Celemony
9 mentions in 8 episodes.
Charli XCX
“That's not Melodyne or Auto-Tune. No, it's very different.”
Melodyne named as the kind of note-level tuning tool they specifically did NOT use on the out-of-tune Club Classics gang vocal.
EJT
“it's difficult to nail it, because I'm not touching Melodyne or whatever any of the Auto-Tune things are called”
Melodyne is named as pitch software she deliberately avoids, keeping vocals 'purely organic and human'.
Fred
“And then I put it into Melodyne here... on here you can do polyphonic pitch changing”
Fred demonstrates using Melodyne's polyphonic pitch editing to reharmonise a sampled video clip, calling it a liberating creative tool that lets him keep a sample's magic while changing its harmony.
HAIM
“I'll use Melodyne sometimes to test harmonies and then ask Danielle or Alana or Este to sing them”
Rostam uses Melodyne to audition harmony ideas before the sisters sing them.
Holly Humberstone
“I don't like to use a lot of tune or a lot of Melodyne on Holly's vocal, so we take a long time about how we're going to say each word.”
Rob explains he avoids heavy Melodyne/pitch correction on Holly's lead vocals, preferring meticulous comping instead.
Jeff Goldblum
“Who needs Ariana Grande? Yeah, when you have Melodyne.”
Producer Scott Gilman jokes that Melodyne is what made Alex Frank's scratch guide vocal listenable, after playing the demo sent to Ariana Grande.
Porter Robinson
“You can hear me like I've Melodyned the hell out of it trying to figure out the vocal melody.”
On the early 'Snowblind' demo of Russian Roulette he heavily Melodyned a rough laptop vocal while searching for the melody.
Rex
“We were using Melodyne as kind of like an EQ, formant shift... put everything into polyphonic Melodyne and formant shift it down”
Polyphonic Melodyne formant shifting was a core creative tool for reshaping Alex's vocal 'oohs' on Guitar Song.
“Yeah, we're on this Melodyne thing. Do you have that sample in front of you, Jim?”
Jim demonstrates Melodyne on the Sufjan Stevens sample that became 2008, changing bass notes and formants.