Melodyne Studio Essential Training

Course details

In this course, author Skye Lewin explores how to harness the power of the leading pitch correction software, Melodyne. The course begins with the installation and setup process, and includes recommendations on choosing the best workflow and preference settings for your project. The lessons also demonstrate how to get audio into Melodyne, whether importing existing files or recording new tracks; how to arrange a new session; and how to edit the audio and export the corrected tracks.

Learning objectives
Understanding the Melodyne variants: Editor, Assistant, Essential, and Studio
Creating, moving, and deleting tracks
Setting the tone scale, meter, and tempo in a session
Working with multiple tracks (in Melodyne Studio)
Working with Direct Note Access to edit polyphonic audio (in Melodyne Editor)
Using the various editing tools in Melodyne
Correcting pitch and time automatically
Adjusting pitch and time manually with the Melodyne tools
Setting hardware, plug-in, and MIDI preferences
Editing audio with MIDI
The Mixer in Melodyne
Using Melodyne plug-in, Melodyne Bridge and ReWire
Exporting with Spot to Pro Tools

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Introduction to Melodyne variants
03 - Installing and authorizing Melodyne
04 - Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

05 - Choosing the best workflow for a project
06 - Creating a new session and exploring essential preferences
07 - Creating, moving, and deleting tracks

2. Setting Up and Working with Sessions

08 - Importing audio for the stand-alone workflow
09 - Identifying elements in the session folder
10 - Exploring the Arrangement and Editor windows
11 - Exploring the Mixer window
12 - Exploring the Transport window
13 - Changing pitches and formants with realtime play offsets
14 - Managing audio files
15 - Exploring Melodyne's menus
16 - Exploring view options
17 - Using markers
18 - Scrolling and zooming
19 - Setting the tone scale, meter, and tempo
20 - Setting the loop session boundary locators
21 - Working with multiple tracks

3. Editing Audio

22 - Setting up a new session and importing audio
23 - A look at note blobs
24 - An overview of Melodyne's tools
25 - Using the Pitch tool and subtools
26 - Using the Edit Formant tool
27 - Using the Amplitude tool
28 - Using the Move Notes tool and Edit Time Handle tool
29 - Using the Note Separation tool and Segment Separation Tool
30 - Using the Main tool
31 - Exploring additional tools in the MDD Editor
32 - Correcting pitch and time automatically
33 - Copying and pasting
34 - Editing pitch
35 - Editing time
36 - Editing an example exercise, part one
37 - Editing an example exercise, part two

4. Exploring the Preferences

38 - Exploring hardware setup, file types, and the Appearance page
39 - Specifiying the defaults for new projects using New Arrangements
40 - Exploring the Plug-ins page
41 - Setting MIDI preferences
42 - Using the Detection settings
43 - Building custom shortcuts
44 - Looking at preferences in the Other page

5. Editing Audio with MIDI

45 - Setting up a MIDI input source
46 - Using a MIDI keyboard to play and edit notes
47 - Exploring the MIDI Out options

6. Melodyne's Mixer

48 - Using the mixer
49 - Using plug-ins and auxes
50 - Using a MIDI controller

7. Melodyne Configurations

51 - Transitioning to Melodyne Editor (aka singletrack)
52 - Exploring how to use Direct Note Access (DNA)
53 - Setting up Melodyne Bridge
54 - Setting up ReWire
55 - Using the Melodyne plug-in
56 - Synchronizing

8. Exporting

57 - Exporting audio when finished
58 - Exporting with Spot to Pro Tools
59 - Printing final audio into your DAW

Conclusion

60 - Exploring additional resources