User manual CELEMONY SOFTWARE MELODYNE ASSISTANT 1.2 REV 2

[. . . ] assistant user manual Melodyne assistant user manual rev 2 This documentation refers to Melodyne assistant 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. [. . . ] 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'. When you then release the note, it jumps to the next most plausible higher pitch, which in all likelihood will be the correct one. 56 Melodyne assistant user manual Checking and editing the note detection The Monitoring Synthesizer A considerable aid when checking and correcting note assignments is accessed by clicking the Sine Wave icon, which you will see beneath the Toolbar. This is both a switch and a rotary control. When activated, this causes the sound of a synthesizer to replace the normal sound of each blob. To turn the knob, click on it and drag the mouse pointer to the right or left, thereby increasing or decreasing, respectively, the volume of the synthesized sound. But why should you do this?The Monitoring Synthesizer allows you to hear the notes that you can see and that are currently active, making it easy to check whether these notes correspond to those that can be heard in the material. Think of the solid blobs as representing a transcription of the music in the audio file. The synthesizer allows you now to check this transcription with a MIDI tone generator and therefore easily determine whether all the notes are at the right octave. You can carry on reassigning notes as described above and arrive more swiftly at the ideal: where the solid blobs displayed represent all, and only, the notes actually played. Melodyne assistant user manual 57 Checking and editing the note detection Note separation When you place the mouse pointer somewhat above a blob, the arrow turns into the Note Separation tool. With this, as with the normal Note Separation tool, you can separate notes or remove separations as with the normal Note Separation tool. Leaving Note Assignment mode To quit Note Assignment Mode simply select one of the other tools. As you leave the mode, based on your changes, the detection will perform a fresh analysis, which could take a moment. Related topics Checking and editing the note detection within rhythmic material 58 Melodyne assistant user manual Checking and editing the note detection Checking and editing the note detection within rhythmic material In this tour, you will learn how to check the note detection in rhythmic material and reassign notes. Since in the case of rhythmic material there are no tonal assignments to be performed, it is only the checking and correction of note separations that need concern us. To enter Note Assignment mode, select the Note Assignment tool SUMMARy Editing the detection in the case of percussive material involves only the insertion or removal of note separations To display these, check the item `Show Note Separations' in the View menu Double-click the upper part of a blob to insert a note separation Double-click an existing note separation to remove it To exit Note Assignment mode, simply select a different tool from the Toolbar 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 be undone. In Note Assignment mode, no audible editing of the notes takes place. In this mode, you check through and alter Melodyne assistant's interpretation of the notes in the audio material. In the case of rhythmic material, it is simply a case here of remedying any excess or shortage of note separations in the detected material. The correctness of the note separations is a precondition for subsequent editing of the material ­ including, for example, any time-stretching ­ achieving results of the highest possible quality. Melodyne assistant user manual 59 Checking and editing the note detection First select `Show Note Separations' from the View menu. The simplest way now of checking the note separations is to select the first of the blobs and step forwards and backwards through them using the [Arrow] keys. If a blob contains two drum strokes, double-click in the upper part of the blob (at the point at which you wish the second stroke to begin) in order to introduce a note separation. If, on the other hand, a single stroke has wrongly been split by a note separation, double-click the dividing line to remove the note separation. 60 Melodyne assistant user manual Checking and editing the note detection If ever a note separation is wrongly situated, you can simply drag it horizontally to the correct place. Leaving Note Assignment mode To quit Note Assignment Mode simply select one of the other tools. As you leave the mode, based on your changes, the detection will perform a fresh analysis, which could take a moment. Related topics Checking and editing the note detection within melodic material Melodyne assistant user manual 61 Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid Time Grid selection In this tour, you will learn how to set the time grid in the editing area and work with it. The grid serves to provide a clearer overview of the audio data by displaying in the editing background a meshwork of either seconds or beats. [. . . ] There is one case in particular where it might be desirable to define a fixed tempo. Suppose you are editing a guitar track recorded in time with a playback running at 120 BPM and the player has introduced slight 126 Melodyne assistant user manual Special functions of Melodyne assistant Stand-Alone tempo variations to his or her performance. When you now open the recording in Melodyne assistant 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. [. . . ]