Celemony Software

Celemony Software
Type	GmbH
Industry	Audio/Music
Founded	October 2000
Headquarters	Munich , Germany
Area served	Digital audio processing
Key people	Peter Neubäcker, Carsten Gehle, Anselm Roessler
Products	Melodyne, Capstan
Number of employees	> 20 (as of 2012)
Website	celemony.com

Last updated December 10, 2023

Celemony Software GmbH is a German musical software company that specializes in digital audio pitch correction software. It produces Melodyne, a popular audio pitch modification tool similar to Auto-Tune, although the program itself is a manual tuning software.^[1]

History

Celemony was founded in October 2000 by Peter Neubäcker, Prof. Dr. Hildegard Sourgens and Carsten Gehle. It is based in Munich, Germany.^[2]

In 2009, Melodyne won an MIPA Award for Most innovative product.^[3] In 2011, Celemony released Capstan, a stand-alone audio restoration software that eliminates wow and flutter from digital recordings.^[4]

In October 2011, Celemony and PreSonus introduced Audio Random Access (ARA), an extension for audio plug-in formats like AU and VST that permits to exchange data between them which is supported by several DAWs.^[5]

Celemony received a Special Merit/Technical Grammy Award at the 54th Grammy Awards in February 2012 for "contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field."^[6]

Melodyne

Melodyne logo

Three years before Celemony was founded, Peter Neubäcker was working on a research experiment with sound. This experiment later turned into the Melodyne pitch correction product.

Melodyne has become a tool which is used by a large number of professional record producers worldwide to tune and manipulate audio signals, typically a singer's vocals.

Melodyne also has facilities for time-stretching, rebuilding melodies. It can also be used to aid the creation of backing vocals from an existing lead vocal. The first public viewing of Melodyne was at the Winter NAMM Show in 2001, and it has since won various awards.^[7]

As of May 2020, the current release is Melodyne 5. The most important new features of Version 5 relate to the correction of intonation on vocal tracks. The algorithm now detects the presence and extent of the unpitched (noise-like) components of the vocal sound as well as breaths, which it then processes separately from the pitched components. The volume balance between the pitched and unpitched components can be adjusted. New possibilities for dynamic contouring are afforded by the Fade Tool and the Leveling Macro, as they too work on a per-note basis, even with polyphonic audio material. With the Chord Track (and the Pitch Grid configured accordingly), recordings and samples can be adapted to the harmonic structure and chords of songs.^[8]

Artists who use the software include Herbie Hancock, Björk, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman.^[9] It is also used in classical music for the pitch analysis of speech. Composer Jonathan Harvey and IRCAM engineers used Melodyne to extract melodic material for his composition Speakings .^[10]

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References

As of this edit, this article uses content from "Celemony" , which is licensed in a way that permits reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, but not under the GFDL. All relevant terms must be followed.

↑ "Auto-Tune vs Melodyne". Sound on Sound. March 2007.
↑ "About". Celemony. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
↑ "Winners". MIPA Award. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
↑ "Capstan". Celemony. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
↑ "Celemony introduces ARA Audio Random Access". KVR Audio. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
↑ "Technical GRAMMY Award". grammy.com. Archived from the original on January 12, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
↑ "Melodyne". Sound on Sound. November 2001. Archived from the original on 2011-09-17. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
↑ "Celemony releases Melodyne 5" . Retrieved 2020-06-18.
↑ "Artists". Archived from the original on 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
↑ Gilbert Nouno, Arshia Cont, Gregoire Carpentier, Jonathan Harvey (July 23–25, 2009). "Making an Orchestra Speak" (PDF). Retrieved November 29, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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[1] "Auto-Tune vs Melodyne". Sound on Sound. March 2007.

[2] "About". Celemony. Retrieved 2014-07-26.

[3] "Winners". MIPA Award. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-10-09.

[4] "Capstan". Celemony. Retrieved 2012-02-28.

[5] "Celemony introduces ARA Audio Random Access". KVR Audio. Retrieved 2012-07-17.

[6] "Technical GRAMMY Award". grammy.com. Archived from the original on January 12, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2012.

[7] "Melodyne". Sound on Sound. November 2001. Archived from the original on 2011-09-17. Retrieved 2009-10-10.

[8] "Celemony releases Melodyne 5" . Retrieved 2020-06-18.

[9] "Artists". Archived from the original on 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2020-06-18.

[10] Gilbert Nouno, Arshia Cont, Gregoire Carpentier, Jonathan Harvey (July 23–25, 2009). "Making an Orchestra Speak" (PDF). Retrieved November 29, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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