I've had my eye on Melodyne for a few years now and it's always impressed me - but their latest stuff just blows me away. I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it.

Ok! Essa parte de ficar emocionado com um programa é coisa emo-geek, mas quem já precisou mecher com trilhas e mesmo produzir música sabe como é trabalhoso esse processo. Acho que esse pessoal vai entender e compartilhar um pouco da minha emoção.

Para quem não entende muito do assunto, esse programa foi citado pelo pessoal do Gizmodo como sendo o Photoshop do áudio. Só isso!

Não sou nenhum expert em edição e manipulação de som, mas pelo menos EU nunca vi nada parecido. No programa você pode editar as notas individualmente, então as possibilidades me parecem infinitas. Talvez após o lançamento do programa vejamos um fenômeno parecido como foi quando as  pessoas começaram a criar vídeos no You Tube. Um consumer generated media voltado para o som. Pode parecer meio piração, mas alguém lembra da promoção do Doritos para criar um comercial? Ou já viu aqueles concursos de CSS, onde as pessoas apenas usando essa técnica tem modificar uma página toda?

Acho que esse programa vai dar margem para mais dessas pirações. Vejo mash-ups, mulecada ganhando dinheiro (ou pelo menos fama) brincando com músicas, e ainda uma maior informalização do setor já que hoje é possível ter seu próprio estúdio com apenas um computador e um teclado.

Como diz meu chefe pai "cabeças vão rolar, mas sempre alguém vai ganhar dinheiro!". To ligado nessa onda pra que esse alguém seja eu!

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It's truly amazing to see the way music technology evolves and with this new music software known as Melodyne - Direct Note Access,  musician can make the impossible possible!!

" Direct Note Access individually manipulates groups of musical notes (chords), giving recording engineers the ability to completely and undetectably create pitch-perfect performances, even from groups of tone-deaf musicians playing together."

Amazing isn't??  Lovely music software.

For more infomation, click on the link below

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/04/miraculous_dire.php

Video : Direct Note Access Demo

I just read over at Music Thing about Melodyne's new breakthrough Direct Note Access technology . This software makes my mind hurt and I can only begin to try to fathom the potential uses and how much cookie-cutter pop culture music will abuse the flexibility and power (as they already have with pitch and rhythm correction). Either way I really want to try out the program and see if it is really capable of the powerful and unheard of concepts that it claims to do with ease.

click here.

Well, they've gone past that. As blogged about in Panopticist, Celemony, the Melodyne folks, have devised a way to take a polyphonic audio track (that is, one built from multiple simultaneous notes, like piano or guitar chords) and allow the user to edit individual notes. They call it Direct Note Access (DNA... Skynet, are you listening?). Make sure you check out the video on Panopticist...

This is a sea change in audio manipulation, people. This is huge—something that was, until recently, pretty much written off as theoretically impossible. Sure, you can pitch-correct a singer or a sax, but that's simple monophony. But take a guitar chord, extract each voice in the chord, and alter those by time and pitch!?

So why am I upset? I'm both awed and a little nervous. I'm a musician (a bassist), and getting a part right is part of being a good musician. You practice and work on something, and then you record it.

With this package, you will theoretically be able to drop in a half-assed performance, and then fix it while the musician gets a sandwich. People complain about over-produced pop now... give it some time, kids. This will make tape-splicing drum parts look like fingerpainting.

But maybe that's just me being shrill and alarmist. In reality, studio tricks have been around since the advent of the recording studio. Speeding up, slowing down, effects, tape-splicing (to build metronomic drum parts), and more (remember the outcry about synthesizers in the ’70s and samplers in the ’80s?). Look at the plotline within "Singing in the Rain"; film star Lina Lamont gets her terrible voice dubbed ("looped" in the parlance) by a better singer.

So this is just one more tool. It could mean better-sounding tracks, or it could mean that people with even less talent get recording deals.

Here's an example of the TC Electronics Helicon unit that's been around for a few years (generates real-time user-defined harmonies for live use) —pretty amazing.

YouTube Direkt / Celemony DNA

Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. The unique access that Melodyne affords to pitch, timing, note lengths and other parameters of melodic notes will now also be afforded to individual notes within chords.

Take a stereo (or mono) track of polyphonic audio - piano, string quartet or whatever and then through some kind of wizardry, explode this into the separate individual notes and edit to taste as you would with monophonic audio within Melodyne.

C=iao :-)la