…counterparty wrote:I think that Melodyne 5 will come soon too - they tend to do these big sales so that they can get as many people as possible to give them as much as possible for the old version and get them on the upgrade trainHarry_HH wrote:So, one should wait....either ReVoice upgrade with ARA, or Melodyne 5, with a better quality pitch correction.
I own Melodyne 3 editor and plugin, never upgraded to the Melodyne 4, because the core of the software, quality of the vocal pitch correction was not improved at all.
I could upgrade my Melodyne 3 to 4, just because of the ARA and versatile polyfonic editing, but as we can see in the above sales price chart, you pay the same money of upgrading the earlier versions (Studio 1 etc.). I think the upgrade price 3->4 should be lower than that, e.g. $ 69. With the JRR discount, that would be lucrative.
I´m afraid that when the Melodyne 5 comes (soon?), the upgrade price for the ver. 4 owners are the same as for the earlier version, as here in this case.
I have songs that I'm working on at the moment that Studio could be useful for - currently I'm using Waves Tune (which is like keyhole surgery wearing oven gloves). I'm tempted to get Studio 4 now and upgrade to 5 when it comes out rather than waiting for a sale on 5 or a Revoice sale. Probably not the best value for money, but...
Anyway, thanks for your comments.
Hm… Sounds like Celemony does sales on a semi-regular basis. At least, there was a very similar sale six months ago (from Black Friday to New Year’s Eve).Harry_HH wrote:That would fit. Celemony sell first the Melodyne on sale to all pc-users, and then sells the whole company (product) to the Apple, which will finnish the pc version development and kill it.Fleer wrote:I guess Apple is eying Melodyne.
Here’s hoping Studio will be part of Logic Pro.
Exactly same as the Emagic did with the Logic, years back, when they showed the middle finger to their loayl clients, which helped to build up the company 1990 onwards.
Business is business, and Moses is Moses.
But the timing is somewhat interesting as it’s not really linked to any particular event. They announced ARA 2 at NAMM 2018, so they’re likely to release an update.
https://rekkerd.org/celemony-announces- ... -in-logic/
What if Celemony were in fact prepping for Melodyne 5? The upgrade from 4 to 5 is likely to negate the advantage of this sale. Kind of a “bait and switch” strategy (which sounds like something inMusic Brands would do).
But the situation is quite different if Apple were to buy Celemony (no idea how likely that is, but it’s an intriguing thought). Apple takes a while to integrate these acquisitions in their products (CamelPhat and CamelSpace only came to LPX a few months ago, though Alchemy has been part of LPX and MainStage for a while). Before Apple releases updates, the sales of the original products stop abruptly (as when Camel Audio stopped selling its plugins). So, if Apple were to buy Celemony, there might be value in having a cross-platform version of Melodyne before that happens.
Of course, there’s no way to tell if such an question might happen.
Got Melodyne Essential bundled with Tracktion Waveform (which, itself, was bundled with the ROLI Lightpad Block). Haven’t used it much, but the monophonic recognition is quite impressive. Not that interested in pitch correction per se but, as an ethnomusicologist, very interested in high quality transcription. Also, something really fun is to convert some sampled loops of acoustic instruments to synth versions.
After playing with Melodyne Essential, bought Waves Tune (as part of the Vocal bundle). Unlike Melodyne Essential, it allows for MIDI Export, which is my main use case. The whole system is quite clunky (agreed with the oven mitt analogy). And, of course, neither Waves Tune nor Melodyne Essential does polyphony.
After getting the Apple Pro Apps bundle for Education (200USD, including Final Cut Pro X…), did some experiments with Flex Pitch in LPX. Much more seamless than using the Waves plugin, obviously. The pitch-tracking algorithm is pretty decent but not as good as Melodyne’s.
So, at this point, really not sure what to do. No intention of getting Studio, but Editor does sound pretty good. The three key features, in my case, are: polyphony, audio-to-MIDI, and “scale detective”. Still, 150USD is a big chunk of change for something which may only get limited use. At least, it’s not an impulse buy for me.
Decisions, decisions…
