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Celemony Software
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Digital audio processing
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Peter Neubäcker, Carsten Gehle, Anselm Roessler
ProductsMelodyne, Capstan
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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.[1]

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.[2] In 2011, Celemony released Capstan, a stand-alone audio restoration software that eliminates wow and flutter from digital recordings.[3]

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

Products

Melodyne logo

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.[citation needed]

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.[7]

As of May 2020, the current release is Melodyne 5, which can correct the intonation on vocal tracks.[citation needed] 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]

Schematic of polyphonic note separation & manipulation

Capstan

Capstan is a program for eliminating wow and flutter from recordings.[11]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Winners". MIPA Award. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.AudioTechnology (2016-03-30). "CELEMONY CAPSTAN V1.2 WITH IMPROVED AUDIO ANALYSIS". AudioTechnology. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Celemony introduces ARA Audio Random Access". KVR Audio. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Celemony makes ARA open source, releases software development kit - gearnews.com". www.gearnews.com. 2021-05-05. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Technical GRAMMY Award". grammy.com. Archived from the original on January 12, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Melodyne". Sound on Sound. November 2001. Archived from the original on 2011-09-17. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Celemony releases Melodyne 5". Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Artists". Archived from the original on 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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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