melodyne dna: pwn3d by single student?

so, after taking a deep breath and grasping what ableton announced to the digital audio world it is time for binary punk rocket science again:
nearly one year ago, during the musikmesse frankfurt, celemony announced their melodyne dna – direct not access – and everyone was going “wooooha!”. melodyne was always known for its single note pitch shifting and correcting capabilities of monophonic material, like vocals, but melodyne dna for the first time showed editing of single notes in a polyphonic instrument recording – quite a blast!
as i said, this was nearly one year ago, 3-21-2008, if i remember right, and later last year they had to confess that they just won’t get it done in 2008 as they planned to and it will take until the beginning of 2009.

fast forward to NAMM last week. melodyne again proudly showcased their direct not acccess thingie but there’s still the “coming soon” tag sticking to it.

enter Jonathan Schmid-Burgk: silently he just did was celemony is trying to do for a year – he just released his very own dna – direct note access solution, called VisualVox Polyphonic.

obviously melodyne seems still to be the more advanced product in general, even if celemony seems to have a hard time injecting their dna stuff into their existing code – but anyway, Jonathan is right in claiming on his website that he released the “first polyphonic tone manipulation software” and therefore deserves to be honored as the binary punk of the day – good work in the field, man, good work – may the force be with you!