Re: Antares - auto pitch correcting software - notes on Melodyne, usage and link to tuning codes.

>Melodyne does the same but lets you choose your own scales (but
stupidly limits you to
>12 note scales)

>Justin

True, yet having been using Melodyne for the past five years, I find
that the "Choose your scales" capability is unnecessary.
All it is doing is excluding some of the notes in all octaves, and
moving the pitch to the nearest "legal" note.

Anyone with "ears" can immediately "hear" which notes have jumped to
a note position which fails to match the tonality of the piece, and
easily correct it, whilst listening to the track.

Hence I always use Melodyne 3 in the "chromatic mode".

I also question the logic of their, and other traditional and
ambiguous ways of classifying and labeling scales -
but that's another story, see ..........

http://www.lucytune.com/new_to_lt/pitch_05.html

Setting up the microtuning values in the Melodyne interface can be
very confusing, as it is designed at present, for they have attempted
to make it "idiot-proof".
In consequence, unless you enter and check your values with extreme
vigilance,
you can find that the application has suddenly "updated" many of the
numbers that you have recently inserted, and you have to begin all
over again.

The significant limitation, in Melodyne 3 concerned with twelve, is
the fact that you are limited to twelve notes per octave, at any one
time.
I have yet to find a practical way in which they could easily modify
their design to allow more than 12 notes per octave.
So my policy has been to treat the "overflow of notes" (after the
first 12 are covered), as a separate audio file and adjust them with
different appropriate tuning code.
I then merge the audio files. This method enables the use of up to 24
different pitches per octave, and further notes can be retuned by
repeating the procedure.

The perfect solution to this limit of 12 per octave is to allow
different tunings to be assigned for different tracks simultaneously.
I believe that Cubase can now do this, and I have been nagging the
Apple developers to provide a similar capability in future updates of
Logic Pro.
BTW I have also been nagging them for microtuning capability to be
added to Logic Express and Garageband.

You can find free downloads of many useful tuning codes for various
applications (including Logic, Melodyne 2 & 3, Cubase, and Cameleon) at:

http://www.lucytune.com//midi_and_keyboard/pitch_bend.html

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Charles Lucy wrote:

>Setting up the microtuning values in the Melodyne interface can be >very confusing, as it is designed at present, for they have attempted >to make it "idiot-proof".
>

Sounds confusing.

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