I’m with you John. If ARA 2 is not in Cubase 10, I may not upgrade…it would be very disappointing. My gut tells me Steinberg will have ARA 2 when Cubase 10 is released because Steinberg usually is ahead of the curve and the fact that most major DAWs have it now, would make Steinberg look well behind the times and at worse kind of ignorant of what users actually want. Variaudio that comes with Cubase is nice and all but for Steinberg to ignore ARA 2 because they have a decent pitch correction would be a mistake. Melodyne is simply more capable and useable but it isn’t free so for people that can’t afford melodyne, variaudio can be good. Both options can exist…It would be like Steinberg having Virtual Instruments but not allowing 3rd party support because they don’t want their existing virtual instruments to not be used…
I also recall earlier in this thread that someone spoke to Steinberg at a convention and they were told that Steinberg is well aware of ARA 2 so it has to be coming…