I’ve noticed sometimes when using variaudio, that I can’t get to the exact note I want to. For example, if I want to slightly lower the pitch of a phrase - I drag it down, and it snaps all the way down to the next half-step. Then I try to use the “quantize” pitch slider to get it back up where I need it to be - but it won’t go far enough! Is there something I’m missing here? Can I slide the segments without them snapping to the half-step? Or is there a way to make the “quantize” pitch function slide the pitches further? The way it currently functions (and my current lack of knowledge), I cannot get many pitches where I need them to be in many cases. This has been very problematic.
It’s not very intuitive to require a “shift” key to make this work. Myself and other people have had problems with this.
What if there was a “pitch snap” button similar to the standard snap button? This way with “pitch snap” disabled, we could drag the pitch of a note anywhere we want it to go. With “pitch snap” enabled, the notes would jump between half-steps. Also, the “quantize” slider would be better if it was just a “fine adjust” for pitch where you could make the pitch go either positive, or negative.
Even better: A quantize slider that could slide up AND down - all the way to the next half-step in either direction. There are many times when the segment may be perfectly on the half step, and quantized, but it doesn’t sound perfectly in pitch…
This would be brilliant! In older versions of Cubase (we still have Cubase 6 at the school where I teach), clicking and dragging notes automatically snapped them to the nearest semitones. You could still hold down shift for un-snapped moves. This fuctionality works brilliantly. Frustrating that they seem to have changed it!
