| Type | GmbH |
|---|---|
| Industry | Audio/Music |
| Founded | October 2000 |
| Headquarters | Munich, Germany |
| Area served | Digital audio processing |
| Key people | Peter Neubäcker, Carsten Gehle, Anselm Roessler |
| Products | Melodyne |
| Employees | > 20 (as of 2008) |
| Website | celemony.com |
Celemony Software GmbH is a German musical software company that specializes in digital audio pitch correction software. It produces Melodyne, an industry standard audio pitch modification tool similar to Auto-Tune.[1]
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Celemony was founded in October 2000 by Peter Neubäcker, Prof. Dr. Hildegard Sourgens and Carsten Gehle. It is based in Munich, Germany.[2]
In 2009 Melodyne won an MIPA Award for Most innovative product.[3]
Artists such as Herbie Hancock, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel, and Thomas Newman are users of Melodyne.[4]
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.[5]
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.
Melodyne also has facilities for time-stretching, 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.[6]
The latest technology by Celemony is Direct Note Access, which allows independent manipulation of individual notes within chords and polyphonic recordings. Originally announced at Musikmesse 2008 to be released at the end of that year, it was later postponed to Q1 2009, then finally released on November 16, 2009 as part of Melodyne editor and Melodyne studio. Along with Prosoniq's sonicWORX Pro, announced at the same time,[7][8] Melodyne was among the first programs to support this.[9][10]
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