Cubase Variaudio Bug

Cubase
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This one has been bugging me for many versions of Cubase.

It was hard to find the correct workflow to replicate but here is the video
https://youtu.be/NAQrlD6WfPY

  1. Create a vocal recording
  2. Double click on the vocal recording to open sample editor and activate VariAudio (Edit Variaudio)
  3. Close sample editor
  4. Duplicate the audio event on a new track.
  5. Double click on the original audio event to open variaudio
  6. Select all the notes, or just one note (the problem is mainly when selecting only one note)
  7. Use arrow Down on Up on your keyboard to move the note in variaudio
  8. The selection will be lost.

This is a problem because let say you select one note, and then you want to go up by 4 semi-tones (4 clicks on the up arrow on the keyboard), well your selection will be lost and I do not know why but when there is no selection, the keyboard arrows act like if everything is selected and ALL the variaudio events are moved up or down. (You can see why is can be very frustrating).

As a vocal producer, when gets time to edit tons of layered vocals, this is very frustrating experience. I have learned to work with this for years and can manage, but if anyone can replicate, please let me know.

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Right, I just replicated the bug on my machine and this occurs to me even without duplicating the audio event.
At first, I guessed this happened because we got the warning that the algorithm had changed to “standard solo”. So I changed this beforehand to VariAudio settings, and Cubase preferences, but the same thing happened.

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Thanks for confirming, I don’t remember in which version this started, maybe something around 10 or 11.

This does not happen when I do not duplicate.

It has to do with the fact that you duplicate the track.

***So interesting thing I just found out.

The selection is lost, but if you open variaudio on the duplicated audio event, the selection is present in the duplicate.

This is some weird bug!

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Cubase doesn’t like imposter tracks. keep it real :joy:

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I’m not used to this forum, does anyone knows if there is a way to tag someone so they see this post?
(talking about the tagging the famous Martin.Jirsak)

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@Martin.Jirsak
Mr. Jirsak, would like to know if you are able to reproduce this bug?

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I would like to know as well.
I cannot believe after all this time and all these versions, we are still dealing with this Vari Audio bug and we are not even duplicating tracks or any of the above.
Just using it as intended until, a few hours in, it will always eventually hang and stop responding on Mac.
And when it crashes, it doesn’t create a crash log that we have the option of sending either.
For those of us that have to use this 7 days a week, it is Extremely frustrating after ALL this time, and makes Vari Audio all but useless.