Meeting Topic: Celemony - Melodyne Music Production Software
Moderator Name: Sy Potma
Speaker Name: Ray Williams of Music Marketing Inc
Other business or activities at the meeting:
Sy Potma opened the meeting and discussed upcoming meetings. The March meeting will be on audio for the Vancouver Olympics, Bill Whitlock for the April meeting and for May we will having panels at the PAL/MIAC Conference, which is on May 16 and 17.
We started a new feature, which is a short summary of new technologies. Committee Member Robert DiVito addressed several new items such as the Spacebook 17, Song Sparrow by Kel, Soundcraft Si2 and the IK Multimedia Amplitude 3.
Meeting Location: Eaton Theatre, Rogers Communications Building 80 Gould Street, Toronto, ON
Mr. Williams began his talk by showing a waveform. He tried to get us to determine the first note and number of notes. Oddly enough, we couldn't arrive at a consensus. He then opened Melodyne which showed the actual musical notes. He demonstrated dynamic changing and splitting of notes and editing of vibrato. He indicated that the system is unable to add vibrato that doesn't exist but it is able to add harmony. Of note is that Melodyne knows what was recorded, from that it is able to determines the score of the music.
He demonstrated some of the features of Melodyne, such as being able to shift a vocal from a male range, to a female range to a child range; converting notes from singing to actual notes input and inserting pitches that allowed one instrument to have its pitch replaced by another.
After a refreshement break, Mr. Willaims demonstrated polyphonic notes. He discussed that melodyne may create errors when attempting to transcribe the score. It allows you look at all of the content, which can then be used to correct the transcription of the score. Knowing how many notes were originally in the score, it allows you to "turn off" notes that aren't really being played. It will then re-assign the notes and change how the remaining notes have been assigned. This also allows you to move the harmonic with the fundamental or, in fact, move the harmonic while not changing the fundamental at all.
He showed the ability to create harmonics and mute portions of the song.
