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Listen to Melodyne
Voice
Melodyne works excellent on vocals: Here you hear a few notes of a medieval
hymn, copied and pasted several times, and changing their musical scale
while playing. VoiceScales.mp3
Even extreme pitch shifts can be performed without making the voice
sound unnatural: Here, with each pass of the melody line, the last note
is moved higher. The internal phrasing of a note can also be changed:
in the penultimate pass, the vibrato is attenuated, in the last one
it is exaggerated. VoiceTune.mp3
Notes can also be moved in time: Originally, this melody was performed
without a fixed time measure - here it is quantized to the rhythm given
by the drums. VoiceQuant.mp3
Brass
With Melodyne, sound, pitch, and tempo have become completely independent
entities. You can arbitrarily change the speed of the music while it
is playing without affecting its pitch or timbre. Here you hear a trumpet
line, at it's original tempo first, then speeded up to double speed,
then continuously slowed down - the last note is a hundred times slower
than the original. All is done in realtime just by moving the tempo
slider. TrumpetTempo.mp3
Melodyne automatically detects the notes of a recorded melody. The notes
can simply be moved to a different pitch. With a single mouse click
you can make all notes snap to the nearest pitch position for a given
scale. Here you hear the trumpet line's scale switching several times
while it is playing. With changing pitch positions, the notes' internal
phrasing and transitions will always be kept musically. TrumpetScale.mp3
Experience the concept of "Local Sound": In Melodyne's Shrub Mode you
move the mouse cursor along the sound or stay at one point in time -
you will always hear the "Local Sound" in its original pitch. Here you
hear the mouse cursor moving forth and back over a short part of the
trumpet line. TrumpetShurb.mp3
With changing pitch, formants will always be adapted automatically.
But you can also change the character of a voice or an instrument drastically
by changing its formants: Here you hear the trumpet mutate between a
trombone and a muted trumpet just by moving the formant slider. TrumpetFormant.mp3
Arrangement
With Melodyne, you can also process full arrangements. Due to its
high performance audio engine, more than 20 tracks can be processed
simultaneously in realtime. Here we have an arrangement with 5 audio
tracks that is speeded up by 50% while it is playing and slowed down
by 50% of its original speed in the second pass by moving the tempo
slider. ArrangmentTime.mp3
As Melodyne keeps the phrasing within each note, harmonic vocal arrangements
derived from a single voice will sound very natural. Here, the original
vocal line was copied twice and arranged for an harmonic choir with
a few mouse clicks. ArrangmentChoir.mp3
This example shows how to change the global pitch and tempo of a whole
arrangement in realtime. You will hear a Bavarian “Landler”
that has been recorded by a brass band on 6 monophonic tracks. PitchAndTempo(BrassBand).mp3
In Melodyne, each note knows its “intended” beat and bar position,
as soon as a recording has been analyzed by the program. Thus it is
possible for a melody line to be adjusted to a given tempo with a single
mouse click. On the first track, you will hear a drum loop and on the
second track a saxophone line that has been recorded independently from
the drum loop and has nothing to do with its tempo. In the second part
from bar 7 on, the saxophone line was automatically adapted to the tempo
of the arrangement. Now we want to execute this for the first part from
the start to bar 6. AdaptTime(SaxToDrums).mp3
Strings
This is about transposing string melodies one octave upward and
one octave downward. You will hear a line of a string trio that has
been recorded on three monophonic tracks with a viola. We will transpose
the first viola one octave upward and convert it into a violin, and
convert the third viola into a cello one octave lower. In the second
part after bar 7, you can hear the result. We will process the original
in the first 6 bars. OctaveTranspose(Strings).mp3
Percussion
Here, a single percussion track was recorded with an Egyptian Darabuka.
The second half of that track was quantised and copied several times.
The copies were transposed to various pitches and offset against each
other in time with the quantise function enabled. For percussive material
you use the detection option “Percussion” and the playback
algorithm “Time”. TransposingPercussion.mp3
How Melodyne Works
This 10 minute presentation filmed in a recording studio
gives a facinating insight into the power of Melodyne.
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