Melodyne inventor Peter Neubäcker (film portrait)

"What does a stone sound like?"
A film portrait of Melodyne inventor Peter Neubäcker

The man primarily behind such Celemony innovations as Melodyne, DNA Direct Note Access and Capstan is Peter Neubäcker -- a passionate musician, researcher and inventor, who sets unusual goals for himself and manages even on occasion to realize in practice things that in theory can't be achieved. It was the question "What does a stone sound like?" that led Peter Neubäcker to the invention of Melodyne around 15 years ago.

In this interview with Maximilian Schönherr, he airs some of the secrets of Melodyne and offers insights into his thoughts and personal history. He talks about his passion for philosophy, music and mathematics as well as how guitar-making, Johannes Kepler and the science of Harmonics have influenced him. From the conversation, a fascinating 30-minute film portrait has emerged that not only shows one of the most resourceful and multi-facetted personalities in the audio industry but also the background to Celemony innovations.

00:30 -- Music, philosophy and the Numbers
04:25 -- The Monochord, Lambdoma and zero and infinity as the origin of all notes
09:50 -- Grasp and comprehend, chaos and fractals
12:35 -- Programming and guitar-making
16:00 -- Youth, years of quest, and the birth of an interest
21:30 -- The sound of a stone and the idea of Melodyne
24:40 -- DNA Direct Note Access and the legendary roll of bathroom tissue

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  Music

[Andreas Eberhardt]

Why in english? Habt Ihr auch eine deutsche Version ohne den Übersetzer, ich muss jetzt wieder zurückübersetzen, dabei würde ich doch viel lieber Herrn Neubäcker hören, die Originalversion in Deutsch, wo finden wir die?

Was sagte noch unser Aussenminister, hier sind wir in Deutschland und da spricht man Deutsch :-)

[CelemonySoftware]

The German version is available on our website: celemony com

[CelemonySoftware]

Eine deutsche Version gibt es auf unserer Webseite celemony DOT com. Bitte dort einmal unter den Videos stöbern.

[totaflav]

3 Dislikes ? Nice try Antares...

[Deejay JeanP]

FINALLY, A ENGLISH DUB OVER A GERMAN VIDEO, take that ! HA!

Nice video anyways

[sporn23]

Does A french version exist? huhuhu

[sporn23]

9:20 totaly amazing! this man is a genius!

[Qualej]

this man is a genius

[InfiniteRhombus]

this man is a GENIUS, I just discovered melodyne today and all of my problems are solved, timestretching was a huge pain and a friend turned me on to melodyne, THANK YOU.

[flaviorodriguez]

Thanks for the english then anyone in the planet can have access to it.

[Andreas Eberhardt]

Claro que si, tienes razon, but the german language is for germans so viel einfacher :-) Cheers, Andreas

[Superphilipp]

Andersrum könnte man sagen: Wir sind hier auf Youtube, da spricht man alles.

[Julio Trajano Patiño Loyola]

hola videos en espaol ok

[Matrix29bear]

This man is a genius and the MELODYNE program is genius.

I have not seen a better & easier musical editor on the market that has this level of control, simplicity in interface, and non-destructive tweaking speed.

It's great for wiping out background noises and tweaking good audio performances into great performances.