Celemony has announced version 3.2 of Melodyne studio and cre8, which offer new playback algorithms as well as various minor improvements and bug fixes. The updates will be available free of charge to registered users of Melodyne cre8/studio 3 from the beginning of March onwards.

The extended algorithm for polyphonic and rhythmic material in Melodyne studio 3.2 offers adjustable formant correction, which, on the one hand, makes highly natural, acoustically neutral, transposition now possible even with multi-voice signals such as pianos, guitars and choirs, as well as, on the other hand, opening up interesting and rewarding sound design possibilities when working with drum loops and percussive material. Meanwhile, Melodyne cre8 3.2 has been equipped with a new algorithm for percussive material that offers enormous improvements in terms of sound compared to its predecessors.

Among the other new features of Melodyne cre8/studio 3.2 are the combined scroll/zoom beams that were introduced by Melodyne plugin, an alternative grey colour scheme for the user interface, various improvements in the display and handling of percussive material, and a more user-friendly implementation of the copy protection.

The updates to Melodyne cre8/studio 3.2 are available free of charge to all registered 3.x customers and will be ready for download from www.celemony.com from the beginning of March onwards. Melodyne cre8 for Windows XP and Mac OS X costs €319 ($369), whilst the large Melodyne studio edition, with its additional algorithms for polyphonic material, costs €699 ($699).

New Titles in the Melodyne Sound Library: "the voice 1 & 2"

Celemony has also announced the release of two new Melodyne Sound Libraries for the multi-track editions of Melodyne: cre8 and studio. The two DVDs, "the voice vol. 1" and "the voice vol. 2", offer first-class choral phrases with which the voicing, tonality, phrasing and tempo of each voice can be edited individually. The DVDs are available immediately and cost €139 ($159) each.

Vol. 1 of this collection contains phrases with lyrics such as "listen to the groove", "keep me movin' on", "liftin' me higher", "party everybody", "you make me wanna dance", "universal love", "feel so high", "when will you stop playing" and many more. In vol. 2, the choir sings non-verbal lines, from the straightforward to the way-out, and from simple "Ah"s, "Oh"s and "Schupdhuah"s to complex vocal arrangements.

Each of the two "the voice" titles in the Melodyne Sound Library contains more than 3 gigabytes of phrases recorded by renowned studio singers. No effects or dynamic processing were applied to the samples during recording to leave users maximum freedom during post production.