For my part, your assumption is true. I haven’t used Melodyne. Mum always warned me off dabbling with black magic. The power to isolate and manipulate parts within audio is the work of the devil 😈
Although it hardly gets used, I have Newtone (accessible through FL VSTi), and other granular synth/samplers for such duties.
Recently I heard of Vielklang, a cheaper alternative to Melodyne. Edits sound quite convincing! Though I haven’t had a play with it either.
