Celemony's Tonalic Comes To UA's Luna

Following on from our story on the the Universal Audio Luna update, Celemony has been in touch to tell us about their Tonalic integration...

Starting today, songwriting in Luna has real session musicians within reach, right inside the DAW. Tonalic, the plug-in from the creators of Melodyne, puts studio performances by world-class players into the song and reshapes them, with the Tonalic engine built on Celemony's DNA technology, to follow the chords, tempo and groove of the song they are dropped into. In Luna, that means a producer with a chord progression and a rough idea can audition a guitar part against the song while it plays, drag it onto the timeline, extend it across a section, and change the chords three weeks later with the same performance still following along. The session stays open right up to the last minute, and what plays from the first bar is a real player, recorded in a real studio.

With Luna 3.0, Tonalic is embedded directly in Universal Audio's DAW through ARA. It opens from the Warp menu of an Audio Track, alongside Melodyne, and brings the library of more than 30 session musicians into Luna's editor. The performances, called Tonalics, are browsed there and auditioned in place. Drag a Tonalic onto a track, or below the existing tracks, and Luna creates the new track and opens Tonalic ARA on it. Transitions, fills and endings from the same session are one drag away on the Set page.

"Luna began as a place to record and mix, and more and more people now write their songs in it. That is exactly where Tonalic belongs. You have a chord progression and a rough idea, and what you hear are world-class musicians going along with it, following your idea while the song is still taking shape. That is for anyone who likes to work quickly and fluently and wants the result to sound like a record, which is what Luna users are used to," says Leo Waidosch, Director Content & Product at Celemony.

Luna Studio owners receive Tonalic essential included: acoustic and electric guitar performances by Uwe Bossert, guitarist of the successful pop-rock band Reamonn ("Supergirl"), as a perpetual license. The license is redeemed via UA Connect and activated in a free Tonalic account at tonalic.com. Tonalic essential is the entry point into the Tonalic world, with upgrade paths to the larger Tonalic editions when more musicians, instruments and creative control are needed.

Tonalic in Luna requires Luna 3.0 and Tonalic 1.0.4 or later. Tonalic also runs in all other major DAWs as a VST3, AU or AAX plug-in, and offers the same ARA integration in Studio One Pro, Fender Studio Pro, Cubase, Nuendo and Waveform Pro. Tonalic is available as a monthly or annual subscription at tonalic.com, currently with a 1$/€ introductory offer for the first month. Prepaid licenses with no subscription commitment (for one month or one year) are available through music dealers.

About Tonalic

Tonalic is a music production plug-in from Celemony, the creators of Melodyne. It gives producers access to a continuously growing library of performances by over 30 world-class session musicians, recorded across genres in studios around the world. Tonalic is distributed by Celemony Music GmbH, a subsidiary of Celemony Software GmbH, via music dealers or as a subscription service at tonalic.com. The performances and recordings on which Tonalic is based reflect the work of an international team of experts, who produce and gather world-class audio recordings that they later enhance and adapt for creative use in Tonalic.

About Celemony

Celemony is the pioneer and market leader in the musical, note-based editing of audio. The company's principal product, Melodyne, inaugurated this type of audio editing in 2001, established itself – for vocal editing in particular – as the standard worldwide, and since set the bar for innovative audio processing at the cutting edge of what is technically possible. In 2008, for example, Celemony presented its patented DNA Direct Note Access, which extended Melodyne's editing capabilities to polyphonic audio material – right down to individual notes within chords. Subsequent versions of Melodyne brought further technological innovations: the unique Sound Editor, Multitrack Note Editing for the simultaneous note-based editing of an unlimited number of audio tracks and sophisticated tempo and chord functions, as well as the detection and separate editing of sibilants on vocal tracks. Other important technologies developed by Celemony include the musically intelligent restoration tool Capstan and the pioneering plug-in interface ARA. Melodyne and Celemony have won numerous awards – among them, the Technical Grammy in 2012.

About ARA Audio Random Access

The interface extension ARA Audio Random Access broadens the communication between compatible DAWs and plug-ins, making more streamlined workflows and new applications possible. The standard, which was developed by Celemony and Presonus in 2011, is now supported by almost all DAWs as well as numerous plug-ins.

More information:

• Tonalic in Luna

Celemony Social

• Celemony Expands Tonalic 09-Sep-26
• Celemony Expands Tonalic's Percussion Palette 25-Jun-26
• First Library Update For Tonalic 14-Apr-26
• Celemony Music Introduces Tonalic 19-Jan-26
• Pro Tools Integrates Melodyne Via ARA 29-Sep-22