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

Category:

Music

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• Peter Neubäcker
• Celemony
• Melodyne
• interview
• portrait
• Johannes Kepler
• Capstan
• backstage
• monochord
• lambdoma
• DNA
• Direct Note Access
• developer
• inventor
• software
• development
• audio
• technology

[buenasideasde]

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

[10Cicegim]

@buenasideasde

because not everybody speaks german bah

[Mushizo78]

fantastic video :) Very inspirational, not only for music making :) I particularly like the Chaos Pendulum thingy that randomly played notes and made its own emerging music :)

[mnkfdl]

Fascinating. Musica mundana!

[eightChars]

super Danke!

[3141168]

wonderful insights and thoughts..... thank you!

[Smartism]

@CelemonySoftware

Danke!

[RayRayRayVideos]

god bless you peter!

[analoq]

@airusersblog It's his expertise that makes him interesting for me. Others with similar expertise I would find interesting as well.

[airusersblog]

@analoq then he wouldn't be interesting; it's his uniqueness that make him interesting

[dimitris108]

I would say stay healthy and happy because humanity needs you so much.

Please post some more videos because you truly inspire people so much and in our day as you all know there is no inspiration. Anyway I am a register user since melodyne came to New York.

Keep going peter and give us some more microtonal features in Melodyne.

Take care!!!!