Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Celemony Melodyne DNA, still MIA
At last year's trade shows Celemony were showing an early version of their Melodyne DNA software. DNA seemed like a remarkable breakthrough. In addition to the, now taken for granted, ability to move monophonic audio in pitch and time, DNA promised the holy grail of being able to move an individual note within a polyphonic chord.
Celemony had been hoping to have a Beta version of the software available in August 2009. As this deadline passed the dissenting chorus began to grow in volume. The problem for software manufacturers is, if they don't tell their customer's what's coming they get pilloried for lack of communication, let's use Apple and Logic as an example. If they issue advanced statements and miss the set dates they get accusations of vapourware and if they release software before it's one hundred percent ready they're using customers as "paid Beta testers".
I sincerely hope that DNA is everything we're hoping for. So let's be patient and give them time to get it right before we break out the pitchforks and torches.
James
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