User manual CELEMONY SOFTWARE MELODYNE ASSISTANT 1.2 REV 2

[. . . ] assistant user manual Melodyne assistant user manual rev 2 This documentation refers to Melodyne assistant 1. 2. Hoenig, Stefan Lindlahr, Alex Schmidt Translation: Ewan Whyte Layout: Saskia Kölliker Celemony Software GmbH Valleystr. 25, 81371 München, Germany www. celemony. com Support: support@celemony. com The manual and the software described therein are supplied under formal licence. They may be used and copied only under the conditions of this licensing agreement. [. . . ] When activated, this causes the sound of a synthesizer to replace the normal sound of each blob. To turn the knob, click on it and drag the mouse pointer to the right or left, thereby increasing or decreasing, respectively, the volume of the synthesized sound. But why should you do this?The Monitoring Synthesizer allows you to hear the notes that you can see and that are currently active, making it easy to check whether these notes correspond to those that can be heard in the material. Think of the solid blobs as representing a transcription of the music in the audio file. The synthesizer allows you now to check this transcription with a MIDI tone generator and therefore easily determine whether all the notes are at the right octave. You can carry on reassigning notes as described above and arrive more swiftly at the ideal: where the solid blobs displayed represent all, and only, the notes actually played. Melodyne assistant user manual 57 Checking and editing the note detection Note separation When you place the mouse pointer somewhat above a blob, the arrow turns into the Note Separation tool. With this, as with the normal Note Separation tool, you can separate notes or remove separations as with the normal Note Separation tool. Leaving Note Assignment mode To quit Note Assignment Mode simply select one of the other tools. As you leave the mode, based on your changes, the detection will perform a fresh analysis, which could take a moment. Related topics Checking and editing the note detection within rhythmic material 58 Melodyne assistant user manual Checking and editing the note detection Checking and editing the note detection within rhythmic material In this tour, you will learn how to check the note detection in rhythmic material and reassign notes. Since in the case of rhythmic material there are no tonal assignments to be performed, it is only the checking and correction of note separations that need concern us. To enter Note Assignment mode, select the Note Assignment tool SUMMARy Editing the detection in the case of percussive material involves only the insertion or removal of note separations To display these, check the item `Show Note Separations' in the View menu Double-click the upper part of a blob to insert a note separation Double-click an existing note separation to remove it To exit Note Assignment mode, simply select a different tool from the Toolbar The procedure After transferring or loading audio, select the Note Assignment tool, which is set slightly apart from the others, to change to Note Assignment mode. Please note that for technical reasons, when you switch to this mode, the Undo history will be deleted, so any actions taken prior to the mode change cannot be undone. In Note Assignment mode, no audible editing of the notes takes place. In this mode, you check through and alter Melodyne assistant's interpretation of the notes in the audio material. In the case of rhythmic material, it is simply a case here of remedying any excess or shortage of note separations in the detected material. The correctness of the note separations is a precondition for subsequent editing of the material ­ including, for example, any time-stretching ­ achieving results of the highest possible quality. Melodyne assistant user manual 59 Checking and editing the note detection First select `Show Note Separations' from the View menu. The simplest way now of checking the note separations is to select the first of the blobs and step forwards and backwards through them using the [Arrow] keys. If a blob contains two drum strokes, double-click in the upper part of the blob (at the point at which you wish the second stroke to begin) in order to introduce a note separation. If, on the other hand, a single stroke has wrongly been split by a note separation, double-click the dividing line to remove the note separation. 60 Melodyne assistant user manual Checking and editing the note detection If ever a note separation is wrongly situated, you can simply drag it horizontally to the correct place. Leaving Note Assignment mode To quit Note Assignment Mode simply select one of the other tools. As you leave the mode, based on your changes, the detection will perform a fresh analysis, which could take a moment. Related topics Checking and editing the note detection within melodic material Melodyne assistant user manual 61 Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid Time Grid selection In this tour, you will learn how to set the time grid in the editing area and work with it. The grid serves to provide a clearer overview of the audio data by displaying in the editing background a meshwork of either seconds or beats. If desired, notes can also be made to snap to the nearest gridline as you drop them, which means they should sound precisely on the beat. If the Time Grid is active, tones are attracted to gridlines when moved horizontally The Grid can be set to a fixed note value or can adjust automatically to the zoom level Any offset of tones from gridlines is retained when they are moved: the movement is influenced by the grid, but notes do not necessarily finish exactly on the gridlines If you hold down the [Alt] key when moving notes, the Grid has no effect The procedure Click at the intersection between the Time and Pitch Rulers to open a context menu of grid options. Alternatively, open the menu by right-clicking on the Time Ruler. As you move the mouse pointer over the first entry in the list, Time Grid, a cascading menu opens with which you can activate or deactivate the grid. In Melodyne assistant Stand-Alone, you can also toggle the grid on and off using the shortcut [Alt]+[Command]+[T]. 62 SUMMARy Melodyne assistant user manual Setting the Time Grid and the Pitch Grid When the grid is active, the calibration markers extend from the top to the bottom of the Bar Ruler. When the Grid is inactive, these shrink to around a quarter the height of the ruler. If you select the option `Dynamic' from the cascading Time Grid menu, the grid will adjust automatically to the current horizontal zoom level: in other words, the further in you zoom, the finer the mesh of the grid. [. . . ] Fortunately, correcting the displayed tempo is very simple: Just click the button next to the Tempo box and the Define Tempo window will open. Melodyne assistant user manual 125 Special functions of Melodyne assistant Stand-Alone There you can choose between two ways of defining the tempo. Since in this case, we want to halve the current tempo, we select the entry beginning `1/2' from the list box provided. When we now exit with `OK', we will find that the one-bar loop extends over one bar only in the grid, and that the value in the Tempo box has been halved. Problem solved. Defining a constant tempo If you choose the option `Define constant tempo', you can enter in the box provided a new value for the tempo. When might you want to do this?There is one case in particular where it might be desirable to define a fixed tempo. [. . . ]