Melodyne Distortion?

Hi Brent,I recently demoed the plugin in question,and found it quite good.It did not come with the distortion you mention.

Maybe you could solo the vocal bit and check it,before it goes to Melodyne?Or maybe Melodyne is playing back through a ReWire channel that is turned up too loud?

Cheers

Hey noeq,

As I said in the above post, no distortion
pre-Melodyne transfer. It's only showing up once it
gets into Melodyne and even then it is only in one
spot. I probably don't need to obsess about it too
much because once the part is mixed with the rest of
the harmonies you won't be able to notice it, but it
still bothers me.

As for ReWire, none of that going on, either.

Hi,

Maybe the plugin AU version is buggy.I only tried the ReWire version.
If the distortion bothers you,then fix it,don't get complacent,or other things later on will get the same treatment.You do want the best possible mix,right??

Maybe you can do a slightly lower gain version of the bit that is distorting.Make a copy of the offending part,and lower the gain,then tune that.You should get good results then.That is what I would do.

Cheers

Hi,

I have Melodyne Create8 and use the stand alone and the Bridge. I've had it for maybe four months or so, and use it with Logic Pro, Mac OSX in current versions. I record clarinet (therefor relatively pure sounds compared to vocal), single tracks in Logic and then export one way or the other to Melodyne for pitch adjustment or whatever. It seems that periodically there will be some distortion in Melodyne's 'detected' version - not in the original file, not in the 'plain' version. The distortion takes the form of a brief series of clicks - in any case alterations in the wave form in Logic's sample editor. I've been to the Melodyne forums on this. The distortion mainly occurs when there is an abrupt leap in pitch without any gliss effect (something you do fairly frequently on the clarinet). I guess the detect algorhythm can't quite keep up. My work around has been to transfer back to Logic and cut the relatively short distorted segments out in the Sample Editor. Attempts to redraw with the pencil tool failed utterly. - I'd appreciate any help on this, too, if there's a solution,

Ray

I dont use melodyne, so please dont shout at me! but is there not a speed dial like there is on Auto-Tune, that could be adjusted to give a faster response?

Well I can confirm your observations Ray. I believe this to be an very rare
problem with the way Melodyne detection works with the audio. I have only noticed it on a instrument track where as you say the pitch can change very fast with out gliss. I have create8 and use the stand alone. I have had luck copy and pasting the same note inside of Melodyne but fortunately it is a very rare I have had this happen. In a year it has happened maybe 3 times.

Hi,

Thanks for your comments, Phillip. It's always nice to know that a problem isn't just in my head or my equipment. I'll try the copy-paste suggestion. The issue is fairly frequent for me, again, maybe because of the nature of my instrument.
Thanks for your suggestion, Joe. No speed dial in Melodyne.

Ray

dual 1.8 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I find that sometimes melodyne will barf out, and I have heard the distorted sound, it's this slight digital distortion which is real weird. Trick for me was to simple remove the vocal notes from melodyne and re transfer the section using the plugin. Seemed to work OK for me here. Doesn't every time though. it is indeed annoying. It is very very slight, and like you said only apparent when solo'd.

R

Melodyne 3.2 mentions some improved algorithms and new ones. Here's hoping they caught this problem 🙂 Considering the number of big cheeses that use Melodyne, I'm guessing someone got their attention.

R

Couple of bugs in plugin I've come across include:

1- stops transferring sound if regions overlap, you have to un overlap stuff first
2- it seems to lose the speed at which things play, so some vocals will start singing ahead of the beat. Re transferring section by section solves that.

That said, my main issue with plugin is that if I want to have 2 lead vox tracks to do some parallel compression for example, I can't easily just export the changes and import them. I use Studio for that, and it seems to work better in general... that said, I often I have to bounce the track out to audio anyway if I'm only changing some things about a performance.

R

I've been noticing the same thing. Frustrating.