It’s official – the BIGGEST gold medal is being awarded to Germany during the Olympics, solely because of Peter Neubäcker, a music software engineer. You might remember Melodyne – a pitch correction patch.

Well, during the downtime in his day job of hogging sunbeds, Neubäcker has created a program called Direct Note Access (What, like DNA?).

DNA can dissect a chord into it’s individual parts so that it can be manipulated and reconstructed into……

Anyone?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Yes – Plug at the back. A different chord.

This is a really handy tool for Producers, musicians who write music on the computer, and for anyone mixing a band that doesn’t know its own songs.

This sounds like a really useful tool, but obviously if used in moderation.  What we don’t want is a severe drop in recording quality. I mean, I still blame Autotune for the revival of Cher The Mummy.

There’s a tidy little video just here too. http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna_interview

Direct Note Access is due for release in Autumn as part of the Melodyne 2 plug-in. Should be about $400