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Celemony Software Melodyne 3 coming soon:

Celemony Software has announced Version 3 of Melodyne for Mac and PC. Melodyne3 offers a new algorithm that allows any type of audio material to benefit from Melodyne's unique editing functions; in other words, Melodyne is no longer limited to the editing of melodies but can handle homophonic and polyphonic textures. Melodyne3 also offers fully automatic analysis of the audio material, powerful macros for the correction of intonation and timing errors, and numerous improvements in the user interface. Melodyne3 is not only capable of doing far more than its predecessors; it is also faster and easier to use.

Until now, though, it was only monophonic vocal and instrumental parts
that could benefit from Melodyne's editing algorithms: algorithms
capable of everything from minor corrections of intonation to extreme
pitch shifting and from the subtle modification of grooves to drastic
time stretching. With Version 3, Melodyne is no longer limited to
melodies but offers a unique algorithm that can perform time stretching
on full chords and complex audio signals; so now harmonic material (such
as rhythm guitar or piano parts) - whether homophonic or polyphonic -
can be transposed (without altering the tempo), slowed down or sped up
(without altering the pitch) and even quantized. What's more, all this
can be done in real time.

Melodyne3 employs the same audio analysis engine as Melodyne uno: the
process of note recognition is therefore fully automatic and the results
more reliable and delivered more swiftly than heretofore. That's one way
in which Melodyne3 makes working with audio files easier. Others are the
Correct Pitch and Quantize Time macros, which allow the most common
flaws in vocal and instrumental recordings to be removed with a few
mouse clicks.

Melodyne3 is not just far easier to operate and better attuned to the
working practices of musicians and recording engineers than its
predecessors but also better structured. Context-sensitive combi-tools,
logically arranged menus and intuitive new methods of operating in the
arrange and edit windows streamline the workflow as well as reducing the
time taken to master the program. There are also notable improvements in
the way Melodyne integrates into other sequencing applications and
Melodyne3 can read sound libraries created using Melodyne technology
such as those of Ueberschall's Liquid Instruments, thereby obtaining
access to a supply of licks and phrases.

Melodyne3 is scheduled for release in November 2005.

For more information go to http://www.celemony.com

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