Herb,

With all due respect, you are dismissing my remarks without knowing what I am talking about. Eg., Melodyne Bridge is a part of Studio or Cre8. Because you get the manual for Melodyne Editor with those two, the first things a DAW user needs to know to use Melodyne is not explained, which is rather glaring. The Undo issue us a known UI problem of the plugin. Etc. As far as tinny quality, if you never heard of it, here is a comparison I did a while ago using quick 1 bar vocal samples. The sample plays first untransposed, then Melodyned, then Abletoned, then TC Heliconed (then the next group follows)

Vocal comparison (14 MB wav)

First group is male vocal at -6semitones, next group is male vocal at +6 semitones, next is female vocal at -6 semitones, next female +6 semitones. Extreme transposing, yes, but that's where quality differences really come out. Melodyne at its best setting produced only second best results after Ableton. HTH.