VariAudio 3 - what a pleasant surprise!

Cubase
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I used C5 original VariAudio for some quick corrections in the past, and sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. My primary tool has always been Autotune.

Well, tonight I tried VA3. I got a much better result with it, no obvious artefacts, just clean, unnoticeable correction. In comparison I spent an hour in Autotune trying to fix the same vocal and still ended up with some artefacts (female soprano). So I decided to give VA3 a shot.

Well… I don’t think I’ll be using Autotune ever again.

Just another thing to love about CX. Kudos to Steinberg team, you guys did an amazing job!

2

Agreed, V3 is way better. V2 was painful to work with function wise. V3 has grown up a bit.

3

Since I posted that I worked with two more songs. Incredible results. Natural artefact free sound no matter what I do. Just quantize the pitch, move a few notes and you’re done. Absolutely incredible!

Steinberg needs to advertise this more.

4

Yes, in v3 variaudio is finally useable, v2 was extremely annoying having to mouse over to the left for controls.

Without ARA2, variaudio 3 is a better (temporary) option to melodyne right now for cubase users imo