A handy application is to exclude note onsets and endings these often contain important information about the pitch transition from/into the previous/next note, and being too aggressive with pitch straightening here soon results in an unnatural sound. For example, the two triangular Smart Controls (top left and top right) can be placed anywhere on the segment to define the time range on which the Straighten Pitch Curve control operates. But in combination with other Smart Controls, you can shape the pitch curve with much greater finesse. This is used to adjust the amount of pitch variation inside a segment, to reduce unintentional pitch wobble, or tame/enhance deliberate vibrato. Once you click and adjust a Smart Tool, the various tools disappear from view, but you do get feedback on the adjustments you're making.The Straighten Pitch Curve Smart Control mimics that in the VariAudio panel, but it's now also available in the segment (the square node, top-centre). The Straighten Pitch tool lets you reduce (or expand) the pitch variation anywhere inside a segment, the range being defined by the two Set Range marker tools.
Video of Cubase Pro 10’s VariAudio 3 Pitch-correction - Pitch Snapping Set Things Straight Second, clicking and dragging the Smart Control that's bottom-centre of the segment gives you precise control over pitch quantisation you can very gradually nudge the segment's pitch centre towards the nearest scale note.
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First, holding Shift while dragging the segment up/down will override either Pitch Snap Mode, leaving you free to adjust the segment's pitch centre as you wish. Two useful options give you more control over any general pitch adjustments. That might give you the most technically correct pitch in algorithmic terms, but it won't always be the most musical-sounding result - you must let your ears be the judge here. Set the Pitch Snap Mode to Absolute or Relative (both are useful, but Absolute is my default) and as you click and drag on a segment it will snap to the nearest note centre. Most of the remaining pitch-correction tasks will typically done in iterative fashion, but a good starting point is to decide which pitch segments need a general nudge to tighten their overall tuning. Video of Cubase Pro 10’s VariAudio 3 Pitch-correction - Segment Splitting Snap! I obviously can't explore all of these tools in detail in a single article, so instead I'll illustrate their potential by taking you through how these tools can be used to perform a few common vocal pitch-correction tasks and offer some video tutorials too. Hopefully, this is a useful reference, but it also serves to indicate just how many pitch-manipulation options are instantly on offer without ever moving your cursor away from the segment in question. There's a lot to take in the first time you use this, so I've annotated the opening screenshot as a handy summary of the functions offered by each Smart Control.
Now, when you hover over a pitch segment, some 12 controls (the Smart Tools) appear around the edges of the selected segment or segments. To get the best from these, select the All option from the panel's small Smart Controls drop-down menu. But the real workflow magic of VariAudio 3 lies not in the panel but in the new Smart Tools. This activates the initial pitch-detection process that superimposes pitch segments and a pitch curve on the waveform display. Smart ThinkingĪt the heart of VariAudio 3's operation is a large collection of Smart Tools.Īlthough the Sample Editor's VariAudio panel contains new options, the first step remains the same: click on the Edit VariAudio button. Then use the render or export options to generate a new, 'cleaned' audio event that's ready for pitch-correction work. In particular, before you start doing detailed work in VariAudio, try to get other 'housekeeping' tasks out of the way first - things like comping from multiple takes, for example, or editing breaths, plosives or sibilance. Before we dive in, it's worth saying that while VariAudio's capabilities have improved massively since I wrote about it in SOS August 2009 ( ), some of the advice I gave 10 years ago still stands. Despite under-the-hood refinements to its pitch-manipulation algorithms, perhaps the most significant improvements are those which allow a far more efficient workflow. Find out how by reading our article and watching the videos.Ī headline improvement in Cubase Pro 10 was the major revamp of VariAudio. VariAudio 3 massively enhances Cubase Pro's pitch-correction capabilities.Ĭubase Pro 10's VariAudio 3 competes with the best pitch-correction plug-ins around.
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