Melodyne is a multitrack audio recording and editing application that lets you process and manipulate audio files in a revolutionary but musically intuitive way. Melodyne detects the individual notes of a recorded melody and lets you manipulate them - regardless of whether the source audio comprises vocals, solo instruments or percussion - as easily as if they were MIDI. Melodyne lets you arrange and combine existing audio files and refashion sounds using functions that are powerful and precise without ever losing sight of their musical purpose.

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What it Does
Melodyne is able to change the musical parameters of voices or instruments without any actual influence on the character of the recording. Melodyne detects the pitch and the rhythm, leaving you free to manipulate the audio material at will. Any changes you make are interpreted by the software in a musically intelligent manner and the results always sound natural. Working with Melodyne is as easy as editing notes with MIDI.

Pitch shifting and time stretching were awkward operations in the pre-Melodyne age, too problematical to even bother with unless things had gone badly wrong. In Melodyne, they're a breeze! You can perform time stretching, pitch shifting or formant correction without even thinking; just grab the notes already recognized by the software and move them around in pitch or time and everything will sound as you would musically expect it to. Or you can move the tempo slider during playback, and you will hear the music accelerate or slow down without this in any way affecting the pitch - just like an orchestra following the conductor's baton.

Detects Notes in Recordings
You can record single melody tracks like with any other hard disk recording software, or you can import them into your arrangement as audio files. It is not essential that the timing, pitch or musical scale of imported melodies match those of your current arrangement - it's easy for Melodyne to adapt them. If you want to edit a melody, just double-click on it and after a short pause (while the software detects the individual notes) the editor will open. The notes appear in their actual positions in terms of time and pitch, and you will also see the exact phrasing of a melody line.

Change Notes on The Fly
All changes can be made on the fly even while the melody is running - you will hear your changes take effect as soon as you move the notes.

Timing Changes on the Fly
It's just as easy to change the timing of a note as its pitch: just grab it and move it to the desired position. Depending on which tool you choose, the notes following the moved note will be shortened or moved backwards or forwards in time. If you time-stretch a note, it isn't stretched uniformly after the crude fashion of rival software; instead, the attack remains unchanged, so consonants at the beginning of words do not lose their intelligibility and the characteristic starting transients and incidental noise that play a vital part in helping us to identify different instruments are preserved -the sound of the fingernails on a plucked string, for example. Should you wish to, of course, you could change only the starting transients and not the note itself, to change staccato to legato or vice versa.

Arrange Music the Way You Want To
In Melodyne's arrange window, all your melodies are displayed with all their notes. So you can see at a glance what's on a track without even listening. Here you can move tracks around, and copy or loop melodies. You can save detected melodies for re-use in another arrangement. Remember, it's easy to slot a new melody into an arrangement - even one with a different tempo, tonality or pitch.

MIDI Playback of Your Melodies
Detected melodies can be played back via MIDI, including all the controller data needed for an expressive performance - volume, pitch bend etc. The tone generation could be supplied by an external MIDI module or else by VST instruments hosted by Melodyne. Naturally you can export your MIDI data as well.

CRE8 and Studio Editions
Melodyne is available in two versions: cre8 and Studio Edition. Both offer the same tools and the same sound quality. While Melodyne cre8 is intended to be used in project and home studios, the 'Studio Edition' is designed more for pro audio applications.
The differences are: Melodyne cre8 allows you to edit 8 tracks simultaneously and supports files up to 48 kHz and 24 bits. Melodyne Studio Edition can load and edit a virtually unlimited number of tracks and supports up to 32-bit resolution and sample rates as high as 192 kHz

	cre8cre8	Studio Edition
Tracks:	8	virtually unlimited
Sample Rate & Resolution:	up to 48 kHz, 24 bit	up to 192 kHz, 24 bit & 32 bit
Stereo Files:	playback	playback & editing
Digidesign Direct IO / RTAS:	no	on Mac OS X

Technical Data and System Requirements
Melodyne is a stand alone application. It is available for Macintoshand the PC. On the Mac requires a PowerMac, Mac OS X and 256 MB free RAM (512 or more recommended). On the PC, Melodyne is running on Windows SE, ME, 2000 and XP and requires a PII400 class processor and 256 MB of free RAM (1GHz and 512 MB recommended). Meloyne supports VST, AU, RTAS, DirectX, ReWire, SoundManager, CoreAudio and ASIO2 for sound I/O and many audio formats (WAV, AIFF, SD2, SND, AU) at up to 32 bit and 192 kHz.