I generated a couple of harmony lines from studio recorded vocals and am trying to VariAudio these into sensible harmony lines. But selecting each harmony line separately (‘Soprano’ or ‘Alto’) in VariAudio, I can mouse-drag the notes to where I want them and hear them at the desired pitch (and all points in between); but as soon as I release the note where I want it to go, it snaps back to its original position. Pitch snap mode is OFF, by the way.
Also, when in VariAudio, what are solid horizontal white bars at various pitches in the event? As expected, the notes of the harmony part I am working on in VariAudio are coloured, depending on their pitch. All I know is the white bars are not the original vocal track pitches - they are something else.
Any thoughts on either would be appreciated. Thanks.
I encountered this at some point and the answer was either you need to bounce the generated harmonies first or mute/disable the chord track. Cannot for the life of me remember which one it was though and am away from DAW atm so cannot check! lol. Hope this helps!
Many thanks, Greg. All done and sorted; and you’ve saved me asking you on Club Cubase Live tomorrow - for which many thanks, by the way. It’s always so helpful!
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I generated a couple of harmony lines from studio recorded vocals and am trying to VariAudio these into sensible harmony lines. But selecting each harmony line separately (‘Soprano’ or ‘Alto’) in VariAudio, I can mouse-drag the notes to where I want them and hear them at the desired pitch (and all points in between); but as soon as I release the note where I want it to go, it snaps back to its original position. Pitch snap mode is OFF, by the way.
Hi, I’m revisiting the same topic I raised over a year ago when I was using Cubase Pro 12 - I’m now on Pro 14 and the previous solution (kindly offered by Greg at Steinberg) no longer seems to apply (14 doesn’t appear to have the ‘follow chord track’ option to switch off that 12 had).
To recap my original post, it read:
I generated a couple of harmony lines from studio recorded vocals and am trying to VariAudio these into sensible harmony lines. But selecting each harmony line separately (‘Soprano’ or ‘Alto’) in VariAudio, I can mouse-drag the notes to where I want them and hear them at the desired pitch (and all points in between); but as soon as I release the note where I want it to go, it snaps back to its original position. I have the following settings in the Inspector:
Smart Controls: All
Pitch snap mode: Absolute
Scale Assistant: Use Editor Scale is selected
Show Scale Note Guides: Not selected
Snap Pitch Editing: Not selected
The track itself has been pasted from various takes and bounced to replace the track and is in musical mode. Incidentally, I had the same problem with the pre-bounced audio and have tried regenerating the harmony tracks several times with the same end result.
I’m sure the answer is something obvious, but I really can’t see it. Thanks for any suggestions.
Yes, I’m afraid this is now becoming a bit of an issue for me as well; it’s now happening yet again on a current project.
As I recall, Greg Ondo once gave me a helpful suggestion on the Live Steam about switching off Scale Assistant in VariAudio, so adjustments were not following the Chord Track or, I think, the Editor Scale as well. I am kicking myself for not remembering, but that doesn’t appear to be working for me now.
I have also bounced the source event as well as each of the generated harmony events - and still no joy.
I am heavily reliant on generating extra harmonies from my own vocals, so I really do need to get this sorted once and for all.
Greg’s Live Stream on YouTube is a seriously helpful source of help and support for Cubase users and is thoroughly recommended. I will ask Greg about this again next Tuesday. And this time, I’ll pay better attention!