Celemony has released the latest version of their pitch correction software Melodyne 5. The key new feature is an improved “Melodic” algorithm, designed to offer natural corrections at the press of a key. Using chord recognition, the Chord Track, you can now adapt notes quickly and easily to suit the song and with the Fade Tool, you are able to create note-based fades, even in polyphonic recordings and samples.
Celemony Melodyne 5 New Feature Summary
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 Leveling Macro for editing dynamics
An additional algorithm (“Percussive Pitched”) plus other algorithm improvements
Search functions for keyboard shortcuts, saving of shortcut sets
Video: What’s new in Melodyne 5?
When the Melodic algorithm is used for vocals it has been designed to distinguish the unpitched, noise-like components of a note, like the voiceless consonants (such as sibilants like “s”) and breath sounds, from its pitched components. All pitch and timing changes are still implemented in the tried-and-tested manner as far as the pitched components are concerned, with Melodyne 5 Celemony have created different rules designed to emulate the natural behaviour of the human voice when it comes to the handling of sibilants.
With the Sibilant Tool, you can now adjust the balance between the sibilants and the pitched components of a note. Sibilants can be attenuated, muted altogether, emphasised or even isolated. Consequently you effectively get a de-esser that is designed to affect the problem areas and has no side-effects on other components of the vocal sound.
Video: The New Vocal Functions And Sibilant Detection
The Chord Track and Chord Grid
Melodyne 5 now offers you a chord track that is linked to the Pitch Grid in the Note Editor. This is intended to make working with chords more enjoyable and harmonies more transparent. You can see which notes are compatible with the current chord and can adapt the pitch accordingly.
Melodyne’s chord recognition technology can now consider tracks separately or together, even the entire mix, and identify the chords created when the notes are combined.
Video: Working With Chords
Dynamics Functions
The Fade Tool has been designed to give you effective control over the dynamics of your recording down to each individual note, even within a chord and since in Melodyne the fades belong to the notes, they are automatically preserved when the notes are moved or copied.
The Leveling Macro makes loud notes quieter and quiet ones louder, it adjusts volume disparities even, thanks to Melodyne technology, in polyphonic recordings. So if one or more notes in a chord are too quiet and being drowned out by the rest, you can adjust them to the desired level.
Video: The Leveling Tools
Algorithm Improvements
“Percussive Pitched”. This new algorithm was developed especially for instruments like tabla, berimbau or 808-kick, the notes of which, though percussive in character, still have a recognisable pitch.
“Robust Pitch Curve”. With this new option, you can obtain better sound quality when editing certain signals, such as those with a great deal of reverberation. When it is activated, the monophonic algorithms employ a pitch curve that has been slightly smoothed out.
“Complex”. This algorithm playback type has been improved and can now be used just as flexibly as the playback type “Tonal” concerning the formants.
Other Improvements
Better keyboard shortcuts. New search function for keyboard shortcuts, the saving of personalized 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 the sharing of projects easier.
How To Get Melodyne 5 From Celemony
Try out Melodyne 5 studio free of charge
You can try Melodyne 5 out for 30 days – free of charge and without obligation.
You can test all its functions to your heart’s content and without any limitations, saving everything and making further use of it later – exactly as though you’d already purchased the application. During the trial period, you can even switch to the smaller editions to compare their various function sets. This makes finding the right edition simple.
Don’t worry if you have used a Melodyne free trail in the past, you will still be able to run the Melodyne 5 trial version on your computer.
Update From a Previous Version Of Melodyne
If you already own an earlier version of Melodyne then you can upgrade to Melodyne…
Melodyne assistant costs 49 €/US$,
Melodyne editor costs 99 €/US$
Melodyne studio costs 149 €/US$
If you already own Melodyne Essential it is free of charge
If you registered Melodyne after March 1st 2020, it is also free of charge.
Purchase A Version Of Melodyne 5
Melodyne 5 essential 99 €/US$
Melodyne 5 assistant 249 €/US$
Melodyne 5 editor 399 €/US$
Melodyne 5 studio 699 €/US$
Melodyne 5 Explained Released From Groove 3
Our own Eli Krantzberg has already produced Melodyne 5 video tutorials! You will be able to learn all the basics, its features and functions, and how to use them effectively to manipulate your audio track's pitch and time, with incredible results.
Eli welcomes you and gives you a first look around the new Melodyne 5 interface, what it looks like in various DAWs, and where some of the new v.5 features are located. Next, you'll learn the important basics like transferring audio to Melodyne in real-time, using the Audio Random Access (ARA) feature, navigating and controlling playback in your DAW, and more.
Basic editing is up next, and you'll learn to use the Correct Pitch Macro for simple and effective basic tuning, utilize the new Chord Track functions to analyze, re-analyze, edit, and audition chords all from within Melodyne for alien-like control over your chords. This feature alone makes Melodyne 5 a weapons-grade sonic manipulator that anyone working with audio should have.
There are 32 Videos with an overall runtime of 2hr 48min 24sec