It’s easy to retain pitch inflections while retuning, or to deliberately iron them out. This division into discrete notes is the key to VariAudio’s power, allowing problem notes to be fixed without interfering with adjacent ones. VariAudio displays a line representing pitch, bound in a succession of boxes, one for each note. This type of effect has a mixed reputation: it’s blamed for letting poor vocalists off the hook but it’s so widely used now that few singers can live without it.
Pick of the bunch is VariAudio, a vocal pitch-correction editor in the style of AutoTune. Steinberg has responded with a swathe of inspired new features, many of which will have a big impact on the creative process. Its two-year turnover is slow, though, and a lot has happened in the two years since version 4 was launched. In fact, Steinberg rebooted the brand in 2002 when Cubase VST 5 turned into Cubase SX. Cubase is 20 years old this year, so it’s strange to think that it has only reached version 5.
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