Hi Ian. Good question.

I've used Melodyne Editor with DNA as a stand-alone program on a single audio track. It is cumbersome to use and requires careful buffer settings, but it works. It is the only solution for a track with more than one instrument.

On a stand-alone track, one instrument, I most often use the much more friendly Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit, still free if you can find it). Pitch correction up to one-half step normally shows no artifacts. Correcting more, up to a pitch and a half, sometimes does. What I like about Audition is that you can highlight a note and do pitch correction bends. It's a linear curve, but if you start a note flat and adjust upward, for example, you can fix that. Or, if that isn't enough, break up the note and fix it part by part. Again, this is tedious and I only do it on grievously 'out' notes. I tend to select only the last note in a phrase, which might stick in your head and lead to thinking the next phrase is 'out'. The rest of the 'out' notes I play make it real, and I leave them.

I have not experimented with any pitch correction in the PG Music family, because I learned Audition first and use that for all my .WAV file editing. I'll be interested to know what others say who have experience integrating pitch correction with PG Music products.

EDIT: sorry about your hearing difficulties. I'm glad I don't understand what you are going through. As a trumpet player formerly in a few loud bands, I've been fortunate that one ear is still excellent and the other is still adequate.

Last edited by Matt Finley; 09/06/10 09:56 AM.
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