This program is the best, and these videos keep teaching me more ways to make it better. I love it when people who have no idea about all these features say...I use autotune.....🤣
This video also reminded me to go look again at the shortcut key menu since I just picked up a Stream Deck. I've been right-clicking to select the tools but now, I'm going to make a Stream Deck profile that will have the tools on their own buttons, so, single button press vs multi-finger macro or vs right-clicking and then more mouse clicks after that. Stream Deck for the win.
Thanks for the video. I was always wary of using Melodyne for de-essing because it felt a bit time consuming and also not its intended purpose. However, after struggling with a tricky vocal I turned to Melodyne in desperation and have never looked back. It is hands down the most transparent and quickest way to de-ess a vocal. This and level balancing (totally transparent compression) are two of Melodyne's abilities that I overlooked for years but are now essential parts of my workflow. With that ringing endorsement out of the way I am going to balance it by moaning about Melodyne's user interface for general tuning and vocal editing. I've used it for many years and still struggle every time I come to edit a vocal remembering exactly how to do various things and also getting frustrated by the number of mouse clicks required. Yes, you can assign shortcut keys (I do) but zooming is still a pain and more intelligent and intuitive context-sensitive cursor changing would be really welcome. Still the best vocal editing tool available imho but could do with an interface overhaul.
Oh wow so do i. But. Problems occur because once you de ess one of them, you literally have to tend EVERY SS separately in the whole piece. And i do. You cant just select all and pull down the SS because on select all, it will delete some too much. So I end up policing every SS and it is a lot of work.
@@Mister_Listener actually I do select them all and pull down the sibilance to a level where it's working most of the time. I then adjust any individual moments that need less or more. I've spent many hours trying to get de-essers set up so they catch every one perfectly but it's impossible so, for me, it's much quicker to go through and do it with Melodyne and I get better results.
@@bigstewdio thanks for the reply. I end up micromanaging all the ss’s too, i guess i was looking for a shortcut. Maybe i should try to experiment with rolling some of that sssssss off my mic during the session. The sss’s are always huge and melodyne is the best most flexible solution for now.
Hi @@Mister_Listener, pretty sure Rich did one recently on the Melodyne channel but, for me personally, I just "select all", click the levelling macro and then move the sliders towards the middle. It's brilliant when you have overly dynamic vocals where using just compression overly colours the sound. As far as I can tell, the Melodyne algorithm doesn't colour the sound or change the attack/release of each note so you can leave all that to the compressor of your choice.
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These videos are great. You might want to have a magnifier so we can more easily see the buttons your are clicking on. Just a friendly suggestion for future vids 🤓
I use Melodyne a lot but every time I watch your videos, I find an easier way to do what I've been doing. Guess I should've watched all of them first. Oops🙂
You could, but then you'd have to manually tell the DAW where each sibilant vowel is by cutting manually, vs this which uses its algorithm to determine the sibilance for you. Then its simply a matter of using a hotkey to select the sibiliance balance tool, then quickly run through and reduce all of the pre-determined esses or whatnot. But you're right though - that's how we've had to do it for decades. Both require manual labor of going through each one, but this way prevents you from having to manually cut the event/clip/section in the DAW.
If you know that you want to tame all sibilants in a vocal track, for example, you could even select all notes and apply the Sibilant Balance tool to all of them simultaneously! No need to go through each note individually to check where the sibilants are. It’s really as fast and convenient as can be.
My Problem when moving the Separation or the Point of Sibilant is that there is no acoustic or visual feedback to find the correct position. you have to guess where the right point is. A scrubber tool or a real waveform view would help here. Or do I miss something here? Any Idea Rich?
From what I understood, you basically click just to initialize the line, but then step 2 is to drag it into the correct position. I hear you and agree with you though that it would be better to have a vertical hover line prior to the initial click, which would help get the correct position in step 1 vs relying on step 2.
Love your videos Rich! On the FL Studio forums the devs said that you guys had been talking about implementing ARA into FL. Any news on this? Maybe some hints? ;)
Well, we’re not the FL developers, so we can’t implement anything into their program code. 😉 Also, we have no clue about their plans for new features or their agenda. Could you please ask them directly?
I'm having an issue with Melodyne. I don't have or can't see the Tempo window??? Did I accidentally toggle it off?? Can someone help me figure this out??
You can edit all of them simultaneously with the Sibilant Balance tool, if this is what you are looking for.
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Why sometimes Melodyne cause artifacts on these s sounds? How do I stop that - Im using assistant in Studio One 5 Pro. The artifactc occur after bouncing and resemble phasing effect on these "s"
You don’t have to separate S's from the rest. Melodyne does it automatically for you and only tunes the parts that have pitch information. At least that’s how it works in Melodyne 5. Do you perhaps still have an older Melodyne version?
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@@celemony thank you for your reply! I own Melodyne 5 assistant. Perhaps this feature is avaliable in the upgrade?
You can remove vibrato with the Pitch Modulation tool. You can also exaggerate existing vibrato with the same tool, however there is no dedicated tool to add new vibrato. As a workaround, you could split a longer note into several small segments and move them up and down alternately to mimic a vibrato. In combination with the Pitch Transition tool, this can make for a very convincing vibrato.
A very illogical way of working with sibilants. It was quite enough to adjust the sibilants to plus or minus, regardless of the main sound. Personally, when I want to edit sibilants, I carefully trim the sibilant and change its volume (it is independent of the main sound). This video explains for a long time what should be done in one click. That is, selecting only sibilants and adjusting their volume. Good luck to the development team and sympathy for the Teacher, because he himself understands that a simple action has to be performed through many complex ones.
Thanks for your comment. It’s actually easier to tame sibilants with Melodyne than with other programs, because you don’t have to manually separate the sibilants from the rest. This is exactly what Melodyne is doing for you automatically. You only have to grab the Sibilant Balance tool and move it up or down on the note. This video here explains a few more advanced scenarios, that’s why it might seem complicated to you, but the simple de-essing task is actually done in a few seconds. Have you tried it out?
@@celemony Thanks for the advice, I have nothing against an advanced scenario, but I try to do it myself according to a less advanced version. It's more convenient for me.
Public confession: I was trained to use Melodyne before the sibilant balance tool was a feature....and so I've been doing it manually, not even knowing that this was a feature. Oops...lol...
