Installation and activation
From this tour, you will learn all you need to know about installing and activating Melodyne. We begin with the basic procedure and the most important terms before outlining further options and details. From the separate tour “Updates and upgrades”, you can learn how updates and upgrades work and what you need to bear in mind when considering them.
Procedure and terminology
Serial number and Melodyne license: Your serial number is a multi-character string that corresponds to your Melodyne license. If you make the purchase in our web shop, we give you your serial number; if you buy it from a dealer, you will get it from them. If you obtain Melodyne essential as part of a bundle, whoever supplied the bundle will provide the serial number as well.
Registration and user account: Your user account is created when you first register a Melodyne license. To do this, simply enter the serial number. When you make the purchase from our web shop, that is part of the procedure. You can then register any further Melodyne licenses via your user account. From your user account, you can manage your Melodyne licenses, choose your newsletter options and download installation programs.
Installation program: When you download the installation program (whether for macOS or Windows) from your user account, it installs the latest versions of the stand-alone implementation of Melodyne as well as of all the various plug-ins.
Activation: In order to run Melodyne on a particular computer, the computer must first be activated for Melodyne. In the course of this process, Melodyne checks the validity of your license data with our server, so an Internet connection is required. You will be prompted to activate Melodyne the first time you launch the program; this only takes a few clicks and you will need your serial number. Please note: Unlike the deactivation process (see below), you can only activate a computer from the computer itself, not from your user account.
Licence, number of activations and workstations: The standard Melodyne license allows you to use Melodyne on one workstation only at a time. However, the license does allow you two activations, the second being an emergency one you can use to activate a substitute computer quickly and easily if, for example, your primary computer breaks down in the middle of a production.
If you wish to use Melodyne simultaneously on two or more workstations, you can purchase further activations, converting your standard license into a team license. If you perform an update or upgrade of your team license for which a charge is made, up to four workstations are included for the same price as a single workstation update or upgrade. For five workstations or more, special purchase discounts and update/upgrade conditions apply. You can find out more about these in our web shop.
What files are installed and where
The installation program you download from your user account installs the stand-alone implementation of Melodyne as well as all the various plug-ins. In the process, the following files are placed in the following locations:
Windows 10
VST 3: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Celemony\Melodyne.vst3
AAX: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Avid\Audio\Plug-ins\Melodyne.aaxplugin
Melodyne stand-alone: C:\Program Files\Celemony\Melodyne 5\Melodyne.exe
The basic workflow –
Licence options: Deactivate
Any computer that has been activated to run Melodyne can be deactivated. The activation will then be credited to your user account, so that it can be transferred later to a different computer.
Mit Melodyne 5 assistant gErfahren Sie hier schnell und kompakt, wie Sie Melodyne 5 assistant in Betrieb nehmen.
To deactivate a computer: Log in to your user account via our website or by choosing “License” from Melodyne’s Help menu. If you log in via our website, you must click the “License options” button to get to the page with the “Deactivate” option. If you choose “License” from Melodyne’s Help menu, it will take you to this page directly.
Algorithmus prüfen
License options: iLok
. Bei perkussivem Material liegen alle Blobs auf einer Linie. Bei melodischem Material dagegen repräsentiert die vertikale Position der Blobs die Tonhöhe der Noten.iLok is a service provided by Pace that we offer as an optional supplement to our computer-based activation system (except in the case of essential, the smallest edition of Melodyne).
The iLok USB copy-protection dongle is popular because it can store many licenses and be used on different computers. So it allows you to take your Melodyne activation “on the road”
Sollte Ihr Audiomaterial unpassend dargestellt werden, können Sie den gewünschten Algorithmus im gleichnamigen Melodyne-Menü von Hand auswählen. Achtung, bei einem Algorithmuswechsel gehen Ihre bereits vorgenommenen Bearbeitungen verloren! Darum sollten Sie immer zunächst Darstellung und Algorithmus kontrollieren, bevor Sie mit dem Bearbeiten beginnen.
In Melodyne assistant werden Sie oft das Hauptwerkzeug benutzen, das sowohl zum Bearbeiten der Tonhöhe als auch der Position und Dauer von Noten dient und zudem zum Trennen von Noten genutzt werden kann. Die weiteren Werkzeuge bearbeiten Vibrato, Lautstärke, Formanten, das Timing innerhalb der Noten und einiges mehr.
