Have read some comments on Melodyne being sooooo much better than VA. Well, I’d say it’s different, Melodyne can do a bit more, polyphony etc. but: VA is absolutely fantastic for monophonic stuff that needs just a reasonable amount of treatment, especially in the current form VA3. Nothing bad to say about it, sounds very good to me if I put some time into my edits. Melodyne edits also need some time of tweaking to be ‘natural’.
VA3 is a pretty serious thing to me, nicely integrated and it just comes with Cubase Pro, nothing to complain about 