I have no singing voice, no talent, no time to learn, not even time to use all the cool musical tools I have purchased over the last 40 years of using MIDI and computers with synths. But your tool is so impressive and your delivery and teaching ability so great that I sit and watch every video - impressed as an electronics & software engineer geek AND learn-it-all even if I can’t use it hobbyist. Thank you.
These videos are absolutely brilliant. Ive had melodyne studio since the original cakewalk days, and watching the people who invent the tools actually use them makes your company a hero and your user base loyal forever.
Did not know about that fade-curve option, that's great! Also, when you chose not to macro level-down the loud notes, I was happy because it was exactly my intuition too.
I've been using Melodyne since 2012 and I thought I knew everything there was to know. You've just made me say to myself, "Why didn't I think of that?" Thank you.
Wow Rich! This is great and it will be a huge time saver for me. I’ve used clip gain extensively in the past. This should speed my vocal processing up quite a bit.
You are a wise "Melodyner" (maybe the wisest), man! I don't use the software not very much because due to my ignorance the results were quite unpleasant. But slowly thanks to your videos I am loving Melodyne more and more!
Thanks for your comment. A lot of what you decide to do as an audio engineer comes down to your personal taste. If you feel a vocal part doesn’t need any editing, don’t touch it. Another engineer might do the opposite. Either way, whenever you need a tool to edit your vocals, Melodyne will be there for you. 🙂
@celemony I am struggling with some vocal tracks when I try to harmonize it, and even a short interval like a minor third sounds too artificial, no matter how much I use every trick available.
Great video Rich, thank you. One question:- if I’m running studio, would the dynamic range adjustment essentially do the same job as the macro you showed at the beginning (ie highest & lowest note sliders?). If so, which would you use in preference? Thanks, Bill Hester
Hi, I love the feature and the video you made. Probably I am doing something wrong regarding deselecting the blob that is mostly a consonant or it can be a left over breath. When I select the note and I use the Command key the whole note get deselected and not that blob that is attached to the note as I see in the video. Indeed when I use the macro leveler then the consonants become very loud because it pulls the volume up. What am I forgetting? 🙂
I was hoping for a more automated "vocal rider" but the technique shown doesn't seem to be better than manual riding. I think it would be more useful if Melodyne offered a way to not vocal ride sibilants, and to offer a threshold for sounds that are too low in volume to not be effected (to avoid raising bleed and breath, for example). I also wish there was a lot more to say about about the actual dynamic tools in Melodyne, which I always forget are there. Still one of I've my most used plugins for many reasons.
While this is a fantastic tool, I honestly preferred that she went a bit quiet at the second part (before melodyne processing). Sounds more 'real' lol. This vocal isn't generic mainstream pop where every word needs to be super audible and have almost 0 dynamics.
Not necessarily. Depending on your song and how off the singer is, you can set a pitch grid to either chromatic or the key of your song or chord notes. Also, if you prefer, you can disable the grid completely and just tune by ear.
I had to stop and restart the video 4 times to see where the leveler macro is. You just zoomed up and clicked on it and I did not see the mouse move. I completely lost the the thread of what you were trying to do. I have been watching all your videos because, even though I have been subscribed to Studio for years, I never use it. It just seems too complicated and I can never seem to figure out what to do when I want to do something.
Then apparently you have a note selected when you paste, in which case Melodyne will replace that note and adapt the length accordingly. If you need assistance, our support guys will be there to help: www.celemony.com/support
Honestly the dynamics of the example presented sound like misuse of a compressor. Especially the attack stage of the envelope. You can get better results with compression if you know what you're doing. Having said that, it looks like a unique tool for the job with which you can tweak vocal dynamics in a different way from what's out there and hopefully find new mixing techniques. I think I'll check it out.
I agree with @bigstewdio...Who knew? Not me either. This is such a good video; so well explained. I missed you last month when you were in Toronto; didn't register in time; should have known better. I use the Leveler macro all the time. One of the ways I use it is to even out the choral voices (oohs and aahs), but I only go about halfway on each slider. When I first started with it (when it first came out), I thought I'd heard some artifacts when moving the sliders all the way on both sides. It made me worried that I shouldn't use it 100% on both sides. Now I'm thinking that it may have been the file. So I'm going to start using it fully on both sides now. Although I find that halfway on both sides works; bring lower things up to a point and then louder things down to a point; certainly sounds better. If there's any reason why I shouldn't do it this way, let me know what I'm missing. Now to get into the Amplitude Transition Tool. Thanks for everything.
@@celemony Thank you for your quick response. But I was still concerned as to why I would get artifacts/noise when doing the 100% leveler, so I watched your video again and found the problem. I was selecting the whole line and 'not' unselecting the breathes or other non-note parts of the line. These videos are so important to understand the details. Thank again.
0:40 "This is done currently with clip gain and automation". That's a pretty deceiving statement. Many vocal riding plugins exist including the one in iZotope Nectar and Waves Vocal Rider.
Rich actually says „Some of this...”, and indeed most engineers probably still use clip gain or automation for this task. But whatever tool works best for you.
Disappointed, thought it was going to show a way to select a vocal and have melodyne automatically level it out to the users taste. It's 2024, should be easier than this, shouldn't it?🤔
That’s exactly what Melodyne does. It automatically levels out the vocals for you, and your “taste” is defined by the sliders in the Leveling macro. 🙂 The only thing you have to do is to tell Melodyne what your taste is...
Melodyne = User Interface and workflow from the 90's ... this damn app is so complicated and ugly with SO MANY hidden features. For the price, it REALLY needs a modern update from talented UI designers. Dark mode at the VERY least ... it's almost 2025, sheesh.
@@SidAlienTV What a stupid reply. I guess customers should be happy with ugly, out-dated software, huh? No reason to change, innovate or improve because it's an "audio app". lol.
Thank you! I've been a Melodyne user for 20 years, and I still learn something every time I watch one of your videos.
Exactly！
I agree completely!
@@people-4-future930 Ditto!
Hi
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I have no singing voice, no talent, no time to learn, not even time to use all the cool musical tools I have purchased over the last 40 years of using MIDI and computers with synths. But your tool is so impressive and your delivery and teaching ability so great that I sit and watch every video - impressed as an electronics & software engineer geek AND learn-it-all even if I can’t use it hobbyist. Thank you.
Thanks a lot. You should really spend some more time making music, though. You don’t know what you’re missing. 🙂
These videos are absolutely brilliant. Ive had melodyne studio since the original cakewalk days, and watching the people who invent the tools actually use them makes your company a hero and your user base loyal forever.
Thank you so much!
You are the best. No matter how many years I’ve been using melodyne, i always see something new in your videos that I can use immediately!
Always happy to teach new Melodyne tricks. 🙂 Thanks for watching!
This man is without any doubt one of the most clear and effective teacher out there. Thank you so much, I appreciate your calm and precision.
Thanks for the compliment! 🙂
fantastic tutorial, thank you. After 5 years im still learning new things about Melodyne, I love it!
Thanks, Samuel!
What great tips! The copy and paste is brilliant. Thank you!
Thank you for continuing to educate me.
Thanks for watching!
Love your videos. Straight and to the point. I learn something new every time.
No matter how long I have been using the tool, you always teach me something new. Thank you!
I really appreciate these videos that teach advanced techniques in Melodyne. Thanks!
Thanks, your very welcome!
Useful! Thanks for continuing to teach us all these tips.
So helpful! Thanks. This will bring a more professional quality to my home recordings.
You, Sir, are a treasure! Thank you!
Gold! Thank you Rich.
Oh My .. Melodyne is on next level vocal editor!! Awemazing
I use Melodyne for a long time and I realy love your videos because I learn something every time!
I have been using this for sometime now and Its a recommended process I want everyone to use.
Thank you - there are tools I've never used before - this is one, but thanks to your video, I will be using it in the future to save work. Wonderful.
There’s so much more to explore. 🙂 Thanks for your comment!
Wow, this was great! Thanks so much!
Our pleasure!
These videos are greatly appreciated, thank you!
Thanks for your comment! Watch out for more videos to come. 🙂
Did not know about that fade-curve option, that's great! Also, when you chose not to macro level-down the loud notes, I was happy because it was exactly my intuition too.
Great stuff, always learn something new from these tutorials - cheers!
Amazing tutorial again, thank you for sharing the knowledge!
Of course! Thanks for your comment!
The hack with the two blobs over each other is golden 👌🤌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌 thanks for that.
I've been using Melodyne since 2012 and I thought I knew everything there was to know. You've just made me say to myself, "Why didn't I think of that?" Thank you.
We’re happy to hear that. Thanks a lot!
Great stuff, Rich.
Gosh, I'm glad I get to use Newtone.
Nice work Rich!!
Cool! 😎👍I've been using Melodyne for about 200 years, and before this video I thought I knew everything about it!
Yeah, back in 1825 Melodyne wasn’t so packed with features yet.
@@celemony 💯😉
Wow Rich! This is great and it will be a huge time saver for me. I’ve used clip gain extensively in the past. This should speed my vocal processing up quite a bit.
Yes, please give it a try and let us know how it worked for you.
Excellent tutorial. Thanks.
I love, love, LOVE Melodyne's Macro's! If I'm editing pitches, I like adjusting dynamics and sibilance as well when I'm in this mode.
Very handy, isn’t it? 🙂 Thanks for your comment!
Wow! Thank you for sharing. I learned a lot.
That’s all we ever wanted. 😉 Thanks for watching!
Thank you, very useful!
You are a wise "Melodyner" (maybe the wisest), man! I don't use the software not very much because due to my ignorance the results were quite unpleasant. But slowly thanks to your videos I am loving Melodyne more and more!
Thanks for your comment. A lot of what you decide to do as an audio engineer comes down to your personal taste. If you feel a vocal part doesn’t need any editing, don’t touch it. Another engineer might do the opposite. Either way, whenever you need a tool to edit your vocals, Melodyne will be there for you. 🙂
@celemony I am struggling with some vocal tracks when I try to harmonize it, and even a short interval like a minor third sounds too artificial, no matter how much I use every trick available.
Great video!
Excellent info
Great vid !!! I wish Apple fix the ARA functionality soon in Logic, really miss it!
I’ve been doing this for years 💯💯💯.
Faster and easier than “clip gain”.
Ps: I’m a Pro Tools user.
Glad you like it!
Technical note - when you're demonstrating the macro controls, they were offscreen due to cropping. 😕
Very nice, is there a way to use the sound editor adjustments on single notes in Ableton live too?
Great video Rich, thank you. One question:- if I’m running studio, would the dynamic range adjustment essentially do the same job as the macro you showed at the beginning (ie highest & lowest note sliders?). If so, which would you use in preference? Thanks, Bill Hester
Hi, I love the feature and the video you made. Probably I am doing something wrong regarding deselecting the blob that is mostly a consonant or it can be a left over breath. When I select the note and I use the Command key the whole note get deselected and not that blob that is attached to the note as I see in the video. Indeed when I use the macro leveler then the consonants become very loud because it pulls the volume up. What am I forgetting? 🙂
Could you please reach out to our support team? See here: www.celemony.com/support
Thank you.
Thanje
They should make a section of chapters in Spanish. but with someone who explains just like the great Rich Crescenti.
Have you tried the automatic translation in the TH-cam player?
I was hoping for a more automated "vocal rider" but the technique shown doesn't seem to be better than manual riding. I think it would be more useful if Melodyne offered a way to not vocal ride sibilants, and to offer a threshold for sounds that are too low in volume to not be effected (to avoid raising bleed and breath, for example).
I also wish there was a lot more to say about about the actual dynamic tools in Melodyne, which I always forget are there.
Still one of I've my most used plugins for many reasons.
Good stuff!
Wow had no idea Melodyne could do all this! I only have Essentials; I think I need to upgrade 🙃
We wouldn’t hold you back. 😉
While this is a fantastic tool, I honestly preferred that she went a bit quiet at the second part (before melodyne processing). Sounds more 'real' lol. This vocal isn't generic mainstream pop where every word needs to be super audible and have almost 0 dynamics.
Rich only explains the tools and techniques, but of course you are free to use as many or as few of them as you like for your own tracks. 🙂
🔥 Another great video
Thank you!
@celemony you're welcome
Do you have to set it in the key to your guitar/songs to keep singing in tune?
Not necessarily. Depending on your song and how off the singer is, you can set a pitch grid to either chromatic or the key of your song or chord notes. Also, if you prefer, you can disable the grid completely and just tune by ear.
when you touch a blob Melodyne shows you which note it is! HOW CAN I GET THAT!!??
Go to “Options” > “Note Editor” > “Show Blob Info”.
Great !
I had to stop and restart the video 4 times to see where the leveler macro is. You just zoomed up and clicked on it and I did not see the mouse move. I completely lost the the thread of what you were trying to do.
I have been watching all your videos because, even though I have been subscribed to Studio for years, I never use it. It just seems too complicated and I can never seem to figure out what to do when I want to do something.
great tips! The copy paste in my Melodyne doesn't copy the note exactly. It stretches it and makes it out of sync
Then apparently you have a note selected when you paste, in which case Melodyne will replace that note and adapt the length accordingly. If you need assistance, our support guys will be there to help: www.celemony.com/support
"Amplitude transition tool". Who knew? Not me - many thanks
Great to see it’s been of some use to you. Thank you!
Honestly the dynamics of the example presented sound like misuse of a compressor. Especially the attack stage of the envelope. You can get better results with compression if you know what you're doing. Having said that, it looks like a unique tool for the job with which you can tweak vocal dynamics in a different way from what's out there and hopefully find new mixing techniques. I think I'll check it out.
Great tutorial! (Also why do you kinda look like the vsauce of audio for some reason lol)
Dark moooode!!!
DARK MODE PLEASE !!!!
I agree with @bigstewdio...Who knew? Not me either. This is such a good video; so well explained. I missed you last month when you were in Toronto; didn't register in time; should have known better.
I use the Leveler macro all the time. One of the ways I use it is to even out the choral voices (oohs and aahs), but I only go about halfway on each slider. When I first started with it (when it first came out), I thought I'd heard some artifacts when moving the sliders all the way on both sides. It made me worried that I shouldn't use it 100% on both sides. Now I'm thinking that it may have been the file. So I'm going to start using it fully on both sides now. Although I find that halfway on both sides works; bring lower things up to a point and then louder things down to a point; certainly sounds better. If there's any reason why I shouldn't do it this way, let me know what I'm missing. Now to get into the Amplitude Transition Tool. Thanks for everything.
There’s no right or wrong with the Leveling macro. Whatever sounds good to you!
@@celemony Thank you for your quick response. But I was still concerned as to why I would get artifacts/noise when doing the 100% leveler, so I watched your video again and found the problem. I was selecting the whole line and 'not' unselecting the breathes or other non-note parts of the line. These videos are so important to understand the details. Thank again.
wow people can STILL find new ways to remove the natural feel from vocal performances - WOW just wow
0:40 "This is done currently with clip gain and automation".
That's a pretty deceiving statement. Many vocal riding plugins exist including the one in iZotope Nectar and Waves Vocal Rider.
Rich actually says „Some of this...”, and indeed most engineers probably still use clip gain or automation for this task. But whatever tool works best for you.
I've been in blob college for the last week.
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Bro is this the comedian guy whats his name
Hello
Disappointed, thought it was going to show a way to select a vocal and have melodyne automatically level it out to the users taste. It's 2024, should be easier than this, shouldn't it?🤔
That’s exactly what Melodyne does. It automatically levels out the vocals for you, and your “taste” is defined by the sliders in the Leveling macro. 🙂 The only thing you have to do is to tell Melodyne what your taste is...
Stem Separation Tool when?
Why does Melodyne need to do that? There are plenty of other programs for that
Like her original yeah better, but clue is improved.
Melodyne = User Interface and workflow from the 90's ... this damn app is so complicated and ugly with SO MANY hidden features. For the price, it REALLY needs a modern update from talented UI designers. Dark mode at the VERY least ... it's almost 2025, sheesh.
It's an audio application. Not a video game, boy.
@@SidAlienTV What a stupid reply. I guess customers should be happy with ugly, out-dated software, huh? No reason to change, innovate or improve because it's an "audio app". lol.
DOESNT CONVENCE ME ! A LOT UNECESSERY WORK !
Melodyne is cool but the interface is dated, and not very functional
Get out a new version with improved UI workflow already
How so? “Dark mode”?
Cmon bro, this is an editing tool-not a toy.
Oh hell nah