Industry Audio/Music Number of employees > 20 (as of 2012) | Products Melodyne, Capstan Website celemony.com Founded October 2000 | |
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Area served Digital audio processing Key people Peter Neubäcker, Carsten Gehle, Anselm Roessler Type Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung Profiles | ||
Celemony Software GmbH is a German musical software company that specializes in digital audio pitch correction software. It produces Melodyne, a popular audio pitch modification tool similar to Auto-Tune.
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History
Celemony was founded in October 2000 by Peter Neubäcker, Prof. Dr. Hildegard Sourgens and Carsten Gehle. It is based in Munich, Germany.
In 2009, Melodyne won an MIPA Award for Most innovative product. In 2011, Celemony released Capstan, a stand-alone audio restoration software that eliminates wow and flutter from digital recordings.
In October 2011, Celemony and Presonus introduced ARA Audio Random Access, an extension for audio plug-in interfaces like AU, VST and RTAS.
Melodyne
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.
As of January 2016, the current release is Melodyne 4. Artists who use the software include Herbie Hancock, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel, and Thomas Newman. 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.
DNA Direct Note Access
The latest technology by Celemony is DNA Direct Note Access, which allows independent manipulation of individual notes within chords and polyphonic recordings. Originally announced at Musikmesse Frankfurt 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. On January 14, 2016, Celemony integrated DNA into their multitrack software Melodyne studio (version 4).
Grammy Award
Celemony was honored with a Special Merit/Technical Grammy Award at the 54th Grammy Awards in February 2012. The category recognizes "contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field."