yzmotoxer807
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So for those who dont know, melodyne is an amazing pitch/timing correction tool for audio. Check out the site for more information. I recommend downloading the trial versions just to see. I own it and it truly is amazing.
Anyway, what I want to talk about today is the new technology that they will be adding to it this fall. It is called direct note access. Basically, until now, the only kind of audio file that you could edit was an audio file that was a single series of notes (vocals, guitar solo, drum track, etc.). As far as chords, like on a guitar or piano, where concerned, you could change the pitch of the overall chord but not the separate notes in the chord. For example, if you had an A minor chord, you could move it to be a G minor but it was impossible to move one note in the chord to make it major. The new direct note access technology makes this possible. It "magically" and automatically analyzes the chord and separates each note. You should watch the video on their site about it, it is soooooo coooooool!!!!! The perfect pitch correction tool for the music side of things.
Heres what I was thinking though: Wouldnt this open a world of possibilities on the video side of things. Wouldnt this make it possible to also isolate certain things out of a mix of different sounds. For example, lets just say that you recorded a conversation of two people talking, that you cant re-record, but you only want the audio from one person. You could just lower the volume when the unwanted person is talking right? But what if the two people over lap, or it is more than two people talking? How about ten or twenty people talking? With this technology couldnt you isolate just one person? Obviously the more people there were talking, the harder it would be to do but it would still be possible right?
Another use could be to isolate or eliminate certain instruments in a group that are playing.
Another one could be isolating or eliminating people that were singing together into one microphone.
I think that this technology has amazing potential to be an awesome tool, not only for musical uses, but for video as well.
What do you think? What are some other cool uses that you can think of? I want to hear what you have to say about this because I am excited (seeing as I do video and music) about this technology and I cant wait for it to come out this fall (hopefully)!
Anyway, what I want to talk about today is the new technology that they will be adding to it this fall. It is called direct note access. Basically, until now, the only kind of audio file that you could edit was an audio file that was a single series of notes (vocals, guitar solo, drum track, etc.). As far as chords, like on a guitar or piano, where concerned, you could change the pitch of the overall chord but not the separate notes in the chord. For example, if you had an A minor chord, you could move it to be a G minor but it was impossible to move one note in the chord to make it major. The new direct note access technology makes this possible. It "magically" and automatically analyzes the chord and separates each note. You should watch the video on their site about it, it is soooooo coooooool!!!!! The perfect pitch correction tool for the music side of things.
Heres what I was thinking though: Wouldnt this open a world of possibilities on the video side of things. Wouldnt this make it possible to also isolate certain things out of a mix of different sounds. For example, lets just say that you recorded a conversation of two people talking, that you cant re-record, but you only want the audio from one person. You could just lower the volume when the unwanted person is talking right? But what if the two people over lap, or it is more than two people talking? How about ten or twenty people talking? With this technology couldnt you isolate just one person? Obviously the more people there were talking, the harder it would be to do but it would still be possible right?
Another use could be to isolate or eliminate certain instruments in a group that are playing.
Another one could be isolating or eliminating people that were singing together into one microphone.
I think that this technology has amazing potential to be an awesome tool, not only for musical uses, but for video as well.
What do you think? What are some other cool uses that you can think of? I want to hear what you have to say about this because I am excited (seeing as I do video and music) about this technology and I cant wait for it to come out this fall (hopefully)!
rogar-BigGrin(DBG) I just cant say enough about what it has done for my recordings. I definitely dont have access to the worlds greatest singers where I live in PA but with melodyne I only need okay singers. Now, I do think of it as cheating even though I use it but my songs are not being sold as major professional studio recordings. I do think that pitch correction is waaaaaaayyyyy over used in todays professional music. And yeah when this technology comes out I will definitely post results of the testing.