Melodyne - Direct Note Access!!

[eophonic]

so...what do you mean it can only use real instruments? can't it manipulate acapellas and pretty much any audio source? i read in one of the other threads that the sample has to be 'clean', but how can we be surethat it does? i am not too deep in music theory (like many here--but i am deep as hell with funk and rythym but when i first saw the demo vid i was awestruck with what i thought was the potential of this program. to be able to extract vocals from all my old favourite songs, etc. in my mind the possibilities were endless, and every other cliche. can't it be true? isn't the technology possible?

[daft cunt]

Basicly all it lets you do is edit notes and stuff of solo non-electronic instruments. Might be useful if your guitar player friend broke one of his arm after recording a sequence and you suddenly decided to modify it but you can't use it on synth melodies or perhaps very basic (unprocessed) synth sounds (didn't try) and you surely can't extract shit from grouped instruments and stuff like that.

isn't the technology possible?

As the frequency chart below suggests, most instruments that are played together will share large chunks of frequencies so it seems very hard for a program to work out which instrument is playing what. And it's even harder if not impossible with complex synth sounds.

[eophonic]

[quote] As the frequency chart below suggests...


thank you for responding to my post. I was really disapointed (due to my electronic music theory naivite) when my bubble was burst.

In particular the ability to snatch vocals,etc. from the music i grew up on would be worth $1000, tbh.

Oh well. As someone else pointed out on this subject there will be ways to exploit and manipulate the uses of this product in very creative ways anyhow.