But I’d had the Editor version of Melodyne for some time already, and had kept it up to date, prior to MC8’s release, using it in MC7 and prior as a plugin/insert in the usual way. You’re right that I’d mentioned that MC integrates Melodyne 4 into v8 Pro Studio. Here’s all I know that may be at all relevant. I hope it continues to impress you so that I can get another fellow Mixcraftian around here! Stan, first up, happy to hear you’re giving Mixcraft a spin. I don’t recall the exact configuration from before. I won’t know for sure how Melodyne Editor 2.x will install until I try it. I have not activated the Melodyne 4 for Mixcraft yet, unless Mixcraft automatically did that for me. Is there any way to make this work? I have what looks like the standalone install files for Melodyne 4 in both Program Files/Celemony/Melodyne 4 and Program Files (x86)/Celemony/Melodyne 4, and the VST2/3 plugins in my standard folders (which installed into their own Melodyne 4 folders in the VST2 plugin folders, Melodyne folders in VST3). I figured that Melodyne 4 would be best for Mixcraft since they have designed a special process around it (and an older version of Melodyne may not work that way?), but also wanted to use Melodyne Editor 2.x in Reaper. I have license keys for both, but they seem to think this will goober things up. Celemony is telling me I cannot have BOTH installed like I had asked about and was hoping would be possible. The dilemma is that I had Melodyne Editor 2.x - an older version but more functionality (most likely, compared to the bundled one with Mixcraft).

I have not tried it yet, but may give that a shot before trying the other route … which leads to the next part. I’m not sure yet if it’s Essentials or what, but Mixcraft touts a more streamlined process with Melodyne that bypasses the need for the audio transfers and whatnot - seemless integration into the DAW is what it sounded like.

It turns out (and I think Dave had mentioned this before) that this version of Mixcraft comes with Melodyne 4. Meanwhile, I did take advantage of the Acoustic Black Friday deal for Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio … not that I need another DAW as I use Reaper the majority of the time, but I had demo’d it sometime back and was pretty impressed. I’m reinstalling much but not all of my previous audio tools, trying to be a little leaner and cleaner. I’ll try to keep this brief, but I feel I’m struggling to come to a new Melodyne process after rebuiling my crashed PC.

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