According to the website 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.
Examples of use:tune a guitar after recording, correct harmony vocals that are out of tune, or fix their timing, turn major chords to minor (and vice versa), switch tone scales, mute single notes, remix volume levels, etc. – all after the performance is already taped!
As a techie, I am intrigued by the capacity of this software. As one deeply connected with the performing arts I question the implications of the availability of this software. Will recording artists need only go to the studio and offer a sample or two and let the engineers do the work? Yes, the technology would allow it - realistically does the time involved make such a project viable? These are all questions that make for interesting conversations. With software like this, the audio engineer becomes as much the artist as the performer.
Examples of use:tune a guitar after recording, correct harmony vocals that are out of tune, or fix their timing, turn major chords to minor (and vice versa), switch tone scales, mute single notes, remix volume levels, etc. – all after the performance is already taped!
As a techie, I am intrigued by the capacity of this software. As one deeply connected with the performing arts I question the implications of the availability of this software. Will recording artists need only go to the studio and offer a sample or two and let the engineers do the work? Yes, the technology would allow it - realistically does the time involved make such a project viable? These are all questions that make for interesting conversations. With software like this, the audio engineer becomes as much the artist as the performer.
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