Melodyne expert tips

Rich Crescenti is a freelance engineer who works as a Melodyne specialist for our American distributors, writes pro audio articles, interviews and reviews, and conducts numerous courses and seminars, having clocked up over 10,000 hours of classroom instruction time.

Sensho is an audio engineer, music producer and Melodyne specialist that built his career working in recording studios all over Los Angeles. In his work he explores and shares innovative ways for modern production processes.

Look over the shoulders of our experts in the following videos and watch them at work. Benefit from their experience, and draw fresh inspiration. They are working in each case with Melodyne 5 studio. Smaller editions may differ.

Lead vocals

  • Vocal editing with Melodyne assistant. Part 1: First moves – Tuning and timing with professional tools
  • Vocal editing with Melodyne assistant. Part 2: Further optimizations – What makes for a first class vocal performance
  • Fast and easy editing – The clicks that count for musical pitch correction
  • Natural transitions – Note transitions are a powerful means of optimizing a performance
  • Quick and easy vocal tuning – How to improve the intonation of your vocals with the Pitch Macro
  • Advanced de-essing – Professional advice for performing even the most demanding de-essing tasks
  • Adding excitement to vocals – Crafty vocal enhancement through parallel editing
  • Distorted vocals – Tips and tricks for editing vocals with a lot of grit or screaming
  • Sibilants and de-essing – More precise and better targeted than any de-esser

Background vocals

  • Creating vocal doubles from outtakes – Double-track your lead vocals using outtakes – despite tempo variations
  • Tightening up vocal doubles – Strategies and workflows for perfect timing when double-tracking
  • Creating realistic harmonies – How to construct convincing backing vocals swiftly
  • Creating vocal doubles from outtakes – Double-track your lead vocals using outtakes – despite tempo variations
  • Background vocals: phrasing and timing – Achieving balanced interaction with the lead vocals
  • Vocal production in Melodyne studio – How to work swiftly and intuitively with multiple vocal tracks

Guitar and bass

  • Making sounds sit in the mix, Part 1 – Melodyne’s toolbox as an insider tip when mixing
  • Making sounds sit in the mix, Part 2 – Harnessing the power of the Sound Editor when mixing
  • Shaping bass sounds – use the Formant tool and the Sound Editor to shape the sound to your liking
  • Editing the bass – How to make the bass a solid foundation in the mix
  • Guitars: Getting the sound right – Using the Sound Editor to adjust the timbre in unique ways
  • Guitars: Proper note assignment – Correctly displaying, replacing and copying notes
  • Guitars: Timing tips and tricks – Optimizing the timing of chords and notes
  • Guitars: Getting the sound right – Using the Sound Editor to adjust the timbre in unique ways
  • Creative guitar editing – Obtain amazing guitar sounds using the Formant tool and Sound Editor
  • More guitar editing tricks – Using DNA in Melodyne editor and studio for creative guitar editing

Other instruments and mixing

  • Tighter performances – How to tighten up the instruments on a multi-track recording
  • Multitrack drum quantization – A neat workflow for perfect drums with Melodyne studio and ARA
  • Making sounds sit in the mix, Part 3 – Creating space in the mix with the Sound Editor’s harmonics controls
  • Smooth leveling for better mixing – The Leveling Macro for better-sounding performances
  • Drums: Shaping sounds with the Fade Tool – Smooth or crisp? Nuanced dynamics for your drums
  • Piano: Controlling dynamics with the Leveling Macro – Melodyne as the perfect complement to compressors, gates etc.
  • Mixing tricks for sibilants – Putting the pitched components and the sibilants on separate tracks with separate effects

Workflows and techniques

  • The biggest Melodyne time savers – These functions can save you a great deal of time when working
  • Learning new chords with Melodyne – How Melodyne editor or studio can help you identify chords
  • Melodyne assistant – an overview of its tools and features.