Celemony Software

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::summary German musical software company ::

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name	Celemony Software
logo	Celemony logo.svg
type	GmbH
foundation
location_city	Munich
location_country	Germany
area_served	Digital audio processing
key_people	Peter Neubäcker, Carsten Gehle, Anselm Roessler
industry	Audio/Music
products	Melodyne, Capstan
num_employees	20 (as of 2012)
homepage	celemony.com
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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 manual tuning software.

History

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

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

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. It is now under an open source license and they also released a comprehensive software development kit (SDK).

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."

Products

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Melodyne

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 and 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.

As of May 2020, the current release is Melodyne 5, which can correct the 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.

Artists who use the software include Herbie Hancock, Björk, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman. 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.

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Capstan

Capstan is a program for eliminating wow and flutter from recordings.

References

References

1. (March 2007). "Auto-Tune vs Melodyne". [[Sound on Sound]].
2. "Winners". MIPA Award.
3. AudioTechnology. (2016-03-30). "CELEMONY CAPSTAN V1.2 WITH IMPROVED AUDIO ANALYSIS".
4. "Celemony introduces ARA Audio Random Access". KVR Audio.
5. (2021-05-05). "Celemony makes ARA open source, releases software development kit - gearnews.com".
6. "Technical GRAMMY Award". grammy.com.
7. (November 2001). "Melodyne". [[Sound on Sound]].
8. "Celemony releases Melodyne 5".
9. "Artists".
10. Gilbert Nouno, Arshia Cont, Gregoire Carpentier, [[Jonathan Harvey (composer). (July 23–25, 2009). "Making an Orchestra Speak".
11. "Capstan". Celemony.

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