Melodyne 5 Assistant
Note-based audio editing
Notes and tools
1 Notes instead of waveforms. With Melodyne, you see the notes in your recordings and samples, and can manipulate and modify them at will. Even with polyphonic instruments like the piano and guitar.
Why Melodyne is better
That Melodyne sounds so good and is so simple to use is based on two things. The less important is the technology.
The decisive factor is its understanding of the music.
Melodyne identifies the notes and the relationships between them. It is only as a result of this knowledge that Melodyne’s algorithms are able to “think” and operate in such a musical way. The benefits to you as a musician and producer include the famously superior sound of Melodyne and many other advantages that software lacking this understanding of musical contexts is incapable of offering.
The latest version
With Version 5, Melodyne strengthens its core competence, making its vocal editing functionality even more powerful than before. The most important new features:
- fundamentally improved “Melodic” algorithm
- more musical analysis of pitch deviations
- separate processing of pitched and unpitched (noise) components
- perfect de-esser functionality without side-effects
- Chord Track and chord recognition
- Chord Grid for pitch editing
- Fade Tool and Leveling Macro
- new “Percussive Pitched” algorithm
Melodyne 5 studio
Melodyne 5 essential
Melodyne 5 assistant
Melodyne 5 editor
Natural pitch correction
Three independent tools are offered for pitch correction that allow you to modify the intonation and vibrato of a performance in such a way that its flaws vanish but its vitality, presence and penetration remain intact. This can be done with surgical precision by hand or using the intelligent macro, which, like a trained ear, can distinguish between the kind of deviations and fluctuations in pitch that are unintended and the kind that are the lifeblood of a perfect performance.
You obtain vocal tracks that are as perfect as you could wish, yet sound as though they’d never been touched.
Any instrument, any sample
Melodyne isn’t just designed for vocals. Recordings and samples of every conceivable sound source can benefit from its unique editing capabilities. With Melodyne essential and assistant, you can edit monophonic sources; with Melodyne editor and studio, polyphonic ones like the guitar or piano as well – even each note individually and always with all the typical Melodyne functions.
There’s virtually no recording or sample that can’t be adapted or optimized with Melodyne.
The editions compared
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editor
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studio
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Multi-tracking – view and manage multiple tracks in a single window | X | |||
Multitrack Note Editing – edit the notes of multiple tracks simultaneously | X | |||
Track-transcending macros – apply the macros to multiple tracks simultaneously | X | |||
Quantize to reference track – make one track adopt the timing of another | X | |||
Sound Editor – unique, overtone-based sound design | X | |||
DNA Direct Note Access – algorithms for polyphonic instruments such as piano and guitar | X | X | ||
Editing of individual notes within chords – with all the tools and macros | X | X | ||
Extended tempo functions – map and edit sudden or gradual changes of tempo | X | X | ||
Extended scale functions – create and modify scales; extract scales from audio material | X | X | ||
Audio-to-MIDI – export notes to a MIDI file | X | X | X | |
Inspectors – swift access to all parameters | X | X | X | |
All Melodyne’s tools – for pitch, formants, volume, timing, sibilants | X | X | X | |
Musically weighted pitch analysis – for psycho-acoustically optimal intonation correction | X | X | X | X |
Chord Track and chord recognition – bring notes into line harmonically, extract chords from audio | X | X | X | X |
All the algorithms without DNA – for melodic, percussive and complex material | X | X | X | X |
Edit note assignments – full control over the algorithms | X | X | X | X |
Melodyne’s Main Tool – edit the pitch, position and duration of notes and note separations | X | X | X | X |
Macros for pitch, timing, leveling – correct and optimize notes by means of intelligent automation | X | X | X | X |
Stand-alone or in your DAW – integrated via ARA , AU, VST 3 or AAX | X | X | X | X |
Intercompatibility – open and edit projects created by other editions | X | X | X | X |
Compatibility with Melodyne 4 – open and edit Melodyne 4 projects | X | X | X | X |
System requirements
For Melodyne 5 essential, assistant, editor and studio
macOS | Intel Dual Core processor (Quad Core or better recommended), 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended), macOS 10.12 (64-bit) or higher. Melodyne 5.1 is compatible with macOS 12 Monterey on Intel-based Macs as well as on Apple silicon-based Macs under “Rosetta”. |
Windows | Intel or AMD Dual Core processor (Quad Core or better recommended), 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended), Windows 10 (64-bit), Windows 11, ASIO-compatible audio hardware. |
Activation | Computer-based or iLok USB dongle (2nd or 3rd generation), Melodyne essential only computer-based. Internet access is required for the first activation. |
Interfaces | Plug-in operation via VST3, AU or AAX. ARA integration with compatible DAWs, as set out in the section on DAW compatibility. |
The system requirements listed above apply when Melodyne is running as a stand-alone program. When it is running as a plug-in, however, the system requirements of the DAW must also be met. You will find further information regarding DAW compatibility in the following frame.