of the selected notes 7a Algorithm View Help Undo Muting Note Delete The Edit Ampli Edit Pitch e Quantize Time tude submenu Edit Formant cet F k E R Edit Amplitude J Reset Amplitudes to Original F re H9 5 Edit Notes Time ri i k Edit Note Separations Mute Notes Reset Mute State Meiste 1108 Correct Pitch Tools for editing timing The next tool in the toolbar is the Positions Lengths tool This works in exactly the
21. ain a number of other items that might interest you besides simply the installation program itself These are a folder called Movies containing four films to introduce you to Melodyne plugin and its possibilities a folder with small sample arrangements for different hosts that you can use to try out and learn how to use Melodyne plugin a demo version of Melodyne studio Melodyne plugin is constantly being improved Please check to see whether a newer version is available on the Internet than the one on your installation CD Installation on the Mac Launch the installation program Welcome ta the Melody plugin Budiclinit Isialler jathi oA re hper oat an aaa The installation program wher ed tl gre geo cls for the AU plug in If you downloaded Melodyne plugin from the Internet you will already have selected the appropriate plug in for the interface you plan to use VST AU or RTAS If however you are installing the software from the CD by default plug ins for all the available interfaces will be installed To limit the installation to one or 12 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 1 Installation and Authorization two interfaces only click on the Options button in the installation program and select the interface s you plan to use The installation program on the CD allows you to select how many and which of the plug in inter faces you wish to use V Melodyne plugin AudioUnit Install v Melodyne plugin VS
22. ange from three options 2 12 or 24 semitones These controls offer you swift access to the most impor tant parameters of the material but they are not editing controls in fact they have no affect upon your work in the Editor or the displayed state of the notes What they do is add or subtract something in real time to the values set in the Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 31 4 The Interface and Menu Functions Editor treating all the notes in the plug in in the same way Please note that with percussive material or to be more precise when the Percussive playback algorithm is selected the transposition of formants is not possible the Formant controller is therefore deactivated Melodyne plugin s menu Melodyne plugin possesses its own small menu bar offering access to various settings and editing functions There are six menus in all Settings Select Edit Algorithm View and Help The Settings menu The cid command opens a SION modal window settings Cmm from which you can select from a list a tone scale Tone Scale F its tonic the first note of the scale and the overall Move record Files to tuning Trash Recorded Files Preferences License O Tone Scale B r Cancel Selecting a scale affects what happens when you move notes vertically and the Scale Snap function has been activated in the bottom left hand corner of t
23. applications Since Melodyne plugin runs within the host environment as a plug in it is dependent upon it and subject not only to the limitations imposed by the interface but also to whatever additional limitations result from the peculiarities of the specific host This brings us to our fourth key fact Melodyne plugin can only do as much as the host will let it If for example the host only processes plug ins only in those places in the timeline where there is actually audio on the host track as is the case with Logic and DP these limitations are inevitably reflected in the way they interact with Melodyne plugin If your host falls into this category it can happen at times that you see notes in Melodyne plugin and ought therefore to be able to hear them during playback but in fact hear nothing the reason being that there is no audio on the host track at this point in the timeline either because you moved the passage in question to a different part of the song after transferring it to Melodyne plugin or because you simply deleted it In such cases there s a simple workaround copy a piece of mute audio for example a piece of bounced audio containing only silence to the relevant part of the host track this will force the host to process the plug in Depending upon which application you are using as a host you may encounter other limitations including some that appear overnight or rather when you update the host updating your
24. ching does however astound even hard bitten audio professionals and further vindicates the technological approach adopted by Celemony If you wish to use these qualities of Melodyne plugin for normal time stretching with an audio file you can do so like this load the file in question into your host and adjust its tempo setting to the given tempo of the file transfer the file to Melodyne plugin adjust the tempo of your host until it corresponds to the desired tempo the plug in will now play back the file at this tempo bounce or render as the case may be in your host the corresponding segment as a new audio file on the hard disk The file on the hard disk will now have the tempo set in the host at the time of rendering Editing note separators and segments with the Main tool When you move the Arrow tool to a note separator it changes shape to become the Note separation tool You can use this to move the boundary between notes freely to the right or left by freely mean independently of the current quantization factor the boundary does not in other words snap to the nearest grid line The Note separation tool and the note to be split The Arrow tool also becomes the Note separation tool when you place it just above or below a note if you now double click the note will be split at that point and a new note separator created This in itself will make no difference to the sound but allows you fo
25. countries Pentium and Intel are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation Rewire is a regi stered trademark of Propellerhead Software Celemony Software GmbH 2006 All rights reserved 2 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual Dear Melodyne customer You can find the Melodyne Handbook in pdf format in English German Spanish French and Japanese on our web site www celemony com along with the latest version of Melodyne and a whole variety of tips and tricks designed to help you make the best possible use of the program Check it out It s well worth a visit Lieber Melodyne Kunde Das vorliegende Melodyne Handbuch finden Sie als pdf in den Sprachen Englisch Deutsch Spanisch Franz sisch und Japanisch auch auf unserer Webseite unter www celemony com Dort finden Sie auch die jeweils aktuellste Version von Melodyne und viele Tipps und Trick rund um das Programm Ein Besuch lohnt sich also Melodyne t 3 Bf Melodyne OMRI S58 Whee Peak hah LCA AOR Bae cC PDF 77 4 MzkoX Celemony Web 3 4 h www celemony com A snt E Fo EIOS kEi Melodyne ORT oy 77 27 PRVAICATSE v br PEAOISIEMTCAEF WOIOS4 AT PHEALTS ES Estimados clientes En nuestro sitio web www celemony com encontrara el manual de Melodyne en formato pdf disponible en Ingl s Aleman Espafiol Franc s y Japon s Adem s encontrar la ltima versi n del programa y una amplia variadad de trucos y sugerencias disefiados para ayudarle a lograr el me
26. ct dm Brace whee 21 27 C Challenge Response 14 Changes on the host track 20 Changing the range of Pitch or Formants controls 31l Check for Updates 16 Contiguous notes 52 Correct Detection mode 30 66 Correct Pitch and Quantize Time macros 31 44 Correct Pitch Center and PRCA Dr auus 256 msn 44 45 57 CPU load 4a 224664845 FRE 21 D Delete a note from the plug in 35 Detection 17 25 35 40 66 Different tempos 28 Double click functions 68 E Edit Amplitude submenu 61 Edit Formant submenu 60 Edit Note separations submenu 64 Edit Notes Time submenu 62 Edit Pitch submenu 58 EIUN esasta 2 e 2 S ea Goes 24 40 Edine DIECITa s e een lt dag 41 54 Editing BIETWIE 2 2 2 2 08 66 eee 45 61 F go 15 23 Fine tuning option 43 Formant controller deactivated 32 Formant tool 10 59 Formant Transitions tool 59 Free standing note 48 G Grid for editing pitch 43 Grid for editing time 47 49 Grid resolution 22s ee eewee 37 Groove Reference buttons 50 H Helo MCN DS 37 Host ID sasesrdisesrrsesdani 15 Ideal rhythmic positions 61 OK 23h a eae 22d aes bee 14 16 Insert effect 0 ee ee 24 Inspector uui ik eben ea o 30 55 Ista ABEL ees ire Rh dee rta 12 K Keyboard shortcuts 24 Melodyne
27. d 64 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions The note range that you wish to treat and separate as a slide should initially be separated from any preceding or following main note and consist of only one note Select this slide note followed by the command Separate Note as Slide The slide will then be broken down into its constituent notes When you select the Edit Time tool as described above little gray frames are displayed containing the outlines of the notes These frames indicate the presumed ideal position of the notes which is that at which they are displayed at the top of the window in the notation display When quantizing the frames indicate the target position of the notes If you wish you can alter these target positions To do this select from the Quantization cascading menu to the right of the Bar Time Ruler a different quantization factor some smaller note value for example or triplets Then select the desired notes and choose Edit Edit Note Separations Reassign Notes to Beats The gray frames and the notation will jump to new positions corresponding to the new target positions for the quantiza tion Tip the notes themselves are not otherwise altered by this command All you are doing is making preparations for a targeted and effective quantization later with the corresponding macro With the commands More Separations and Fewer Separations you can influence the number of note sepa
28. d and interpreted or detected in Melodyne terminology This detection process is automatic requiring no input from the user Usually the results are highly accurate but with certain types of material things can occasionally go wrong t can happen that the fundamental does not sound with sufficient clarity causing Melodyne plugin to mistake the first harmonic for the fundamental itself with the result that the note appears in the score as well as in the editing area an octave higher than you expect the exact opposite can also happen you have a frog in your throat perhaps and Melodyne plugin thinks you were singing Middle C when you thought you were singing the C an octave above Errors of intervals other than an octave incidentally are very rare Sometimes notes are not cleanly separated i e two notes appear as a single note Such errors can be corrected manually For this purpose Melodyne plugin offers a special edit mode called Correct Detection mode which can you enter directly from the editing area of Melodyne plugin by clicking the Spanner icon in the toolbar When you have made the necessary corrections you can return to the normal editing mode just as easily iin kf ced v Correct Pitch Quantize Time 4 89 5 2 pe The editing area in l Correct Detection mode 66 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions When you are in Correct Detection mode the blobs in the editing a
29. d double clicking any one of them will cause the selected note or notes to snap to the nearest grid line and be stretched or squeezed if necessary From the Edit Edit Notes Time cascading submenu you can reset the various Time parameters of selected notes to their original values T9 algorithm View Help unes Muting Note ims rem ZER ee 7 dr lO La Correct Pitch Edit Pitch b ts Quantize Time g The Edit Notes Time Edit Formant a submenu Edit Amplitude bI j NEEE a Edit Notes Time ee Reset relative Time Course to Original Edit Note Separations P Reset Time and Duration to Original Add Random Offset to Time Course Reset Relative Time Course to Original re establishes the original time relation ship between notes leaving their total length unchanged in the event that the area has been stretched or compressed 62 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions Reset Note Time Handles to Original results in whatever changes were made with the tool in question being undone and the original values restored if notes have been squeezed and there is sufficient space available to the right of them their original length is restored Add Random Offset to Time Course is the companion to Add Random Offset to Pitch Center which we met in the Edit Edit Pitch cascading submenu both serve the same purpose to intro
30. d in conventional notation on a stave and edit them from a display in this format click the treble clef icon at the left hand extreme of the Bar ruler You can drag notes on the stave upwards or downwards to transpose them Click the icon a second time to hide the stave The Show Hide Stave button 38 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 4 The Interface and Menu Functions Zooming and Scrolling Melodyne plugin offers you a number of different ways of determining what part and how much of the material is displayed in the Edit window at any given moment The icons in the bottom right hand corner of the screen can be used to scroll and zoom the display to scroll it use the Arrow icons to zoom in or out i e increase or decrease the display resolution use the icons with the serrated motif The Scroll and Zoom icons Melodyne plugin also offers you horizontal and vertical scroll bars which can also be used to alter the display resolution drag the middle of the sliders to scroll the display and the sides of the sliders to zoom in or out You will see in the slider a miniaturized representation of the pitches or note positions material that lies outside the pitch range at the selected zoom resolution or that would do if you scrolled there is grayed out L z The horizontal and tee wi ae E vertical Zoom Scroll sliders Drag the centre of the slider to move the display window and R X2 ZA ip the sides
31. duce minor variations to one or multiple copies of a part so that when these are played back together the effect is of a choir or chorus rather than a single voice or of two or more instruments playing in unison like the first violins in an orchestra for example rather than a single violin The Note separation tool The Note Separation tool has the same function when selected as an independent tool as it does when it appears automatically as a result of your moving the context sensitive Main tool over a note separator hm TE eene of The Note separation tool You can use this to move the boundary between notes freely to the right or left by freely we mean independently of the current quantization factor If you double click the note will be split at that point and a new note separator created If you double click an existing note separator without holding the Alt key it will disap pear If you hold the Alt key and move the pointer to a note separator it will become the Segment Separation tool in this case if you double click on the note separator it will become a segment separator The Segment Separation tool is also available as a sub tool of the Note separation tool In the Edit Edit Note separations cascading submenu you will find the following commands Separate Note as Trill reinterprets a note containing a strong vibrato as being in fact a trill and accordingly what was displayed previously as a
32. e the Pitch Transition tool to smooth the transitions What this does is to introduce a portamento the intensity of which you can control between adjacent notes Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 57 5 Tools and Editing Functions FERS Algorithm View Help Undo Changing Note Pitch eb 4 e Correct Pitch Delete TT TNNT Reset Pitch Center to Original The Edit Pitch sub menu Edit Formant gt Edit Amplitude gt Ir Edit Notes Time gt Edit Note Separations gt Reset All Pitch Related Changes to Original Add Random Offset To Pitch Center In the Edit gt Edit Pitch cascading submenu you will find a number of other functions The majority you will observe are designed to help you reverse whatever changes you have just made to the selected notes by allowing you to reset the pitch center pitch modulation pitch drift or pitch transition to their original state they are more flexible however than the Undo button because they allow you for example to reverse the first of a series of four editing steps without reversing the second third and fourth You could for example by selecting Edit gt Edit Pitch gt Reset Pitch Modulation to Original restore the original vibrato of the recording without sacrificing whatever other editing you may have done subse quently The command at the bottom of the Edit gt Edit Pitch submenu Add Random Offset to Pitch Center is of a different kind this can be used to create a ch
33. ear or a blob the inclination of the orange line will alter and with it the appearance and sound of the pitch transition between the notes You can perform the same modification on several notes simultaneously If you wish to create transitions for Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 55 5 Tools and Editing Functions creative reasons or after moving melody tones in order to smooth out discontinu ities for example double click on the rear of a blob which is how you activate and deactivate the transitions manually Please note that this is only possible within segments and not at segment boundaries If you click and hold the Edit Pitch tool two sub tools appear beneath it The first of these is the Pitch Modulation tool The Pitch Modulation tool The Pitch Modulation tool can be used to augment or diminish the amount of vibrato applied to the selected note or notes The ampli tude of the vibrato applied to this note for example can be reduced to nothing with a simple drag of the mouse 56 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions If you carry on dragging in a downward direction you can even phase reverse the vibrato The Pitch Modulation tool provides an interesting way of modifying one crucial aspect of the musical expression of a performance not only can you tone down the vibrato throughout the entire track but you can also add it in areas where a performance perhap
34. en you alter the length the maximum basis is therefore a sixteenth note semiquaver grid With a switch in the upper right hand corner of the editing area you can change or deactivate the grid You can also deactivate the grid temporarily by holding the Alt key as you can when altering the pitch Please note the note endings are always moved by the current step size not to the current grid step any offset to the grid position is therefore retained when moving You can alter this to fine movement if you wish by holding down the Alt key So far we have been dealing with altering the length of a note that is followed directly by another In this case it does not matter whether you drag the end of the first note or the beginning of the second the effect is the same in each case one note is stretched and the other squeezed by the same amount In the case of notes with a blank space to the right of them or either side because the Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 47 5 Tools and Editing Functions neighboring notes have been deleted for instance things are different If you drag such a note to the left it is moved without any length alteration occurring If it has a touching predecessor this will be stretched or squeezed as a result of the movement If you drag a free standing note from the front you move it without any change of length occurring If you drag a free standing note from the back you alter Its len
35. entional keyboard shortcuts for these will cause the host not the plug in to Undo or Redo its last action If you wish to use the Undo or Redo functions within Melodyne plugin you can only access these commands through the Menu or via the buttons on the plugin s surface Otherwise the results Will not be those you expect The remaining commands in the Edit menu are contained in sub menus that correspond to Melodyne plugin s tools These commands are dealt with in the section devoted to tools in Chapter 5 The Algorithm menu From this menu you can select whether the playback algorithm for Melodic or Percussive View material should be used your choice will affect Melodic all the notes in that instance of the plug in Percussive Initially Melodyne plugin determines automati Igi mero mem ends c cally based upon its own analysis of the material which of the two algorithms is likely to be the more appropriate but you can override its decision if you wish using this menu Experimentation is likely to Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 35 4 The Interface and Menu Functions prove most fruitful when the material is both percussive and melodic in character such as a slapped bass line or scat vocals The algorithm for melodic material displays the transferred notes in such a way as to permit you to read their pitch from the note ruler it also displays a pitch curve and allows you to transpose the formants The algorithm for percu
36. eparator and what is a segment The short answer is this each time you transfer audio material to Melodyne plugin a segment with the corresponding blobs will appear in its editing area But the segments serve not simply to distinguish between separate transfers they also have more far reaching implications As we have mentioned and as you have doubtless observed in the course of your own experiments contiguous notes in Melodyne plugin remain contiguous no gap is created when you shorten a note instead the following note begins earlier and is lengthened to take up the slack In this way the legato effect is maintained but there is another reason for this that will become clearer if you look again at the Pitch Curve that Melodyne plugin displays after analyzing monophonic material 52 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions In the case of consecutive notes Melodyne plugin always takes account of their context With the human voice and most instruments other than keyboard and percussion instruments the start of a note is dependent upon what went before the note at the beginning of each phrase is liable to have a sharper and cleaner attack than the notes that follow which tend to melt into each other often with a more or less pronounced portamento a gliding from note to note between them Depend ing upon the nature of the audio file you have loaded this may be obvious from a glance at the Pitch Cur
37. gth Pause for a moment to practice moving and resizing notes if there are no isolated notes in your file delete a few notes to give yourself more room in which to work For the time being switch off the quantization allowing more sensitive movements of blobs Once the use of the tools has become second nature move on to the next paragraph And please do not forget that if there are holes in the sequence of notes in the plug in the host signal will become audible if there is audio at that part of the host track For your experiments you should therefore move the notes of the plug in to a position along the Time Ruler where there is no audio in the host or replace the material in the host with silent audio If you select two or more adjacent notes they behave as one if you drag the start of the group the entire group moves in which case if there is no free space after the last note it is stretched or squeezed if you drag the end of the group to the right all members of the group are stretched When stretching a note inside the selection all the selected notes that lie in front of the note you have grabbed are to a certain extent grouped together and stretched proportionately Also the selection behind the grabbed note is treated as 48 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions a connected group in the same way and squeezed proportionately The behavior described applies when you grab the back of the
38. he window when Scale Snap is selected the Note ruler to the left of the Editor alters its appearance and you can select a tonality by clicking its tonic in the ruler and toggle between major and minor by shift clicking on it k This is where you activate it i the Scale Snap function No Pitch Snap Note Snap 32 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 4 The Interface and Menu Functions The commands Move record Files to and Trash Recorded files help you to manage the audio files created by Melodyne plugin The first time you launch the plug in you are asked to select a temporary recording folder this is where without asking in future Melodyne plugin will store all the files containing the transferred audio If you wish to save the data recorded by one instance of the plug in to an individual folder with a view to transferring the whole project includ ing this data to another computer select the command Move record Files to A file selection box will appear allowing you to select a storage location When you confirm your choice the recordings already made using that instance of the plug in will be transferred to the selected folder and all subsequent files created by it Will be stored there as well After selecting a new recording folder be sure to save your project in order to fix the altered references to the new storage location for the files The command Trash Recorded files is there to help you tidy up It is part
39. her computer on which Melodyne plugin is not installed then you must bounce the track s from which you have transferred material to Melodyne plugin You may want to do this anyway in order to reduce the load on the CPU of your computer or to bring your work with the plug in to a conclusion and make the results of your editing permanent Tip trying out different tempos Melodyne plugin offers you a simple way of experimenting with different tempos during the composition phase to see which feels best To do this insert one instance of Melodyne plugin into each of the audio tracks of your production and transfer the entire contents of the track to it Now you can speed up or slow down the playback at will and your audio tracks will follow every change just as if they were using MIDI or software instruments You need however to bear the follow ing in mind It is a good idea to investigate the tempo at a relatively early stage in the produc tion when for example all you have recorded apart from the MIDI tracks are a handful of audio tracks the bass a drum loop and the lead vocals for example the fewer instances of the plug in you use the less the load on the CPU of your computer The tempo changes will only affect the material transferred to the plug in not the material on the host tracks so the two will be out of sync this can lead to optical confusion what you see will not be what you are hearing and in pauses between
40. hese in the chapter dealing with tools and editing functions 5 Transfer any other passages that require editing from the host track to the plug in You can transfer material from the host to the plug in in short segments a little bit here a little bit there and Melodyne plugin will record each time a new segment at the correct point in the timeline overwriting any existing recordings where they coincide You need therefore to take care not to erase accidentally by a new transfer work you have already done If that does happen however you can use the Undo function in Melodyne plugin s Edit menu or the corresponding button this will undo the transfer restoring the previous contents of the plug in 26 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 3 Operation Note if your song contains complex time signature changes and you transfer material that comes after these changes to the plug in it can happen that the bar ruler in the plug in will no longer correspond to that in the host and the bar lines will appear in the wrong places even though the transferred notes still sound fine The solution is to transfer to Melodyne plugin all the passages containing a change of time signature even if you don t plan to edit them in any way you can delete the notes they contain immediately if you like Simply by transferring these passages you will let Melodyne plugin know about the changes in time signature enabling it to place the remaining bar l
41. his is the final step in the use of Melodyne plugin though it is one that you are not obliged to take The Bounce Render or Audio Mixdown function the name varies from host to host results in a new audio file or files being created by the host on your hard disk from the signals of one or more tracks after processing including in this case the changes introduced by Melodyne plugin has been applied to them If you have used Melodyne plugin on a track and then bounce this track or the part of it you have edited the result will be a new audio file containing the edited version of the material You can then move this audio file to the original host track Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 21 3 Operation at the same point in the timeline as the bounce occurred In this way you will replace the passage originally transferred to Melodyne plugin by a new file that reflects the results of your editing Now you can and should deactivate Melodyne plugin in this track as it has completed its work and is no longer needed and continue working as before with the audio regions of your host We mentioned above that step 7 is not obligatory instead of bouncing you can simply allow Melodyne plugin to carry on switching wherever necessary between the output of the host track or tracks and its own output right up to the master ing stage Of course if you are planning to pass on the song to someone else or to transfer it to anot
42. host software may even have the opposite effect causing limitations that were there previously to disappear Celemony tests Melodyne plugin on a large number of host applications so as to be able to offer tips and workarounds for whatever problems are encountered Since this is an ongoing process and the information provided relies upon the assumption that you will be constantly updating your software to take advantage of the latest improve 22 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 2 Introduction How Melodyne plugin functions ments this handbook is obviously not the best place to deal with it Instead you will find in the FAQ section of the Celemony web site www celemony com faq plugin a constantly updated fund of information sorted by host application If ever you have the feeling then that something isn t functioning quite as it should that s the first place to look for a solution the section devoted to your host application in the FAQ Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 23 3 Operation 3 Operation You should by now have an understanding of the way Melodyne plugin functions as well as an idea of how to make the most effective use of it In the following chapter we will look a little more closely at the practical use of Melodyne plugin before examining the user interface and the functions to which it offers access Note please remember that Melodyne plugin does not respond to keyboard commands these always affect the host
43. icense Key Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 15 1 Installation and Authorization To authorize Melodyne plugin using the Lok proceed as follows if you do not already have an Lok dongle purchase one from your local music dealer an iLok dongle can store many different licenses if you have not already done so go to the Lok web site www ilok com and create an account following the onscreen instructions now go to the Celemony web site which you can do simply by clicking on the button in the License window and order an Lok license from the Licensing page There you will have to enter your Melodyne plugin Serial Number and the name of your Lok account which is why it is necessary for you to register your dongle with Lok before ordering your iLok license from us Celemony will trans fer an Lok license as quickly as possible to your Lok account as well as sending you an e mail to notify you that we have done so as soon as you receive this e mail from Celemony visit www ilok com again and log in You will find a Melodyne plugin license has been deposited to your account to transfer this to your dongle follow the onscreen instructions you can now run Melodyne plugin using your iLok for authorization To do this launch the plug in and select Lok instead of Challenge Response in the License window You will now be able to use Melodyne plugin on your computer without going through the Challenge Response
44. icularly useful when you have finished work on a particular track and bounced the results to a new audio file with which you will replace the original material on the host track you will find further information about this manner of working in Chapter 3 Choose Trash Recorded files before removing Melodyne plugin from the track A modal window will appear containing a list of all the audio segments transferred to the current instance of the plug in The following files will be deleted Name Folder MP 1 1 3 4 0 wa Users ugh allgemein Desktop temp MP 1 1 2 3 0 wa Users ugh allgemein Desktop temp The list of the trans MP 1 1 2 4 0 wa Users ugh_allgemein Desktop temp ferred audio segments MP 1 1 2 2 0 wa Users ugh allgemein Desktop temp MP 1 1 6 2 0 wa Users ugh allgemein Desktop temp This cannot be undone Cancel Delete Unused Delete All Beside each segment you will see an indication of whether or not it is used by the plug in or not as will be the case if you have already deleted it from the plug in the notes are no longer in the plug in but their audio file is however still on your hard drive You then have the choice of removing either all the files from disk which have been created by that instance of the plug in or only those which are no longer in use By making regular use of this function you can ensure that your recording folder does not consume an unnecessarily large amount of space on yo
45. in Buttons to open the Correct Pitch Automation capable real time Pitch and Quantize Time macros Formants and Volume controls Quantization On Off switch and menu to select quantization factor The Bar Time ruler The Vertical Scroll Zoom slider showing the pitches present at the current position The Scroll and The editing area Zoom buttons Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 9 Overview The tools of Melodyne plugin Overview The tools of Melodyne plugin Main tool At the beginning of a note In the middle of a note At the end of a note alter position if the Alt key alter pitch if the Alt key is alter length if the Alt key is is held without snapping held in steps of a cent held without snapping instead of a semitone Above below a note create a note separation where none exists otherwise delete double click or move one If the Alt key is held segments can be created or reunited the latter presupposes of course that they once belonged together Pitch tool At the beginning or middle or a note At the end of a note control the double click quantize pitch to the nearest suitable pitch transition to the next note semitone blue frame Double click transistion on or off Sub tools for pitch modulation i e vibrato or drift These tools are not context sensitive double clicking on a note removes the vibrato or drift altogether or restores it Formant tool At the begi
46. ines in the same places as those in which they appear in the host If your host is one of those referred to in the second chapter that only process plug ins in those places where there is audio present on the track and this is not the case at one of the moments where a change of time signature occurs use the trick we suggested earlier copy silent audio to the bars containing the change of time signature 6 Edit the transferred material until you are satisfied with the results A description of the tools and functions Melodyne plugin offers for doing this appears in a special chapter entitled Tools and Editing Functions A tip before you begin editing pay carefully attention to the beginnings and endings of the segments you have transferred You will remember that at such moments Melodyne plugin switches playback between the host s output and its own if you have begun or ended the transfer in the middle of a note this switch ing will occur in the middle of the note the result being perhaps an unwanted click which you would not have got if you had begun and ended the transfer between notes The best idea therefore is to begin the transfer slightly before the passage you mean to edit and end it slightly after You can then simply delete the overhanging notes thereby ensuring that the entry to and exit from the passage to be edited will come at precisely the right moments 7 Bounce or Render the results of your editing T
47. ions that the sound characteristics of a record ing prevent Melodyne plugin correctly identifying the intended pitch of a note usually confusing it with the same note an octave higher or lower In such cases there is an easy way of manually correcting the detection but we will come to it later in this chapter Look for a moment at the background of the editing area You will notice that it is made up of horizontal stripes or lanes each of which represents the note with which it is aligned in the left hand margin or Note ruler If you look more closely at the note blobs of your audio recording you may perhaps notice that not all the notes are exactly in the middle of their lanes some may even lie on the boundary between adjacent lanes The intonation here is poor C1 42 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions This is where Melodyne s fine tuning option comes into play aim the pointer once more at the middle of the blob but this time hold down the Alt key before clicking and moving the note with the button held down In this way instead of moving it a semitone at a time you can fine tune the note and move it to the middle of the desired lane i e to exactly the correct pitch The grid for editing pitch In the bottom left hand corner of the plug in window you will find a button that allows you to activate the pitch editing grid If you click on the button and hold the mouse key down a menu wil
48. jor uso posible de Melodyne Compru belo vale la pena una visita Cher Client Melodyne Vous trouverez le Guide d utilisation de Melodyne au format PDF en Anglais Allemand Espagnol Francais et Japonais sur notre site web www celemony com ainsi que la toute derni re version de Melodyne et toutes sortes de trucs et astuces con us pour vous permettre de tirer tout le parti possible du logiciel Ne manquez pas d y faire une visite vous n y perdrez pas votre temps Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 3 Content Content Welcome to Melodyne plugin seseseseenmm mH 6 Overview The surface of Melodyne plugin ccccececececeeeeeeeeteeeeeeseetseaes 8 Overview The tools of Melodyne plugin cccecececececeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeteeeeeeees 10 1 Installation and Authorization 12 Are you UP todle aristigera udi Edit uS Eaa aE 16 2 Introduction How Melodyne plugin functions 17 Melodyne plugin and the HOST usqve stukseseboan sor oiu re au pip a acto paid prd 18 Working strategies ssssssssssee nennen memes messen nnns 20 TJhe peculiartte s Or lIOSUS x2 o vtov Rol na ESQ RR PUER M UT Role ect raa 22 cM Opera bOn MERERI E 24 4 The Interface and Menu Functions 30 OVEN Me 30 Melodyne pIUEIIT s MENU srein uta CE Da pt US Iu p ERRD a Sociis Sada t t 32 The Settings menu ssssessesnrsrisrr
49. just transferred to the plug in it is not neces E E t sary to select all the notes followed by porene ec Delete Far simpler is to click the Undo button TEJE 34 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 4 The Interface and Menu Functions The Edit menu This menu contains the commands Undo and Redo which you can also invoke by Algorithm View He clicking the corresponding buttons on the j Undo plugin s surface 2 Red H Y The next command is used to delete 8 Edit Pitch selected notes Remember that when you delet T i ches il 4 Edit Formant bL elete a note from the plug in you wi Edit Amplitude peal the host track once more at ma point Edit Notes Time in the song If what you really want is for i lt Edit Note Se parati ons Bse E o there to be a rest i e silence at that point you should mute the note in question rather than deleting it To do this double click on the note with the Amplitude tool you will find more information about muting notes in Chapter 5 Note please remember that Melodyne plugin does not respond to keyboard commands these always affect the host If you wish to delete a note from inside the plug in you have to do so using the Delete command in the Edit menu rather than the Delete key of your keyboard otherwise what you will in fact delete is the currently selected object in the host application The same goes for the Undo and Redo functions the conv
50. l open offering a choice of three options No Pitch Snap you can move the notes freely exactly as though you were holding down the Alt key with the grid active Note Snap you can move notes with a semitone grid this is the standard setting Scale Snap the notes snap but only to notes of the scale selected in the Settings menu see also Chapter 4 HN Scale s No Pitch Snap Scale SHAD The Pitch Snap menu When you activate the scale grid the Note Ruler becomes a ladder of switches Click on a note to select the keynote i e the tonic of the key using the Shift key to toggle between the major and minor modes The pitch of the selected blobs will adjust automatically snapping to the nearest note of the selected key With the scale grid you can swiftly adapt a vocal or single voice instrument line to a differ ent key When Scale Snap is active clicking a note defines it as the tonic of the scale Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 43 5 Tools and Editing Functions The Correct Pitch macro It is not necessary to correct each out of tune note in turn laboriously by hand Melodyne plugin offers a macro for the automatic correction of notes Commence playback click somewhere in the background of the editing area to deselect all notes and click the Correct Pitch button in the editing area Correct Pitch Center 100 3 Correct Pitch Drift The Correct Pitch macro
51. lues or else Seconds Please note however that depending upon the zoom resolu tion of the display movements up to four times finer than the selected grid resolu tion are possible If you have selected 1 4 for example and zoom far enough in you will be able to move notes by as little as 1 16 at a time Note if you hold the Alt key whilst dragging notes the snap function will be temporarily deactivated lw l 4 l 4T The Time Grid menu 1 8 1 8 T 1 16 1 16 T 1 32 1 32 T Seconds Eine Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 37 4 The Interface and Menu Functions Select Pitch grid When moving notes vertically i e transposing them another grid comes into effect and this is selected from the bottom left hand corner of the plug in window Scale UU Mo Pitch Snap scale Snap The Pitch Snap menu Here the options are threefold No Pitch Snap notes can be transposed freely in terms of pitch Note Snap notes will snap to the nearest semitone Scale Snap notes will snap to the nearest tone of the current scale as defined from the Settings menu To determine a scale select its first note the tonic by clicking the relevant note in the Note ruler in the left hand margin of the display and shift click on it to toggle between major and minor Note if you hold the Alt key whilst dragging notes the snap function will be temporarily deactivated Show Hide Stave If you wish to see the notes displaye
52. ly natural even when quite major changes have been made to the pitch or timing You can take advantage of these special characteristics not only for the editing of vocals but also for that of almost all single voice instruments For example you can use Melodyne plugin to correct and optimize or even radically reshape and create something new from saxophone flute violin bass or even Jew s harp recordings All that is necessary is for the part to consist of a single line with a recognizable pitch in other words a part in which two or more notes never sound simultaneously and in which there is no overlapping of notes Since the applica tion of reverb can result in notes overlapping dry i e reverberation free record ings are more suitable for editing with Melodyne plugin You can however edit percussive recordings as well as melodic ones with Melodyne plugin A special algorithm is provided for drum loops percussion tracks and the like and it too offers highly flexible and high quality editing possibilities that go far beyond conventional slicing Melodyne plugin works somewhat differently to conventional plug ins so please do read this manual carefully in order to learn how the software functions even if you re already familiar with other Me odyne products 6 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual Welcome to Melodyne plugin The manual is divided into the following chapters 1 Installation and Authorization Doub
53. n about Correct Detection mode in Chapter 5 30 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 4 The Interface and Menu Functions The third frame from the left contains the multilevel Undo and Redo buttons each of which duplicates the functions of the command of the same name in the Edit menu The Undo and Redo buttons are grayed out when there is nothing to undo or redo The next frame contains the buttons used to invoke the automatic Correct Pitch and Quantize Time macros These open modal windows which means you can no longer select notes or use any of the other functions of the plug in for as long as they remain open The effects of any parameter changes made using the windows are displayed and heard immediately You will find more detailed information regarding the use of these macros in Chapter 5 Correct Pitch Center 100 6 The Correct Pitch panel Correct Pitch Drift 100 96 Select Groove Reference Ha 374 T Lays 348 7 3716 3716 7 31732 1 32 1 Rones The Quantize Time panel used for correcting timing and re quantizing notes Quantize Intensity 100 96 Cancel The pane on the right contains rotary controls for the real time control of pitch formants and volume level these can be automated in the host or assigned to a MIDI fader box or both Right clicking on the Pitch or Formants controls opens a context menu from which you can select the control r
54. n switch at any time from the Challenge Response procedure to Lok authorization After receiving the iLok license you can still run Melodyne plugin with your existing Challenge Response authorization but there is no way to request further License Keys The Challenge Response procedure authorizes you to use Melodyne plugin on a particular computer For this purpose a special Challenge Code is generated from the properties of your computer or rather from your fixed network identifier Celemony will then give you the appropriate Response Code with which to 14 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 1 Installation and Authorization respond Once you have entered this Me odyne plugin will run without limitations on the computer in question If you change your computer for another you will have to authorize Melodyne plugin again in the same way Authorization using the Lok copy protection dongle results in the authorization to use Melodyne plugin being stored on the Lok dongle itself This offers you the opportunity of installing the plug in on several different computers and using it on whichever has the Lok inserted at any given time To authorize Melodyne plugin using the Challenge Response procedure proceed as follows In the License window enter your Serial Number which you will find on the packaging in which your copy of Melodyne plugin was delivered or on your invoice if you purchased the product online Please use the I
55. nning or middle of a note alter formants At the end of a note control bear in mind that this is only possible if the melodic formant transition to the next note playback algorithm has been selected Double click restore formant beams to their original positions 10 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual Overview The tools of Melodyne plugin Amplitude tool At the beginning and middle of a note alter amplitude At the end of a note control Double click mute or else unmute notes toggle amplitude transition to next note Time tool At the beginning or middle of a note alter position of note At the end of a note alter length if the Alt key is held without snapping Double click if the Alt key is held without quantize to the next suitable time unit silhouette in the snapping blue frame Note separation tool Above below a note create a note separation where none exists otherwise delete double click or move one If the Alt key is held segments can be created or reunited the latter presupposes of course that they once belonged together Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 11 1 Installation and Authorization 1 Installation and Authorization To begin with you must install Melodyne plugin on your computer To do this start the installation program that you will find on the CD ROM or that you have downloaded from the Internet Please note that the download area and the instal lation CD cont
56. note if you grab the front of the note the entire group is always moved in the same way regardless of which note is moved If the Time Grid is active the position of the note grabbed is quantized The borders of the proportionally stretched notes do not fall in the grid When you stretch or squeeze several notes the notes in front of and after the note grabbed are treated as a group and stretched compressed proportionally Automatic time correction As with the correction of pitch Melodyne plugin offers the possibility of correcting timing errors automatically this means that instead of laboriously correcting each note in turn you can just leave it to the plug in to make musically intelligent adjustments to the timing of all or selected notes If you have read the sections above dealing with adjusting the length and position of notes you will probably have guessed what this involves the beginnings of notes snap to the nearest grid line whereupon Melodyne plugin alters the length of the notes preserving the naturalness in terms of pitch timbre and volume of the transitions between them Try out the function now Select a few notes the timing of which needs improving or click in the background of the editing area to cancel the current selection and click the Quantize Time button Select Groove Reference ua u4r us asst a6 116 132 1732 1 None Quantize Intensity 100 The window of the Q
57. nternet to obtain your License Key If your computer is directly connected to the Internet you can access the Celemony web site simply by click ing the relevant button in the License window Once there enter the necessary details and click on the Order Key button You will receive your License Key within a few minutes via e mail If your computer is not connected to the Internet but you have the use of a computer that is copy the necessary details using a pencil and paper If you have no access to the Internet you can order your License Key by post from Celemony Just send us a letter in which the User Name you wish to use your Serial Number the displayed Host ID and your address are all clearly legible Our address is Celemony Software GmbH Valleystrasse 25 81371 Munich Germany The Melodyne plugin license belongs in principle to you personally and not to the computer If as a result of changing your computer or components within it your Host ID changes you will have to request a new License Key If you have any questions regarding licensing or the License Key please consult our FAQ at www celemony com faq which you can also access via the Help menu within the program if you have any problems with licensing please send an e mail to our License Support department at registration celemony com Please contact us also if you purchased your Melodyne plugin second hand so that we can re register it under your name and send you a new L
58. ols are selected the note separations will be displayed regard less of your selection here whenever the Main or Note Separation tools are selected 36 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 4 The Interface and Menu Functions The Help menu The Help menu affords direct access to the documentation of the plug in as well as to a Help number of web pages FAQ the Celemony Frequently Asked Questions 1 Support FAQ page Celemony Website the Celemony Support page to which you Check for Updates can turn for aid in the event that you IMSTA cannot find the answer on the FAQ page l About the home page of the Ce emony web site the Search for Updates command checks the Internet to see whether a later version of Melodyne plugin than the one you are using is available the command MSTA takes you directly to the web site of the International Music Software Trade Association of which Celemony is a member and which exists to fight software piracy Other elements of the interface Select Time Grid When moving notes horizontally or altering their length a grid selected from a menu at the right hand end of the Bar ruler can influence the behavior of the plug in Clicking briefly on this button toggles the Snap To Grid function on and off whilst holding the mouse button down for slightly longer opens a dropdown menu from which you can select the grid resolution the options being any of a number of note va
59. orus like effect If for example in your host you make multiple copies of a vocal part and then modify each of the copies with Melodyne plugin using this command by mixing the copies together in the sequencer later you can create very natural sounding doubling effects as well as bringing about a broadening of the sound The Edit Formants tool Formants are groups of emphasized harmonics arising from things like the volume and shape of the resonance chamber they occur at the same positions within the frequency spectrum whatever the pitch of the fundamental Crude transposition tools such as samplers when they transpose the fundamental transpose the formants along with it creating an unnatural timbre The effect in the case of a transposition upwards is to make it sound as though the speaker or singer had just inhaled helium this is known as the Chipmunk effect The converse produced by transposing formants downwards is known as the Darth Vader effect Melodyne plugin as a rule leaves the formants in place when transposing audio yielding considerably more natural results You may wish on occasion however to make minor or for special effects even major adjustments to the formant structure manually and this is where the Edit Formant tool comes in 58 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions gin ko a ced ou w Corre 0 0 cent fu Quant E 83 5 The Edit Formant tool When y
60. ot at segment boundaries Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 59 5 Tools and Editing Functions The Edit Edit Formant cascading submenu offers two options Reset Formants to Original and Reset Formant Transition to Default These commands are useful because they are independent of the normal Undo function 7 19 Algorithm View Help Unde Changing Formant Transition Delete J Correct Pitch The Edit Formant Edit Pitch RM Quantize Time submenu Edit Formant RN Reset Formants to Original Edit Amplitude Reset Formant Transition to Default Edit Notes Time b i i Edit Note Separations The Amplitude tool Dynamics obviously play a vital part in musical expression so Melodyne plugin offers powerful functions to help you edit this aspect of a performance They are implemented with the help of the Amplitude tool If you click on a note with the Amplitude tool and drag upwards it becomes louder downwards softer the amount of change in decibels being indicated in each case in the Inspector area As usual one note selected notes or all notes can be edited with a single movement of the mouse or else if preferred by entering the desired value in the edit box beneath the Toolbar k Fam Dd The Amplitude tool As with pitch and formants you can edit the amplitude transition between notes to introduce subtle variations into the dynamics of a performance When after dragging to alter the amplitude of
61. ou click in the middle of the Scroll Slider and drag Overview of the double click functions With the Main tool above below a blob set remove note separator With the Edit Pitch tool in the middle of a blob quantize to the ideal pitch displayed With the Pitch Transitions tool at the end of a blob activate deactivate pitch transition With the Pitch Modulation tool toggle pitch modulation between zero and original With the Pitch Drift tool toggle pitch drift between zero and original With the Formant tool set formant transposition to zero With the Amplitude tool mute unmute blob With the Edit Time tool in the middle of a blob Position tool quantize to ideal position displayed With the Note Separation tool set remove note separator n Correct Detection mode on a blob trigger new detection of the note in question In Correct Detection mode above below a blob set remove note separator 68 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual A Algorithm menu 35 Alt key whilst dragging notes 37 38 Amplitude tool 11 60 Amplitude transition 60 Audio Mixdown 21 27 Authorization 12 14 Automatic correction of notes 44 49 Autoscrolling 36 B Background of the editing area 42 Beginnings and endings of segments usage gw ee we 24 BIODS 2 i35 pw aad obboe brs iu 41 Blobs replaced by straight lines 60 BOUNCE a
62. ou select the Edit Formant tool a horizontal beam appears in the middle of each blob If you drag the beam upwards you transpose the formants upwards giving the voice a more feminine sound do the same to a musical instrument and it is equivalent to giving it a smaller resonating chamber turning a guitar into a ukulele or a viola into a violin Transposing the formants downwards is equivalent to giving an instrument a more voluminous resonating chamber Again you can apply the same changes to all or only selected notes and type in the desired value in cents for the latter if you prefer that to using the mouse If you wish to restore the original formants of a note simply double click on it with the Edit Formant tool The Edit Formant tool is context sensitive when you hold it over the last part of a note it governs formant transitions The Formant Transitions tool This tool works in much the same way as the tool for pitch transitions With the formants transitions are created automatically whenever you shift the formants of a note Here too orange lines appear representing a transition As with the pitch transition tool by dragging the mouse pointer upwards or downwards level with the end of a note you can influence the speed of the formant transition to the next note with the orange line between the two notes becoming correspondingly shallower or steeper Please note that such transitions are only possible within segments and n
63. para Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 45 5 Tools and Editing Functions tors is checked in the View menu this information is displayed in the form of thin vertical lines A Note separator You may have noticed as you were editing the pitch of notes that ir the appearance of the Main tool an arrow in most areas of the screen changes as it approaches and passes over a blob in the mm center of a blob it takes the form of the Edit Pitch tool whereas e when you move it to the beginning or end of the blob it changes shape again to become the Edit Time tool With the context sensitive Edit Time tool at the front of the blob you can move the beginning of a note and at the back move its end in other words alter the position and the length of the note By clicking with this tool at the beginning of a note and dragging the pointer to the right or left you can move the beginning of that note with the result that as the note is lengthened the one that precedes it is shortened and by the same amount One use for this type of function obviously is tidying up the timing of sloppy performances placing the ending and beginning of notes perfectly on the right spot Note Please do not confuse moving a note separator see also the next section of this chapter with moving the beginning of a note When you move a note separa tor you alter the point at which one note ends and the next begins you are moving to a certain extent a boundar
64. procedure provided you first insert the Lok dongle into a USB port If you have any questions concerning or encounter any problems with the Lok dongle please visit the Lok page in the Licensing area of our web site www celemony com where you will find detailed information on this subject Are you up to date Melodyne plugin is constantly being improved Please check to see whether a newer version of the program than the one on your installation CD is available If you have already installed Melodyne plugin you can do this simply by clicking the Check for Updates command in the He p menu Otherwise visit www Celemony com Please note that you can also access the Ce emony web site our Support department or our FAQ pages directly from inside the program again via the He p menu 16 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 2 Introduction How Melodyne plugin functions 2 Introduction How Melodyne plugin functions Melodyne plugin does not work in real time like a conventional effects plug in In other words it does not process the audio signal at the same moment it receives it the way an echo or chorus effect does for it to work in such a way is logically impossible since Melodyne plugin can also edit the timing of notes their position and length which it can obviously only do once they are all there and it has had a chance to study them despite its advanced technology Melodyne plugin cannot look into the future We have the
65. r example to change the pitch of the first part of the note the part to the left of the newly created separator without changing that of the second part or vice versa Suppose for example you wish to introduce an chapp e or a cambiata or any other ornament for that matter that isn t contained in the original performance Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 51 5 Tools and Editing Functions With the Note separation tool double click at the point where you would like the note to be split a new note separator will appear the note now consists of two halves Now you can grab the second half in the middle with the Correct Pitch tool and transpose it independently of the first When you create a division within a note Melodyne plugin calculates the average pitch of each of the two parts separately and then tries to select the most appro priate split point This may cause the newly created separator to appear slightly to the right or left of the point at which you clicked You can however override the split point chosen by dragging the separator to the exact position you want If you double click an existing note separator it will disappear If you hold the Alt key and move the pointer to a note separator it will become the Segment Separa tion tool in this case if you double click on the note separator it will become a segment separator which is denoted by a pair of square brackets placed back to back But what is a segment s
66. rations Melodyne plugin detects in the transferred audio material If notes that should be separated from one another are not you can cause Melodyne plugin to be more sensitive thereby detecting a greater number of note separations with the command More Separations if there are too many separations in the material you can arrive at the opposite result with the Fewer Separations command Please note that these two commands can also be used several times is succession to influence the number of separations If you check the option Separate According to Pitch Melodyne plugin will be more influenced by the melodic course of the material and less by the amplitude when deciding whether or not to separate notes Removing the checkmark will weaken the influence of the melodic course upon the separations Try out this option also in connection with the two commands for more fewer separations if you are not satisfied with the separations detected in more complex material It is preferable to use the above mentioned options before you begin editing the notes so that your editing is not disturbed by alterations in the note separations Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 65 5 Tools and Editing Functions Correcting the automatic detection As we pointed out at the beginning of this manual for Melodyne plugin to be able to render audio material malleable and make available its unique editing functions the transferred audio file must first be analyze
67. rea are yellow and the pitch curve is displayed in a bolder red In Correct Detection mode the mouse pointer is again context sensitive when you move it to the center of a blob it becomes the Pitch Correction tool though notes here do not snap into position in steps of a semitone and the effect of dragging a note to a new location is not to alter its pitch as would be the case in the normal editing area but to trigger a fresh search at the new position it s a hint in other words the equivalent of saying try looking here If Melodyne plugin is success ful the pitch curve will be redrawn to take account of the newly detected note If however the redrawn pitch curve seems implausible by double clicking the blob you can trigger a fresh search at the designated location When you move the pointer to a position above or below or to the beginning or end of a note it changes to the Note separation tool which you can use if need be to split or move the boundaries between notes as in the ordinary editing area In addition to the detection errors already described Melodyne plugin sometimes confuses tonal material with percussive and vice versa one could think of certain passages of scat jazz singers imitating instruments where different people could have a legitimate difference of opinion as to whether it was tonal or percussive The significance of the decision is threefold when material is categorized as percussive all the
68. refore adopted a different approach that allows you to take advantage of Melodyne plugin s full range of editing possibilities which go way beyond simple pitch correction and for this it is necessary for it to analyze the material in advance and recognize or detect the individual notes This brings us to the first of our key facts If you want to edit a piece of audio material using Melodyne plugin you must play it through to it first As you do this the plug in will record the passage analyze it and then display it in its own editor so that you can begin work Only by playing it through in this way beforehand do you make it possible for Melodyne plugin to shorten lengthen and quantize notes modify their volume individually and do other things besides With a plug in working entirely in real time such things would be impossible in the absence of a time machine without increasing the overall latency of the host to an impracticable level through the use of a correspondingly large look ahead buffer Once you ve played the material through to the plug in or rather transferred the material to the plug in thereafter it does work in real time if you move a note to a different pitch in the Editor alter its length or use the automatic pitch or timing correction functions the changes are displayed and can be heard immediately i e without any latency at all in the context naturally of your running arrange ment Melod
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70. rts of the timeline where there are notes in the plug in you will have to make correspon ding changes to the material in the plug in otherwise the plug in will switch at the wrong moment from the host s to the plug in s signal and you will hear the notes of the old arrangement that are still in the plug in The same applies if you delete the material on the host track or replace it with new material Why can t the plug in register changes made to the host track The reason is that the commonly used plug in interfaces do not support the type of information exchange between plug in and host that this would require The various plug in interfaces are simply designed to route audio from the host to the plug in and back along with some rudimentary information needed for the purpose of synchro nization Melodyne plugin makes skillful use of the various plug in interfaces to allow for a very advanced type of audio editing that was not envisaged when they were conceived but there remain technical and conceptual limitations in the design of the plug in interfaces that create obstacles not even Melodyne plugin can surmount Working strategies To work as smoothly as possible and without confusion with the two audio signals the host track and the material transferred to the plug in two basic strategies suggest themselves immediately it is not necessary to adopt either of them slavishly but being aware of them should help you optimize your workflo
71. s it is with this type of material that you can most easily explore Melodyne plugin s editing functions Included with Melodyne plugin you will find a folder containing a number of sample audio files these are suitable for use when trying out the functions we are about to describe so if you have no other material to hand just use them As soon as you transfer an audio segment from your host Melodyne plugin will analyze it this analysis which we call detection is the foundation for the outstanding editing capabilities offered by the program A progress bar provides feedback on the progress of the analysis Detection For your information Melodyne plugin stores the information gleaned from its analy sis in a separate file in the same folder as the recorded audio file which is generally the temporary recording folder you selected the first time you launched the plug in and has the same name but with the filename extension mdd 40 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions Once the process of analysis is complete the file is displayed in the editing area complete with Melodyne s famous blobs indicating the exact pitch center and ampli tude envelope of each note If the material transferred is purely melodic the blobs Will be displayed at heights that vary depending upon their pitch you can discern the pitch of each note by referring to the Note ruler in the left hand margin If on the other hand
72. s lacks luster or seems thin You can even split notes in order to modify the amount of vibrato present in parts of the note only Double clicking a note using the Pitch Modulation tool toggles between the original vibrato and no vibrato You can read the existing vibrato intensity from the box beneath the tool bar or enter a new value if you wish The second tool down is the Pitch Drift tool Pitch drift you will remember is the term reserved for divagations in pitch other than vibrato the difference being primarily that vibrato is faster The Pitch Drift tool works like the same parameter in the Correct Pitch panel with the added possibility of increasing or reversing the pitch drift This makes it a more powerful tool for redrawing the pitch envelope of a note Double clicking a note using the Pitch Drift tool toggles between the origi nal drift and no drift You can read the existing drift intensity from the box beneath the tool bar or enter a new value if you wish Note Whenever you select one of the Pitch tools from the toolbar the pitch curve will be superimposed on the note blobs even though you may have unchecked Always Show Pitch Curve in the View menu Tip It can happen as a result of drift or vibrato editing or transposition of the parts that discontinuities appear in the Pitch Curve introducing a harshness or Jerkiness to the transitions That may be the effect you intend but in the event that it is not you can us
73. s of all selected notes adjust accordingly Experiment for a few moments with the quantization functions as the musical implications of the various options are more easily understood by listening If you have ever used a MIDI sequencer you will doubtless have done much the same thing with MIDI data but here there is one important difference Melodyne plugin quantizes intelligently not mechanically so you are not obliged to set the quantization factor to the smallest note value of the piece the fact that you have set the quantization factor to 1 4 T does not mean that smaller note values will automatically be rounded up and that all note beginnings will snap to the nearest grid line as would be the case with traditional MIDI quantization instead Melodyne plugin moves the underlying rhythm and rhythmic emphasis of the notes to fit in perfectly to the selected grid allowing smaller note values than those of the currently selected grid Normal time stretching The playback tempo of audio is variable in Melodyne plugin The plug in itself however has no tempo parameter it follows the tempo of the host program at all times If this tempo is altered the audio material in the plug in follows suit and is played back correspondingly faster or more slowly The sound quality that Melodyne plugin is able to achieve whilst applying the most extreme time 50 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions compression and stret
74. se reb Ec rina erba acra bend ete e mte EP PeOC RH a di hast 61 Tne Note separation TOOL wicccaicarcotesaveciaantienhasanasbncawnelenatealpseasvedstecseasuanvelane 63 Correcting the automatic detection s sssssessrssrrsrrrsrrrsrrrsrrrsrrnnrrrrrrrsrrrsne 66 PADDGOPG DU ssccessiinsuusudrnt su ai Sc ue vias Eat ar da scriba a nt en Gad Pi uev nda T pP OP Rb BO GIpSt 68 Overview of the Functions of Special Keys and Right clicking 68 Overview of the double click fTUNCTIONS ccccececececeeeceeeeteeeeeeetseeeeteeenees 68 lud T TT 69 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Content Welcome to Melodyne plugin Welcome to Melodyne plugin Melodyne plugin offers you a simple and convenient way of making use of Melodyne s highly acclaimed technology which has proved its value in studios all over the world within your audio MIDI sequencer or digital audio workstation the host and integrate it into your workflow Melodyne plugin s specialty is the editing of vocals no other solution on the market offers you greater flexibility sound quality and musicality when it comes to this sensitive task There are few professional productions nowadays in which no Melodyne product is used to optimize the vocals The listener may not be aware that any such editing has taken place but that s precisely what is intended The great advantage of Melodyne technology is that it sounds outstanding and total
75. signals of one or more tracks after processing including in this case the changes introduced by Melodyne plugin has been applied to them The second approach involves postponing the use of Melodyne plugin until after you have arranged the track Begin by going through your vocal recordings remov ing the bad takes and copying and moving the good ones to the right places Only then when the arranging process is complete do you transfer the track or rather those parts of it that require optimization to the plug in Since the material on the track has already been arranged there is not the same danger here of finding your work with the plug in being outdated by changes to the arrangement made later in the host Remember any such changes must be duplicated within the plug in by moving the affected notes to the same positions in the plug in s timeline as they occupy in that of the host Whether you now with this second approach bounce the host track and the plug in track to create a new audio file or wait and allow the plug in to decide which source to use and when is a matter of personal preference If you want to transfer the song to another computer on which Melodyne plugin is not installed then naturally you do have no choice but to bounce it The same applies if the burden on your computer s CPU is reaching a critical level the reason being that playing back a bounced track requires far less processing than playing back an
76. single note is broken down into a succession of individual notes alternating in pitch and capable of being edited individually Without more however the command has no influ ence upon the sound Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 63 5 Tools and Editing Functions Edit Algorithm View Help Undo Changing Note Formant i Redo EE OEC Be Delete IF L4 Correct Pitch 1 Edit Pitch dz Ce Quantize Time Edit Formant r H Fi RAER The Edit Note separations Edit Notes Time b Te submenu I Separate Note as Trill Separate Note as Slide Re Assign Notes to Beats More Separations Less Separations fuse Fitch for Separations A note before and after separation with the Separate Note as Trill command The command Separate Note as Slide is designed to separate notes created for example when a guitarist or bass player slides the finger stopping the string up or down the string in other words it breaks a rising or descending glissando into a series of discrete semitone steps Where the potential for a glissando exists a continuous rising or falling pitch curve is displayed which with fretted instru ments may take on a step like appearance for it to be recognized and accepted as such by Melodyne plugin a slide must cover at least three semitones with the first and last notes defining the range of the slide A note before and after separation with the Separate Note as Slide comman
77. ssive material on the other hand displays all the notes at the same pitch since with percussive material the sounds generally have no recognizable pitch for the same reason this algorithm displays no pitch curve The Percussive algorithm is designed to preserve the transients of the material and its timing even after quite drastic changes have been made Unlike the algorithm for melodic material the Percus sive algorithm does not allow you to transpose formants The View menu This menu contains three options relating to the plug in s display TT Help 1 x Autoscrolling 1 3 w Always Show Pitch Curve B If you select Autoscrolling the of Always Show Note Separations Br E i a on P display in the Editor will follow the current song position at all times unless of course you scroll the display manually or drag a note in which case the auto scroll function will be temporarily disabled to allow you more time to examine the passage in question or perform the desired edit As soon as you stop and restart the playback of the host the auto scroll function will be reactivated The two other options relate to the display of the pitch curve and that of the note separations the vertical grey lines between the note blobs you can select whether you wish to see these or not Please note however that the pitch curve will be displayed regardless of your selection here whenever the Pitch Formant or Note Separation to
78. tentional drifting from the correct pitch without removing the vibrato You can of course remove the vibrato too if you wish or tone it down but we will deal with that later If using the upper trackbar or slider you correct only the pitch center the pitch drift will remain You can however remove this too with the lower trackbar Turn 44 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions this up to 100 and listen to the results the fluctuations in intonation disappear but any vibrato or trill in the signal is retained This should make clear if it were not already apparent quite how sophisticated Melodyne plugin s analysis of the signal is and how sensitive the resulting possibilities for intervention are The two pitch correction parameters Correct Pitch Center and Correct Pitch Drift are completely independent i e you can set a different intensity from 0 100796 for each parameter If and when you are satisfied with the results exit with OK if on the other hand you would prefer to leave things as they were before you opened the Correct Pitch dialog exit with Cancel You can at any time use the Undo function to reverse changes made by the macro Note if no notes are selected at the time you open the Correct Pitch dialog Melodyne plugin understands you to mean correct the pitch of all the notes if on the other hand one or more notes are selected they and only they will be affected by whatever
79. tless you will want to try out Melodyne plugin right away This chapter covers the essentials of installing and authorizing the use of the plug in 2 Introduction How Melodyne plugin functions This deals with the plug in s essential functioning principles and basic applica tions you should read it before you begin working with Melodyne plugin Particu larly important points key facts are displayed in bold type 3 Operation This chapter explains how to use Melodyne plugin 4 The Interface and Menu Functions This chapter takes you on a quick tour of the user interface describing the function of all the controls and menu items 5 Tools and Editing Functions This chapter introduces you to the tools and functions offered by Melodyne plugin for the editing of audio material Here s wishing you joy and success with Melodyne plugin All at Celemony Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 7 Overview The surface of Melodyne plugin Overview The surface of Melodyne plugin Toolbar and Inspector area Undo and Redo buttons Melodyne plugin s menu bar The Transfer button and the Status and Signal display Correct Pitc Quantize Tin Show Hide Notation toggle The Note Ruler Activates Deactivates the Note or Scale grid The Horizontal Scroll Zoom slider with an overview of the transferred segments 8 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual Overview The surface of Melodyne plug
80. u can proceed to the authorization stage Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 13 1 Installation and Authorization After the installation you must first authorize Melodyne plugin before you can use it To do this open the plug in in your host When it is first launched Melodyne plugin automatically displays the License window You can also open this window manually from the Settings menu should you need to do so at some later date Serial Number 1234 1234 1234 Paste Method Challenge Response iLok Host Id 1234 1234 1234 based on Melodyne plugin s License Key 1234 1234 1234 Paste i DL License window License key accepted Open License WebSite When it comes to entering the requisite data not all hosts will pass keyboard input on to Melodyne plugin f your host won t let you enter data from the keyboard into the License window please use the Paste button alongside the fields type the requisite information into a text document or a text field in some other program select it and then use the Copy or Cut command now switch back to Melodyne plugin click the field into which you wish to enter the data followed by the Paste button alongside it The text you have copied will now appear in the relevant field There are two different ways of authorizing Melodyne plugin using the Challenge Response procedure and using an Lok copy protection USB dongle which you can buy as an option from your local dealer You ca
81. uantize Time macro 49 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions You could if you wanted exit immediately with OK effectively correcting all the timing irregularities in the file or selection with two mouse clicks but for the time being experiment with different settings and try to develop a sense of the musical implications If you watch the blobs as you move the Quantize Timing slider you will notice that the extent to which they move stretch or contract in order to conform more closely to the grid lines is dependent upon the position of the slider Now let s turn our attention to the Groove Reference buttons above the intensity control As you can see the default option is None in which case Melodyne plugin uses no separate grid but makes an intelligent guess based upon its prior analysis of the audio material as to where each note is supposed to begin and how long it is supposed to last usually you will find it gets it spot on and most of the notes end up in their intended places and with the correct note values but occasionally even Melodyne plugin cannot read minds you will need to correct one or two notes by hand using the Edit Time tool If on the other hand you prefer to set the quantization factor the fineness of the mesh by hand click the appropriate push button you will observe the effects at once grid lines appear at the intervals you have specified and the beginnings and end
82. unbounced one A hybrid approach might be to begin by transferring the entire track with all its takes to Melodyne plugin where in a single pass you could correct the worst of the errors using the pitch and timing correction macros before rendering the results to the host application If at a later stage you wished to return individual passages to Melodyne plugin for microsurgical fine tuning it would simply be a question of transferring them a second time to the plug in using the same procedure as before Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 21 2 Introduction How Melodyne plugin functions The approaches we have outlined serve simply to avoid potential confusion caused by the fact of there being two audio levels that of the host application and that of the plug in You are free of course to transfer only the passages requiring editing from the host track to the plug in and work with the combined signals of the host track and the plug in If you do so however remember that any changes made to the audio material on the host track must be duplicated in the plug in alterna tively you could simply delete the passages in question in the plug in and transfer the new versions from the host to the plug in for further editing The peculiarities of hosts We have already observed that Melodyne plugin can do nothing about the concep tual and technical limitations of the plug in interface the same goes for the peculiarities of certain host
83. ur hard disk by deleting from it all those files and snippets of files that are no longer needed Please note however that deleted files cannot be recovered Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 33 4 The Interface and Menu Functions The Preferences command also opens a small modal window in which you will find three options with the first you can select a folder to use as a temporary recording folder with the second determine the size of the plug in window and with the third you choose your favorite language please note that changing the language will only take effect when you shut down and restart your host Size Small Large User Width Height Please close the plug in window and open it again for the changes to take effect Temporary Recording Folder The Preferences window Lanquage English Please resart the host application for changes take effect Cancel You can select between three standard window sizes as well as select a user defin able size Please note that the plug in window must be closed and then reopened before any changes will take effect Finally the License command opens the License window This is where you authorize the plug in for your computer a procedure described in Chapter 1 The Select menu In this menu you will find various self PEG aa eee explanatory commands relating to the Der Ai p selection of notes A tip if you wish to gt tf delete a passage that you have only
84. ve To Melodyne plugin no note is an island entire unto itself unless it really is isolated to begin with otherwise as you move and resize notes in Melodyne plugin care is taken to ensure that the transitions retain their true musical character Most of the time this is what you want to be able to tidy up the rhythm of a performance without a gap appearing whenever a note needs to be shortened but there may be contexts in which you really would prefer to modify the ending or beginning of a note without this affecting the notes around it in other words to be able to treat each note as an independent entity This is where the Segment Separation tool to which we alluded earlier comes into its own Segment separation works like this The Segment Separation tool and a segment separator Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 53 5 Tools and Editing Functions f you double click with the Segment Separation tool or the Note separation tool whilst holding the Alt key on an existing note separator you turn it into a segment separator the symbol for which is a square bracket that is slightly thicker than a normal note separator The result is to detach the note in question from those on either side allowing you to move it without this affecting them When you delete a note from an existing segment two new segments result one on each side of the deleted blob In the simplest case a segment consists of a single blob Double clicking
85. w with Melodyne plugin Suppose you have recorded some vocals on one of the tracks of the host and wish to make corrections to certain passages or edit them in some other way Not all bars we will assume are yet in the positions they will eventually occupy you may Wish for example later to copy the vocals from the third refrain to the first in other words the track is not yet fully arranged but is simply functioning as a kind of container for the various takes which you have not yet sorted cleaned up and moved to their final destinations 20 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 2 Introduction How Melodyne plugin functions One approach would be to transfer the audio material on the track in its entirety to Melodyne plugin where you could remove the mistakes and optimize the material Once you had done this you could bounce the results to the hard disk and simply replace the old audio file in the host track with the newly created one You could then deactivate Melodyne plugin as it would by that time have served its purpose with the changes made fixed in a new audio file If you were working in this way you could then continuing copying and moving segments of the now optimized vocals on the host track until everything was in the desired place Note the Bounce Render or Audio Mixdown function the name varies from host to host results in a new audio file or files being created by the host on your hard disk from the
86. x containing an outline of the same blob This ghost blob indicates where the real blob would be if the note to which it refers were perfectly in tune with a member of the selected scale if the Scale Snap function is active To correct the tuning of a note simply double click on the blob with the Edit Pitch tool and it will snap to the position indicated by the outline i e the ghost blob To quantize the pitch of multiple notes in this way select them and double click any note in the selection 54 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual 5 Tools and Editing Functions The blob display with the Edit Pitch tool selected Beneath the toolbar you will see two inspector fields When you select a note with the Edit Pitch tool these display the name of the note and the amount in cents by which its pitch center deviates from the ideal pitch You can edit these values directly in order to transpose the note as desired This also works when several notes are selected though in this case relative values are displayed As you move the Edit Pitch tool from the beginning or middle to the end of a note it transforms into the Pitch Transitions tool The Pitch Transitions tool Often the pitch does not change abruptly from note to note but glides to a more or less noticeable extent Melodyne plugin takes note of such transitions indicating them by means of an orange line at the end of the notes If you click and drag upwards or downwards on the r
87. y marker within the note material Notes are only then stretched or compressed when you move the beginning or the end of a note or notes yourself by grabbing the blobs and pulling not the note separators 46 Melodyne plugin 1 0 user manual H 1 4 1 4 T 1 8 1 8 T 1 16 2 1 16 T z 1 32 RM NEN 3 k m Seco Seconds By clicking on this button you can activate deactivate the horizontal grid if you click and hold the mouse button a menu opens from which you can select the grid Being able to stretch and squeeze notes at will has creative implications as well To give you an example select a note delete it with Delete command from the Edit menu and drag the beginning of the following note to the left to fill the gap you have created With such techniques you can vary your recording in a flexible manner As you stretch or squeeze notes you will quickly notice that the movements are quantized Just as the blobs snap in semitone steps when you alter their pitch when you alter their position or length a time grid takes effect The Edit Time tool alters the note length in steps that if the display is big enough amount to a maximum of a quarter of the grid shown in the editing area If the display is not big enough only a half or an entire step of the displayed grid is available If you zoom a long way out fewer steps may be displayed than indicated in the menu The standard grid shows quarter notes crotchets wh
88. yne plugin 1 0 user manual 17 2 Introduction How Melodyne plugin functions You know now that audio material requiring editing using the plug in must be transferred to it first Melodyne plugin records these signals and stores them on your hard disk It is these files created by Melodyne plugin not the audio files created by your host that form the basis for all editing done in the plug in But why doesn t Melodyne plugin simply access the existing audio file used by the host Unfortunately it would serve no useful purpose to reveal to the plug in the location of this file since the file in question has no idea which parts of it are played back when and where which have been duplicated nor which have been deleted or had special playback parameters applied to them and for Melodyne plugin to make any kind of intelligent use of it it would need to know all of these things and reproduce in its own editor the results of the editing you have already done in the host There s no alternative then but to transfer the material Melodyne plugin and the host The question that arises now is how do the audio material on the host track and the material transferred to Melodyne plugin interact To this there is a simple answer our second key fact In those parts of the timeline where audio has been transferred to Melodyne plugin and notes are visible in its editor you will hear the plug in and not the host track conversely in those parts of

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