KVR Audio

rockyduderino · Post by **rockyduderino** » Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:57 pm

Hi
I was wondering which of Melodyne or Cubase's internal VariAudio you prefer and why?
Are there any things you can do in Melodyne that you can't do in VariAudio? VariAudio must be lighter on the CPU I assume?
Thanks so much for reading
Bless
Eric

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:10 pm

I'm no expert and didn't use either of these products yet, but to my knowledge the biggest difference is that in Melodyne one can work with individual notes in polyphonic audio.

briefcasemanx · Post by **briefcasemanx** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:54 pm

e@rs wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:10 pm I'm no expert and didn't use either of these products yet, but to my knowledge the biggest difference is that in Melodyne one can work with individual notes in polyphonic audio.

Only if you get one of the mindblowingly expensive versions that cost more than a DAW.

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:13 pm

Pricey indeed, but is there any competing product that can do that black magic?

briefcasemanx · Post by **briefcasemanx** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 8:45 pm

Not that I'm aware of.

TS-12 · Post by **TS-12** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:09 pm

I only use variaudio because it’s faster and more convenient. But melodyne is better in every way. I worked with one Grammy engineer and heprefered waves tune over melodyne because it sounded much natural especially on the top end

poshook · Post by **poshook** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:24 pm

In terms of sound quality, Waves is the best hands down to me. However it introduces a lot of latency and control is a nightmare. Melodyne GUI is perfect, flexible, fast, intuitive. Sound quality is lower to ensure zero latency operation. Variaudio is something between.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:42 pm

VariAudio used to use a lot of memory. If I did a lot of edits, it would slow my computer down a lot. Doing the same amount of edits in Melodyne did not slow my computer down. VariAudio may have been improved in this regard, it's been years since I last used it.

Earlier versions of Melodyne used to sound better after being exported. I don't think Melodyne Essential 5 has an export function, do the higher versions have it?

briefcasemanx · Post by **briefcasemanx** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:52 pm

Wait a sec, people actually like waves tune??? I demo'ed that plugin and it sounded do bad I closed it and never opened it again after a couple of minutes. Now I'm mad I didn't give it more time before the demo expired.

enroe · Post by **enroe** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:14 am

Uncle E wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:42 pm Earlier versions of Melodyne used to sound better after being exported. I don't think Melodyne Essential 5 has an export function, do the higher versions have it?

In every version of Melodyne you can export (bounce) the audio content, of course.
The export is also a very stable way to work.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:38 am

enroe wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:14 am In every version of Melodyne you can export (bounce) the audio content, of course.
The export is also a very stable way to work.

Are you referring to bouncing from the DAW or directly from Melodyne? I’m not seeing a Bounce or Export option in Essential. Where is it? Does it improve the sound?

enroe · Post by **enroe** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:43 am

Uncle E wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:38 am
enroe wrote: Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:14 am In every version of Melodyne you can export (bounce) the audio content, of course.
The export is also a very stable way to work.
Are you referring to bouncing from the DAW or directly from Melodyne? I’m not seeing a Bounce or Export option in Essential. Where is it? Does it improve the sound?

Bouncing from the DAW, yes.

I would be extremely surprised if the audio result was somehow different
from an "internal" bounce.

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:10 am

The first versions of Melodyne reduced the quality during editing, then internally exported at higher quality. I don’t know about now. Melodyne 5 sounds fine to me.

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:58 pm

The version of melodyne I use ( pretty damn old) sounds better than variaudio to me and also is lighter on the cpu and more stable (variaudio is one of the few things that crashes cubase for me with no warning). I generally don't do very extreme processing with either though. Melodyne is handy for various quick fixes like a bad note here or there or slightly out of tune guitar.

trmupstage · Post by **trmupstage** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:41 pm

I use variaudio. The new control features they added are pretty incredible and speed up the process for me. To avoid any issues further on in a mix, I may render the edited track and then disable the original, to free up memory and CPU. When I'm working on huge projects (100+ tracks) this comes in very handy. I have to say, I have not used Melodyne. Variaudio is part of Nuendo and works perfect. I see no need to buy anything else.

Melodyne vs VariAudio