User manual ANTARES AUTO TUNE 3

[. . . ] Antares Audio Technologies 231 Technology Circle Scotts Valley, California 95066 USA voice: (831) 461 7800 fax: (831) 461 7801 service: (831) 461 7814 web: www. antarestech. com Printed in USA ii Rev 1. 0-02/01 The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-Jumbo The Antares Auto-Tune 3 software and this User's Manual are protected by copyright law. Making copies, adaptations, or derivative works without the prior written authorization of Antares Audio Technologies, is prohibited by law and constitutes a punishable violation of the law. Antares Audio Technologies retains all ownership rights to the Auto-Tune 3 software and its documentation. Use of Auto-Tune 3 is limited by the following license agreement. [. . . ] To use the Make Scale From MIDI function, ensure that the desired MIDI source is routed to Auto-Tune 3 and then click the Make Scale From MIDI button. Its associated "LED" will light and the Edit Scale display will automatically be set to a chromatic scale with all of the notes set to Remove. Now simply play the melody to be corrected from your keyboard or sequencer. Tempo and rhythm don't matter, so take your time and make sure you don't play any wrong notes. As each note is played, the corresponding Remove button in the Edit Scale Display is turned off. Assume, for example, that your melody starts with D, B, and then A. After playing those notes the display would look like this: When you have played the entire melody, press the Make Scale From MIDI button again to end the process. The Edit Scale Display will now contain a scale containing only those notes that appeared in your melody. If you happen to make an error during note entry, or want to try again for any other reason, simply click the Make Scale From MIDI button and start the process again. 24 Note: When you start the process by pressing the Make Scale From MIDI button, all notes are first Removed from the chromatic scale in preparation for adding just the notes you play. If you then press the Make Scale From MIDI button again without playing any notes, you will be left with a chromatic scale with all notes removed. In this state, Auto-Tune 3 will pass all notes with no correction applied. Another Note: We realize that there is some possibility of confusion between the Make Scale From MIDI function and Target Notes Via MIDI function described above. To clarify: Target Notes Via MIDI is used to specify target pitches in real time while pitch correction is occurring, while Make Scale From MIDI is used in advance of correction to create a custom scale. Scale Detune The Detune parameter allows you to change the pitch standard of AutoTune 3 from the default A = 440Hz. The values are cents (100 cents = 1 semitone). The range of adjustment is from -100 to +100 cents. The Detune function can be used to tune a vocal performance to some irreparably out-of-tune instrument (a piano or organ, for example), or to allow correction to other than the conventional 440Hz standard. Refer to the following table to convert cents to Hertz relative to 440Hz. DETUNE SETTING A=HERTZ -20 -16 -12 -8 -4 0 +4 +8 +12 +16 +20 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 This table can be extended in either direction by adding or subtracting 4 cents per Hertz, as appropriate. 25 If you have a tone that you want to use as the pitch standard, select that tone and play it in a loop. Adjust Scale Detune until the Change meter reads zero. (You may be required to use the Edit Scale dialog to remove adjacent notes so that Auto-Tune 3 doesn't tune to the wrong note. ) The default Scale Detune setting is 0 cents. Double-clicking the Scale Detune knob will reset it to that value. Retune Speed Retune Speed controls how rapidly the pitch correction is applied to the incoming sound. A value of zero will cause instantaneous changes from one tone to another and will completely suppress a vibrato (note that any related volume changes will remain). Values from 10 to 50 are typical for vocals (unless you're going for the now-infamous "Cher effect, " in which case use 0). [. . . ] To hear the pitch corrections that would be produced in Automatic Mode, set the Graphical Mode Retune Slider to 0, (fast) and play back the file. Switch to the Automatic Mode and click the Remove buttons next to C, D and F. Return to the Graphical Mode and use the Zoom/Select tool to drag out a selection in the Envelope Graph, as in Step 7. Auto-Tune 3 will compute a new yellow curve from the existing pitch data: RAISED PITCH Note how the pitch errors from the previous curve have been removed. [. . . ]