Steinberg Cubase 5 502012612 User Manual

Total vocal editing*

VariAudio offers completely inte-
grated vocal editing and pitch
alteration of individual notes in
monophonic vocal recordings and
can solve intonation and timing
problems with only a few mouse
clicks.

VariAudio starts its magic by
deeply analyzing the entire vocal
melody and transcribing each
individual note, with a maximum-
resolution display of all detected
notes as well as the Micro-Pitch
envelope. From here on in, you
have complete control over the
melody and intonation. All detect-
ed notes and segments can be
converted to MIDI notes. This
opens up further creative possi-
bilities, taking recorded vocal
melodies from audio into the MIDI
domain, allowing you to build new
arrangements and orchestrations
on top of recorded vocals —
a whole new approach to using
vocal melodies in the creative
process.

Bridging the gap between tradi-
tional MIDI and audio editing,
VariAudio is the perfect tool for
improving or creative note-editing
of vocal lines in a very intuitive
and musical way — even after the
singer has already left the studio.

On-the-fly pitch correction

Designed for vocal and solo
instrument recordings, the new
PitchCorrect VST3 plug-in brings
easy and automatic intonation con-
trol and scale correction of vocal
and monophonic instrument re-
cordings to Cubase.

PitchCorrect is based on the
acclaimed Yamaha Pitch Fix tech-
nology and constantly detects the
pitch of the input material and im-
mediately corrects it to match to
the closest pitch of a user-specified
scale, including minor, major, chro-
matic and custom scales.

Beside cosmetic corrections,
the independent controls for
formant shift, pitch-correction, de-
tection and detune also give plenty
of room for creative use —and
abuse — of audio material!