It's a Hit... 
by Steve F from Lubbock, TX, February 2007
Music Background:  Hobbyist/Musician

I bought Melodyne Cre8 to use on a specific project featuring a songwriter who is a little pitch challenged. For that purpose it has been outstanding, very easy to use - with this particular singer the ability to ease off the vibrato in places is especially welcome. I've also used it to generate the occasional harmony part, which works well enough. When used as a tuning tool, it is extremely transparent, I can't hear any artifacts at all, just a more in-tune vocal.

The other reason I bought it is it's advertised ability to quantize audio. In this respect it delivers as well; so far I've used it to salvage several otherwise unusable drum tracks.

Another interesting feature is audio-to-midi. I've had mixed results with that. When I used it on a kick drum track, for example, it generated midi notes of a bunch of different pitches, and I had to manually put them all on the same note. There may be a way to keep this from happening, possibly by filtering the source audio, but it's kind of irritating.

My only real beef with the software is I can't get the plug-in to work in Pro Tools reliably. It skips notes, etc. For this reason I use it stand-alone pretty much exclusively.

  Highly Recommended 
by David Townsend from Everett, Washington, USA, January 2007
Music Background:  Musician for 40 years, but now just a serious hobbyist

I use SONAR, which comes with a respectable pitch correction feature, so I was reluctant to buy something that duplicated functionality I already had. But so many folks on the SONAR forum raved about Melodyne I took a chance on it.

And man, am I glad I did. This package is truly awesome. Not only is pitch correction easy, but the greatest advantage is the ease with which I can fix phrasing/timing issues with harmonies and double-tracked vocals. My singing needs all the help it can get, and Melodyne makes even my unsteady voice sound good.

One caveat, though: it's not exactly plug and play. Expect a learning curve and read the manual before you get frustrated.

  Melodyne Cre 8 
by Jeff Duffield from Bear, DE, July 2006
Music Background:  Pro musician, recording engineer/producer

Melodyne was recommended to me by several different audio pros, including the Pros at Sweetwater.

Melodyne has lived up to the promise! I was interested in several features, pitch correction, audio quantizing, audio to MIDI.

So far, so great! Pitch correction is great, and easy to use. The audio to MIDI function was easy, and very accurate. Haven't used the audio quantize feature yet, but that's coming soon.

And one feature I didn't count on was the amplitude edit feature. Very cool and easy to use!

Anyone who has tracks to edit, clean up, improve, whatever, Melodyne id the tool!

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