Celemony Software#Melodyne

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Celemony Software GmbH is a German musical software company that specializes in digital audio pitch correction software. It produces Melodyne, a popular audio pitch modification tool similar to Auto-Tune, although the program itself is manual tuning software.{{cite web |url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar07/articles/at5vsmelodyne.htm |title=Auto-Tune vs Melodyne |publisher=Sound on Sound |date=March 2007}}

History

Celemony was founded in October 2000 by Peter Neubäcker, Prof. Dr. Hildegard Sourgens and Carsten Gehle. It is based in Munich, Germany.{{cite web |url=http://www.celemony.com/en/service1/about-celemony/company |title=About |publisher=Celemony |accessdate=2014-07-26}}

In 2009, Melodyne won an MIPA Award for Most innovative product.{{cite web |url=http://www1.mipa-award.de/2009/winner.htm |title=Winners |publisher=MIPA Award |accessdate=2009-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719062443/http://www1.mipa-award.de/2009/winner.htm |archivedate=2011-07-19 }} In 2011, Celemony released Capstan, a stand-alone audio restoration software that eliminates wow and flutter from digital recordings.{{cite web |url=http://www.celemony.com/en/capstan |title=Capstan |publisher=Celemony |accessdate=2012-02-28}}

In October 2011, Celemony and PreSonus introduced Audio Random Access (ARA), an extension for audio plug-in formats like AU and VST that permits to exchange data between them which is supported by several DAWs.{{cite web |url=http://www.kvraudio.com/news/celemony-introduces-ara-audio-random-access---extension-for-plug-in-interfaces-17543 |title=Celemony introduces ARA Audio Random Access |publisher=KVR Audio |accessdate=2012-07-17}}

Celemony received a Special Merit/Technical Grammy Award at the 54th Grammy Awards in February 2012 for "contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field."{{cite web |url=http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/producers-and-engineers/awards |title=Technical GRAMMY Award |publisher=grammy.com |accessdate=January 31, 2012 |archive-date=January 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110112204821/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/producers-and-engineers/awards |url-status=dead }}

Products

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= Melodyne =

Three years before Celemony was founded, Peter Neubäcker was working on a research experiment with sound. This experiment later turned into the Melodyne pitch correction product.

Melodyne has become a tool which is used by a large number of professional record producers worldwide to tune and manipulate audio signals, typically a singer's vocals.

Melodyne also has facilities for time-stretching, rebuilding melodies. It can also be used to aid the creation of backing vocals from an existing lead vocal. The first public viewing of Melodyne was at the Winter NAMM Show in 2001, and it has since won various awards.{{cite web |url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov01/articles/melodyne.asp |title=Melodyne |publisher=Sound on Sound |date=November 2001 |accessdate=2009-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917220807/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov01/articles/melodyne.asp# |archive-date=2011-09-17 |url-status=dead }}

As of May 2020, the current release is Melodyne 5. The most important new features of Version 5 relate to the correction of intonation on vocal tracks. The algorithm now detects the presence and extent of the unpitched (noise-like) components of the vocal sound as well as breaths, which it then processes separately from the pitched components. The volume balance between the pitched and unpitched components can be adjusted. New possibilities for dynamic contouring are afforded by the Fade Tool and the Leveling Macro, as they too work on a per-note basis, even with polyphonic audio material. With the Chord Track (and the Pitch Grid configured accordingly), recordings and samples can be adapted to the harmonic structure and chords of songs.{{cite web |url=https://www.kvraudio.com/news/celemony-releases-melodyne-5-better-faster-more-musical-48737 |title=Celemony releases Melodyne 5 |accessdate=2020-06-18}}

Artists who use the software include Herbie Hancock, Björk, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman.{{cite web |url=http://www.celemony.com/en/news?tag=artists |title=Artists |accessdate=2020-06-18 |archive-date=2018-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915202125/http://www.celemony.com/en/news?tag=artists |url-status=dead }} It is also used in classical music for the pitch analysis of speech. Composer Jonathan Harvey and IRCAM engineers used Melodyne to extract melodic material for his composition Speakings.{{cite web| url=http://articles.ircam.fr/textes/Nouno09a/index.pdf| title= Making an Orchestra Speak| author= Gilbert Nouno, Arshia Cont, Gregoire Carpentier, Jonathan Harvey|date=July 23–25, 2009| accessdate=November 29, 2010}}