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Anything similar to Melodyne for ios ?
Existing or under development?
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Not really. There's a few realtime pitch correction apps, such as the port of Auto-Tune, Singaling, VocaLive, and TC Helicon VoiceRack FX but nothing that works like Melodyne, or is anywhere near as good.
GarageBand also has some pitch correction now, but I haven't tested it.
Are TC Helicon apps just as good as their hardware units?
GarageBand’s pitch correction is high quality, but real-time only. No melodyne or flex pitch type editing.
Was just messing with Melodyne (in Rewire mode)... and WOW, if we cannot get this in IOS, it will be great with Ableton Link on the desktop.
Not really, although there are a few iOS apps that have all the technology required, but haven’t put in the functionality to work like Melodyne.
That said, if you can describe what you’d like to achieve with Melodyne, there’s a good chance somebody can help find a workflow that will produce a reasonable approximation of it.
I’ve had some success slicing, stretching and roughly pitching vocal/spoken samples into melody/harmony lines in Beatmaker 3 then running each line through Qneo’s Voice Synth for auto tuning and effects. Pitching each slice in VirSyn’s VoxSyn (then BM3 assembly -> Voice Synth) produces a better result, but is slow work.
The best pitch correction tool is Mu Retune (Auria IAP) when it behaves. The easier to use is Garageband’s. None of them offer Melodyne-style graphic pitch correction. I asked Celemony in their FB page and they were very direct: no plans for iOS - but I understand, since a single Melodyne license costs hundreds of dollars and they don’t have to share anything with Apple. I also asked Waves - which manufacture Waves Tune, a simpler, cheaper but still very good alternative - and they are yet to give an answer. Waves Tune Lite used to cost $24, I bet many would pay this price, specially because there’s no real competition. Well, their loss.
P.S.: just in case someone wants to pester Waves Audio as well, here’s the link for their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/waves/
I myself would even pay a subscription price for some graphical pitch correction tool such as Melodyne. This is very much needed on the iPad. I just wrote Celemony via email. Perhaps they've changed their minds now that the latest iPad Pros are super powerful.
I also wrote Image-Line to see if they could adapt NewTone (their version of Melodyne) to iPad.
Let's see what replies I shall receive.
@cuscolima
Yes, reported on the forum just lately
Less functionality but the interface looks very familiar
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/32270/nika-by-ruben-zilibowitz
The reports however indicate that the processed vocals don't sound very good.
Not sure how I missed that one! 😱 Hopefully it'll do what I need it to do. Hopefully the process vocals won't sound like complete shite.
It might do nicely for what I use Celemony for which is actually to FSU (fuk shit up)
(it looks like it slices and moves micro sections of chunks)
Hey there’s a thought. Image-line might be the ones to get the job done.
Just heard back from Celemony. No such luck. Still no plans. However, the chap what wrote back to me was named Jörg Hüttner. 😱 I couldn't make this up if I tried. Could it be this same chap? http://jorghuttner.com/
Hopefully my alpha tester status could have a bit of pull to this effect, but in case it doesn't, here's the contact form.
https://www.image-line.com/company/contact_request.html
Under "reason of contacting us", select "other". I trust you should know how to fill out the rest.
Cheers mates.
Yeah it’s pretty weird that this gap hasn’t been filled yet lol... especially since there are so many ways of doing this on a desktop...
Looks like Niko doesn't want to show me any audio that I've recorded, nor does it seem to have a basic import function as far as I can tell. That sucks. I hope somebody can craft an app that actually bloody works.
In other news, I heard back from Jörg Hüttner. 😱 And yes, he's the same chap. http://jorghuttner.com/ Consider me gobsmacked!
I've been having some of the same problems with Nika too, and going back and forth with its developer. He's convinced there's something wrong with my device (iphoneX). If you shoot him a message, maybe he'll be more convinced.
I'm still not that excited for the quality of the pitch correction quality when it does work (s'okay on the iPad), but it's got some other tricks that keep me noodling with it.
I got the impression that Nika was created to let you "hum a melody" and it would determine the notes
you sang and propose chords to fit that melody. It adjusts pitch after input and let's you override that determined pitch and hear the notes detected and agree or change them to get the melody you hear in
your head.
Probably nothing like this idea on IOS and a clever idea for anyone who wants help making chord progressions to match their internal tunes. I think there are features to trial progressions and select substitutions. Good for singer/songwriters that have limited skills generating chord progressions.
A singer could potentially generate a simple lead sheet from the results with chords over the lyrics
to show the band what's could work with a personal song.
So, don't focus on it for auto-tune 'cause that's not the intent but for what it can do if you need that.
Forgot to mention that you use Open In... to get audio files into Nika. I've done it with AudioShare without a hitch.
Nothing like Melodyne on iOS (yet).
At least, pitch and time correction has become quite respectable on iOS.
Auria Pro has elastique Pro on board plus transient/warp modes for real elastic audio.
Cubasis has an audio transpose function including formant shift plus a clip time compress/stretch option.
Amazing Slow Downer and Twisted Wave also have similar options for processing individual samples.
AH! I should've thought of that. It's the simplest things one tends to overlook.
Thanks mate.
Shit! I planned to redownload Nika, and now it is "no longer available in your country or region"! Would it kill someone to create a Melodyne-styled app for iOS (even if it's iPad-only)? I'd pay a lot of money ($99 or more) for such an app.
Agreed. Very curious how no-one’s done it yet.
With the latest iPad Pros and iPhone 11s being as powerful as they are, you'd think SOMEBODY would develop a professional tool like this.
Nothing similar to Melodyne anywhere, they have been working on this pitch correction stuff for decades. I've noticed a basic version is now included in a handful of desktop things, Nectar 3 and a few others.
This is annoying asf on iOS. Like seriously. Can we get working Melodyne and auto-tune in a way that works well (auto tune etc for iOS does not work well with any actual microphone outside of EarPods) and makes sense and doesn’t force u into the exact key of the song to work (GarageBand). ...
somebody, anybody?
There’s an untapped goldmine waiting here...I don’t care what it cost, charge the desktop price...just give me something I can make desktop class, professional recordings with!