User manual CELEMONY SOFTWARE MELODYNE ESSENTIAL 1.2 REV 2

[. . . ] essential user manual Melodyne essential user manual rev 2 This documentation refers to Melodyne essential 1. 2. Hoenig, Stefan Lindlahr, Alex Schmidt Translation: Ewan Whyte Layout: Saskia Kölliker Celemony Software GmbH Valleystr. 25, 81371 München, Germany www. celemony. com Support: support@celemony. com The manual and the software described therein are supplied under formal licence. They may be used and copied only under the conditions of this licensing agreement. [. . . ] This makes more precise positioning possible. Melodyne essential user manual 43 Displaying, navigating and playing back audio Show Intended Notes If you check the option `Show Intended Notes', what Melodyne has identified as the starting point of each note is indicated by a vertical red line and gray frames appear around each blob. These invariably lie directly on the semitone and begin precisely on a gridline. They represent, in other words, Melodyne's assumptions (based on its own analysis of the audio) as to the intended pitch of the note and its intended position within the measure or bar. These assumptions generally turn out to be correct, but are not inevitably so. They are to be thought of as suggestions. The frames also display the positions in pitch and time towards which the notes in question will gravitate if partial quantization is applied to them with the macros. Show Replace Ranges If you check this option, those passages will be indicated that have been transferred to Melodyne essential from your DAW and for the playback of which, in consequence, the plug-in rather than the DAW is responsible. 44 Melodyne essential user manual Displaying, navigating and playing back audio This information is conveyed by the fact that the ruler is shaded more palely throughout the entire length of all such passages. Related topics Playback, navigation and zooming Time Grid selection Defining the Pitch Grid, Scale and Reference Pitch Melodyne essential user manual 45 Checking and editing the note detection Checking and editing the note detection within melodic material In this tour, you will learn how to check the note detection in monophonic material and how to reassign notes. Occasionally the pitch of a note may, on account of its pronounced overtone content, be displayed an octave too high or there may be a note separation too many or too few among the detected tones. You can correct these things very easily. To reassign falsely detected notes, either double-click the right potential note or drag the wrong note to the correct pitch Use the Monitoring Synthesizer to hear the detected melody divorced from the original sound, which facilitates the checking process Set or remove note separations by double-clicking in the upper part of the note or move existing note separations (for which purpose the option `Show Note Separations' must be selected in the Preferences menu) The procedure After transferring or loading audio, select the Note Assignment tool, which is set slightly apart from the others, to change to Note Assignment mode. Please note that for technical reasons, when you switch to this mode, the Undo history will be deleted, so any actions taken prior to the mode change cannot subsequently be undone. The editing background is indicated by different coloring to remind you that in Note Assignment mode, no audible editing of the notes takes place. In this mode, you check through and alter Melodyne essential's interpretation of the notes in the audio material. You assign falsely interpreted notes to the correct pitches in order to achieve perfect agreement between the displayed notes ­ and to create the essential foundation for subsequent editing. 46 S UMMARY Melodyne essential user manual Checking and editing the note detection Against the editing background, you see in this mode solid (active) and hollow (potential) notes. The active notes are those for which Melodyne essential in the course of the detection has assigned the greatest plausibility. The program proceeds on the assumption that these are the notes that were actually played and can be heard in the material. The hollow potential notes represent alternative notes with the next highest plausibility. It might also be these notes that are heard in the material, although the probability is greater that the active notes are the right ones. It is a question here of recognizing the right notes in the audio material, and although Melodyne essential has a high hit quota, the detection can sometimes be wrong. In the illustration above, for example, you will see, an octave beneath the active detected notes, the same notes again but this time as hollow potential notes. Melodyne essential cannot be sure whether the sound of the recorded instrument might not have a pronounced overtone an octave above the fundamental. If it has such an overtone, it could be that the entire melody has been detected an octave too high. The octave beneath the detected notes, in other words, is the next most plausible location for the notes of the melody, which is why these notes are offered here as potential alternatives to the detected notes. Now it can happen that one note in a melody, because of the way it was played or sung, has a different overtone structure and is for that reason detected an octave too low. A telltale indicator of such an error is often the presence of a steep notch in the path traced by the melody. Melodyne essential user manual 47 Checking and editing the note detection To correct this error of interpretation, one way is to double-click the potential note at the correct pitch. As a result, the potential note will be activated and the falsely assigned note deactivated. Alternatively you can simply drag the falsely assigned note towards the correct pitch (in this case, obviously, upwards); it is not necessary to drop the note exactly on the correct pitch. The dragging triggers a new detection for the note, with the guideline: `Look for the correct pitch higher up'. [. . . ] Suppose you are editing a guitar track recorded in time with a playback running at 120 BPM and the player has introduced slight Melodyne essential user manual 93 Special functions of Melodyne essential Stand-Alone tempo variations to his or her performance. When you now open the recording in Melodyne essential Stand-Alone, you will see that these tempo variations have been detected and are preserved in the playback. If you watch the Tempo display during playback, you will notice it constantly changing, with the values hovering around 120. Now, however, the tail is wagging the dog. [. . . ]