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Celemony Software

Celemony Software GmbH is a German musical software company that specializes in digital audio pitch correction software. It produces Melodyne, a popular audio pitch modification tool similar to Auto-Tune, although the program itself is a manual tuning software.[1]

Company type

Audio/Music

October 2000 (2000-10)

Peter Neubäcker, Carsten Gehle, Anselm Roessler

> 20 (as of 2012)

History[edit]

Celemony was founded in October 2000 by Peter Neubäcker, Prof. Dr. Hildegard Sourgens and Carsten Gehle. It is based in Munich, Germany.[2]


In 2009, Melodyne won an MIPA Award for Most innovative product.[3] In 2011, Celemony released Capstan, a stand-alone audio restoration software that eliminates wow and flutter from digital recordings.[4]


In October 2011, Celemony and PreSonus introduced Audio Random Access (ARA), an extension for audio plug-in formats like AU and VST that permits to exchange data between them which is supported by several DAWs.[5]


Celemony received a Special Merit/Technical Grammy Award at the 54th Grammy Awards in February 2012 for "contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field."[6]

Audio Random Access

Audio time stretching and pitch scaling

– the real-time changes of tuning and timbre for new chord progressions, musical temperament modulations, etc.

Dynamic tonality

– a similar product

Auto-Tune

Official website

Interview with Melodyne inventor Peter Neubäcker