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I have no experience with Melodyne, but I have used both V-Vocal and 
AutoTune.  I strongly prefer AutoTune, both for how invisible you can make 
the pitch correction sound if you know what you're doing, whereas, to my 
ears, V-Vocal tends to impart a subtle flavor which feels a bit electronic 
to my ears, and for the general interface for tuning (it's a lot easier for 
me to control drawing of pitch curves in their graphic mode due to having a 
Bezier curve function that lets you just place points and let it connect 
them, rather than having to have more accurate mouse skills).

However, the version of AutoTune I'm using (from memory, I think V4?) only 
deals with pitch correction, not stuff like larger shifts for harmonization 
and time shifting (e.g. to tighten up background vocals against the lead 
vocal).  Thus, my general M.O. has been to use AutoTune for lead vocals and 
any other exposed parts, and use V-Vocal when I also need to do some time 
corrections on parts that will be buried a bit more (mainly background 
vocals, but sometimes also lead vocal doubles, which I tend to mix behind 
the lead vocal by 9 dB or more).

If I remember correctly, the latest version of AutoTune also has some newer 
functionality, more like Melodyne and V-Vocal.  I haven't tried that to 
date, though.

Rick

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"muzician21" <muzician21@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:04eadfa1-c72b-4fd1-ab43-00c2db056b88@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> Anyone have recent experience with these apps?
>
> Having looked at some YouTube vid, Melodyne and V-Vocal seem to be
> similar. I've read some older posts where some felt V-Vocal wasn't on
> par with Melodyne, wonder if that's still true.
>
> I've downloaded the demo of Melodyne, I haven't gotten deep into it
> but it's obviously in a different universe than the pitch correction
> I'm used to - i.e. wrestling with envelopes in Soundforge 5.