I have only seen the v-vocal mentioned sporadically in the upgrade info to X2. Has anyone heard anything about any improvements here too. I also own melodyne, but find myself using vv more and more.

Melodyne is a superior plugin when compared to v-vocal. If you have melodyne, you should use that over v-vocal.
Melodyne is at the top of their game and v-vocal is running in the middle of the pack

Cj

I have seen no mention about improvements to v-vocal anywhere. I will be surprised if they do. With that said, I think Cakewalk has good understanding of when to leave well enough alone when it comes to competing with third party plugins. Without dedicating far too much time ans resources then necessary with very little reward, there is no way v-vocal will ever be in the class of melodyne. Even if they made drastic upgrades, it is unlikely the melodyne faithful would switch. V-vocal is great for a built-in plug. Those who a5re far more serious about such manipulations will spend extra.

hmmm, I think people overlook the power of Vvocal. the draw tool alone makes it a ton more versatile melodyne. I have melodyne producer, and I can never get the same smooth note transitions when I work with an average singer. On saying that, melodyne does a pretty good job on poly notes, or multiple notes like an acoustic guitar. But for me, I only need it for vocals. Also Vvocals timing tool is far superior to melodyne.

Skarda


hmmm, I think people overlook the power of Vvocal. the draw tool alone makes it a ton more versatile melodyne. I have melodyne producer, and I can never get the same smooth note transitions when I work with an average singer. On saying that, melodyne does a pretty good job on poly notes, or multiple notes like an acoustic guitar. But for me, I only need it for vocals. Also Vvocals timing tool is far superior to melodyne.

Wow... I am quite surprised with your statements... I've tryed VV several times and found it less than average...

I don't care if V-Vocal is functionally identical to X1.  All I want to see is a version of V-Vocal that doesn't crash with monotonous regularity.  Currently, if I make a V-Vocal edit, I must bounce it straight away.  If I leave live edits in place, I will eventually crash.  The more edits, the more likely the crash.

The real power of V-Vocal is in the manual manipulation.  The auto-correction is average, but as a tool, when used sparingly, it can be very, very good.

V-Vocal is an under-documented gem of a feature.

In my opinion, the only thing needed in X2 is for Cakewalk to avoid breaking it. Improved documentation would be nice. 

+1 to Skarda.

I'm hoping both VV and Audiosnap will include an alert that reminds us if the clip has not been rendered.
It's too easy to get distracted and move on and then wonder why it's crashing or sounding odd.

VV is mentioned under the "edit" icon in the X2 section. So It will still be there. I never had crash problems with it, and I especially like the free hand draw tool. Hope that CW keep developing this great tool.

After using Melodyne I could never go back to V-Vocal in its current state.