I have never used melodyne editor in the way Mario mentions... using it to convert audio to midi. I know it can do that but I've personally never used it that way. There are other ways it can be used and I don't use it that way either.

People who say that a singer, no matter how good doesn't need some pitch correction now and then ...well... I won't address that here.

OK granted, back in the early days, the Beatles for example didn't have the advantage of using Melodyne....however, you can find stories of how they literally worked for days on end to get the vocal track to ONE, two minute and thirty second song right. Paul and John would double track their vocals and get them exact and pitch perfect.... but it took them dozens of hours to do that.

I don't think there's a single vocalist artist today who doesn't use ME or something else to correct their vocals in the studio. None of them have the time or the work ethic to spend the time that the Lads from Liverpool did.

So for us non-professionals who don't sing for a living..... ME is the perfect tool to use to fix vocal tracks and other tracks....I use this on bass, piano, guitar, sax, and just about anything else that needs it.

Using it means the difference between having a vocal track that sounds like a home bedroom/living room recording and something that might have been recorded professionally.

For the price of Melodyne Essentials.... if the only thing is does is pitch and timing.... it's worth every dime because while I have the full blown Editor version, I mainly use the pitch and timing editing functions. On occasion I go full poly mode.

Buy it and buy a good DAW that lets you edit easily. 2 essential tools to have for the serious home recording enthusiast.

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