Melodyne Tutorial - How to use Melodyne Assistant 4 From start to finish
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Today we're talking about how to use Melodyne Assistant 4 from Celemony for tuning vocals - it can be used for instruments as well, and there's now a polyphonic version (at additional cost).
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Not just for vocals! I just started toying with melodyne in Fl studio & I can already see the potential it has for sample based hip hop beats! I made a violin loop sound like a violinist playing over the beat in about 25 minutes! I could see it working well for guitar & flute loops too! Just transfer the loop into it 4 or more times & change some of the notes around each time & it’s no longer just a loop! It splits up every note by itself! Even notes that are playing at the same time 😉
Trust me melodyne is some witch Craft level stuff idk what kind of blood sacrifice they made to the music gods but daaaam
the button to assign a major or minor key you're looking for is the two hashtags at the bottom left corner.
the time handle button works much like ableton's warp mode break points to move areas around if you will. when time handle is selected a horizontal line will appear on the audio file, to create a break point or bracket double click on the line above the area of the audio you'd like to stretch or tighten then move the point to the left or right..
shortcuts to free time grid and pitch grid..
time grid off = click on the beam notes symbol on your upper right corner. it's usually highlighted with a white glow. if you don't know what is a beam notes symbol it's the only symbol in the upper right, just look. you'll find it.
pitch grid off = click on the treble clef symbol to turn the grid snap off. the symbol is below the help menu and it looks like a reversed S or a flamingo.
All good shortcuts, thanks for the tips!
It takes me a week to get through your video. I watch something and I have to stop your video go down and try it and come back and continue on. Great tutorial thanks tons.
Thanks for posting 'Assistant'!
Though the Celemony videos may be helpful, they seem to be geared toward the big, much more expensive, 'full' suite. So, when you watch them, there's way too much information, and if you're new to Melodyne (like myself), you don't know which information is just for Assistant and/or Essential, etc. So, it's great that your video is for the one ('Assistant'), which I imagine most people will use, other than maybe wealthy, famous producers who might opt for the full kit.
Yep, another essential - assistant upgrade, thanks to this. Excellent tutorial, thanks.
Awesome job of demonstrating Melodyne! Thank you for taking the time- Time is the most valuable gift we have, and when that is taken into consideration, this Melodyne is very valuable indeed. Thanks again! I am a Logic user, but have found the onboard flex pitchflex leaves me with many sonic artifacts. Melodyne seems to be a no-brained! The only hurdle is knowing how to operate it. This video has taken care of that part. Thanks! BTW- I can tell you are an awesome musician, producer, and engineer just by the way you were able to hear the minute notes within the notes Melodyne didn't detect.
Just watched your tutorial as a refresher, man you are so quick with Melodyne - total pro !
This is awesome! Thanks for taking the time to explain each feature and demonstrate the befores and afters. I also love that you guys have a list of the equipment you use right there in the description. That's so smart! This video is really going to make a big difference in my mixes - can't wait to watch some of your others. Thanks again! Hannah
26:32 "Being a musician helps." LOL 🤪😂😂😂🤟
Thank you! I just got myself the assistant upgrade, to make brilliant sounding demo vocals - especially when sending stuff to a publisher with a super strict ears :D So it was really nice to find a tutorial of the exact version I'll be using in the future. Thank you!
Funny you use the macro exactly as I do. A small hint. If you are using the timing tool and wanna disable the snap only now an then, press Alt-Drag. With alt you can disable the snapping. Same goes for the pitch tool.
Nice video.
Sometimes when I move a note, it starts to sound strange. The formant tool might be able to correct this. If you move the note up, you could probably move the formant down a little bit to make it sound natural again. I'll have to experiment.
The singer is actually pretty good. She doesn't need much tuning. Nice video.
Offered for 49 dollars right now until 12/31/2019! This video is convincing enough:)
By any chance is an upgrade to 'Assistant' still available anywhere for a good price (preferably below 100 dollars)?
@@shadowmixx I would check on google because I'm not sure
@@Manuel-Anthony Thanks
@@Manuel-Anthony BTW, I caught your cover of George Michael's 'Freedom'. Nice
Why the hell is it so hard to find skaps.online/MelodyneAssistant
Totally awesome, mate! I have been debating getting Melodyne Assistant, but now I have no questions. Thank you!
I really appreciate that you explained the reason behind asking viewers to subscribe, and thank you for the great video!
oh boy FINALLY I am actually going to look into how to use sometihng IVE BEEN USING FOR YEARS
Hi ! The transfer button on my melodyne VST is greyed out so i can't click it, do you know what might cause it ?
Great job explaining! This helped a ton! Subscribed.
What fabulous detail! Very well explained and thorough. Thank you very much! I’ve just got Melodyne studio...
Nice vid! I've been using the Cubase version for two or three years now but will probably go back to Melodyne. The transfer is more clunky but the mouse workflow is far more straightforward.The Formant tool is actually really handy for increasing a vocal range. It makes a sung note sound relatively natural even though it could never be reached by that vocalist. I've made so many friends this way! :-D
Yeah formants is a good way to get laid. The the obvious use is when you give a low note to a female voice, then she can't be female anymore so changing the formants is a gender bender and can make her voice to a proper voice for the low pitch.
Great job, it made it a lot easier to learn Melodyne for the first time.
Excellent tutorial and a must watch for all Melodyne Assistant 4 owners. Thank you!
I have Melodyne essentials, and I can't get the individual blobs sound.... What am I doing wrong? Thank you.
Thanks man. Really clear and helpful!
Very clear and concise video.
Many thanks sir.
Brilliance, Great Tutorial. Explained in such depth, learnt alot from viewing 🎶🎶🎤👍🏻
Thank you. Best Melodyne tutorial I have ever watched!!
bedankt voor de uitleg prima
Great video! What I would like to know is, how do I make the (furthest left) the 8 drum tracks that I have are very small, how do I widen the horizontally look of the tracks. Please excuse if I haven't explained myself correctly. If I've missed something related to horizontal track height, I apologize. Also, for someone like me who has a vision disability, Melodyne's "default, grey, high contrast 1 and 2 aren't dark themed enough for me but I'm doing my best. I hope they give us darker theme options in the future.
Kind regards,
George
Great! Now it's clearer what Melodyne can do.
Great tutorial. Looking to upgrade to Melodyne Assistant 4 very soon.
Awesome video, just upgraded the essential to assistant inspired by your video!
I upgraded to this version but now my transfer button is greyed out and can’t edit ?? Pls help ..
I use melodyne assistance but i have to copy and paste twice before it will paste something, any solution?
Great video! Thanks a lot for your effort. Keep up the good work.
Terrific video, thank you!
Good Tutorial thanks
Yep, very amazing tutorial start to end. Thank you Sir.
I just bought melodyne 5 and I cant get reaper to recognize the vst3. I have tried re scanning, changing the folder it is in, nothing works. The application opens fine and ia activated. Can anyone help??
32 bit or 64 bit reaper, 32/64 melodyne, pc, Mac etc.... give us more detauks
Pc, Windows 10, 64 bit reaper version 6.04, im not sure on the bit of melodyne. It just says .vst3
Well you just got me upgrade from essential :) Great video!
Thank you for this - it is perfect!
Good, thanks. I not using Melodyne yet, I was just considering to buy it. I will download the trial version frist. When I record my songs, my voics needs help. I am using GSnap with my DAW, but it takes me a lot of time and not so easy do fix my vocal track. I think Melodyne could make it easier and go beyond I am doing now.
Thanks for that, hey just wondering what Im doing wrong when I transfer a vocal but it just comes in as one note? kinda weird that
Sounds like it’s detected percussion mode and you need to change it to melodic
@@adamsteelproducer How do you do that, it's a stereo vocal Im working on in Logic? cheers M
I got it, thank you so much for the help M
Super helpful. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much, this was very informative!
Great Video... Thanks
great great video
Did you ever figure out how to set a key? Or can you not do that in Assistant? (Which would be ridiculous considering its nearly 300 dollars)
There’s a section in the top left corner where it normally analyzes it for you anyway. Even if it’s wrong you can change it.
did he keep his gain reduction and compression on while transferring the raw audio or do you literally take off ALL the effects and then put them back on after transferring? plz help
I would keep them on myself like in Ableton
I love your presentation that see you and whole computer screen. Are you ok to tell me what software and how you do?
thanks this helped a lot!
Thanks!
That was really helpful. Thanks. Are you doing a Melodyne Assistant 5 update?
Cool, many thanx
I don't know that you can actually set the key for the project in Assistant. I have looked and looked for it myself.
Is there anything like this for iPad Pro?
+WideOpenChange not that I know of right now, if anyone sees anything tell us here!
Wow very nice . Really great video..
Great video! I 'd like to know the best way to make the second voice with Melodyne assistant. Thanks you!
Easiest way would be copy the original track in your daw, run a new copy of melodyne and change the pitches from there
great tutorial dude
Hi, what is your workflow after you have finished tuning? I'm using Melodyne Essential and once the vocal is in Melodyne I can no longer make any other edits which is really annoying, I was wondering if i'm doing something wrong or if that's just the way it is?
Unfortunately that’s the way it is, unless you freeze a track or render it out as a new channel. I leave tuning until after the edits have been cleaned up and the takes have been chosen.
Ah bummer, at least it's not just me being thick! I'm surprised there isn't more flexibility in it, i tried to remove some breaths after I finished tuning and none of my changes were taking effect. I will try the freeze option but then if I decide I want to change a note after I've mixed everything I'll have to render it to a new track again? Is that right??
Yeah that’s right. Melodyne is kind of old tech in some ways- if you use it with Sonar it’s got this ARA thing where you can keep editing. Having said that, you can delete breaths in melodyne by selecting the “silent” part and deleting it
Yeah, I guess you have to really commit to what you are doing in Melodyne to avoid any future hassle, I just wanted to turn them down but you don't have the amplitude tool in Essential so i'll just do it on the frozen track. Thanks for replying I've been reading the forums all day trying to get an answer, so that's what the ARA thing is people are talking about! Sounds great but I don't think I could bring myself to learn a new DAW it's took me a year to get this far!
Yeah I learned in cubase and pro tools, and had the same issues. I moved over to Reaper which is far faster for me, but melodyne (as powerful as it is) is old tech in many ways. It does force you to pick your takes and edit cleanly though, which can be good practice in the long run! It taught me to edit properly- and I also now treat that whole editing/take choosing/tuning section as a whole part before the mix. It makes for a much clearer head when it comes to mixing
You've got 12k poles so you're doing ok with subs.
Seriously.... Like you (Hop Pole Studios) I was wearing my headphones when I started the video... and almost had my ears blown out (and not in a good way). Tone down that intro volume!
I'm watching this because when I change the pitch on a note, it immediately sounds really weird, like a robotic voice
Sounds like the modulation is really low or zero- that’s what makes it really robotic
Nice vid. kind of cool song. Who are they?
Great video! Do you edit bass with melodyne?
+Rodoljub Raičković thanks. Not usually, but I have done a couple of times where I’ve been sent a track to mix and it’s been pulled way off key, or a note has been out of scale
My bass goes out of tune so fast. I use Melodyne for every song on the bass guitar.
from the principal voice
Actually, the squiggle is the pitch and the blob is just amplitude. Here's a guy who explains it well, especially the parts of the blob: ua-cam.com/video/tLpqv6C0JTk/v-deo.html
6:16 been using it for ten years he only look's about 21,
2009 it first came out,
29:00 like time stretching like on the old Akia 3000 samplers back in the early 90's,
I’m a lot older than 21.
nt
I am not able to understand this software, so I consider that is a stupid project.....Software that makes you feel stupid. I hate Melodyne
Less talking more showing
@@adamsteelproducer I wouldn't go to one to hear strippers blather on. I thought this was going to show how to use the program.
That vocal is making my ears bleed.
Consult your doctor
@@adamsteelproducer Hey, you taught me basic Melodyne in a very short time, I'm not complaining. I bought the 'essential' version just to see and I realised pretty quickly that it simply doesn't have features that really help you. Your videos are great. I watched the 'Ozone 9' video and subscribed. I admire your no BS approach. Thanks.
Haha cheers! Yeah that’s the thing about melodyne, often it’s needed on things we’d rather not hear. Keep up the good work and thanks for your support 😀
Kinda disappointed, I thought a quality engineer like yourself would be more along the Glenn Fricker lines of record it properly first.
Not fix it later.
+Luke Norman it’s a job, and I do my job proudly. There are situations where I’d rather not use it, and situations where it’s necessary. Like I said in the video, we were writing the vocal lines on the day and had limited time with the vocalist- I can’t have my head up my ass and stick to “principles” when that would damage the end result, so I may as well show everyone how to use tools properly
Hop Pole Studios
I think for song writing, experimenting and even practicing.. It's great, perfect product.
But the moment you start producing it as a finish product, it becomes fake and sounds it too.
Again this is just my opinion from a guy who records throwaway backing tracks in my bedroom and that it haha. I can understand how in a studio business sometimes your in a corner.... But I still prefer the Glenn Fricker approach haha.
@@deathhockey19 maybe this project was commissioned by a songwriter in order to pitch the song to artists. In which case the corrected vocals are more than adequate. Not everything is produced as 'the end result'. Besides, this is a 'how to' video (and as such it's GREAT!), so it judge it as something else just shows a lack of nuanced understanding of the business.
Bingo, this person gets it. It’s not always possible to get ‘the best’ in a limited amount of time or situation. I would always record a vocalist as much as possible to get the best take, where circumstances allow. Often it’s just not possible but people want to hear something in tune. Thanks for the kind words :)
Thanks!