BD Thomas and Floyd Jane - there may be some confusion as to what Melodyne can do in relation to Synthesizer V. It only does MIDI. If you convert a vocal to MIDI in Melodyne, especially if there is melisma and slides and pitch bends, you get a very messy file in MIDI which Melodyne will move every note to the nearest note it thinks it is, based on a 12-tone scale. But a real singer, especially the way Janice and Bud wants, has more nuance in between the 12 tones than quantizing to exact pitches. Synthesizer V will then take the MIDI file from Melodyne and make up its own pitch curves, which will sound nothing like the original, and you would have to adjust it by hand for hours. Melodyne is able to measure the pitch curves, but it cannot export them to Synthesizer V because that is not part of the MIDI protocol used by Melodyne (which could theoretically use pitch bend, but Synthesizer V may still not import it.) Anyway, you will not get from Melodyne the words, which you will have to type into Synthesizer V, but it is very cumbersome with a human vocal because there will be several notes for each syllable and MIDI is not great for that.

However, both Ace Studio (now) and Synthesizer V (very soon in next update) can do a much better job, because they import not just the notes, but the actual pitch curve (for slides and bends and melisma) and also the lyrics. This new feature, advertised by Dreamtonics recently, will eliminate the need for either Melodyne or Pratt/Hatori, which people have been using until now. It works reasonably well now in Ace Studio, but I recommend waiting until the next version of Synthesizer V, which promises to be more versatile in this area, and will be really useful for what is wanted (ie to sing like George Jones, and others.)

Last edited by ThomasS; 10/14/23 03:10 AM.