Anything within an octave, with proper adjustment, will sound clean and natural. Melodyne only starts to sound bad when you make extreme adjustments. When comparing Melodyne with Flex Pitch, Auto-Tune, Little AlterBoy, or other pitch correction tools, Melodyne is super clean, transparent and natural. If all you can hear is more in-tune audio, your plugin is doing what it's meant to. Unlike compression, EQ or any other processing, pitch correction has to be as clean and natural as possible. Melodyne doesn't sound like anything, which is it's biggest strength. If you're looking for something more instant, Auto-Tune is probably more your speed. You can't Melodyne vocals in real time, since anything you want to Melodyne has to be scanned in to the plugin first. Lastly, there is one drawback with Melodyne. If you're recording a vocal ensemble and are running out of studio time, you can easily adjust mistakes in any recording, to get a usable take.Īnd 100% of singers in the music industry now, all use autotune for their vocals. In addition to an incredibly powerful tuning utility, Melodyne can even work with Polyphonic material, allowing you to change the key of entire melodic lines.įor this functionality, you need the more expensive versions of Melodyne, but changing notes in piano chords, or adjusting vocal harmonies is incredibly cool and helpful.

Melodyne is just that, it allows you to make mistakes and not worry about them too much – almost like a safety net. You can't hear it doing it's thing, which is exactly what you want when you're trying to fix mistakes. The great thing about Melodyne is that, unless you really push it, it'll always sound clean and transparent. In contrast to other automatic tuning plugins and effects, Melodyne has no automation, all of your notes are laid out in a graphical grid, for a more in-depth and intuitive control. The industry standard in pitch shifting, Melodyne has found it's way in studios and it's used on almost 100% of vocals in the industry.

Melodyne 5 by Celemony is easily, the most in-depth and controllable graphical pitch control tool out there.

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