Melodyne Wierdness - Any suggestions?

jbrawn wrote on 3/1/2009, 12:34 PM

I recently purchased the Melodyne VST plugin. I used it yesterday to clean up a vocal track in a 22 track Vegas audio project. After a good night's sleep I listened to the test CD again and decided I needed to reduce the level on the kick and bass tracks.

I started up Vegas today, and now, every time Vegas plays any section of the track that I modified in Melodyne, it freezes! One CPU reports 100% busy, and Vegas is locked up until I end it's process with Task Manager.

I have rebooted my PC, I've uninstalled and reinstalled both Vegas and Melodyne. I can start a brand new project with Melodyne. But I can't play back the project I created yesterday!

If I remove Melodyne from the effects chain of the track, then it plays back with no problems. However, I lose all the pitch correction I did with Melodyne yesterday...

I've searched the forums here and at Celemony (Melodyne's creators) with no luck. Has anyone seen, and more importantly solved this problem? Please tell me I don't have to find and fix all those problems again!

I'm using Vegas Pro 8.0c (Build 260) and Melodyne VST plugin 1.0.4.2

Best Regards,

John.

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jbrawn wrote on 3/3/2009, 12:19 PM

Lots of struggles, but I've learned some things...

When Melodyne plug-in 1.0.4.x freezes playback in Vegas 8.0c (usually after closing Vegas and opening it again) try this work around.

Work around:
1. Start Vegas
2. Open the Audio Plug-In Chain
3. Save VST Bank As... (pick a file name)
4. Remove Melodyne plug-in from chain
5. Insert Melodyne plug-in to the same place in the chain
6. Open VST Bank (the one you just saved)
7. Repeat steps 2 through 6 for every track/bus that uses the plug in
8. Save .VEG file
9. Everything finally works like it should have in step 1.
10. Exit Vegas accidentally and cuss -- knowing you'll need to start at step 1 again.

Another hint, if you are using the melodyne plugin on multiple tracks, try to have one track start first before melodyne kicks in on the other tracks. On my system I get 50% CPU when the first instance of melodyne freezes (100% CPU on one of two CPUs), and in this state I can still close Vegas reasonably easily. However, as soon as the second instance of melodyne starts trying to play back, then the second CPU goes to 100% and now it takes a couple of minutes to get enough CPU attention to get Vegas to close.

Best Regards,

John.