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Melodyne 5

Melodyne is the king of pitch correction. It can be musically transparent when required but also excels in sound design and manipulation thanks to its powerful Direct Note Access technology, which allows you to alter notes within chord in audio files. Since the introduction of this groundbreaking technology in 2009, each Melodyne update has ushered in even more impressive tools for audio manipulation and correction.

The most significant updated feature in the new Melodyne 5 is the Melodic algorithm, with sibilance detection and improved pitch identification to make corrected notes sound more in tune. There’s also a new fade tool that can be used on individual notes within chords, a new levelling macro, chord recognition, and a pitched-percussion algorithm.

Sibilance detection is the headline here. In previous versions of Melodyne, the software

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