oh my god jesus fucking christ expensive ass camera let's fall over
stabbing fist hey guys one of us knows a bit of a long video I want to cover both
the beginner and advanced methods Melodyne all in one video if you want to
hear the beginner section just listen from here if you wanna hear the Advanced
section just jump to this timestamp on the screen take your patience and enjoy
the video hey guys welcome back to another episode of food review just
kidding today I'll be doing a walkthrough Melodyne I'll be showing you
guys how to tune a basic vocal just like I did in this review up here also later
on in the video I'll be using Melodyne that fix up a project that is much more
complicated one with multiple layers with me singing on it you won't want to
miss it let's go alright so you guys may have seen this in my review about
Melodyne this is the vocal I fixed up in the video it is acapella Econoline maybe
one of the worst ones I've ever heard it's raining it's pouring the old man is
snoring went to bed bumped his head and couldn't get up in the morning anyway I
fixed up in that video I'm gonna show you guys how to do that real quick cuz I
feel like that'd be a great place to start
definitely much easier than work out something with multiple takes and
layering and whatnot so we're gonna right click the file and we're gonna go
open with then we're gonna choose default program yadda yadda basically
I'm just gonna pick melt on alright and we're in here so when you open up a file
milodon it'll usually try to guess what kind of file it is if it's a percussive
melodic etc mine seems to have guessed that it was melodic but if you want to
change that which you want to is there a bunch of different algorithms so if
we're gonna work on the tuning we're going to want to either use melodic or
the polyphonic algorithms keep it simple we'll just work with melodic ok so we
have this singing here it looks like it's trying to be an e minor if you want
to change a scale that you're trying to tune to you click over here on the key
to trying to go to so today we're going to eat minor click on e
you minor or whatever scale you're in also
worth mentioning you're gonna need to know just very light basic music theory
in order to work this program just very light though you can work it without any
really you just have to follow instructions but the only thing that's
happening so we're gonna select all by pressing
ctrl a then we're gonna go to edit then go to quantization macros can go correct
pitch I'm going to click on snap to E minor this will make sure that all the
notes that we correct will go to E minor and not just whatever note their nearest
to return the pitch Center correction 100% and the pitch drift 100% we may
want to douse these backs that sounds too robotic or extreme it really depends
on the settings are going for but I'll start with this for now all right now
let's listen to it back it's raining it's pouring the old man is snoring all
right so that note so it's not out of tune but it's the wrong note so red
turns to the f-sharp you know try a sharp first thing the old man is snoring
that sounds bad so let's put down down it's raining it's pouring the old man is
snoring went to bed bumped his head and couldn't get up in the morning missus
last f-sharp here and he instead mm-hmm guess let's do one more time it's
raining it's pouring the old man is snoring went to bed bumped his head and
couldn't get up in the morning much better we can also change the pitch
modulation as well if you want these are all the tools here
there's a main tool the pitch told formant tool amplitude time etc rolling
I work with the pitch tools I'm going to check the pitch modulation here you can
check what it is by mouth level ringing over it then you can check the
percentage here or you can also just mouse over it so let's try to turn down
the pitch modulation yeah sounds it's raining it's pouring the old man is
snoring let's go to figure one for more of a robotic t-pain effect but we're
gonna want to keep our pitch modulation keep at 70 area 80% I think that'd be
more natural it's raining it's pouring the old man is snoring it's comparing
guys before it's raining it's pouring the old man is snoring and after it's
raining it's pouring the old man is snoring I was over that Weaver and I
renamed about right-clicking on it in case that wasn't obvious it's ok Audis
case over and export that all right now let's keep this shit off my fucking
computer oh my god alright part two all right side this
project file here I'm gonna work on I made the beat I made in singing pretty
bad but we're gonna make it sound pretty good I'm gonna show you guys a little
trick right here if you don't know what here in and you're too lazy to figure it
out you can just export chords or whatever you have and open it mode on
and it'll tell you an estimation in the key might not be correct especially if
using non diatonic chord progressions but just something worth mentioning
alright so it looks like we're in D major so I'm gonna be tuning everything
to D major so this is the project file right here as is I just have the hook
loop beat I made and two takes and me singing one in a low voice and one in a
high voice they're both pretty bad but the high voice especially is really bad
so I'm we're gonna tune them both up so D major remember that
so we can either work with melody and as a standalone or we can work with it
through rewire so I'm going to show you guys how to work with this rewire right
now you guys should have Melodyne and your VST folder runs right here I'm
gonna drag it on the audio file I want to correct I have the other ones muted
by the way as you can see the with a little window opened another thing
you'll notice is there's a different button here it says transfer so we're
going to click transfer and then we're gonna press play from the beginning
that's that's key
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as you can see my vocal take us here at Melodyne and it read it as D major which
is the right key for us I believe it's actually a B minor but it
keeps reading it as d major so we're just gonna further it it's D major all
right so I'm just gonna select all and I'm gonna edit go to quantization macros
go to correct pitch snap the D major and I'm gonna turn all this stuff up I'm
just see how it sounds we have to do some adjustments all right
I just some notes there till they sounded like the melody I was going for
i'ma fix the rest of this takes here you just drag the notes up and down as you
can see here if you need to separate them you can do that here with this
button if you're not sure if something is you could just mouse over it and
it'll tell you so there's a note separation total so if I want to
separate this like I just click that will click here and it'll separate that
note and I could split the tuning there if I want but I think it's fine
we don't need to split anything now I'm gonna try mess with the pitch modulation
turn it down to 50% see what that sounds like so I select it all change to the
pitch modulation here and turn it down 50%
so I think I actually need a little bit pitch modulation on this middle note
right here this C sharp so I'm gonna select everything except for the C sharp
so I'm gonna control a or select everything with the mouse and then hold
ctrl then I click off all these C sharps here boom now I'm going to do the same
thing again so I turn down the pitch modulation for everything but that note
maybe I can adjust this one independently so I'm just going to
select that area to see sharps then adjust the pitch modulation I'm gonna
set it to 100 that way it was a default and then turn it down let's try 70
that's good
okay I'm just like this known turn it down more the pitch modulation was
really fucking that up there look what I won it like four percent I think there's
a little imp human right here I'm a turn of the pitch modulation there you have
to play at the settings a little bit to get exciting how you want but this
pretty close time one now I think oh my god and if you're an idiot like me to
press ctrl Z and undo the whole thing so you get to start over
fuck this shit alright then from there we're gonna have to rot it back into
Ableton so in order to do that we're going to make a new audio track press
ctrl key and then we're gonna pick the track that we had it on so for me to be
this track named track 1 I pick track 1 set in and then I have record enabled
and then I press the chord up here and just record this whole thing in here
recording the output from Melodyne back into Ableton then we can mute out the
track I'm going to tune this other track I have real quickly this is the high
ones were named the track 2 essentially I'm gonna do the exact same thing I'm a
drag Melodyne on this and I'ma transfer the whole thing in
all right we got recorded I stopped it now let's check out the notes in here Oh
still thinks this d-major essentially it's just gonna be copying the same
thing as other one but octave up so I'm a quantize it real quick boom snap it
five percent hut it percent never I look at the melody
this looks pretty close okay I'm at the move this note up here this one down
here I already have a feeling I know how it's gonna go
all right nice next I'm gonna start messing with the pitch modulation for my
control a then I'm gonna change to the pitch modulation tool right here and
turn it down this 60% and see how that sound
yeah it sounds way better right insane I
think I'm good with it as it is so I'm just gonna do the same thing I'm gonna
bring it back into Ableton make a new audio track control T then the click
track to then click in it wanna make sure it's post mixer and enable it and
hit record all day
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it's okay or dead
it's okay
yeah that's it for this video guys hopefully you have learned something I
had a tuned vocals Melodyne or how to operate it hopefully a lot of people may
ask me questions about how to use this software and honestly I don't think it's
too difficult it's just a little bit strange because it's tuning software and
there's lots of tuning options that we never really hear like pitch modulation
pitch drift that's never really something we have to deal with too much
in the music production world yeah hopefully this helped you guys out and
if I were released a full song for this song I've worked on in this project and
I'll link it down in the description if not then yes this is where you can
listen to it if you guys enjoyed this video let me know my name is Weaver
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