Celemony Melodyne... Direct Note Access

[Keith Phillips]

Anyone see this on Sonic State recently? VERY FRIGGIN' cool stuff if you ask me. Most likely not perfect or artifact free, but definitely a step in the right direction for sound analysis and processing.

In a nutshell, it's an update to the Melodyne audio processing stuff that goes a bit farther and has "direct note access" when working with polyphonic material. In other words, a recorded guitar major chord could be changed to a minor chord (among other things) through some sort of special DSP processing, etc.

This is really exciting for help in transcribing I think. :)

Check the video out. It's kind of long at 17min, but definitely worth watching in full. It's a real mind-blower.

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=6281

[Keith Phillips]

Video gets really cool around 6:30 and on when he busts out the MIDI keyboard on some loop. :)

[Keith Phillips]

I want to see Roland jump over the underlying tech in this and license it for use in the next V-Synth engine for some sort of additional/added harmonics processing in resynthisis of polyphonically sampled sources that are fed into V-Synth...or something like that. ;)

[Timo]

Saw this a while back and it made my jaw drop. Ground breaking, which is hard to achieve these days.

Looks like it works on single instrument musical passages, but would be interesting to see what effects would occur when deconstructing a more complex mixture of instruments/timbres.

Don't think it'll answer the common query "How can I remove a song to leave just the vocal, so that I can remix it?" just yet(!), but it definately looks like an awesome tool for ripping apart single timbre sampled arrangements, or pitch correction of notes inside a pre-recorded single-timbral arrangement where recording another 'take' would just not be possible.

I just wonder how much the demo was rehearsed, or if it was engineered specifically in a way that Melodyne works best (playing it "safe").

[AlexHall74]

I've been considering purchasing this at academix pricing for a year now; now I have one more reason.

:)

Thanks for giving me awareness of one more thing I want.

-Alex

[Doc Jones]

oh my. just saw the video.

it is amazing how the ambience in the loops (the reverbs, dynamics etc.) had no artifacts when working with the individual tones.

[IamEvil]

I wonder what happens when you use detuned unison waves as a source ? :)

[Hollowcell]

Looks pretty damn cool, and a true step forward!

What I would like to know though, is it similar to early versions of Melodyne, the V-synth, Live and any other forms of 'rubber audio apps' which had serious quality loss?

One thing is for sure, can't wait to try this one out!!