#Melodyne 4 vs melodyne 3 upgrade#

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but I really like to believe it should be doable. And leave the latter unprocessed by the pitch algorithms. By that I mean that I understand and accept that it would probably be difficult to exclude the breathiness of the voice itself from the process, but that it should be possible to differentiate between this type of breathiness in a vocal on one hand and the breaths and consonants on the other. At least for all the information that is both atonal and occurs at times where there's no tonal information. Consonants don't have this representation, so it should be doable. The program sure seems to know what's a note and not by the way it draws pitches graphically. It's a very difficult proposition, and few outside of Celemony have figured complete audio extraction or separation out. EQ, sibulance, and some processing of audio are easy to alter, but actually removing consonants, and many forms of layering anomolies are simply too masked or woven into the fabric to extract. Lokeyfly wroteRemoving specific audio artifacts, is not an easy task. That's a pretty nicely extended offer, over those typical 5 day offers. The $149 price will be up by the end of the year. I'm sort of in the same boat as you guys who are thinking of purchasing Melodyne v4 (I suspect your looking for the Editor version as well). Pretty amazing from Melodyne, what you can do right now.

Removing specific audio artifacts, is not an easy task. Particularly, tempo detection that's easy to decipher. Does Melodyne 4 offer some attractive features, over versions 2.and 3? Sure it does.

#Melodyne 4 vs melodyne 3 upgrade#

Some of us don't need to upgrade if we don't need the features. That $149 might better outfit someone with other necessary plug-ins, or equipment they need to get their results. I don't believe brainer has anything to do with it. Currently, Melodyne Editor v2 does all I need and that's a lot. I'd be curious to the reliability of Melodyne version 4, as I also heard about a few snags early on, but that's about it.

(YMMV, and I'm sure many of the new features are great for many of the users of this forum, but I try not to upgrade just to upgrade (same goes for OS version and DAW version) it's gotta be for a reason. Unless the fixed their dealing with consonants. And all the bells and whistles of version 4 aren't of much imortance to me either. Oh, and a change from version 2 to version 4 sounds like a big jump, but to me version 3 was nothing special. By the way, the Black Friday price for the upgrade (USD 149) is the same as the intro price we existing customers were offered when version 4 was launched. Other than this I am happy with the version I'm currently using. Has the new version made any improvements in this regard? Especially as such altering of the consonants introduce highly unpleasant artefacts. Have they changed the algorithm for detecting notes in this regard, or do we still have to manually create a split between consonants and vowels and deselect the consonants before applying the tuning? I want this separation to be happening automatically because (naturally) I have no need for any tuning of consonants.

I'm really just missing one thing with the version I'm already using: Its cumbersome workflow when trying to deal with consonants, breaths and transients in a transparent way.