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Melodyne assistant
In the lower pane, you can select the audio inputs of the audio hardware you wish to use. This
parameter is naturally only relevant if your audio hardware actually has multiple inputs. From the list
box, you can select the bit-resolution for recording, popular choices here being 16- and 24-bit linear.
Below you can select the folder in which your recordings will be saved.
We recommend you to select a general ‘Temp’ folder, as the recording folder referred to here simply
serves as a buffer for your work until you save it. There is no reason yet to choose a dedicated
destination for your recording session; you decide the final destination of a recording when you come
to save it.
Tempo and metronome
Before you begin recording in Melodyne, you should think about the tempo. There are two possible
modi operandi: either the grid follows the music (in which case Melodyne interprets variations in tempo
as evidence that the song tempo varies and stretches and/or compresses the grid accordingly); or the
music follows the grid, which in this case will be uniform, so where deviations occur notes will lie
sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, of the gridlines nearest them.
When you create a new empty document (File > New) in Melodyne, the default tempo is 120 BPM. If
you now, without changing the Tempo parameter and without switching on the metronome, begin
recording and then stop the recording at some point, in the course of the ensuing analysis, the tempo
throughout the recording will be detected. This option functions well and reliably as a general rule, but
will usually lead to tempo fluctuations in your performance being interpreted as changes in tempo. In
consequence, the Tempo display will change in the course of playback and the grid in the editing area
will also expand or contract in response to tempo fluctuations in the recording.
If you would rather use a fixed tempo and uniformly spaced gridlines as the basis of your recording,
simply set the desired tempo manually prior to recording and/or activate the metronome. As soon as
you do either or both of these things, Melodyne will conclude that you want a uniform tempo. In this
case, the Tempo display will not change during the recording and the grid will remain rigid; any tempo
fluctuations in your performance will be revealed, when the analysis is complete, by the fact that
certain notes are offset from – i.e. lie between, or not precisely on – the gridlines.
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