Melodyne Plug-in

[JeffTD]

Intel Xeon @ 3.16Ghz quad core user here, and Cubase 5.5 is VERY stable. I haven't had a crash during normal usage ever. Knock on wood.

i7 and have crashed multiple times trying to VariAudio a track while having lots of softsynths loaded. (omnisphere + Superior 2.0)

 

[C_F_H_13]

I just export the vocal tracks and do it in the standalone melodyne.

way more stable for me, and its not really as much of a hassle as it sounds.

+1

 

[Lasse Lammert]

used to use melodyne, now I'm using autotune evo only...
in graphic mode and then click "make notes", that way you have pretty much exactly the same view as in melodyne (I don't like the curve myself).

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Never tried EVO, but use Melodyne as wave editor in Reaper, so each time I want to tune a sentence, I just glue the fragments and double-click them. Melodyne opens and I tune everything, export to wav and import it back in the project. Fast, easy, stable and reliable.

 

[Morgan C]

There's a tiny bit of sample drift, but if you do one section at a time, and then edit your vocals afterwards there's no issue.

 

[greyskull]

I just export the vocal tracks and do it in the standalone melodyne.

way more stable for me, and its not really as much of a hassle as it sounds. i do like the autotune plugin though, sometimes its cleaner than melodyne sometimes not. unfortunately i have only demo'ed it thus far and would love to buy it.

+123687

 

[Machinated]

I'm gonna try using Melodyne with the same AudioSuite method I use with AT.

Absolutely hated exporting vocal tracks into standalone Melodyne. Not only is it a clunky UI, but it breaks your workflow and costs you a ton of time. It's just impractical if you do this for a living.

More than anything this is about workflow. I want the one that's going to have the easiest to interpret pitch curves, the quickest correction and the least artifacts. I'll shoot them out against each other shortly!

Worst case scenario will go back to Cubase's VariAudio, which is probably the best integrated out of all of them, though terribly inflexible and glitchy.

as i said, its really not that bad exporting.

the time it takes to export, i more than make up in time lost when melodynes plugin crashes or fucks up or gives me weird glitches in the audio. it takes me about the same time to tune vocals whether im printing to track in the DAW or exporting and doing it in melodyne.

and i agree melodyne can sound weird, but it depends on the source. sometimes AT sounds better, sometimes melodyne.

if you are using AT in PT, use RTAS and do it line by line or in small sections as jval said and print to a new track as you go along. thats the method i was taught.

 

[Seth Munson]

I export, but I only use melodyne to tune poorly tracked guitars.

Vocals gets AT

melodyne gets really fucky with the F's, S's, Sh's, Ch's and G's for me. too much for me to handle.

 

[jval]

Sorry, can you elucidate a bit on your method?

Do you run autotune in RTAS in order to get around the choppy/frame skip UI issue when previewing tracks in audio-suite?

How do you copy the settings across from the RTAS instance to the audio-suite one? Sorry about the incessant questions, but I want to develop a quick workflow for this, if you don't mind explaining.

Adam kind of explained this already but in more detail...

-insert AT as an RTAS plug on the vocal track.
-track and correct the line that you're working on until you're happy with it
-cmd+shift+c to copy plugin settings
-bring up AT audio suite (i just have it open behind the rtas plug the whole time, switching between RTAS and AS does not close the first plugin), Paste plug in settings (under 'preset' menu. keyboard shortcut doesn't work)
-select the region(s) you tuned and hit PROCESS. Done, clear the data out of autotune RTAS and move on to the next line.

I've found this to be the quickest workflow. no real-time processing (you have to print with melodyne plug). It's important to remember that AT captures and alters a pitch curve based on time (timeline of the host). No audio involved. With melodyne, you're actually creating new files outside of the host.

 

[Ermz]

Ace, thanks for that. It shall be my new workflow.