Melodyne 2 was available in several different editions. This was the release that introduced Celemony’s landmark DNA technology, and it’s a mark of how advanced their algorithms are that, more than six years later, Melodyne is still almost unique in its ability to manipulate individual notes within a polyphonic audio recording after the fact. The first question on some readers’ lips is likely to be “What happened to Melodyne 3?” The last full release of Melodyne to be reviewed in SOS was Melodyne 2, as long ago as December 2009. Without wishing to give too much away now, I think it’s fair to say that this is not your average software update. A couple of months down the line, it’s ready to be unleashed on the world, and if anything, I’m even more impressed. Just occasionally, however, a product comes along that is genuinely revolutionary, and when Celemony first showed me a beta of Melodyne 4, it was immediately obvious that they had come up with something a bit special.
Many of the non–disclosure agreements we sign are about things so dull that no–one would have bothered to disclose them anyway. Now, revolutionary features in version 4 promise to make tempo and timbre equally fluid.Ĭan you keep a secret? In the world of music technology, it’s usually not all that difficult. Musical pitch has always been putty in the hands of Melodyne.
