Melodyne 2.5 Studio Edition 	

Melodyne is able to change the musical parameters of voices or instruments without any actual influence on the character of the recording. Melodyne extracts the pitch and the rhythm, and provides an area in which to play with the audio material. Any change in this material is interpreted by the software in a musically intelligent manner and the result will always sound natural. Working with Melodyne is as easy as editing notes with MIDI.

Pitch shifting and formant correction by more than an octave are performed without affecting sound character and velocity. New melodies can be invented with a given material and unpleasant intonations can be corrected with a mouse click.

A change in intonation is possible by an increase or decrease in phrasing or vibrato. A change in formant is produced by an amplification or diminution of the resonance volume, thus making a trombone out of a trumpet sound or a tenor out of a soprano voice.

Flexible time-stretching allows the acceleration or deceleration of a single note or of a whole arrangement through the concept of local sound. There are no limits to deceleration, and a standing sound will be the ultimate result when velocity is zero.

Melodyne recognizes the rhythm of music, as each given note "knows" its place within a beat. Notes can thus be quantified automatically, and they can also be synchronized to a reference melody with a mouse click. Via copy and paste, a new melody can be derived from single notes or a new arrangement can be created from single tracks. Differences in beat will be corrected automatically.

Melodyne can handle up to 24 tracks in real time.

New in this version:

    * Melody Manager introduced.
    * The mixer allows to add instruments tracks which can run AU (OS X) and VSTi (OS X/Windows) plug ins and which can be chosen as a target in Melodyne's MIDI send inspector.
    * RTAS Version of the MelodyneBridge added.
    * AU version of the MelodyneBridge enhanced, especially for compatibility with Logic 6.4.2 and DigitalPerformer 4.12.
    * The MelodyneBridge does now show up if it currently synchronizing the host's and Melodyne's transports and if the bridge is overloaded.
    * Effect and Instrument PlugIn compatibility was enhanced.
    * Exporting audio files is up to 5 times faster on all platforms.
    * Saving arrangements is up to 12 times faster on MacOS X and Windows XP.
    * Melodyne's math routines were heavily optimized for Pentium and G5 Processors. Specially SSE and Altivec are completely widely now. E.g. detecting melodies became twice as fast on some processor sets.
    * Sound Files panel performance enhanced (especially for multi selection).
    * Plus so much more.