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Smooth Germanium Overdrive with a Unique Tone Tilt Control

The Gorilla Drive delivers a silky-smooth preamp emulation with rich Germanium overdrive. Its Tone Tilt EQ seamlessly shifts between deep, warm low-end and crisp, high frequencies—giving you complete tonal control.

Features

• Auto Gain (You're welcome Wytse/White Sea Studio)
• Input Drive & Output Trim
• Blend Knob for custom saturation
• Unique Tone Tilt EQ

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The MIDI plugin for expert harmony by ear and feel

ChordAXE Lite is a real-time controller for playing chord changes through virtual instruments with fluid voicing and rhythmic expression. Use it as an instrument for chords-first songwriting and beatmaking to create beyond the constraints of fretboards, keyboards, and theory.

Get that instant feeling when the right chords make your instrument come alive. Music theory optional.

THE CREATIVE FLOW FOR SONGWRITING AND BEATMAKING

Explore the universe of harmony: Navigate musical vibes and key centers while browsing presets of iconic changes. Create freely with chords as harmonic building blocks, instead of working note by note. Visualize progression presets on the circle of fifths mesh to absorb their harmonic DNA into your musical vocabulary. Get the full version to trace your own progressions on the mesh, and evolve your own harmonic style.

Voice chord changes for different instruments and keys: Contour chords and harmony to bring out the personality of any virtual instrument. Click voicing controls on the fly to play up and down your instrument's pitch range. Play your changes in different keys instantly without pitch shifting so the notes stay in your instrument's sweet spot. Get the full version to add spread controls for opening or tightening note spacings, and inversion control to voice different harmony part lines flowing from chord to chord.

Express chord changes with rhythmic feel: Drive your chord changes from a keyboard, DAW piano roll, and rhythmic pattern presets—all merging in real time. Phrase harmony part lines through changes with dynamic control of every chord note. Play solid or broken chords to create song structures, beat foundations, melodies, riffs, and basslines that elevate your signature sound.

Get creative in real time: Summon chord changes, voicings, and rhythmic patterns in a continuous songwriting and beatmaking flow to build emotional worlds with your favorite instruments.

Features

• Play virtual instruments with expert harmonic control over chord choices and voicings, key centers, and rhythmic expression of chord notes
• Navigate all chords and key centers in their natural harmonic order with the playable Mesh based on the circle of fifths
• Flip between 2 views: MIDI to control expression and Mesh to see the harmony
• Drive chord changes in real time with a keyboard, DAW piano roll, and rhythmic pattern presets—all merging to phrase your chord notes
• Borrow from 80 iconic progression presets to rework their structures in different keys with alternative voicings and rhythmic flows
• Explore traced progression presets in the Mesh view to decode and master their harmonic DNA (get the full version to trace your own changes)
• Dial in chord voicings by ear to sound out all possible key centers and pitch registers (get the full version to add chord-inversion and note-spread controls)
• Play outside the movable MIDI control zone to mix chord notes with extra notes on the fly—melodies, riffs, basslines, passing notes, and pedal tones
• View your chord notes and extra notes on the keyboard display as they play
• Play chord changes with voicings outside your usual muscle-memory choices  
• Execute seamless legato chord-to-chord transitions beyond human hand speed
• Craft well-voiced chord changes in 3-, 4-, or 5-part harmony, plus an optional sub-octave part
• Carry chord notes and rhythmic patterns across changes so your harmony lines flow musically through transitions—without stopping and starting
• Build your harmony chops while exploring musically rich combinations of chords, keys, and voicings by ear in real time

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The Easy Way to Begin

With Melodyne 5 Essential, you edit your vocals using the basic functions for pitch and timing. Musical, quick and easy. And if you need more, you can always upgrade, paying only the difference.

Features

• Grammy Award-winning technology.
• Exceptionally musical and intuitive note-based way of working.
• The algorithms Melodic (with Sibilant Detection), Percussive and Universal.
• Melodyne's Main Tool for editing pitch and timing.
• The Chord Track and Chord Grid with automatic chord recognition.
• Full compatibility: VST 3, AU, AAX, stand-alone.
• Integration via ARA Audio Random Access (depending on the DAW).

Important Note: Not all functions listed on this page are available in Melodyne Essential. Please see the table below for a full comparison.

Melodyne Studio, Editor, Assistant & Essential Compared

New in Melodyne 5

New technologies, for better results in less time. Thanks to the fundamentally improved “Melodic” algorithm, Melodyne makes your vocal editing even better than before. With perfect, natural corrections at the press of a key. Thanks to the Chord Track, you can adapt notes with lightning speed to suit the song – chord recognition included.

All this is new:

• The ability to edit pitched and noise-like components separately with the “Melodic” algorithm.
• More musical analysis of pitch deviations.
• The Chord Track and Chord Grid for pitch editing, chord recognition.
• An additional algorithm (“Percussive Pitched”) plus other algorithm improvements.
• Search functions for keyboard shortcuts, saving of shortcut sets.

Vocals, Now Even Better

Melodyne heightens its core competence. The “Melodic” algorithm used for vocals can now distinguish the unpitched, noise-like components of a note – i.e. voiceless consonants (such as sibilants like “s”) and breath sounds – from its pitched components. Even when they coincide. And although all pitch and timing changes are implemented in a tried-and-tested manner as far as the pitched components are concerned, different rules that emulate accurately the natural behavior of the human voice govern the handling of sibilants. So now when you are working with Melodyne, you obtain the highest possible sound quality and most natural-sounding results automatically.

 

Modelled on Human Hearing

Why do some notes sound out of tune and not others? Fluctuations in pitch contribute to the quality of a vocal performance because it is through them that passion and emotional complexity find expression. They give it, in other words, its human dimension. But for their contribution to be a positive one, the nature, scope and precise timing of such fluctuations is of crucial importance.

A note doesn’t necessarily sound sharp or flat just because it isn’t “spot on” mathematically. Just particular, often very brief segments of the note annoy us. Sometimes at the beginning, sometimes at the end, sometimes somewhere in between. It is these crucial segments that have to be perfectly in tune; if they are, the note will sound right to us. The presence of any fluctuations before or after to such segments doesn’t trouble us – to the contrary, Celemony feel they add life to the performance and sound natural.

Melodyne now identifies these problem areas precisely, and the offset shown in the Note Inspector is calculated from the pitch of each note at the crucial moment only – not its entire lifetime. As a result, double-clicking (to set a note’s offset to zero) now yields precisely the right musical result. Also the macro profits from this new, even more musical approach: Each individual note is pitched to perfection. Yet everything still sounds natural and alive

The Chord Track and Chord Grid

Work better with chords, adapt notes quickly. Melodyne 5 offers you a chord track that is linked to the Pitch Grid in the Note Editor. This makes working with chords far more enjoyable and harmonies more transparent. Because you can see at any time which pitches are compatible with the current chord and can adapt the notes accordingly with lightning speed. This is helpful when you’re altering chords, and if you want to match any sample harmonically to your music, it works like a dream.

Autopilot for chords. Melodyne’s chord recognition technology is so advanced, it can consider tracks apart or together – even the entire mix – and identify the chords formed when their notes are combined. It analyses your recordings fast and reliably and fills in the Chord Track automatically. This makes working with chords even easier.

 

Further Algorithm Improvements

• “Percussive Pitched” This new algorithm was developed especially for instruments like tabla, berimbau or 808-kick, the notes of which – though percussive in character – still have a recognizable pitch.
• “Robust Pitch Curve” With this new option, you can obtain better sound quality when editing certain signals, such as those with a great deal of reverberation. When it is activated, the monophonic algorithms employ a pitch curve that has been slightly smoothed out.
• “Complex” This algorithm playback type has been improved and can now be used just as flexibly as the playback type “Tonal” concerning the formants.

Other improvements

• Better keyboard shortcuts. New search function for keyboard shortcuts, the saving of personalized shortcut sets has been improved.
• No more “.mdd” files. Melodyne’s detection data, which was previously saved to separate “.mdd” files, is now stored in the audio files themselves, making file directories clearer and the sharing of projects easier.

What Is Melodyne?

Note-based Audio Editing

Melodyne grants you unrivalled access to all the musical details in your recordings and samples – note by note. This is made possible by a sophisticated analysis that delves deeply into your recordings and samples, and recognizes and understands the musical relationships within them: the individual notes and their characteristics, the scales, keys and chords, the timing, the tempo, the tone colour. And with Melodyne, you can edit all these things intuitively. With vocals, but every type of instrument as well – including polyphonic ones, such as the piano and guitar.

Notes and Tools

In Melodyne, notes are represented by blobs. By manipulating these with Melodyne’s powerful tools, you can edit (among other things) the pitch, vibrato, volume, sibilants, length, timing and formants of each note. In this way, you can enhance in a musical yet straightforward manner the intonation, phrasing, dynamics and timbre of a performance. While ingenious algorithms ensure your editing’s almost always inaudible, sensitive, natural.

• 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.
• Tools and macros. Edit intonation, melody and harmony, but also rhythms and grooves, dynamics, formants and much more. Using intelligent macros or – with great precision – by hand.
• All that counts musically. Melodyne also recognizes chords, keys, tunings and tempos. And the editing functions for these important musical parameters are just as comprehensive as for the notes themselves.
• Compatibility and user-friendliness. Melodyne can be operated via ARA or as a plug-in directly in a DAW. Or even as a stand-alone program. Its flexible interface adapts perfectly to the requirements of each situation.

Important Note: The new Fade tool and Sibilant tool are NOT included in Melodyne Essential.

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