Presentation
Celemony - Melodyne
Music Production Software
Ray Williams, Music Marketing
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date
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Tuesday, 23 Febuary 2010
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time
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7:00 PM
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where
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Ryerson
University
RCC
204,
Eaton
Theatre, Rogers Communications Building
80 Gould Street,
Toronto,
ON
Corner
of Gould and Church, east of Yonge St (Dundas
Subway)
For parking info and map, goto
www.ryerson.ca/parking/
Pre-Meeting
"Dutch Treat" dinner 5:00
pm at the Pickle
Barrel (corner of Edward and Yonge in the Atrium)
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Ray Williams
of Music Marketing Inc, will present a tutorial on the features and
operation of this software which has become an accepted part of the
recording studio and in post production world.
Melodyne offers a wide range of audio tools to creatively or
correctively adjust facets of your audio, track by track or on your
mix, either manually or by macro including the correction of intonation
and timing errors. It allows the user to edit polyphonic audio
files as if they were notes in a MIDI file — assigning new
pitches to notes, moving them to new positions in the song, and so on.
With the intuitive tools provided, you can fine-tune the most subtle
tonal characteristics: not just the pitch and volume of notes, but
their vibrato and pitch drift, their position and length, their formant
spectrum, the transitions between them and even the speed at which
events unfold within individual notes.
Ray Williams has been working in the music technology field
professionally since 1991 as president and owner of Steinberg
Canada. He has done extensive work in the field of MIDI
technology producing a successful line of sampling CDs, co-inventing
DNA Grooves Technology and most recently developing MusicXPC
computers. Ray is the Director of IMSTA, the International Music
Software Trade Association, which he co-founded in 2002.
He has been a Melodyne evangelist since the company started showing the
program in 2001 and his company, Music Marketing Inc., is the exclusive
North American distributor.
About Melodyne's products
Perfect
Timing
With Melodyne studio, using a macro, you can
progressively iron out timing irregularities or impose the rhythm of one track
upon another. Melodyne moves the notes intelligently, even adjusting their
length that guarantees results of unprecedented musicality. Needless to say,
you can also move notes forwards or backwards in time manually until the timing
is exactly as you wish it.
From
Melody to Rhythm
With Melodyne studio, you can edit very effectively
not only vocals and melodic instruments but also rhythmic material. From a
short, stiff drum loop, for example, you can create a vibrant rhythm track in
next to no time by cutting, copying and pasting beats. Melodyne's parameters
allow you even to effect subtle or even extreme tonal variations. Melodyne
studio gives you a freedom when dealing with rhythms and sounds that will
suggest totally new ideas to you.
Global
Intervention
Not even full mixes dismay Melodyne studio. Stretch
or transpose entire songs without compromising their sound quality. Select
parts of songs or individual beats, and transpose, move or copy them in their
entirety to some other location. Because Melodyne recognizes and separates the
beats in audio material, all such procedures can be accomplished effortlessly
and without little clicks or other blemishes being introduced along the way.
Virtual
Ensembles
In Melodyne studio, you can implement a doubling or
create a second voice with a few mouse clicks. Thanks to the formant parameter,
the transposed voices sound exactly like the original, unless, of course, you
want them to acquire a different character—ideal for creating a natural
sounding choir from a single voice. Or a brass ensemble from a trumpet part. Or
a string quartet from a violin.
Sound
Library Reloaded
With Melodyne studio, much will change. Including
your sound library, which will suddenly be a whole lot bigger. Since you'll be
able to alter at will the tempo, timing and melody of your sampled licks and
phrases, you'll always have suitable samples to hand for your productions. And
as many variations as you wish.
Sound
Design
The unique possibilities of Melodyne studio can be
used not only for unobtrusive correction but also for drastic alteration and
extraordinary effects. With formant shifting, you can color the sound of
individual notes or entire samples subtly or else drastically. You can
time-stretch sounds to such an extent that their tonal development is literally
audible in slow motion. Even with such extreme applications, the starting
transients of the notes remain crisp and the sound soft and round.
Recomposition
With Melodyne, you can effect far-reaching changes
in your audio material in order to create something new. You can copy, for
example, only the pitches from one track to another, so that a percussion
track, say, follows the notes of a vocal part. You can output the detected
notes—including precise data regarding their dynamics and pitch—via MIDI and
use it to control a synthesizer or a sampler. And with that come fascinating
new possibilities for doubling, arranging and sound design.
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