Melodyne grants you unrivaled access to all the musical details in your recordings and samples – note by note. This is made possible by a sophisticated analysis that delves deeply into your recordings and samples, and recognizes and understands the musical relationships within them: the individual notes and their characteristics, the scales, keys and chords, the timing, the tempo, the tone color. And with Melodyne you can edit all these things intuitively. With vocals, but every type of instrument as well – including polyphonic ones, such as the piano and guitar. Melodyne 5 essential is the easy way to begin. With Melodyne 5 essential, you edit your vocals using the basic functions for pitch and timing. Musical, quick and easy. And if you need more, you can always upgrade, paying only the difference. With Version 5, Melodyne strengthens its core competence, making its vocal editing functionality even more powerful than before. Features: Fundamentally improved “Melodic” algorithm. More musical analysis of pitch deviations. Separate processing of pitched and unpitched (noise) components. Perfect de-esser functionality without side-effects. Chord Track and chord recognition. Chord Grid for pitch editing. Fade Tool and Leveling Macro. New “Percussive Pitched” algorithm.