Melodyne • Creating vocal doubles from outtakes

In this video, Rich covers the topic of creating effective doubled vocals from alternate takes. To add a layer of complexity and highlight the power of Melodyne, these alternate takes are all from different live versions of the song, recorded without a click track. Therefore, all takes vary in timing and could not normally be used as doubles!
First, Rich shows how to use the orange blobs and grey blobs in Melodyne studio’s track headers for easy visual track alignment. Then, he addresses how to tackle any issues with raspy vocals in Note Assignment Mode for optimum performance. Next, he displays the Spread Unison button for ease of editing. Rich goes on to illustrate how to split notes in Note Assignment Mode with the potential note starting point slider. Additionally, he then uses Note Assignment Mode to show how to get Melodyne to recognize two notes as one. He then uses the basic editing tools for correcting pitch, timing, and amplitude. Rich lastly gives two bonus tips; one using the Sibilant Balance tool to help the doubled vocal mesh, and one using the Pitch Modulation tool to even out the double, and even create another duplicate vocal track for a larger chorusing effect.
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[@BenSchwarzwalder]

Your tutorials are always amazing. Learn a new trick everytime. TY!

[@DigiMixAudio]

Wow! This is a keeper! Thanks Rich!

[@hoffy1003]

Another great video Rich

[@thebasspapa]

I am a beginner with melodyne and very thankful to have your vids. You are a great teacher. Keep going. Thanx a lot

[@1176hambone]

So rad! Love it!

[@Wh1teland]

I wish Melodyne had 'syncing timing and pitch to original' function just like Vocalign and Revoice

[@arispoli1269]

Seriously! Its version 5 and there’s still no vocalign - like syncing

[@Tomydeclerqueplus]

@@arispoli1269 ... i think there is ... just instead of quantize to tempo you do quantize to track ... that also need to be analysed by melodyne

[@cekirdekci32]

I got vocalign, it synchs yes but it also destroys the audio, quality is terrible. art effects. it actually is terrible. wasted my money on vocalign . it s not worth it. i got melodyne finally and i see how smooth it is this is 10 times better. it is time-consuming but it sounds soo natural .

[@johnplainsong9769]

@@cekirdekci32 Agreed! Still ... it would be nice to have a Melodyn align tool that would align orange blobs to chosen reference grey blobs, with a slider to adjust.

[@soulinspiration1]

Ok experimented with this and it came out great!!

[@celemony]

Excellent! 🙂

[@danarba3511]

Thanks!

[@rafalvarezsevilla]

it's muuuuch faster just time aligning the takes inside the daw (at least in reaper) and then tuning the doubles with melodyne if needed, editing in melodyne could be better... though i find it to be pretty good for deesing and levelriding, to better prepare vocals for further processing

[@igorverissimo607]

Sir, is there any way to control the pitch by playing through a midi keyboard in Melodyne, like you do in Autotune, in order to create interesting artistic effects (especially vocals)?? thanks

[@lar57jsy]

Thank you. Interesting :-) As I have the assistant Melodyne level, it would help me if you specified the levels at which features become available.

[@CJ-sw8lc]

I agree - can you use grey blobs in assistant??

[@ericsimi378]

i currently do the pitch correction in melodyne and the alignment of takes with Vocalign - is there any plan to bring the feature of Vocalign into Melodyne? That will be MASSSIIIVEEE!!!!

[@celemony]

Hey Eric, in Melodyne studio you can quantize notes to a reference track. Have you tried this yet?

[@Wh1teland]

@@celemony is there a video or some info how to?

[@fillmore999]

@@celemony But doesn't that quantize to the "intended" timing of the reference track, i.e. the grid, not the actual timing, so it doesn't match(unless you've quantized the reference track, which I don't want to do)? Melodyne and these tutorials are great, but this one is actually a disservice when Vocalign is out there making this way way way faster.

[@Alumx]

that beard is GLORIOUS

[@juancomelli637]

Using melodyne essential how do you export the melodyne edited vocals in garageband because I used melodyne but when I played the track I could only hear the melodyne edited track only and not my insturment. Why does this happen am I doing something wrong. Also everything is unmuted so it cant be that. I dont know what to do please help.

[@celemony]

Hey Juan, could you please contact our Tech Support team for questions like this? See here: helpcenter.celemony.com/en/supportRequest

[@happyron]

Does the "reduce syballents on the doubled tracks" hint also apply to harmonies created in this way? Thanks for the great video

[@mjdin4705]

I guess not. Lol

[@LeoBercoff]

As far as you apply reductiion to the wave, it should.

[@celemony]

If the sibilants in your backing vocals are too distracting, you should reduce them, no matter if it’s on doubled vocals or harmony parts.

[@jive1926]

how do I bring up the top left window where I see a list of my Melodyne tracks?

[@celemony]

The multi-track view is only available in Melodyne studio. Is this the one you use?

[@SpikeColgate]

@@celemony It's a shame this is not available in 'Editor' at least. Being able to see and align one vocal to another should be a standard feature..

[@raymondrutjes788]

Great video thank you. I want to point out that the sound of the playback could be tamed a bit more as the first sentence is really loud.

[@jenniferlaynemusic]

Yeah, I had headphones on and I think I got damage, haha.

[@MRboomchongo]

Is this grey blob & multiple track feature available only in Melodyne Studio or can Editor do this too?

[@celemony]

Multi-track note editing is only available in Melodyne studio.

[@PatAutrey]

What are the steps to make it turn gray or orange how do you change that

[@celemony]

Could you please contact our Tech Support at www.celemony.com/support - Thank you!

[@jenniferlaynemusic]

Thanks! Does reversing the vibrato cause phase issues?

[@celemony]

Not really, you are reverting the pitch deviations, not the phase.

[@jenniferlaynemusic]

@@celemony Thank you.

[@quantumsound2423]

too much work. In SynchroArts Revoice Pro or Vocalign Ultra this takes 2 seconds to achieve.

[@hermask815]

I know this request isn’t fair but could you do your best with . . Florence Foster Jenkins?

[@celemony]

Feel free to download the Melodyne trial and give it a go! 🙂

[@BobbyWashingtonvlog]

Too much work, just sing the double, much quicker.

[@celemony]

If you can sing it, great. However, not everyone is a great singer, and sometimes you have to work with whatever you got.🙂

[@jaidamodar9952]

Your more pandamic or more literatures, please ve practicle and not factories