Melodyne 5 Essential

Audio trimming and editing software. Vocal and Tempo Tuner.

Melodyne 5 essential

A Easiest way to get started

With the Essential Melodyne 5, you edit your vocals using the basic tuning and tempo functions. Musical, fast and easy. And if you need more, you can always upgrade, just paying the difference.

Grammy-winning technology

way to work exceptionally musical and note-based intuitive

Melodic (with Sibilant Detection), Percussive and Universal algorithms

Melodyne's main tool for editing pitch and timing

macros to optimize intonation , tempo quantization and smoothing

the Chord Track and Chord Grid with automatic chord recognition

tempo detection

full compatibility: VST 3, AU, AAX, standalone

integration via ARA Audio Random Access (depending on DAW)

macOS and Windows, 64-bit

current version: 5

What's New in Melodyne 5:

New technologies, for better results in less time. Thanks to the fundamentally improved “Melodic” algorithm, Melodyne makes your vocal editing even better than before. With perfect and natural corrections on the press of a key. Thanks to the chord range, you can adapt notes with the speed of light to suit the included music chord recognition. And with the unique Fade tool, you can create note-based fades - even on polyphonic recordings and samples.

This is all new:

the ability to edit pitched and noise-like components separately with the "Melodic" algorithm

a more musical analysis of pitch deviations

the Chord Track and Chord Grid for pitch editing, chord recognition

the Fade tool and the leveling macro for editing dynamics

an additional algorithm (“Percussive Pitched”) plus others algorithm improvements

search functions for keyboard shortcuts, saving shortcut sets

Vocals, now even better

Melodyne increases her core competency. The "Melodic" algorithm used for vocals can now distinguish the irrelevant, noise-like components of a note - that is, voiceless consonants (such as sibilants like "s") and breath sounds - from their tuned components. Even when they match. And while all pitch and timing changes are implemented in a tried-and-true manner with respect to tuned components, different rules that accurately simulate the natural behavior of the human voice govern sibilant handling. So now, when you work with Melodyne, you automatically get the highest possible sound quality and the most natural sounding results.

Pros will be relieved to find out that it is no longer necessary to isolate each sibilant by hand. This saves a lot of time and makes for a more meaningful display in the Note Editor. At the same time, the results sound much better as automation works more accurately and overlaps between squeakers and released components are taken into account.

The detection of Sibilant not only creates acoustic advantages, but also new creative possibilities: With the Sibilant Tool, you can adjust the balance between the sibilants and the treble components of a note. Sibilants can be attenuated, silenced completely, emphasized or even isolated - anything is possible. So, in the bargain, you get a perfect dialer that only affects the problem areas and has no side effects on other components of the vocal sound.

Modeled on human hearing

Why some notes sound out of tune and others don't? Fluctuations in pitch contribute to the quality of a vocal performance because it is through them that passion and emotional complexity find expression. They give, in other words, their human dimension. But for your contribution to be positive, the nature, scope, and precise timing of such fluctuations are of crucial importance.

A grade does not necessarily seem sharp or clear. flat just because it's not "mathematically" mathematically. Only a few segments of the note, usually very brief, bother us. Sometimes at the beginning, sometimes at the end, sometimes somewhere in between. It is these crucial segments that need to be perfectly tuned; if they are, the note will sound correct to us. The presence of fluctuations before or after these segments doesn't bother us - on the contrary, we feel that they add life to the performance and sound natural.

Now Melodyne identifies these problem areas accurately, and the offset shown in the Grade Inspector is calculated from the pitch of each note only at the crucial moment - not throughout its lifetime. As a result, double-clicking (to set a note's offset to zero) now generates precisely the right musical result. In addition, macro benefits from this new, even more musical approach: each individual note is launched to perfection. However, everything still sounds natural and alive.

The chord range and chord grid

Work better with chords, adapt notes quickly. Melodyne 5 provides a chord range linked to the tuning grid in the Note Editor. This makes working with chords much more enjoyable and harmonies more transparent. Because you can see at any time which tones are compatible with the current chord, and you can adapt the notes according to the speed of light. This is useful when you're changing chords, and if you want to combine any sample harmonically with your song, it works like a dream.

Autopilot for chords. Melodyne's chord recognition technology is so advanced that it can consider separate tracks or together - even the entire mix - and identify the chords formed when their notes are combined. It analyzes your recordings quickly and reliably and fills the chord range automatically. This makes working with chords even easier.

Dynamic functions

Fade based on notes The Fade tool provides highly effective control over the dynamics of your recording. For each note individually. Even within a chord. This is unique and offers entirely new creative possibilities for dynamic editing. And because in Melodyne fades belong to notes, they are automatically preserved when notes are moved or copied.

Controlling the dynamic range. The Leveling Macro makes high notes quieter and quieter, adjusts volume disparities. Same - thanks to Melodyne technology - in polyphonic recordings. So if one or more notes in a chord are too quiet and are muffled by the rest, you can effortlessly raise them to the desired level.

Additional improvements in the algorithm

"Percussive Pitched". This new algorithm was developed especially for instruments such as tabla, berimbau or 808-kick, whose notes - although percussive - still have a recognizable tone.

"Curve of robust slope". With this new option, you can get better sound quality when editing certain signals, such as those with a lot of reverberation. When enabled, monophonic algorithms employ a slightly smoothed pitch curve.

"Complex". This algorithm reproduction type has been improved and can now be used with the same flexibility as the “Tone” reproduction type for formants.

Other improvements

Best keyboard shortcuts. New keyboard shortcut search function, saving custom shortcut sets has been improved.

No more ".mdd" files. Melodyne's detection data, which was previously saved to separate “.mdd” files, is now stored in the audio files themselves, making file directories clearer and sharing projects easier.

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