Using Melodyne to fix and enhance vocal recordings

Melodyne is an industry-leading software tool that allows you to manipulate the pitch and timing of individual notes in an audio recording. Melodyne is developed by Celemony. Although Celemony is not affiliated with PreSonus, they have worked in close cooperation for more than a decade now to forge an unmatched level of integration between Melodyne and Studio One. Melodyne Essential, the most lightweight version of the software, is bundled with Studio One Pro, and a trial version is included with Studio One Artist. The capabilities provided by Melodyne Essential are sufficient for the needs of most day-to-day music production.

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Although Melodyne is capable of manipulating the timing of audio, we will not cover that functionality in this book. Over the years, I have found Studio One’s own time manipulation capabilities, which we discussed in the previous section of this chapter, to be highly effective and sufficient...