I've finally finished my new RNB song titled 'Fly Away'.

Browsing round YouTube, I found a video on a software product called 'Melodyne', which specialises in voice enhancment - kind of (if not exactly) like what Chris Brown and T-Pain use. I decided to download the demo to try it out. What an awesome piece of software!

My girlfriend, Brooke, loves R&B. I'm not much of an R&B fan, but I wanted to do something nice for her, so I decided to write her a song.

So I started writing out lyrics and played along on my guitar.. Once I had the lyrics down, I recorded my voice singing the entire song, and opened Melodyne and played around with the pitch and tone of every note I sung. The program is very powerful. The software assigns and replaces a certain formant to every frame of sound in a certain note, this allows for note stretching and pitch shift with out loss of quality or having that 'chipmunk' style. It also allows the user to edit the voice samples vibrato - amplifying it or getting rid of it completely.

I discovered, however, that the demo version will not allow you to save your project or reder to any other type of file, ie. .wav or .mp3. So when I had done my voice editing, I changed the recording options on my computers sound control to 'Stereo Mix' (as opposed to 'Microphone') and recored in sound recorder on-the-fly.

The quality was great, however, my microphone picked up a lot of white noise which is slightly noticeable in the version posted on NG's.

Link to Fly Away

Enjoy!