Melodyne 5: A quantum leap in vocal editing

[@gabrielpaipa]

Excuse me but this is one of the best advertisements I've seen in my life

[@daivdninjabiomech7888]

The editing and voicover with the music all perfectly balanced. It's amazing how well this video was put together.

[@breakpointinteractive]

Yeah

[@matthewgoodman434]

yeah the sound is really well produced i wonder what program they used

[@ProfDE]

I almost cried😂😭

[@_simmac_]

Yes. I'm no musician, but they sold me

[@franzsazon1940]

Can we take a minute to appreciate that the vocals always sang on time with the instrumentals throughout the whole video?

[@palyze]

fr.. props to the editor, very underappreciated

[@celemony]

The video was edited by our very own Stefan himself. 🙂

[@SirHadoken]

Make sure to let Stefan know he’s a legend, this video is remarkable

[@Jachael123]

I have no interest in music production with vocals but this was so interesting that I watched the entire thing lol

[@photelegy]

the KZbin algorithm has gone to far 😅 We watch videos without any use just because KZbin find them interesting and so do we 😉

[@IM2awsme]

Same?

[@animeman1000]

Fucking same!! I kinda want to start fucking around with it. I can't sing worth shit. lol

[@breakpointinteractive]

Same

[@zetamale]

This level of editing simply blows the competition out of the water.

[@felixlipski3956]

ok paid consoomer

[@JohnSmith-hr3yv]

@@felixlipski3956 XD GOOD ONE BRO MAN COMPANYZ BAD AMIRITE

[@WillyJunior]

what competition?

[@cokecl]

What is the alternative to Melodyne?

[@user-oh4ky7rv5i]

Felix Lipski no. This doesn’t follow the consoomer meme because this can be used to make money + this is high quality software. Making music is a healthy hobby /job too compared to plastic figures

[@watchingworm]

Melodyne 6: while other software require recording of an actual singer, we can save you this time consuming process by generating a voice for you.

[@pop_polizei]

There’s actually already software available that imitates real singers.

[@kevinnguyen552]

Nick It’s called vocaloid

[@NoThrottle]

Its called vocaloid and its good enough. Complex-accent based languages like english sound relatively bad on it if you dont do some special work on indicating what they should sound like. Japanese-like monotone languages sound great. I mainly only make Japanese songs on Vocaloid.

[@klystron2010]

Still waiting for Tacotron to do pitch.

[@Mark-zg4ky]

More like Melodyne 10

[@skemsen]

“In A World...”

[@FloatingWeeds2]

Actually this is the same guy who did the voiceover for the Chesky Records test disc

[@uniworkhorse]

I don't even use a daw and this is still a pretty engaging video ngl

[@celemony]

You don’t even need a DAW, Melodyne comes as a standalone program as well.

[@BenGilman]

It's the dubstep

[@DLBBALL]

I don’t even do audio work!

[@thomastakeshita4979]

@Moto Tutorial A lot of people might want to know that it comes as a standalone program as well though.

[@xenoslyce1781]

@Moto Tutorial haha deesser go ssssshhhh

[@dbsirius]

You should have done a before and after for each feature.

[@frameflyerChrisD]

Agree.... and also a better balance between voice-over and music

[@BigDaddyWes]

They did, they just don't spell it out for you. And it makes way more sense to do this in context of an actual mix instead of just using a dry vocal track.

[@Old_Man_Jay]

@@BigDaddyWes well then they should've "spelled it out" for us normies. It's not easy to spot the differences and could've been demonstrated much better.

[@BigDaddyWes]

@@Old_Man_Jay This software isn't for normies to be frank. It's $850 and not something your average bedroom producer has in their workflow.

[@TheMetalUnborn]

Thank you.

[@wohdinhel]

“no singer ever [draws out sibilants or unvoiced consonants]” *the Asian language family has left the chat*

[@EnochLight]

Their voice-over guy sounds like I'm listening to an infomercial for Cialis.

[@herrunsinn774]

Too funny! Ya... He is just "one sibilant away" from sounding creepy. It's too bad Melodyne doesn't have a "de-creepify" function.

[@ZiwaHD]

😂

[@greedokenobi3855]

Sounds like a Dutch guy that has been living in the US for many years but still has some Dutch accent in there lol.

[@mcnitt]

Seek help for esses lasting longer than 3 hours.

[@gredangeo]

If I had to guess. Pretty sure it IS that guy. Sounds way to close.

[@HelamanGile]

So that's where how it's made voice went to

I think the ability to detect not only sibilants, but ALL consonants would be a game changer in the post-production workflow. Imagine cleaning up the sound in RX7 and then using Melodyne's precise gain on consonants to get even more precise and intelligible dialogue.

[@DerekRenfroe]

I'm a music producer, but I've had some luck with using the timing chopping tool, locating the beginning of the consonant, and moving it slightly in time depending on what syllabic sound you're trying to achieve. A lot of our perception of which consonant sound we're hearing is based on the speed of the consonant sound itself + its relation to other vowels. Of course it isn't possible to switch out a sound, but I find with like a "b" and "v", for example, you can make it sound more like one or the other. This is also just in my own experience, but I hope it helps!

[@StormBurnX]

Richard Smith literally the first demo explicitly mentions, TWICE, “s at the beginning” of words, smh people pay 0 attention on here

[@preciousmisfits5134]

This upgrade hit my most time-consuming issue - manually de-essing. From dozens of clicks to just one for volume adjust. No need to manually cut them out. Simply amazing! Obviously this development team is focused on the needs of the users. Great job!

[@fhusucuuw]

I'm not gonna lie, this is definately one of the few ads I've watched in full. This looks really cool!

[@arhanbasra3092]

Anyone else try to sing their s’s higher and lower at 1:20??

[@masterkey8914]

Sure did 🤣

[@santoscetorz]

I did- fooled myself and though I _did_ change pitch but it was volume.

[@StevenKnightArrowood]

You can change the pitch if the s sound, but people generally (~99%) do not change the pitch of their s. The pitch of the s sound is mostly dependent on the shape of your mouth, while the pitch of your voice is dependent upon your vocal chords. When people change the pitch of their voice (via vocal chords) they generally do not change the way they form their mouth for the s sound, so the pitch of the s sound doesn't change even though the vocalized sounds do.

[@benanon4429]

yeah, but it wasn't natural, i wouldn't of had done that while actually singing

[@timoheinrich8763]

I'm a studied phonetician (though I don't think you need to be to understand this). Your /s/ is basically a noise that has more energy around 5-7k usually. (Compared to for example an /f/ that is pretty even throughout the spectrum.) Your ear won't hear any pitch in these sounds unless you maybe start to whistle while pronouncing it. Actually people do that especially with /ʃ/-sound like the last sound in 'wish'. So yeah, unless you whistle, your voiceless s's won't have a pitch that you could alter. Only thing you could do is to change the distribution of energy in the spectrum a little bit. But that's not to be confused with pitch.

[@Solo-vh9fm]

I hope there’s a feature where stretching a vocal won’t affect vibrato eventually. I know other plugins do this but I trust melodyne more.

[@TheWorld_2099]

The voice over was amazing... You are the new ‘coolest guy ever’

[@rafaelhernandez5550]

What a wonderful time are we living for music production. Magic Thank you Melodyne

[@DMDvideo10]

Yes it's a wonderful time when you can make a singer who can't sing in key, well... sing in key...

[@InfiniteQuest86]

@@DMDvideo10 Lol depends on if you are the singer or the producer. If all you want is a certain sound and the singer can't make it, then you can do it anyway. If you are a singer, dang this time sucks for you. Your crazy cousin who's never sang a note in their life can be the next pop star when you've worked hard at it daily and can't make it big.

[@BananaManPL]

Ah, the old cinema trick. Using a technology you cannot explain? *QUANTUM*

[@celemony]

dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/quantum-leap 🙂

[@BananaManPL]

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/joke?q=Joke 🙂

[@musicproductionbrauns2594]

@@BananaManPL lol

[@DissonantSynth]

Incredible! Thanks to the Melodyne Team

[@Mistasethone]

Bye to all Deesser plugins.

[@MFSGamePlay]

Kind of, for rap music or some other genres you can still use them. Singing is really technical, because if the person doesn't want to hit a note or can or even if they're sick, this plugin can fix it.

[@tonybeatbutcher]

Deessers are actualy not good for the mix, I never used it, so Melodine wil be the first Deeser that works decently.

[@BigDaddyWes]

@@MattDxstined What do you think and EQ is and can you explain specifically how they function?

[@ChrisPFuchs]

@@MattDxstined De-Essers work in a different ways depending on the De-Esser. The standard De-Esser is a broadband compressor that's sidechained the frequencies where the Essing occurs, so the compressor only dips all the frequencies when there's a build up at that frequency. Then you have De-Essers that instead only dip at specific frequencies- some work like multiband compressor where one band is De-Essing, and others work like a dynamic EQ with one band set around the frequency you want to attenuate. The McDSP SA-2 is basically a multiband limiter where each band is set to a high frequency range ( Band 1: 3k Band 2: 6k Band 3: 9k Band 4: 12k). Oek Soothe is basically an adpative/automatic dynamic EQ that's trained to suppress resonant frequencies. My only point being there are a ton of different De-Essers that work pretty differently. It's good to have a bag of tricks for tackling different issues in my opinion (though I work mainly with dialogue, not so much music stuff.) I think what could be unique here is the detection algorithm- sometimes with De-Essers you get other parts of the dialogue/vocal that are effected by the De-Esser, when you may only want the actual S or T sounds to be attenuated.

[@laurenpinschannels]

the airwindows de-esser is very good and uses an approach more like this - a custom detection algorithm and a targeted eq. it's also free. but it's just an effect vst where this is an editor.

[@IgnatRemizov]

What a great video! We're in the future now I hope the song in the video will get released soon, it sounded pretty interesting!

[@БорисКостин-ф6п]

It’s almost ideal.Thank you! It would be great if you also added an opportunity to set a color for melodyne blobs and change their opacity for more comfortable working experience with multiple track vocals.

[@DRodMuzicman]

I dont often use it with actual singers. But for myself a musicians of 30 years who can not sing well, I use it every time I record myself....lol it is a truly amazing tool.

[@jasonfanclub4267]

It's been awhile since I used Melodyne. It's a great tool!

[@YusiDJordan]

This really is a quantum leap. Brilliant work, guys. I’m buying this ASAP.

[@ectyka]

I like the explanation and the track playing in the background at the same time. 🗯

[@Cyranek]

magical

[@MalcomHeavy]

This is crazy innovation, and extremely cost effective. If you are serious about music production, this is a crazy powerful tool.

[@DarrenStarr]

I remember when Melodyne came out. I was using it around 2003/2004 or thereabouts. It was amazing back then. This? Could make almost anyone a pop-star!

[@clearwavepro100]

Amazing work Celemony! I'm always rooting for you, and you always impress!

[@delta-a17]

This is the best commerical I've ever seen.

[@CarloLibertini]

Hi guys!... This is such a big advantage! A true game changer!... Cheers!..

[@failure6325]

Thanks for this video. I definitely gotta try this application.

[@MustakimAlMahdi]

Guys watch out for my next pop song with perfectly pitched 16th note vocal runs

[@wanderingbufoon]

This is the best song ive ever heard. The melody, the infomercial voice over. The featured verses. The entire ensemble is amazing.

[@BillLambert]

Melodyne was already magic. This is just nuts!

[@linfordrichards8395]

Explained indeed well 🎶🎶🎶🙏🏽

[@netana1154]

There's 41 dislikes on this video atm. So either 41 people don't know what thumbs down means, or there are 41 people that are upset that they can't afford this software! I mean, I can't afford this software either but seeing what Melodyne 5 can do blows my mind! I've started using Vocaloid 5 recently to create vocals from "scratch", and although I've fallen in love with what Vocaloid can do, I always feel as though it's missing certain tools and functionality. Or at the very least, that its editing tools don't allow me quite the level of control which I am after. I was recommended this video, and I am soo glad I watched it! Melodyne 5 appears to have the EXACT tools I've been after to help get my Vocaloid tracks sounding even more realistic! I feel like the youtube algorithm blessed me with knowledge of some awesome software today. I may not be able to afford you yet Melodyne, but one day you will be Melo-mine. :p

[@celemony]

Thanks for your comment! Do you know that Melodyne prices start at US$99?

[@cominup85]

I remember your first demo video. Just blew me away. Then DNA! I was like 😯 made what I thought impossible, possible. Though i couldn't rally do much with it. However, good to see you guys focus on vocals.

[@mathealgou]

This: *exist* Singing lessons: Am I a joke to you?

[@JoeyLindsay]

autotune still can't fix an absolute awful singer

[@EnUsUserScreenname]

@@JoeyLindsay True, but Melodyne can.

[@celemony]

Mmmmaybe. But it definitely helps to have a good singer. :)

[@sondrestrmme4006]

Tone still exists doesn't it, and I don't think it would end up as perfect in a live setting. I mean, maybe an autotune plugin can have minimal delay on one singer, imagine auto tuning a choir. The delay would be way too long.

[@patrickarend8707]

MELODYNE = magic. Best pitch software on planet earth.

[@philjohnson725]

I need this in my life

[@KC-bi9jw]

...shoulda used that de-esser feature on your voiceover guy

[@aeixo2533]

Haha, I was thinking the same! A lot of sibilance on a promo for software that removes it...

[@iamlmx]

Lmao yeah 😂

[@celemony]

Sounds fine over here. On what device did you listen to this?

[@aeixo2533]

@@celemony Sennheiser Momentum 3

[@Vevemusic]

The esses on the commentator are not are strong as you portrayed. In pop they eliminate them so much that maybe you became too sensitive to high frequencies?

[@vxel]

I have no idea what I’m watching but this is kinda amazing.

[@ThyInfoMan]

Idk why this was on my recommended but this is pretty amazing

[@emmittluckey8570]

This is a great tool. I've used on a few songs. 👍

[@SelfSufficient]

This is a fantastic tool, thank you so much for making this, so much time and effort saved.

[@matthewallen6183]

Sigh... *pulls out credit card*...

[@re_i_gn]

It's $850. That's a no from me dawg. 💀

[@matthewallen6183]

@@re_i_gn I already had assistant 4, so the upgrade to 5 was $50.

[@t6amygdala]

i have $2. i can’t even afford weed rn. there’s no way i’m getting melodyne

[@MihkelMacaroni]

@Nuno Filipe cause you still got millionaire producers like Kanye pirating shit - always buy what you pirate if you want to support the creator!

[@Mark-zg4ky]

@Nuno Filipe If you make a living with something like Melodyne it's a no brainer, as you need it to work. If you're a hobbyist, yeah, probably dont get the most expensive version. I can't condone pirating, but...

[@stringstorm]

That macro is too OP!

[@hvanmegen]

wow.. year after year again I'm totally flabbergasted by their plugins.. mindblowingly amazing

[@alphabeets]

Henry van Megen another year, another $199 update.

[@hvanmegen]

@@alphabeets for the amount of work this saves me, it's well worth it...

[@gevanlappido1304]

This video is so amazingly well made

[@EwaldDieser]

Yes! Working with de-Essers is such a pain and the result are usually not really good. I usually try to find a microphone that just isn’t too sibilant on that singer so that I don’t have to use de-Essers but now I can turn down the harsch esses. Thanks for the great product!

[@dnattack]

amazing stuff!

[@Catawampa]

So cool!

[@davypelletier]

Let’s just completely keep taking the soul out of music. Music isn’t supposed to be perfect.

[@TheSpeenort]

I'm going to try this with my cello.

[@celemony]

Please give it a try. Let us hear what you think!

[@Yuval_Ronen]

Thank you! Such a time saver 👌

[@SOUNTH11composingdesign]

Great demonstration, perfect edited.

[@sounddedaniel8760]

This is awesome

[@andremusic9924]

This is the future of vocals hands down

[@d2ruben]

I’m getting this upgrade like ASAP

[@ibrahim47x]

d2ruben I pray for your wallet’s recovery

[@dosereviews]

I think 🤔 that is would be a new addition on my studio for sure

[@ViRiXDreamcore]

I’ll give this a shot.

[@larryjones3436]

Incredible software.

[@AkikHaroonmusic]

Just Upgraded :)

[@shine_uno]

free upgrade?

[@celemony]

It’s free if your Melodyne 4 version was registered on March 1, 2020, or later.

[@AkikHaroonmusic]

Celemony 🔥🔥🔥

[@shine_uno]

@@celemony 😞

[@mariaa.escuderoartiaga9305]

Many thanks!!!! Amazing! So useful!

[@xenoslyce1781]

Bedroom music producers: _happy noises_

[@alex.muntean]

Wow! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@greatvedas]

vocals simplified even further!

[@PeterLewysPreston]

Brilliant!

[@danielnewton2390]

I never have, and never will use this software, but I'm still very excited about Melodyne 5, and repitching my S's separately 😃

[@mycbeats1276]

Take my money!

[@PolymerJones]

That’s what I’m saying

[@JeffRabbit]

I don't even own this program but now I want it.

[@klown1148]

This is super interesting

[@blackusniggus6249]

Why does it sound like a 1960's toy commercial? 😂😂😂

[@hullstar242]

“Buy now and get the bonus tiger poster!”

[@AIRSOFTRAIDERS1]

@@hullstar242 woah damn you just took me back for a second

[@morthim]

this is a blast from the past. too bad you didn't deliver on advertised promises in melodyne 1.

[@AmagrasMUSIC]

I miss parts of the tutorial because the music is so good

[@yunglotusx]

I've being melodyne 3 for years now... probably time to upgrade

[@lordpoob]

i have no idea why this was recommended to me but im glad it was because this is cool as shit

[@Ravizzoni]

Pencil tool! Pencil tool! Pencil tool! That’s what makes me not changing from Waves Tune to Melodyne. I would love Melodyne when I could draw the exact line I want whenever I need precise correction. What can you say about this?

[@saxyrep1]

Pretty impressive !

[@hlqa7938]

This thing dope! Just gotta work a lot 2 b able 2 buy it

[@knomusic05]

The song to used 🔥🔥

[@DUBSkyLinEx3]

This looks fucking insane man

[@tifdemun]

Well, I guess I need this.

[@mattanderson6860]

Great program, huge eyebrows.

[@jacknation1141]

For a music editing program as great as this, it confuses me that whoever put this video together decided to make the music 10x louder than the narrator

[@celemony]

Sounds fine over here. Which device are you listening on?

[@julianklietz6558]

Thats awesome

[@mixedbydk]

gamechanger!

[@claudioflynn3912]

Bruh this is insane

[@SamCyanide]

Never heard of this software before but I don't edit vocals much. Definitely going to pick this up if I ever have to

[@laveras6641]

Lowkey this is insane

[@NoFontNL]

I would like it if they released this full song without the narrator, because it's so catchy!

[@EpicLPer]

Used Melodyne a bit but man the features are a bit overwhelming for a newcomer that just wants to play around with it a bit. At least the videos the community makes are really helpful but this version may just removes a lot of different manual tasks!

[@celemony]

For a newcomer, Melodyne essential might be a good start into the world of Melodyne. It comes with less features and tools, but the same sound quality as the bigger Melodyne editions.

[@AVportau]

just wow... you know when you've got "that" take on a vocal so close to perfect and yet to expect the vocalist to get every nuance right in one take out of many is a big ask so we cut n paste between takes.... well it looks like that near perfect take will be the one after all.... the power of this software is not to be underestimated... possibly going to be one of the 'go to' essentials of any producers arsenal and goodbye auto tune.

[@sanctipaprichio]

now i only wait for integration with ableton live...

[@celemony]

Melodyne works as a plug-in in Ableton Live. But if you mean the ARA integration, then you need to ask Ableton about this. It is up to them. :)

[@DrykannProd]

That's kinda sick

[@PomSptz]

I just tried to get Shazam to identify the song playing in the background. No result. I don't even know if it's an actual recording but I loved it! Who is it!?

[@celemony]

It’s an unreleased song. See the end credits at 4:57.

[@thaotienmusic]

Thanks