Lead vocals in Melodyne: Fast and easy editing

[@OmarJano]

These videos are gold. Thank you for taking the time to make them!

[@horstlemke9591]

Sehr gut erklärt, klasse...es gibt ein gutes deutsche Sprichwort "In der Kürze liegt die Würze". Beste Grüße, Horst Lemke, Musikproduzent, Germany Ps. Ich arbeite seit 15 Jahren mit Melodyne, es gibt nichts besseres auf dem Markt!

[@reeyotch76]

I have never heard that phrase, but I like it!

[@srwaite7]

You are the man, Rich! Thank you!

[@MattLeFaitMusic]

Great tips!

[@osagie2]

Dear Rich! I love the way you explain things! You Rock my Brother!👌✌🙂

[@delaceylehane7758]

Wish I’d watched some of these before I began using Melodyne. Didn’t know you could multitrack, didn’t know you could select all the notes on the page and shift them with a single slider. What took me three hours of work could have taken me three minutes. Subscribed.

[@celemony]

Thanks for watching! It’s never too late to learn a few new tricks, is it? 🙂

[@steviekeys99]

I agree....very good series of videos. Adding more will be welcome.

[@MorisoniProductions]

These are really excellent reference videos with super-clear explanations and examples. Much appreciated, thank you.

[@JustEli.]

Thank you Rich, you a real one.

[@DiamondStar130]

Just wanted to say thanks..you've been a great help!!

[@NhanNguyen-sq2qo]

Awesome, great video!

[@martynroach182]

Quick, informative clip. Thank you

[@MCAlvesPortugal]

Great tutorials.😎

[@Danksta02]

Just picked up my first copy of Melodyne and this was incredibly helpful. Loving the tool so far. Seems like it should be harder or take more work to make the vocals sound this good hahahahaha.

[@roxnroll8050]

Great video! I want more of these little gold nugget videos :)

[@reeyotch76]

More coming soon!

[@eastmanjohn9932]

Hi Rich. Great Video!! I had a song where i liked everything but the end of one word went flat. I tried the pitch correction tool but it wasn't doing it. When i saw how you did the pitch drift tool I did that and it was perfect. Thank you for making this.

[@pravo.]

You are amazing sir great tool great tutorial always liked cheers from Australia

[@RichardMartinMusic]

Very nice for Tom Segura to take time off his stand up schedule to teach us about pitch correction!! hahaha But seriously great video!!

[@reeyotch76]

My Segura impersonator gig only pays in leftover buffet food, so I have to hustle on the side...

[@bochramarir3774]

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[@devingrubbs]

Hi jeans

[@NaTate444]

😊😊

[@linfordrichards8395]

Well explained beautifully 🎶🎶🎶👍🏼

[@johnnygarcia6359]

Great Vid! Thank you for these!

[@VVIPWORLDUSA]

Good TUT! thanks!

[@MaseratiHolla]

Perfect just the tip I needed. Thank you.

[@namuruchiha2626]

Great stuff thanks!

[@toonytouchstone]

Very helpful! Many thanks.

[@kinyasoz]

Appreciate 🙏♥️

[@iteapott]

Thank you!

[@arunc1760]

Thank you so much.

[@cgdtb]

Thanks!

[@emillindell-johansson2488]

Brilliant!

[@mimidhof2179]

Great, thank you

[@stevend984]

I recently upgraded my trusty Samplitude ProX3 to the finale chapter of my musical life with ProX-8. X-8 included Melodyne which was cool but I'm not yet ready to make the jump to X8 because I'm still polishing up some masters in X3. However, I have begun delving into X8 in anticipation of a full integration soon and I'm working on a tune I recently recorded in tribute to my brother who passed in March of '2020. I specifically wanted it to be a very simple tune so as not to distact from my lyrics. At 71ish my voice is not what it used to be but after months of practicing take after take I have been able to get a combination of takes that I'm happy with. Because this song means everything to me for him I want it to be as perfect as it can be. So I decided to look into Melodyne just out of curiousity. So I will begin looking into initial tutorials for Melodyne...but...after watching this video, I can't help but wonder what they did back in the day before all this technology when singers were either "GOOD" or they sucked! I can't be the only one who feels that making something like music "TOO" perfect is taking the soul out of it! After all...isn't that what music is all about...SOUL? It certainly is and always has been for me!

[@celemony]

Hey Steven, thanks for your comment! Even back in the days studio engineers had all sorts of tricks up their sleeves to make singers look and sound as good as possible. 😉 This doesn’t necessarily mean that the music has to lose all of its soul. These are just tools, and it’s up to you how much or how little you want to use them. Nothing has to (and probably should) be 100% ‘perfect’. It’s all about you and your taste, and Melodyne gives you control over whatever you decide to edit. But yes, please leave the soul in your music by all means! 😎

[@stevend984]

@@celemony Still an analog guy...back in the day before digital there were still only so many things that could be accomplished or maneuvered to make a singer sound AGAP...[as good as possible]. Not sure why they would concern themselves with how they made them look though. That said...once I discovered I only have the basic version of Melodyne I fumbled thru a few sessions and found the parameters to work with and was able to pull together a pretty decent vocal track. Although my voice certainly isn't what it used to be, it was a pretty humbling experience. And to your point...it's those subtle touch ups that can give the best results. Though being stuck between two worlds, I feel fortunate to see and take advantage of many of these digital advancements that I would not have been able to in the days of yore. So that's one point for digital. I do find it quite ironic though that the digital industry continues to design software that attempts to capture that "Warm"...or as I call it "Analog" sound... That might explain this major comeback of vinyl. I'd be really curious to know what Barry Gordy and the Funk Brothers would think on this subject. As a product of the 60's, I'll still take pure unadulterated & unfabricated soul over this current digital alternative...till my day is done.

[@moncheball4mybrotha378]

Would u try fl studio?

[@billhall6625]

perfecto

[@Fkyoughhgf]

GOOD INFO

[@SteveStockmalMusic]

Does anybody happen to know why my assistant does not sync up for playback? I’m in ProTools 12.4 and I literally have to scroll to find where it is, and then follow along. I have clicked “auto scroll” at the bottom right which doesn’t seem to do anything. 🤷‍♂️ Heeeeelp please 😊

[@celemony]

Hey Steve, could you please contact our Tech Support team? See here: helpcenter.celemony.com/en/supportRequest

[@SteveStockmalMusic]

@@celemony Well, I figured it out. It auto scrolls once I “click off”. When editing it stays stationary. EASY !!!

[@pravo.]

GREAT

[@kennethward9976]

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mypetdrgn]

I liked using other tracks to help define the track at issue... 👍🏼

[@reeyotch76]

That always makes it so much easier!

[@EruVasquez]

This dude is the 6 paths Melodyne Sage.

[@lennartvonau8227]

Try RX for noisereduction for your own voice on this video ;)

[@EduardoeSilvana]

Hi Rich, I feel like a fool but I need to ask: how to find the tracks???? Sorry to disturb but I am going crazy because I don't find where to make the adjustments to use different tracks. When I insert different files they all go to the same place. I know I am a dumb (laughs) but I do need your help. Can you??

[@celemony]

Hello, sorry for the late reply. Not sure if we understand your question. Please feel free to contact our Tech Support with a few more details. See here: helpcenter.celemony.com/en/supportRequest Thanks!

[@delborrell]

Thought this would've been answered but I don't see it in the comments. I only have Melodyne 5 Essential. What version should I upgrade to to get the dedicated pitch tools demonstrated here?

[@micomagbemi3014]

Great tutorial but how do we set up the multiple instrument mode in melodyne cuz here u have your vocals and instruments in 3 separate playlist tab is there a video on how to transfer them multiple audio to melodyne? I'm new to it please..

[@celemony]

Please contact our Tech Support team, they will be happy to help: www.celemony.com/support - Thanks!

[@coda_bym]

GR8🎧🎧✌✌

[@GHJ_Music]

I'm just beginning with Melodyne Essential in Pro Tools on my MacBook. I cannot view the info pane in the left column that shows on your screen so that I can activate the sibilant balance function. How do I open that?

[@celemony]

Hey Gene, sorry for the late reply. In the upper left corner you have an icon to open the info pane. If this doesn’t help, please contact our Tech Support for assistance: helpcenter.celemony.com/en/supportRequest Thank you.

[@SteveStockmalMusic]

Hi guys, quick question. Let’s say I have several notes that are all different and I want to change them all to the same note. How do I do that? (other than doing that one at a time). Just to be clear, let’s say I sing CDEF, but then I want to change all of those notes G. Thanks

[@celemony]

You could create a custom ‘scale’ with one note only, select all blobs and, with ‘Pitch Snap’ enabled, double-click. Alternatively, click the empty box next to a note name in the Pitch Ruler to select all notes of the same pitch at once and move them to the destination pitch.

[@johnnyh64]

Those F notes at the top were flat and should have been F# in the key of DM, my OCD bells were ringing because you didn’t address them. But nice tutorial anyway.

[@AspenTruth]

This is one of the strengths of Melodyne. Major thirds, minor thirds and the netherworld in-between is a performance subtlety. Obviously right on the note is usually what we intend in many cases, BUT the somewhat flat major third in a “blues inspired” melody is something that is completely intentional. Against a major chord, the slightly pulled down 3rd is “a sound” - it is an important distinction in just about every style (except perhaps classical compositions). What truly makes Melodyne brilliant in this situation is in the ability to either leave that exactly as sung, or even alter a performance to introduce this sound. As always, the visual of the GUI is a great shortcut but the ears always win. Melodyne is the simply the programming aid to do what we use to do - Make the singer sing it until we had enough tracks to make a ‘“deserving” comp. This took hours in the old days with even the best singers.

[@reeyotch76]

@@AspenTruth I came to the same conclusion. During prep for this video, I even corrected those notes to F#. It sounded correct for the key, but wrong for the song. That distinction, and the ability to place those notes in any place that feels right, is what makes Melodyne so cool.

[@danielalejandrohb]

amazing content! Thanks a lot.. do you offer your melodyne services? I want to release a track this week and i need a pro who can work on it.. i don't seem to find good ones online. Thanks! :)

[@pop_polizei]

Hello Daniel. I’m not Mr Crescenti, but I offer Melodyne services and I might be able to help you out! I already wrote you an e-mail. Let me know if you need me. 🙂

[@iaincourt6500]

On this demo it says D Major as the Scale, using the macro tuning, 3 notes went to F, rather than F#. surely that's not correct?

[@celemony]

That’s because Rich hasn’t activated the ‘Snap to Chord Scale’ option in the macro. 🙂 So everything snaps to the nearest semitone.

[@catloverextreme]

Which version of melodyne is he using and how does one get the other instruments into the program like he displays? I have melodyne assistant and wasn't aware one could do this awesome feature until this video.

[@billys5965]

Catloverextreme _ you need the Studio version, which is what he’s working with. Not sure if the Editor version (a step below top-of-the-line Studio version) has it.

[@creative_expressionproductions]

Thank for an amazing video and an inspirational beard dude!! So Im newnto melodyne and I love it. Working in Live 11, after tuning a vocal I then realised that I wanted to edit the vocal wave form a bit. It took me a while to realise why nothing I did was changing (because the audio was now playing from melodyne, as opposed to the vocal track playing through melodyne. How can you make it so that any subsequent edits you make to a take are automatically reflected in the transferred audio in melodyne?

[@TabbyCallaghan]

Hi great video one thing I am confused about are you saying that you are able to load in an instrument as a pitch dictator if so how is that done or is it that melodyne is applied on other instruments in the session and that it reflects in the vocal session?

[@celemony]

What Rich means is that you can use other instruments as a visual reference in Melodyne studio. Also, Melodyne can analyze any chords and display a scale grid that shows chord notes only or a scale that fits the chord. This will also help tune vocals fast and easy.

[@marykellyglasgowgirl]

Great videos, many thanks.:0) I've been using melodyne successfully and love it. However, today when I transferred a vocal track, melodyne transferred all the tracks instead of just one. What am I doing wrong?!

[@celemony]

You might have armed all the tracks for recording. If this happens again, feel free to contact our Tech Support here: www.celemony.com/support - Thank you!

[@JustinColletti]

Is that a Beyer M201 you're talking into????

[@nassarofficial]

Pitch macro option is not showing to me only when i open melodyne as a app .. but so i cant transfer the vocal ( using assistant version ) .. hope i get reply

[@celemony]

Sorry to hear that you have a problem with Melodyne. Please contact our support: celemony.com/support - Thx!

[@egaananthjeevan7181]

is manual pitch drift tool available in Melodyne 5 essential

[@celemony]

Melodyne essential comes with a basic toolset only. The Pitch Drift tool isn’t part of that, but you have the pitch drift slider in the Correct Pitch macro. Hope this helps.

[@gatisozols549]

Does melodyone introduce artifacts by just being on the track without even tuning? That is my concern

[@celemony]

No, it doesn’t. Notes that you don’t touch aren’t processed by Melodyne.

[@lpxibymarcozanoni]

Which mic did you use in this video?

[@reeyotch76]

This is a Beyerdynamic M201 N(C). It's one of my favorite dynamic mics!

[@wifi-YT]

At 3:55, you removed the pitch centering, which moved all the previously pitch corrected notes back to their original off-pitch state. Why would we want to do that(?), undoing the pitch correction we just achieved? I’m confused.

[@zahcinc149]

He said that just incase you have to tune a vocal quickly during a recording session, you can use the sliders to do it automatically. Then, if you want to, you can undo the automatic pitch correction later if you want to perform more precise, manual pitch correction.

[@wifi-YT]

@@zahcinc149 Thanks!

[@stevieross4415]

Hi Rich thanks for the great tutorial. I'm new to Melodyne and just learning as i go. I'm using the Essential version 5. I deleted some notes on my vocal track and thought i'll go back and sort it later but i can't recover the deleted notes, the notes are still there but they don't sound and when i try to play the section back it automatically goes to the next part of the track. I hope this makes sense. If you could please help with this i would be very grateful. Thank You.

[@robertsimpson5801]

When I use melodyne, sometimes I have more artifacts than other times. How can I minimize the amount of artifacts in melodyne?

[@celemony]

Artefacts mostly occur with recordings that aren’t clean and dry. Could this be your problem?

[@robertsimpson5801]

@@celemony yes, definitely. My room is very "live." I have tried to use RX7 to eliminate the room's reverberation from my vocal recordings, but it ends up making the recordings unnatural sounding. I guess there is no replacement for a well-treated room.

[@bboymac84]

Use revoice pro 4

[@robertsimpson5801]

@@bboymac84 I have Revoice Pro 4, but it is not as user friendly as Melodyne. Ease of use is pretty high on my list of requirements for a software that I am going to use regularly.

[@bboymac84]

Robert Simpson it’s easier than you think. It fixes everything with key and timing and it adds doubles!!

[@TheSteveGainesRockBand]

I have a question about the pitch drift correction you showed near the end of the video. I have the lowest version of Melodyne, Melodyne Essential. The edit macro displays a Pitch Drift slider. However, I don't seem to have the cursor tool for editing pitch drift like in this video. When I use the edit macro Pitch Drift slider it seems to have little effect on the line that it outside the blob. Is there anything further I can do with Melodyne Essential to correct pitch drift?

[@celemony]

That’s correct, Melodyne essential has the Pitch Drift slider, but not a dedicated tool. If the slider doesn’t do it for you, you could split a note into multiple parts and correct them individually. For further assistance, please contact our Tech Support here: www.celemony.com/support - Thank you!

[@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios]

Can we apply to a whole song which we receive? How do we use the standalone to work with a whole song? Can it break the track into parts/stems? I wish there were a full song based/top-down approach focused tutorial/playlist (this is not at all a critique, I am merely stating this in hopes that the content creator (Rich) may see this, believe that it may be a reasonable request, and decide to create the series).

[@celemony]

Hello, Melodyne wasn’t designed for breaking full stereo mixes into its individual parts. You can still edit the stereo mix of course, but results will be best with clean and dry recordings of individual instruments.

[@markclason2717]

How do I make the vocal track in Pro Tools reflect the editing done in Melodyne? Is there a SAVE function that I'm missing? I'm editing the vocal track BEFORE opening Melodyne, editing more in Melodyne, then the track in PT doesn't reflect the editing done in Melodyne. I'm chasing my tail here.

[@celemony]

Hey Mark, what you describe would be possible with ARA. Unfortunately Pro Tools doesn’t support the ARA feature yet. For now, you could bounce the track after you finished editing in Melodyne, and then continue working in Pro Tools.

[@ikkangoochelen]

I have a question. After melodyne i set plugins on my vox like compressors, eqs.... But its increasing my breaths. Can i decrrease my breath also in melodyne after i puted vsts? Thxn!

[@celemony]

Hey Dennis. You could either lower the breath levels in the first instance of Melodyne, or add a second instance after all your compressors that just controls the breaths even further.

[@ikkangoochelen]

@@celemony thank you! and is there a way to just select the breaths at once without ses? thank you

[@celemony]

@@ikkangoochelen No, Melodyne doesn’t distinguish between these two.

[@Radeo]

Gain stage and edit the waveform before applying processing.

[@mockcroc]

You did not not address de-essing the word Sun as the 'S' badly stood out! Thanks for posting...

[@HubLocationSound]

That's an easy fix. Grab the 'S' blob with the amplitude tool and drag it down to taste.

[@mockcroc]

@@HubLocationSound Easy for them that know; but it did need addressing - maybe the guys ears never picked it up...

[@reeyotch76]

There's only so much time in each tutorial. But the De-essing video is coming very soon! Melodyne 5 has a new tool for this that is awesome...stay tuned!

[@digitalmusicstudio633]

Poderia ter saído na versão 32bits

[@jawzi3640]

umm? tom segura?! the resemblance is scary! thanks for the help lol

[@russwilson2305]

1:53 -I'm not sure any vocal "deserves" pitch correction... hmm...

[@reeyotch76]

Fair enough...but every vocal deserves thoughtful time and attention.

[@vewilli]

👍🏻👏🏻👍🏻

[@Radeo]

dat springbox verb

[@saidpurshop1342]

+sub

[@JemmyJoeAGoGo]

“Instantiate”? Nice ten dollar word!

[@SubstituteMusician]

Pronounced in a $100 manner.

[@intheblink]

I’ve always heard it with an A like in “cat”, not an A like in “alms”.

[@reeyotch76]

@@SubstituteMusician When do all these pronunciation residuals start coming in?

[@D23178]

Tom Segura is that you

[@shahnewazmanto4798]

yOU TALK TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH, JUST SHOW