Vocal MAGIC in Melodyne - How to Tune & Edit Vocals Fast

Welcome to this comprehensive Melodyne tutorial tailored for users of Melodyne within Ableton Live. Although we're utilizing Melodyne Editor for demonstration purposes, the techniques showcased are applicable across all versions of Melodyne and seamlessly integrate with any DAW.

Achieving pristine vocal tracks through tuning is essential in today's music production landscape. Unlike traditional autotune methods, Melodyne offers a natural-sounding alternative, delivering remarkable before-and-after transformations.

Navigating the plethora of controls in Melodyne can feel daunting, especially for newcomers. But fear not! By the end of this tutorial, vocal tuning in Melodyne will feel intuitive and efficient.

Regardless of whether you're using Melodyne Editor or Melodyne, the first step remains consistent: importing your audio into the Melodyne plugin for editing. Once inside, the process of autotuning becomes straightforward.

This tutorial serves as a foundational guide for Melodyne users of Ableton Live or any DAW, emphasizing techniques to maintain the natural character of vocals. While some tips may seem subtle, they're crucial for honing your skills with the plugin. Throughout the video, I'll help you identify and address common challenges you may encounter.

By the conclusion of this tutorial, you'll have gained a solid understanding of how to efficiently tune your vocals using Melodyne, empowering you to elevate your productions with ease.

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0:00 Intro
1:25 Why Vocal Tuning is Important
2:36 Why I Use Melodyne vs Autotune or Waves Tune
3:10 Use a Pitch Reference
4:38 Adding Melodyne to Your Track & the Transfer Function
5:47 How to Set Up Melodyne Preferences, Scales, Snapping, Algorithm
6:44 How Melodyne Splits Audio into Blobs
7:47 How to Tune Vocals Quickly in Melodyne - The Pitch Tool
9:37 How to Use the Note Separation Tool to Split Audio
10:10 How to Use the Pitch Modulation and Pitch Drift Tools
12:07 Processing Breaths, Plosives and Sibilance
13:19 How to Reduce Sibilance and Breaths - De-Essing and De-Breathing
14:30 How to Control Vibrato with the Pitch Modulation Tool
16:17 How to Manually Compress or Gain with the Amplitude Tool
17:17 Timing Adjustments vs Warping in Ableton Live
17:54 How to Render Melodyne to Audio
19:43 Outro - Get Our Free Vocal Production Course

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@celemony

[warpacademy]

To answer some of the comments saying things like "Autotune or Melodyne is destroying music" I have this as a response. It's a video from Jordan Valeriotes where he did a blind test with 1000 people, over 800 preferred the tuned vocal without knowing that was the only difference.


Thanks to @MattyVibes and @Shred_Rocket for sharing that video with us. Cheers everyone!

[larswillsen]

These 20 minutes have been the best investment in time I've ever done 🙂

[darbomusic]

This is one of the best melodyne tutorials I have seen ❤❤❤

[pviktrance]

Thanks mate... Lovely watching this... I am working on a track right now and this really helps

[TheBinaryWolf]

I have learned to use the tools Melodyne Studio 5, but your presentation helped me understand it better. The tip about separating a note for greater control of the pitch modulation is a gem. Thanks.

I am still waiting for an expert to show us how Melodyne can create a note bend, simulating the use of a whammy bar on guitar.

[bit_misfit]

Great tutorial. Learned a couple things to speed up my workflow thank you. I’ve also found that if I chop up the vocal performance and leave alone the entry and exit points of the individual words, I can get away with some pretty serious tuning without affecting the realness of the delivery. Takes a bit of time, but been doing it long enough that I can do it pretty quick.

[kelvinfunkner]

WOW! I stumbled across this by accident, and that killer voice over tone and compression jaw dropped me so hard my eyeballs popped straight out of my head! I'm staying for the whole video...I think I'll check out your free vocal production course too....and subscribe to the channel as well! (btw...I've been using Melodyne since the very beginning, along with AutoTune, WavesTune, ReVoice Pro and IZotope Nectar....but I'm always looking for new and faster ways of working 😃)

[spikesguitarcamp]

Melodyne is amazing. I use Studio 5.4, and it's worth the upgrade just for the multi tracking feature. The ability to overlay multiple vocal tracks for a thick sound, and be able to line them all up to sound like one vocal is insane. Great tutorial. All great features. I like to use it as a plug in like you do also. It seems to be more intuitive. As far as tweaking note volumes, I find using the "make quiet notes louder/ make loud notes quieter" feature to be faster, and then tweak whatever notes/blobs need tweaking. Also, the ability to copy a track, delete all the sibilants on one, then delete all the notes on the other is a great way to tame them by mixing the two together. Looking forward to more Melodyne vids! 🤘🤘

[celemony]

Thanks for the video! You should definitely check out the newer Melodyne version, as it automatically separates sibilants and consonants from the tonal parts of a voice. No more need for manual splitting. 🙂

[synthzizer]

On another note... this is what the public is subconsciously expecting without knowing it becauseof this push. However they also cant explain why they always go back to, or love to listen to the greats from the great recording era before autotune. Thats because the beauty of imperfections is perfect.

[Stu.]

Great to use the gain to compress before the mix melodyne

[DrObvious]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge for free. I was kinda scared to use melodyne due to it being kinda hard to work with, but now I see it's not that terrible, actually it seems rather intuitive.

[rocktonmusikschule]

What do you think about using it in mastering instead of compression? 🤔
Great content...happy that I found your channel. Greetings from Germany
Michael

[danielh]

Do you have any videos or recommended videos for learning how to do Ableton live timing adjustments for vocals? Thanks

[johnnyvcrow]

Yea, it was 1998... Cher... Believe... Everyone's been doing the same thing since. Thanks for saying what so many of us want to say. :)

[FreshnessStudio]

It would be great if Melodyne would use/ implement colour coding to help differentiate between multiple tracks (studio version). Folks have been asking for this for some time now. Anyways, great showcase as usual and great vocal editing software 👍🏻🚀✨

[PeterAries]

Great video!

However, as a Reason user I feel a bit spoiled that pretty much all of the features in Melodyne is already within Reason's built in pitch edit tool - no need for any extra software or plugins there. Maybe could be something to consider if you're not yet stuck with one DAW and you know you will work with a lot of vocals.

[angelinagargano]

Thanks 😊 I am very sensitive to artifact sounds...any suggestion for keeping the vocal as natural as possible... I thought I could hear some. Registered for your free vocal class. Thanks again.

[TannerByTheSea]

Bro, I’ve got your Clipper Video & now this one.. I was wondering if you offer any other Ableton classes? I’m an artist my music is up, but I’m engineering and doing everything on my own… I see that you’re with Warp Academy.. I was wondering if you offer “You personally-any other training courses?

[ricardocantu]

el curso que ofrecen tiene subtítulos a español? aun no domino muy bien el ingles