I totally agree, that's why I waited until I found a good deal for Studio One Professional on Ebay. Pro includes the full version of Essential, not just the demo version that Artist and Producer gives you. So I got a $400 program for $135 including Melodyne Essential and had it all transferred to me on the Presonus website. That's why I started checking around how Melodyne works and found these vids.

Do I really need all this? Probably not, you can make Melodyne work with RB but this is an example of why someone may want another DAW even though RB will still get the job done. Melodyne is fully integrated inside Studio One (not just as a plug in) so that's pretty slick. So here's the math. Say $80 for Essential by itself that I've been thinking of getting anyway. That means I got Studio One Pro with tons of very cool features for $55. Not bad.

Bob


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