I am taking singing lessons. Can WaveLab (or any Steinberg product) display the sound wave of my voice as I’m singing? (For example, to see how close I am to the correct pitch.)
It’s hard to imagine how the sound wave of a vocal would help with respect to detecting closeness of pitch, but there are definitely plugins that help on that front. For example, Waves Tune Real-Time has a visual display that shows that information:
https://www.waves.com/plugins/waves-tune-real-time
I know there are others that will do this, too, though I’m not aware of anything Steinberg has that shows this sort of feedback.
A tuner plugin such as the free MTuner by Melda Production might be suitable.
Thanks! Using Cubase, that plug-in shows what note I’m singing! It’s not displayed as a wave form (at least, I don’t know how to make it display as that), but it will do. A wave form would more clearly show me when I’m “scooping” (starting a note below the correct pitch).
I’m not familiar with MTuner, but I suspect it would be similar. What would be ideal, I think, would be a continuous sine wave of the pitch showing how close it is to the notes being sung.
The actual audio wave only shows pitch based in the sense of frequency – i.e. higher frequency means higher pitch, so the difference between singing below a note and on pitch would be just that the distance between peaks (or troughs) gets farther apart as you go flat. And that’s “all things being equal” in that overtones in the voice will affect what is shown since human voices decidedly aren’t a pure sine wayve.
It wouldn’t be in real time, but if you want to analyze it this way, I think Cubase Pro includes Melodyne Essentials, and, if you record your voice, you could use that to see the graph of pitch over time in Melodyne. For that matter, I think Cubase’s VariAudio can show that. Those types of graphs would make things like scoops clear.
With the “strobe tuner”-like display in Waves Tune Real-Time, what is showing is what it detects as the pitch and highlights to the left or right depending on whether you’re below or above that detected pitch, respectively. Of course, no tuner can read your mind on what you intend as the pitch, so, for example, you could be perfectly on pitch in that display while singing the wrong note. 
(That could also be true in the Melodyne-like display when analyzing it later.)
Thanks for the info! I have a phone app (VocalTuner) that does what I am looking for, but it has some limitations and depends on the phone microphone. I was hoping that with all the $oftware and associated recording equipment (especially the microphone), there would be something superior to the phone app already available!
MOscilloscope by Melda might be another alternative. It shows the waveform together with the base frequency and the corresponding pitch.
Thanks! I’ll check that out.