I was curious if melodyne is the “ultimate” vocal editing software? Im looking to get something to help get creative with vocal processing. Im looking for a plugin that will help or is possibly made for adding effects to vocal samples.
For example, Getter’s vocal processing is one of my favorites. Love his sound, lots of effects happening. Here is an example of what I’m talking of:
If you skip to 6:45…the song after Getter - Headsplitter, has awesome as fuck vocal processing. I’m curious can this kind of processing be done within the plugins and features of ableton or will melodyne/another vocal software be a better route for that?
Melodyne is easy to use but maybe not the end all. I have Waves Tune, Melodyne, Ableton, and Little Altar Boy…by far I use Abletons built in features (complex pro warp mode) the most along with little Altar boy just because they are quick and easy to use. I tend to use Waves over melodyne but I will admit I don’t fully know how to use melodyne and I tend to like Waves formant shifting better. Just preference though. I think that melodyne gives a rougher formant sound than Waves so Getter might be using melodyne there.
Abletons frequency shifter gets you a similar sound also. Search ragga bomb vocals and you should find a nice tut on it.
Im looking to get something to help get creative with vocal processing
If this is the case, I wouldn’t go into Melodyne at all. Same way as if you were asking for help on getting creative with growl basses, I wouldn’t tell you to get Massive or FM8 since like 95% of people use them for their growls.
Do you not recommend Melodyne because a lot of people use it or because its creative abilities are limited?
haha as for the creative bass thing, it honestly doesn’t matter much what synth you use to get growls. The creative part comes with the fx chains after the synth. All of my “growls” are from massive but sound absolutely nothing like they do right out of the synth. Post processing is where the magic happens.
It’s not that I wouldn’t recommend Melodyne itself as a vocal processing tool, but for getting creative with anything, I wouldn’t recommend any plugin most other people are using.
haha as for the creative bass thing, it honestly doesn’t matter much what synth you use to get growls.
I’m pretty familiar with this, since I’ve made most of my growls with ES2 or Thor. But each synth has it own sound, different waveforms, different filters/distortion types/other fx in general.