With ARA, Melodyne’s outstanding tempo-mapping abilities can be applied to audio sent over from Studio One, and the resulting tempo map sent back. But the two-way communication ARA provides between Studio One and Melodyne yields other abilities, notably editing and shipping tempo map information back and forth, which leads us right into this month’s topic. The two companies put their heads together in a co-development arrangement and, in 2011, began bundling Melodyne Essential, enhanced by a new technology called ARA (Audio Random Access), with Studio One 2 Professional.ĪRA’s most obvious benefit is eliminating the need to play audio into Melodyne in real time before it can be edited: ARA requires just seconds of analysis to be ready for editing. The programmers at PreSonus Software in Hamburg, Germany, well aware of this, decided that tightly integrating Melodyne with Studio One would make winners of them, Celemony, and end users alike. Studio One has excellent tools for manipulating time and pitch, but Celemony Melodyne’s capabilities in these areas are widely recognised as unparalleled. Thanks to ARA, Studio One users have direct access to Melodyne’s amazing tempo-manipulation tools.
