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Personally, I don't have any need for either one so for those rare occasions when I do need alignment, like others I do quite alright with Melodyne + VocalSync.
Bingo. My Volkswagen isn't a "piece of crap" because it's not a Testarossa. But - if I ever need to take curves on the Amalfi drive at 120 MPH, I'll look into the Testarossa.
If VocalSync
didn't do what I needed, I would seek a more powerful tool because I need to hit deadlines. But I know how to sing, how to overdub, and how to get the most out of VocalSync; it does what I want 95% of the time. The other 5% I break the vocal into smaller clips or worst case, do manual stretching. Assuming VocALign would actually take care of that other 5%, at least to me VocALign PRO is not worth 2.5+ times the cost of what yearly memberships used to cost. Maybe I'd feel differently if I did dialog replacement 8 hours a day for the next
Stars Wars. Anyway, it wouldn't surprise me if Cakewalk was already aware of what would be needed to incorporate VocALign PRO (and what is it with these companies? Can't they afford to replace their keyboards with one where the caps lock works properly?

). Obviously it was a higher priority for Studio One because they don't have anything like VocalSync.