Melodyne 5 released!

[locrian]

6 hours ago, paulo said:

Some nice features there, but I think I'll wait for the 50% off your upgrade email.

Have they ever offered such a deal shortly after release of a new version?

[Eugene Tsepenuk]

On end of 2018 Celemony offered to upgrade from Melodyne 4 Essential to 4 Assistant.

And they stated:

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Your next major update: free of charge

Melodyne is constantly being further developed and improved. Now you, too, can profit – free of charge.

Because if you update or upgrade now, you’ll get not only the current Melodyne 4 but also the next major Melodyne update for free.

 

Well, I think "5" is a "major". Or no?..  ?

Edited May 26, 2020 by Eugene Tsepenuk

[RSMcGuitar]

1 hour ago, Eugene Tsepenuk said:

On end of 2018 Celemony offered to upgrade from Melodyne 4 Essential to 4 Assistant.

And they stated:

Well, I think "5" is a "major". Or no?..  ?

That  sounds right to me.

[Fleer]

Meanwhile, on the “What’s new” front: only the new Fade and Sibilant Tools didn’t trickle down to Essential. 
BUT Essential does include the other new stuff: 

New: “Melodic” algorithm with sibilant detection – for perfect yet invariably natural-sounding results

New: Musically weighted pitch analysis – for psycho-acoustically optimal intonation correction

New: Leveling macro – reduce or eliminate excessive volume disparities between notes

New: Chord Track and chord recognition – bring notes into line harmonically, extract chords from audio

New: “Percussive Pitched” algorithm – for instruments such as tabla and berimbau or 808 kick drums

Yowza! Not bad for a free upgrade. 

[RSMcGuitar]

Very cool!

Install was a breeze.

[Lizzie Foster]

Okay, Audio Deluxe still has Studio 3 to 4 upgrades for $49 less discount.  I forgot I updated Editor and not my Studio 3.  So got the 3/4 upgrade and free update to 5.  It worked.   

And?  When they 6 comes out, I will have a version 4 available for a discounted upgrade. ?

I guess I should record some vocals and play with it. 

[Sander Verstraten]

Can you run Studio 4 and Essential 5 next to another?

[GroverKen]

9 hours ago, Eugene Tsepenuk said:

On end of 2018 Celemony offered to upgrade from Melodyne 4 Essential to 4 Assistant.

And they stated:

Well, I think "5" is a "major". Or no?..  ?

Snagged Melodyne 4 Assistant at that time as well with that deal. No sign of the promised upgrade at the moment though. Is it worth the $44.27 to upgrade to the new Melodyne 5 Assistant?

[paulo]

9 hours ago, locrian said:

Have they ever offered such a deal shortly after release of a new version?

I don't remember how long it takes to happen, but it usually does at some point. Looking at my purchase history I bought last two upgrades in late December, so I guess that would have been when the offer was on - probably a BF start / purchase by 31 Dec type deal.

I'm not one of the must have it the second it's out types, so it's no biggie for me to wait a while, plus any bugs will be ironed out by then.

 

[Jim Roseberry]

The new "Sibilance" feature is (alone) worth the cost of the upgrade.

Some really useful improvements...

[GroverKen]

Price to upgrade up from $44.27 to $55.40 already. Don’t think I’ll bother at the moment!

[Brian Walton]

Given some of the previous tools /functions were not as perfect as they suggested on the last update to the flagship products.

I'm a little surprised to see a number of people saying it is worth it before even testing it for more than a couple hours?  This isn't exacltly a cheap upgrade especially for the Studio 4 users.

Edited May 26, 2020 by Brian Walton

[Lizzie Foster]

5 hours ago, Sander Verstraten said:

Can you run Studio 4 and Essential 5 next to another?

Yes.  They are separate products. I've had Studio, Editor, Assistant and Essential on my computer.  When I upgrade, they don't remove the old versions. 

[Xoo]

However, updating 4 to 5 trashes the 32 bit install of 4 if that is important to you.

[Lizzie Foster]

And RTAS support if you still use that.  

[Bapu]

Studio 5 from Studio 4 upgrade is $132.61 from JRRShop with code FORUM

 

Ooooooh I feel so Lars today

Edited May 26, 2020 by Bapu

[Marshall]

I use Melodyne extensively and the new features will really help me, but I’m on Studio and $149 to upgrade would sure benefit from a 50% discount. 
 

 

[Bapu]

Waiting on confirmation now.

 

{CORRECTION} Serial was instantaneous.

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by Bapu

[smallstonefan]

The upgrade fee from Editor 4 to Editor 5 was reasonable and I'm doing more in Melodyne so I bit. I would like to get Studio for multi-track support but will wait for a sale.

 

[bluzdog]

Eli has a Melodyne 5 tutorial at Groove 3.

Rocky