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fgimian · Post by **fgimian** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:09 am

Hey there guys, thinking of buying a copy of Melodyne Uno. All software I have purchased thus far uses serial / key protection (not Challenge / Response). Only Cubase has a dongle but that hasn't been too bad and is very easy to continue using on upgrade of my PC.

I was wondering...

1) Apart from autotune which uses PACE (eewwww) ... are there any viable alternatives that give similar quality output to Meldoyne ? Last time I tried Rephrase I remember the quality being quite bad. Any others ?

2) If I did go ahead and buy Melodyne, have any of you guys using it experienced difficulties with their copy protection ? Will I be able to upgrade my PC and still use it, or must I contact email support to get it re-activated every time ?

I really don't like C/R protection, but I don't think there are any good alternatives for pitch correction.

Please add your thoughts, it would be much appreciated

Cheers
Fots

funkadil · Post by **funkadil** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:27 am

Well theres the free Gsnap but probably doesn't have all of the features your looking for but works really well for simple projects. No internal sequencer though.

fgimian · Post by **fgimian** » Wed May 17, 2006 9:23 am

oh yeah, Gsnap is an incredible freebie, but yep, I'm afraid I need more of a graphical mode and since I'm a Cubase user, I don't get V-Vocal.

Any further thoughts folks ? People must be using Melodyne out there

Cheers
Fots

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:17 am

I've got it , but I haven't changed my system since - you may be better off asking this in the melodyne forum http://www.celemony.com/phpBB2/ - the celemony support team, as far as I've observed, are on a par with the likes of Voxengo in terms of their response.
shame the latest release is being delayed dut to an iLok/PACE issue..

Regarding your pc upgrade issue - I think you'll have to contact them if you make a significant enough change to your system, but like I say, they have excellent customer support (sometimes from the inventor himself!) so you really shouldn't make your purchase hinge on this 'obstacle'.
Hope that helps!

fgimian · Post by **fgimian** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:39 am

thanks CinningBao, are they allowing authorization by iLok now too are they ?

I just don't understand why companies choose to use such a crappy crappy copy protection scheme, if this used Syncrosoft I would have bought it already.

Cheers
Fots

fgimian · Post by **fgimian** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:47 am

OK After browsing through the Celemony forum, it seems that if you require a new license key for a different machine, you need to contact support and they send you a new key.

It does appear that their support is very good, I hope they don't permanently move all their products to iLok. I will email them about this before purchasing.

Cheers
Fots

Rajah · Post by **Rajah** » Wed May 17, 2006 11:10 am

might want to look at this beauty... Check the Video.
http://www.waves.com/content.asp?id=1741

CinningBao · Post by **CinningBao** » Wed May 17, 2006 11:41 am

Rajah wrote:might want to look at this beauty... Check the Video.
http://www.waves.com/content.asp?id=1741

if you can ignore the iLok requirment..

fgimian · Post by **fgimian** » Wed May 17, 2006 12:18 pm

lol sorry but iLok ain't ever touching this PC !

Just installing the iLok driver with Autotune totally made my PC unstable, installing the Waves Diamond demo gives me blue screens of death as soon as the install tries to begin.

I think you see my point

Cheers
Fots

AKJ · Post by **AKJ** » Thu May 18, 2006 10:26 am

maybe switch to sonar, it comes with roland techology similar to melodyne.

tahome · Post by **tahome** » Thu May 18, 2006 10:32 am

Depends on what you need exactly. If you just need good time stretch and pitch shift (especially for entire mixes) have a look at timefactory. It has the best algos (they're also used in about every host and mastering software) and works great.

It's a bit more tedious to work with than Melodyne when you need pitch correction (ie. change individual notes) but otherwise does everything you need and is the de facto standard in the studio today (at least all studios I am working with).

Serial number "protection" only
--th

fgimian · Post by **fgimian** » Thu May 18, 2006 11:35 am

thanks for the advice guys.

I'm afraid I'm not a Sonar fan, I've tried it like, 1000 times and it's just not intuitive to me, but it was one of the reasons I tried it so much. Am definitely keeping an eye on it though.

I'm afraid that timefactory won't do since this is mostly vocal correction I need it for, thanks for the suggestion though

Cheers
Fots

tahome · Post by **tahome** » Thu May 18, 2006 11:37 am

Ok then you should check out Antares AutoTune, top of the crop when it comes to correcting vocals!

--th

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Thu May 18, 2006 12:26 pm

- No typing error ?
- didn't you meant : TOP OF THE CRAP !!?

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( Just kidding, don't think about too long...)

tahome · Post by **tahome** » Thu May 18, 2006 12:43 pm

Why what's the problem with AutoTune? I agree that the GUI is a piece of s#it but it works. "If it sounds right, it is right", right?

--th

Melodyne Alternatives, problems with their copy protection ?