Celemony Melodyne 5 Assistant Pitch And Timing Correction Plug-In (Download)

The Complete Melodyne Toolkit For Professional Vocal Editing — Celemony Melodyne 5 Assistant

Celemony Melodyne 5 Assistant is a pitch and timing correction plug-in built around Melodyne's note-based editing approach, which identifies individual notes within an audio recording and gives direct access to every musical parameter of each one. Assistant is focused on monophonic material — vocals, and any single-line instrument such as trumpet, saxophone, or clarinet — and includes the full Melodyne toolkit for that purpose: four intonation tools governing pitch centre, vibrato, and pitch drift within and between notes; four timing and phrasing tools controlling note position, duration, attack speed, and warping; and four dynamics tools covering amplitude, amplitude transitions, fades, and precise control over sibilants and breath noise.

Different detection algorithms can be selected depending on the source material — melodic with sibilant recognition, percussive, universal, or polyphonic (for chord and scale detection purposes) — ensuring accurate note identification across a wide range of vocal and instrumental recordings. Macros for pitch correction, timing correction, and level balancing speed up common editing tasks. Comprehensive tools for working with scales and tunings, plus a Chord Track with automatic chord detection, round out the editing environment. Audio-to-MIDI conversion allows any monophonic recording to be converted directly into MIDI data, useful for sketching melodic ideas, triggering virtual instruments from a vocal performance, or transcribing a recorded idea.

Sibilant Detection And Dynamics

One of Melodyne's most distinctive tools is its sibilant detection, which identifies and isolates the non-tonal "S," "T," and breath sounds within a vocal recording separately from the pitched content. This allows sibilance to be controlled with a precision that a conventional frequency-based de-esser cannot match, since Melodyne is working with the actual identified sound rather than guessing at a frequency range. The same separation underlies Melodyne's dynamics tools, giving control over amplitude and fades that responds to the musical structure of the recording rather than applying a blanket gain change.

Note-Based, Musical Operation

Every edit in Melodyne is made directly on the identified notes rather than through abstract parameters, which is the core of what makes the software musical and intuitive to use. Melodyne's analysis of a recording is usually highly accurate, but where the material is ambiguous, note assignments can be manually corrected until they match the intended musical interpretation exactly, before any editing takes place.

KEY FEATURES: Celemony Melodyne 5 Assistant Pitch And Timing Correction Plug-In (Download)

• Complete Melodyne Toolkit For Monophonic Editing: Vocals and single-line instruments.
• 4 Intonation Tools: Pitch centre, vibrato, pitch drift, note-to-note transitions.
• 4 Timing And Phrasing Tools: Position, duration, attack speed, warping.
• 4 Dynamics Tools: Amplitude, amplitude transitions, fades, sibilant/breath control.
• Sibilant Detection: More precise and musical than a conventional de-esser.
• Audio-To-MIDI Conversion: Turn vocal or instrumental recordings into MIDI data.
• Multiple Detection Algorithms: Melodic with sibilant recognition, percussive, universal, polyphonic.
• Pitch And Timing Correction Macros: Fast, one-click correction for common tasks.
• Levelling Macro: Automatic amplitude balancing across a phrase.
• Chord Track With Automatic Chord Detection.
• Scale And Tuning Tools.
• ARA2 Integration: Fluid workflow in supported DAWs; also usable as standard plug-in or standalone.