Friday Tips: The Melodyne Envelope Flanger

This isn't a joke-there really is an envelope-controlled flanger hidden inside Melodyne Essential that sounds particularly good with drums, but also works well with program material. The flanging is not your basic, boring whoosh-whoosh-whoosh LFO-driven flanging, but follows the amplitude envelope of the track being flanged. It's all done with Melodyne Essential, although of course you can also do this with more advanced Melodyne versions. Here's how simple it is to do envelope-followed flanging in Studio One.

Duplicate the track or Event you want to flange.

Select the copied Event, then type Ctrl+M (or right-click on the Event and choose Edit with Melodyne)

In Melodyne, under Algorithm, choose Percussive and let Melodyne re-detect the pitches.

Select all in Melodyne so that all the blobs are red, then start playback.

Click in the Pitch deviation (in cents) of selected note field.

Drag up or down a few cents to introduce flanging. I tend to like dragging down about -14 cents.

As with any flanging effect, you can regulate the mix of the flanged and dry sounds by altering the balance of the two tracks.

Note that altering the Pitch Deviation parameter indicates an offset from the current Pitch Deviation, not an absolute value. For example if you drag down to -10 cents, release the mouse button, and click on the parameter again, the display will show 0 instead of -10. So if you drag up by +4 cents, the pitch deviation will now be at -6 cents, not +4. If you get too lost, just select all the blobs, choose the Percussion algorithm again, and Melodyne will set everything back to 0 cents after re-detecting the blobs.

And of course, I don't expect you to believe that something this seemingly odd actually works, so check out the audio example. The first part is envelope-flanged drums, and the second part applies envelope flanging to program material from my [shameless plug] Joie de Vivre album. So next time you need envelope-controlled flanging, don't reach for a stompbox-edit with Melodyne.

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