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Melodyne assistant
Checking and editing the note detection within
melodic material
In this tour, you will learn how to check the note detection in monophonic material and how to reassign
notes.
Occasionally the pitch of a note may, on account of its pronounced overtone content, be displayed an
octave too high or there may be a note separation too many or too few among the detected notes.
You can correct these things very easily.
The procedure
After transferring or loading audio, select the note assignment tool, which is set slightly apart from the
others, to change to note assignment mode.
In the stand-alone implementation, note assignment mode only ever applies to one of the audio files in
your project at a time; in the Melodyne plug-in, it applies to a single transfer. This means that in note
assignment mode you cannot always see all the notes belonging to a given track simultaneously; only
those derived from a single file or transfer. Click therefore on a note belonging to the first file or
transfer you wish to work on, and then switch to note assignment mode to see the notes in question.
When you have finished correcting the note assignments within this file or transfer, quit note
assignment mode before selecting a note belonging to the next file or transfer you wish to work on and
repeating the process. In this way, you can edit the note assignments of each file or transfer in turn.
Please note that for technical reasons, when you switch to this mode, the undo history will be deleted,
so any actions taken prior to the mode change cannot subsequently be undone.
The editing background is indicated by different coloring to remind you that in note assignment mode
no audible editing of the notes takes place. In this mode, you check through and alter Melodyne’s
interpretation of the notes in the audio material. You assign falsely interpreted notes to the correct
pitches in order to achieve perfect agreement between the displayed notes – and to create the
essential foundation for subsequent editing with the other tools.
Against the editing background, you see in this mode solid (active) and hollow (potential) notes.
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