Anderton
V-Vocal indeed has more functionality than Melodyne Essential, however Melodyne Editor is superior to V-Vocal in many ways AFAIC. Regardless, those who use V-Vocal should consider weaning themselves off of it...it's Roland software, not Cakewalk, will most likely never be updated and at some point, may cease to be compatible with future versions of Windows and/or SONAR.

Sad... One of the few truly good things Roland brought to Cakewalk...

Keni

BTW... Welcome back Craig. I hope all is well on the personal side of life for you...

Keni: how are you opening VV?

YouDontHasToCallMeJohnson
Keni: how are you opening VV?

After selecting the area to edit, I right click on it and go to create region, then select VV...I'm not in front of a real computer right now so I'm forgetting the exact wording and possibly the order. May be rt-click|region fx| VV|create region?

Keni

thnx

YouDontHasToCallMeJohnson
thnx

Glad I could help...

Ya it's still in the right click menu. That's why I didn't even know they removed it. I always install bare bones 8.5 just for these reasons. 
Thanks Jonesey for your post, I was totally unaware there was the middle version. I'm a 100% middle version guy! Middle versions are where it's at bang for the buck wise. 
So folks it's only $150 us dollars to upgrade to Assistant with what would seem to be a lot more pro features than Essentials. Only big thing missing is the editing of Chords, something I wouldn't be doing anyhow. 
Check out the features list here: 
http://www.celemony.com/en/melodyne/functions
 
Our free licence to Essentials ( thanks Cake) saves you $100 off the list price so there's real value there for us Sonar users. Especially as I only paid $100 for Sonar Professional anyhow..  

Mo worries Johnny - I only stumbled on Assistant by accident