I would like to publicly congratulate Steinberg Developers on the improvements in Variaudio in Nuendo 10. So very well done! You have addressed the previous shortcomings expertly for how I had always wanted to use it. Just having per segment Volume Control is a fantastic addition.
Improvements I love:
- Contextual Smart Controls via mouse for (nearly) every parameter. Excellent implementation that’s much more intuitive.
- Volume Control per segment.
- Multiple choices for default Snap Mode in Pitch Correction.
- Vastly improved Tilt function including smooth rotate.
- Control over including/excluding a portion of a segment within the Warp Function.
- Continuously variable Formant Shift per segment.
- Great choices for intelligent Modifier Keys to access previously unavailable parameters.
Taken as a whole, these improvements are a literal game changer for me on vocals, especially when mixing. Much faster and more capable than before. I would have paid the upgrade fee for these improvements alone.
Thank you. This is the sort of thing that will retain me as a customer indefinitely.
absolutely +1 !
these are wonderful improvements, great results.
For Vocal Editing, I prefer VA over Melodyne.
This is the main reason I got the update. This will speed things up so much when editing vocals. The range setting is great. Incredibly useful.
Still we don’t have a way to change reference pitch (A different than 440Hz). And I’m preparing some examples of Variaudio not recognizing the pitch accurately. A plain synth giving exact pitch and variaudio gets it even 25% off! Usually the worse happens ouside the vocal range but even in C2-C3 it thinks is out between 4% and 8% which makes it unreliable. Even the Steinberg Tuner gets it right. And of course Melodyne or Waves In-Tune don’t have that issue.
We love Variaudio because is easy and powerful but we are having serious trust issues…
I use Variaudio almost exclusively on vocals and am not having any pitch accuracy issues in that setting.
I don’t use the snap to pitch function ever. I hold down the shift key and move the segment till it sounds correct to me. I’m trying for the most natural sound as I work with singer songwriters. It works great in this way.
I too love all the improvements SB brought to VA3 - its much, much better to use now…! A lot of previous requests were added - which was great to see.
Since release, over in the Cubase pages, I and others have collected a few areas of workflow that could/should be examined further, to make it even more stellar. Have a look and see what you think:-