Originally Posted By: mrdelurk
One vote against Melodyne.

Instead of a long litany, just a few highlights off the top of my head: 1. the manual doesn't explain how you actually use the Bridge connection, the writer presumed one is born with that knowledge. 2. In my DAW, hit the usual Undo Control-Z keystroke once and poof! Melodyne plugin is gone, along with potentially hours of work. Forgot the 1000th time it's the only program in the world where one *must* use the menu to select Undo. 3. Edit a take in Melodyne, then delete the take in the DAW - the empty track still plays. 4. With many more such hassles, sound quality for transposing is still worse than my DAW, Ableton Live's best setting, Complex Pro with Envelopes set to max. I spent all the time transposing a 32-bar snippet with Melodyne, Melodyne's result sounded tinny, so I tried the same thing with just Ableton Live - and the result sounds like the real deal. I guess that's Melodyne's swan song around here...


My observations on this comment: Swan song around here.... not hardly.


1. I use Melodyne and have for years and I've not heard of the "bridge connection". What am I missing? And I have Melodyne Editor full version.

2. Ever heard of the "SAVE" function? Use it and you can recover from any mistakes. Decent DAW's have an UNDO command too where if you accidentally delete something, another click brings it back. If you work on anything on a computer and don't save after major edits.... it's your own fault if you lose hours of work.

3. Understand how Melodyne works. It creates a duplicate into it's own memory/track and that's what you are working on and listening to when ME is active. It doesn't edit the DAW track directly, and it doesn't play it back. It creates a parallel track that it edits and uses for playback. When you finally bounce, then it writes to the DAW track. So if you delete something in the DAW track.... yup.... melodyne isn't looking at that track anyway so you don't hear those changes.

4. You're doing something wrong. Melodyne doesn't edit the EQ to make a track sound "tinny". Melodyne edits pitch, timing, and some other characteristics of the notes but I've never seen it do EQ.

My suggestion is that you spend some time learning how this operates before you go bashing the best pitch correction software available to home recording enthusiasts. This software, when used correctly in a decent DAW.... both hardware software is referred to in that statement, you can not tell Melodyne was used to fix anything. It's totally transparent.

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