celemony said: "Celemony, developers of the Melodyne pitch-correction application, have announced Direct Note Access (DNA), a new technology that can shift the pitch and timing of individual notes of a polyphonic recording, such as a melodic guitar or piano track.

With Direct Note Access, individual notes of a chord are displayed in Melodyne's piano roll-style GUI, such that they can be dragged around to wherever the user chooses. Furthermore, notes can be muted, so both the rhythmic and melodic content of the audio can be completely transformed.

Celemony say that once DNA has hit the market, studio engineers and producers will be able to think the same way about piano takes, for example, as they do currently with vocal recordings, where a slight blemish can be ‘fixed’ at a later date. This could change the way studio sessions run, and reduce the requirement for overdubbing or re-recording entire takes after minor player errors."