you can't compare (or fully compare..) Melodyne to SpectraLayers; SpectraLayers is fully based on a spectogram, with editing and process capabilities. chirurgical.Kalamata Kid wrote: Thu Jun 09, 2022 2:01 pm WasteLand,
Wow your reply was very helpful. Saved me much time to research and try things out. Melodyne does not have a fade-in/fade-out of the selection. What issues are there that make Melodyne not as good as SpectraLayers to chop, copy ...
Cecila 5 along with many other plugins is on my list to get. As for Metasynth I am aware of it but in no rush to try it.
https://www.steinberg.net/spectralayers/
it is meant for sounddesign; spectral editing & 'repair', like RX..
Melodyne, i don't know how it works, frankly, i have the essentials, never used it, i use Variaudio when needed and that isn't often...
but in SpectraLayers the whole sample or track etc. you load is converted to the spectral domain, and you edit in the spectral domain.
Melodyne is focused on notes, pitched notes... you see notes, with there properties, not a spectogram. i think i does perhpas do some spectral analysis, i don't know, how the pitch is analyzed, in Melodyne...
DeepAudio is again fully spectral, it is converted to the spectral domain, but is focused, as i said on the notes, pitched notes, so not inharmonics (although you can edit them in a limited way).
in DeepAudio, you can fully edit the notes, also in a spectral way, with the harmonic editor for example.
and you can draw sounds.... (that you have 'sampled' before), and redraw them, much more freedom.
it is a bit hard to explain, in a short reaction.
"Chop, copy, paste, create patterns, stretch, change pitch, change volume and do unspeakable things to the spectrograph. "
Melodyne, perhaps it can work in a way, but i assume, SpectraLayers is for this the much better choice. Melodyne does not represent the audio in a spectrograph, or gram...
SpectraLayers has some focus, but you need to make more steps, to get what you want, which is good, because it gives you the freedom. you can time-stretch, you can change pitch and volume. and chop your way into a sample, which i like to do, my own samples, and create new sounds with it. ad hoc, mostly...
if understand you correctly; go for SpectraLayers, Metasynth is of course also great, and more musically focused, but i am on windows... but, even i like Metasynth, it is great, with SpectraLayers and DeepAudio and other programs, effects.. (M4L devices, UA specops, Melda plugins, etc.), a lot of spectral treatment is possible. it is not a all in one solution, but i don't mind, i like it to spectral edit in SpectraLayers, even load it in Emit, there do some treatment and as an effect; well the great line of spectral effects you can get....
i don't mind to make sounds in an editor, and export them and etc. well SpectraLayers is also ARA2, so you can do it in a DAW, but for me, no... chop! chop! mangle!
SpectraLayers has a demo (but you still need an eLicenser; i think version 9 is coming, which is likely to work without an eLicenser; and after the release, mostly a month, there is a trial version).
