Rarely do I get so excited about new software for recording…but, come Fall, music recording and specifically post-production may be changed forever. Peter Neubäcker, inventor of Melodyne will introduce ‘Direct Note Access’.
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.
There is a video demo on their website Celemony. The program interface (luckily) looks as though it’s going to be very intuitive. Just watch the video and you will be amazed. This goes way beyond auto-tuning an off-pitch vocal. With direct note access you can take actual audio (not MIDI) recordings and change them note by note into an entirely new creation, change pitch, key, note timing. If it works as well as in the video the possibilities of what you can do could very well be endless.


