

If you have loaded it in as a plugin, you use the “Transfer” button to be able to use it on the audio. There are a couple of ways to start using Melodyne: If you use the standalone version, you would load up an audio file and go ahead with editing. You have nearly unlimited control over the content you’ve brought into Melodyne Editor. In its most basic form, you can drag each little section (Celemony calls these “blobs”) up/down/left right, and it will change the pitch and/or timing. The waveform is broken into separate pitches, instead of one whole waveform, and you can see what the note values are along the left side. With Melodyne Editor, when you load in the waveform, it is displayed on a grid. Well, it’s a lot better than that these days. Digital technology is great isn’t it? I could do that on my Amiga 2000 back in the early ’90s.

You can then cut the waveform into different parts, and move those around, delete them, etc. To manipulate audio data, usually you’d import a waveform into some type of audio editor.
