As you apply various amounts, you can see the note timings change. However, Melodyne's editing is pretty useful because it not only lets you quantise, but you can also specify the quantisation strength. You can edit the Melodyne clip (to quantise it, for example) before converting it to MIDI, or edit the MIDI data itself after conversion. (Note that if you still have V-Vocal installed, this menu is also where you create a V-Vocal clip.) Melodyne will think about the clip for a second or two, then place a 'Melodynised' version for editing in the Dock.Ĥ. Right-click in the audio clip and choose Region FX / Melodyne / Create Region FX.
Melodyne doesn't seem to be too picky about level variations, but I usually normalise a track to around -3dB (Process / Apply Effect / Normalize) so that Melodyne doesn't have to work too hard to detect the notes.ģ. Play cleanly, but note that Melodyne is more forgiving than you might expect if you've worked with previous audio-to-MIDI converters.Ģ. Record your bass track into a standard audio track. Here's the procedure: Selecting Region FX is somewhat like the process of creating a V-Vocal clip, although ARA allows for more extensive communication between Melodyne and the audio within the selected region.ġ. For example, I'm a big fan of the Scarbee Rickenbacker bass library for Native Instruments' Kontakt, so with Melodyne any bass part I play is eligible to be a Scarbee Rickenbacker bass. The Bass-icsĪ great application for audio-to-MIDI conversion is bass, because this makes it easy to double a bass line with synth bass, or call up a different bass sound entirely. In addition to the limitation concerning monophonic audio, Melodyne Essential can't translate slides into pitch-bend data, but you can always overdub pitch bend, and if you're one of the lucky guitar players whose guitar has hexaphonic outputs, polyphonic MIDI guitar is possible as well. However, it also boasts very good audio-to-MIDI conversion. Personally, I rather liked V-Vocal, but Melodyne has a very natural sound quality and is quite easy to use.
If you uninstalled your previous Sonar versions when you installed X3 see the December 2013 issue ( /sos/dec13/articles/sonar-workshop-1213.htm) for information on how to install V-Vocal for use with X3. So what happened to V-Vocal, which was Roland's answer to pitch correction and based on Variphrase technology? Although it's no longer included with Sonar X3, if you have a previous Sonar installation on your hard drive that included V-Vocal, it will still be available in X3 (as well as the Sonar version of R-Mix, which is also no longer bundled with X3).
Unlike the full version, Melodyne Essential works only with monophonic tracks - but that's certainly enough for vocals, unless you're a Tuvan throat singer. One of the big new features in Sonar X3 (both the Studio and Producer versions) is the inclusion of Celemony's Melodyne Essential.
Use Melodyne Essential, included in Sonar X3 Studio and Producer, to turn your audio into MIDI.