Flex Time vs. Melodyne - which one first in your vocals workflow?

Question

Hi all,
I am curious about what workflow you guys have with vocals.
The first steps after recording (and perhaps multicomping) the different layers/tracks, are to me pitch-correction in Melodyne and time-correction with Flex-Time (built into Logic pro).
Which one do you guys do first?
I haven't yet got enough experience to judge  with much certainty which way serves the recorded audio best.
Myself, I currently go melodyne on one vocal track at the time, snap-to-pitch off and adjust pitch by ear with the music tracks as guide.
Sometimes I push formants around, in particular if there's a high note with lots of pitch drifting (those high notes can be difficult to hit ;-).
After that, I layer vocal tracks that belong together, and work with flextime until they are reasonably well-timed with particular focus on consonants and note ends.
I tend to keep one recording centered, and two (or more) panned to the sides; a configuration that is very transparent to time differences.
I *think* I do this because I have this idea that if I do flextime first, I will already have spectral content that is more damaged, that will be more difficult to pitch-correct with minimal artifacts. While as time-stretching or -compressing melodyne artifacts, will not do much to change the harmonic content of the material.
Whether this is "correct" or not, I don't know for sure :-}
So, I'd like to hear your experiences and opinion on this!
Cheers;
::E::

Answer 1

Hi!
I assume you are on Logic 9. I think your workflow makes sense. With LX it´s a bit different.
I have noticed that I really don't use Melodyne that much anymore, because of Flexpitch.
Flexpitch is so much easier to work with, especially if you change computer. Downside of FP,
however, is that you can't create fades, so first of all I would 'clean up' my vocal tracks, create fades,
and then apply Flex Pitch and Time, in that order, I guess.