music founded october 2000 2000 10 headquarters munich germany area served digital audio processing key people peter neub cker carsten gehle anselm roessler products melodyne capstan number of employees 20 as of 2012 website celemony.com 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 . 1 contents 1 history 2 melodyne 2.1 dna direct note access 3 grammy award 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit celemony was founded in october 2000 by peter neub cker 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 in 2011 celemony released capstan a stand alone audio restoration software that eliminates wow and flutter from digital recordings . 6 october 2011 celemony and presonus introduced ara audio random access an extension for audio plug in interfaces like au vst and rtas . 7 january 2016 celemony released melodyne 4 . melodyne edit melodyne logo . three years before celemony was founded peter neub cker 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 . 8 dna direct note access edit schematic of polyphonic note separation & manipulation 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 edit 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 . 9 see also edit audio time scale pitch modification dynamic tonality the real time changes of tuning and timbre for new chord progressions musical temperament modulations etc. references edit as of this edit this article uses content from celemony which is licensed in a way that permits reuse under the creative commons attribution sharealike 3.0 unported license but not under the gfdl . all relevant terms must be followed . auto tune vs melodyne . sound on sound . march 2007 . about . celemony . retrieved 2014 07 26 . winners . mipa award . retrieved 2009 10 09 . artists . retrieved 2014 07 26 . gilbert nouno arshia cont gregoire carpentier jonathan harvey july 23 25 2009 . making an orchestra speak pdf . retrieved november 29 2010 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link capstan . celemony . retrieved 2012 02 28 . celemony introduces ara audio random access . kvr audio . retrieved 2012 07 17 . melodyne . sound on sound . november 2001 . retrieved 2009 10 10 . technical grammy award . grammy.com . retrieved january 31 2012 . external links edit official website interview with melodyne inventor peter neub cker retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title celemony software & oldid 742967396 categories software companies of germanygerman brandspitch modification softwarecompanies established in 2000hidden categories cs1 maint multiple names authors listarticles with imported creative commons attribution sharealike 3.0 text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 6 october 2016 at 23 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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