Melodyne Wierdness - Any suggestions?

jbrawn wrote on 3/1/2009, 12:39 PM

Hi,

I'm reposting this topic from the Vegas Audio forum because it has been a week since the last post in that forum and I'm not sure it is really active. Please excuse me if this is wrong.

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 with the Melodyne plugin, Vegas 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 pitch problems again!

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

Best Regards,

John.

Comments

Coursedesign wrote on 3/1/2009, 3:43 PM

Do you have Vegas 7 on your PC? Or 6?

That's what i would try next in that situation.

farss wrote on 3/1/2009, 10:05 PM

Search the audio forum. I recall someone else having issues with this plugin. It was quite some time ago so you may have to dig deeper.

Bob.

jbrawn wrote on 3/2/2009, 5:08 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.

Thanks Bob for the suggestion about the audio forum. I did find some old issues with Melodyne documented there, but none of them applied to this problem.

Best Regards,

John.

ChristoC wrote on 3/2/2009, 6:24 PM

Vegas is not on Melodyne's lists of compatible hosts for Melodyne Plugin; none the less it does work in Vegas most of the time, but as you found, can display beserk behaviour.

Best thing I've found is to render your re-tuned track so you can drop the plugin off the mixer and avoid any subsequent problems.