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susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:15 pm

Fwiw, I don't quite get the appeal of DNA, at least for my workflow.
I use stacked recording in Cubase all the time, so I typically have several versions of a part to begin with. Nothing easier than exchanging a messed up bar for a good version, and with short crossfades the ringing out of chords in the fingerpicking example will not be compromised at all.
Any pitch correction I've had the dubious pleasure to try yet introduces ugly artifacts as soon as you're pitching more than a quartertone, depending on material.
Melodyne currently is no exception, it's not better than VariAudio, Autotune & Co. So I sold my plugin, VariAudio is good enough for me to do some subtle correcting.
With anything more drastic its "go back, Jack, do it again" here.

As soon as somebody comes out with an algorithm that reduces artifacts considerably I'll be the first in line to buy.
Imho DNA is the answer to a question nobody has asked, sonic quality is the real frontier.
Ymmv,
susiwong

Download SOphist · Post by **Download SOphist** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:20 pm

does someone knows for when a public demo is planned?

DrGonzo · Post by **DrGonzo** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:24 pm

BERFAB wrote:I don't recall it being called a 'fake' product, but I do recall the NAMM demo being called into question as possibly doctored.

I've been using it for a couple of weeks now - and my thoughts are double. On one hand you can get quite horrible results. It can mess up the sharpness of the part and suck away the transients. But that's the worst case. I can't say I found a recording that works as well as the in the videos - but in best cases I can get quite close. But after one year of waiting and when I finally have it - I realize that the wait was pointless. I'm only correcting monophonic vocal takes anyway - and for that the old plugin is perfect.

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:03 pm

Where I'd be interested ... and I guess this is probably a long-shot ... is if I could improvise solo piano, record the audio, chuck it into DNA and convert it to MIDI, then edit that into a notation score. Is something like that possible at this point??

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:16 pm

headquest wrote:Where I'd be interested ... and I guess this is probably a long-shot ... is if I could improvise solo piano, record the audio, chuck it into DNA and convert it to MIDI, then edit that into a notation score. Is something like that possible at this point??

Yes.

Brent

metalifuxx · Post by **metalifuxx** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:38 pm

Well I know it's a real product, someone commented in a thread or made a thread, saying it was taking to long to release and so it must just be hype/vaporware or even fake, and he was quite heated about it. I thought that was quite funny

Download SOphist · Post by **Download SOphist** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:47 pm

Download SOphist wrote:does someone knows for when a public demo is planned?

public as in: to non-previous melodyne users. thanks so much.

b-pole · Post by **b-pole** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:26 am

I could not test yesterday, but will give feedback within the next days

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:31 am

koolkeys wrote:
headquest wrote:Where I'd be interested ... and I guess this is probably a long-shot ... is if I could improvise solo piano, record the audio, chuck it into DNA and convert it to MIDI, then edit that into a notation score. Is something like that possible at this point??
Yes.

Brent

Cheers. Well worth a demo run of that, once there is a demo available

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:40 am

May be its a bit overhyped. Most people don't need DNA and many people are skeptical that all is working as expected. Cubase users have also Variaudio which is a good replacement for the non-polyphonic corrections.

I don't need it, I'm not interested for the demo and I will not buy it

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:17 am

I noted the "Since you have registered after the set date, for you the update Melodyne editor 1.x is free" in my account. Before I take advantage of it, does this new Melodyne editor 1.x still include a plugin version.

I noticed I lose my old license when I upgrade but I only really want the plugin version.

Michael Benjamin · Post by **Michael Benjamin** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:21 am

the first minutes of the earlier posted mp3 sounded very nice, i wonder if it always sounds similar to that. definately a new kind of sinusoid vocoder effect. to see this as a correction tool only seems quite boring.

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:39 am

morelia wrote:I noted the "Since you have registered after the set date, for you the update Melodyne editor 1.x is free" in my account. Before I take advantage of it, does this new Melodyne editor 1.x still include a plugin version.

I noticed I lose my old license when I upgrade but I only really want the plugin version.

It will replace your plug-in license. You will still keep Melodyne Studio if you had it. But once you upgrade, you will be able to download a single installer that has Standalone, AU, VST2, VST3, and RTAS, all in a single installer. So basically, your plug-in license is replaced with all of those. You still keep Melodyne Studio, as mentioned before.

Brent

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:08 am

koolkeys wrote:
morelia wrote:I noted the "Since you have registered after the set date, for you the update Melodyne editor 1.x is free" in my account. Before I take advantage of it, does this new Melodyne editor 1.x still include a plugin version.

I noticed I lose my old license when I upgrade but I only really want the plugin version.
It will replace your plug-in license. You will still keep Melodyne Studio if you had it. But once you upgrade, you will be able to download a single installer that has Standalone, AU, VST2, VST3, and RTAS, all in a single installer. So basically, your plug-in license is replaced with all of those. You still keep Melodyne Studio, as mentioned before.

Brent

Cool, so my plugin license is replaced with a plugin license, plus a standalone version. Sounds worth upgrading then. I just didn't want to lose access to the plugin version. Thanks Brent.

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Wed Nov 18, 2009 11:09 am

morelia wrote:
koolkeys wrote:
morelia wrote:I noted the "Since you have registered after the set date, for you the update Melodyne editor 1.x is free" in my account. Before I take advantage of it, does this new Melodyne editor 1.x still include a plugin version.

I noticed I lose my old license when I upgrade but I only really want the plugin version.
It will replace your plug-in license. You will still keep Melodyne Studio if you had it. But once you upgrade, you will be able to download a single installer that has Standalone, AU, VST2, VST3, and RTAS, all in a single installer. So basically, your plug-in license is replaced with all of those. You still keep Melodyne Studio, as mentioned before.

Brent
Cool, so my plugin license is replaced with a plugin license, plus a standalone version. Sounds worth upgrading then. I just didn't want to lose access to the plugin version. Thanks Brent.

No problem. You won't have access to the OLD plug-in version any more, but you will have the Editor plug-in version instead. So you should be good.

Brent

So where are the Melodyne DNA threads?