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The future of Music – acc. to Ernst Nathorst Böös
We spoke with Propellerhead co-founder and CEO Ernst Nathorst Böös about the future of music. He has a lot of good food for thought for us. Enjoy!
Melodyne editor with DNA – first look from pointblankonline
Wow,
it is just hours after we informed the world about Melodyne editor becoming available for beta test. The good guys from Point Blank Online just took it and created a first video. Here it is!!
Amazing guys!!!
Celemony begins beta testing Melodyne editor
Celemony Software GmbH today is pleased to invite all registered Melodyne users to participate in the beta testing of Melodyne editor, the first Melodyne product featuring the Melodyne DNA technology. The sales launch is scheduled for the beginning of November and the price will be USD 349,- or Euro 349,-
It’s been a long wait but finally all registered Melodyne customers are able try out Melodyne editor as part of a public beta test. The beta installer is up on the Celemony server waiting to be downloaded and used to change music recordings in a way that has never been possible before.
Melodyne editor represents, in terms both of functionality and technology the latest Melodyne generation and features all the fully mature and proven editing functions which are familiar already from previous editions of Melodyne. Through the integration of DNA, however, even the harmonies in an audio file can be made visible, accessible and malleable – note by note. Users can literally intervene in the chords of their recordings and alter individual notes with them. The implications for the correction and refashioning of audio are simply sensational.
Melodyne editor is designed for the editing of recordings of individual instruments, for example vocals, guitar, saxophone or piano, but good results can be obtained even with complex material such as string quartets. Users can alter the pitch, position and duration of the detected notes, make them louder or softer, copy or cut them and paste them into new locations, and so on. In addition, characteristics such as the formant spectra, vibrato and pitch drift of notes can be modified, as can the pitch, amplitude and formant transitions between notes. Furthermore, special copying functions make it possible to impress selected attributes of one note upon another.
Whilst Melodyne editor, in terms of intuitive access, musicality and sound quality, stands squarely in the great Melodyne tradition, its technical foundations are completely new. The new software basis offers among things optimized multi-threading of which modern multi-core processors can take full advantage. It also allows many improvements in plug-in operation including a freely definable window size, auditioning during pitch editing, scrubbing and “Edit Play” – playback uncoupled from the host.
The beta test is aimed at all registered Melodyne customers. The sales launch in music dealers and the Celemony Web Shop is planned for the beginning of November; the price will be 349 US$ or 349 €.
For more information, visit www.celemony.com
You will find further images and background information at our website under www.celemony.com/press
Company Contact:
Celemony Software GmbH, Valleystrasse 25, 81371 München, Germany, press@celemony.com, www.celemony.com
Marketing, Communication, Branding, Life – Look at the stats!
A lot of people these days wonder where the media will go. How Print and traditional TV concepts might be able to stay alive. Most of the Media Managers these days decide to go online full speed. And data like in the movie here promise that communities are now the holy grail of marketing. But that’s not the entire truth. Start to fill the holy grail with too much advertising and the community moves on. Communites are very complex entities consisting of human beings. That means that they have to be treated like very complex human beings - carefully and with respect.
The big Big Mick Interview
What a pleasure, Backstage at PinkPop Holland May 2008. I met with Big Mick and Ian Bond to discuss Live Sound, Metallica and the Business.
The 2009 Pre Namm Audionowcast – Me for the first time!
Thomas Wendt musician, engineer from the PR firm Intergrative Concepts in Hamburg Germany, (we love the Germans) who reps Celemony Software and Propellerhead Software joined us on this podcast. He is also a panel member of the German podcast MusoTalk (think AudioNowcast in German)
topics included:
NAMM and what is going to happen there, are we going to see a show of doom and gloom or are we going to see companies that are optimistic because some of cool new tech breakthrough that takes music making to a new level, why are all the cool software companies coming from Europe, is it that German engineering thing and we spend some time talking about Logic (the music app) plus awhole lot more.