Split Notes: You can separate note blobs that Melodyne may not have detected, as well as cutting out sounds like breathes, sibilances and plosives. Move Notes: You can use this tool to adjust the beginning and/or ending of a note blob.Įdit Time Handle: You can use this tool to edit the attack of each note blob to be faster or slower depending on the desired effect. Using the Formant Tool screenshot Other ToolsĪmplitude: This tool essentially allows you to increase or decrease the amplitude of the note blob and even mute the blob entirely. This tool formants the vocal to make the singer sound younger or older, with a wider throat or narrower, or bigger or smaller diaphragm.
To fix this and make the changes sound natural and real the Formant tool can be used. When changing the pitch of a vocal, sometimes it can appear that your changes have made the vocal sound off or strange. This means that if only the start or finish of a note is out of tune, you can pitch drift this specific part into tune. The pitch drift tool allows you to change the tonal bend of the note blob in specific areas of the blob. If it needs to be a more flat note, or you need to exaggerate the bends in the note, the modulation tool can do this. The pitch modulation tool allows you to edit the tonal bend in a note blob. Using the pitch tool screenshot Pitch Modulation & Drift This can allow the editor to correct pitch in vocals mainly, but also in instruments. You can change the pitch to the nearest centre of a tone, or up or down semi-tones or cents. The Pitch tool is used essentially to change the pitch of a note blob. When using Melodyne, editing the note blobs will be done using the various tools available. ‘Note Blobs’ is the term given to the visual representation of a note in the song. I used tutorial Melodyne Studio Essentials Training video to refresh my memory from the Melodyne class, and also learn some more skills to greater depth. I started by setting up a session with a clean vocal track from an online asset folder. While experimenting with the programs, I was able to understand the set up of a Melodyne session, its tools, functions and purposes for a mixing process. Depending on the form of audio being used, you can edit monophonic and polyphonic tracks using different tools such us Melodyne Studio and Melodyne Editor. Melodyne is a program that allows the user to edit the pitch and/or timing of a recording.