![]() ![]() And, as usual, they have a name and an acronym for it: ARA (Audio Random Access). To make Melodyne feel more like part of your DAW and less like a separate tool, Celemony introduced an SDK that re-conceives how a plug-in works. So, many workflows involve copying audio into the plug-in and back out again – workable, but not ideal. ![]() The problem is that the Melodyne products run as plug-ins. And this isn’t just about pitch correction with a lousy singer – the ability to treat sound as changeable opens up various creative options. When I reviewed Logic Pro X over the summer, that’s why I described Apple’s integrated offerings as more basic. There’s a reason they call their technology “Direct Note Access”: it makes editing audio feel like editing MIDI (or, really, even more expressive). Most competing tools can’t handle anything other than monophonic (single-part) musical lines, and they lack tools for fine-tuning pitch results. The sonic results are more transparent, and the feature set – particularly if you’re willing to shell out some cash for high-end editions – is unmatched. There’s no other way to say this: Celemony’s Melodyne line of products is just better than any other offering out there. But our ears are sensitive instruments – even the untrained ear can transform the spectral soup of sound energies into polyphony, can recognize subtle timbres, and can immediately detect if something has been manipulated. Since audio first appeared alongside MIDI in digital editing, musicians have wanted to have the same fluidity of editing that other digital materials have. The rich Celemony integration could be an even more significant accomplishment. This includes advantages in certain audio tasks and in maximizing the computational performance of the latest hardware. Cakewalk was the first, for instance, to embrace 64-bit audio processing and computation, and continues to (fairly) boast of its 64-bit “double precision” (that’s the same thing) mix engine. ![]() But it’s worth noting that some things the software has accomplished have led the way for other tools. ![]() There are a number of improvements, but what may be the most significant is a deep integration of Celemony’s toolset for manipulating pitch and time.ĭAW tastes will be forever personal, so you can be forgiven if you simply don’t like or have never used SONAR. SONAR, Cakewalk’s flagship Windows DAW, receives a significant update this month as SONAR X3. ![]()
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