One Small Step For You, One Giant Leap For Your Music
The Most Affordable Entry Into the Incomparable World of Melodyne
The Best Technology, the Best Sound
Melodyne assistant is the most affordable point of entry into the incomparable world of Melodyne. Correct and optimize monophonic or rhythmic audio material in the manner only Melodyne allows. Perfect the intonation and timing via macro or in a more targeted way by hand. Transpose, move or erase notes, alter their volume and formant spectra, or copy them to another location.
Quickly to Hand
Melodyne assistant operates directly within your audio workstation. You hear all edits in the context of the other tracks of your project and can use as many instances as you wish and your computer will allow. And for the swift editing of a sample between times, you can open Melodyne assistant in stand-alone mode without having to start up your audio workstation first.
Open For Upgrades
Melodyne assistant offers you a great deal of usefulness for very little money. And this investment makes still more sense if you wish to upgrade to Melodyne editor (also polyphonic material) or Melodyne studio (multi-track) at a later date. Attractive upgrade options are available to both. So you can't lose by entering here. The small step to Melodyne assistant could become a giant leap in the future.
The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
Melodyne assistant will be your companion as you eliminate errors and correct mistakes. Nor will it abandon you at more creative moments.
The Finest of Fine-Tuning
Human hearing is particularly sensitive when it comes to vocal tracks, which is why producers all over the world are grateful that intonation and timing corrections with Melodyne are practically inaudible. Melodyne assistant offers you the same celebrated sound quality and uniquely intuitive access to each individual note in your vocal material—bringing you that crucial step closer to perfection.
Whatever Melodies You Please
You can edit a bass part with Melodyne assistant with the same flexibility as a saxophone or flute solo. Whether to correct mistakes and tidy up the timing or to change the original melody or completely restructure entire passages. Melodyne assistant gives you a freedom when dealing with audio that will suggest totally new ideas to you.
Freed From Rigidity
With Melodyne assistant, you can modify drum loops in many different ways by moving drum-strokes, shortening them, lengthening them, making them louder or softer, changing their frequency or thinning them out. When executing such procedures, Melodyne works in a far more musical way than typical slicing programs. You no longer need to worry about unevenness, holes or similar artifacts.
Global Intervention
Not even full mixes dismay Melodyne assistant. Select parts of songs or individual beats, and transpose, move or copy them in their entirety to some other location. Because Melodyne assistant recognizes and separates the beats in audio material, all such procedures can be accomplished effortlessly and without little clicks or other blemishes being introduced along the way.
Features and Applications
Features
• single-track audio editing environment with Melodyne technology
• suitable for monophonic and rhythmic/complex audio material
• works as a plug-in (VST, AU, RTAS) in compatible DAWs under Mac OS X and Windows
• can also be used in stand-alone mode
• activation on up to two computers or via iLok
• user interface and manual in English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese
Applications
• manual or automatic correction of intonation and timing errors
• refashioning of melodies, timing and rhythm
• transposition including adjustment to scale
• modifying various note parameters such as volume, vibrato, formant spectrum
• pitch shifting and time stretching
• (re-)quantization
Editing Possibilities for Monophonic Material
In the case of monophonic (solo voice, saxophone, bass guitar...) audio material, the following possibilities exist for editing notes:
• modifying the pitch
• modifying the pitch drift
• modifying the pitch modulation
• modifying the position
• modifying the length
• modifying the volume
• shifting the formant spectrum
• modifying the pitch transition between notes
• modifying the volume transition between notes
• shifting the formant spectrum of transitions between notes
• timing (re-)quantization, manually or via macro
• pitch quantization, manually or via macro
• cut, copy and paste
Editing Possibilities for Rhythmic and Complex Material
In the case of rhythmic as well as polyphonic and complex material, separation is according to beats, so if several notes (e.g. click, snare and piano chord) sound on the same beat, they are available for editing in the shape of a Melodyne blob. For such blobs, the following editing possibilities exist:
• modifying the pitch (relative)
• modifying the position
• modifying the length
• modifying the volume
• shifting the formant spectrum
• modifying the volume transition between blobs
• shifting the formant spectrum of transitions between blobs
• timing quantization, manually or via macro
• cut, copy and paste
System Requirements
• Mac OS X: Dual (Core) PowerPC G5 or Intel Dual Core processor, 2 GB RAM, OS X 10.4 or later
• Windows: Intel or AMD Dual Core processor, 2 GB RAM, Windows XP (SP2 or SP3), Windows Vista or Windows 7, ASIO-compatible audio hardware
