Celemony Direct Note Access… WOW.

As a bona fide audio geek that gets to play with really expensive toys on a weekly basis, it’s not often that I’m stunned by a new piece of software or plugin. But a couple of weeks ago fellow CITRT-er Chris Green posted this link in IRC chat to a really cool piece of software coming later this year.

The short version of what it does is best said by Celemony themselves: “Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. The unique access that Melodyne affords to pitch, timing, note lengths and other parameters of melodic notes will now also be afforded to individual notes within chords.”

Translation: Uber-Cool. Watch the video and see if you’re as amazed as I am. If this is not a hoax and actually works as well as advertised, the implications for editing audio are enormous.