Autotune on a track insert

I’ve just bought the latest Autotune. I put it on a track as an insert and record a half a scale of sung notes, it’s doing its thing visually but the recording isn’t tuned. If I run Variaudio on it straight after the recording the pitch correction shifts everything a quarter of a note.

If I record the same phrase with no autotune it’s exactly the same when I run it through Variaudio, Autotune is doing nothing.

When I watch Fil on Wings of Pegasus he shows live autotuned vocals and they are glued to the correct pitch. Am I using it wrong?

Right, been messing around this morning. So it’s tuning what I’m hearing but it’s not tuning what’s being recorded. I sing, it tunes the output to the phones but cubase records my actual, untuned vocal.

So how do I record what I’m hearing on the phones once I’ve set the parameters? And if this is how it’s done I think it would probably have been best to just post process the vocal tracks with Melodyne Studio which I already have! Think I’ve wasted my money!

All I’m trying to achieve is to have a tuned vocal performance so the person who is going to put the actual vocal down can hear the lyrics and melody. I bought Autotune because I thought it would let Cubase record straight down the tuned version while I sing it. It wouldn’t matter about any Autotune style artifacts because it would only be a guide.

Can it do that or have I made one of my usual, costly cock ups?

if you want to record vst output live you just need to put them on the input channel, not the recording track.

What does that mean Grim?

I’ve tried putting Autotune on an Input Channel but there’s no monitoring.

How can that work?