You’ll rarely feel as close to the bleeding edge of music technology as you do when reconfiguring the individual harmonic elements of a choir, string ensemble or guitar part using Melodyne’s liberating algorithmic arsenal, and although the trade-off is rather more required user input than the other entrants in our list, the results never fail to amaze. It’s all made possible by a wonderfully intuitive and beautifully visualised editor interface, and recent (v5) additions to the feature list include sibilance detection and separation, and a dedicated Chord Track. Running standalone or as a plugin (VST, AU, AAX or ARA, the last offering greater integration with the host DAW than the others), Melodyne lets you freely move the individual notes and sounds within an audio signal around in the time and pitch domains, and tweak their volume levels, vibrato amounts, formants and more.

Without question Melodyne 5 is the most comprehensive pitch shifting and timestretching toolbox money can buy, Melodyne has established itself as the industry standard when it comes to meticulous transformation of monophonic and – thanks to its groundbreaking Direct Note Access (DNA) technology – polyphonic/multitimbral vocal and instrumental signals of any and all kinds.

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