User manual ANTARES AUTO-TUNE

[. . . ] Auto-Tune tm Intonation Correcting Plug-In Users Manual Auto-Tune Users Manual i 2000 Antares Audio Technologies. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Antares Audio Technologies 464 Montery Ave. 2nd Floor Los Gatos, CA 95030 voice: (888) 332-2636 fax: (408) 399-0036 email: info@antarestech. com web: www. antarestech. com Printed in USA Rev 1 04/2000 Auto-Tune software and this Users Manual are protected by copyright law. [. . . ] This is done in the Soundbites window. Bring up Auto-Tune. Set the buffer for a few seconds longer than the duration of the audio you are going to tune. Press the Track Pitch button, then play back the sound. The pitch will be detected and then displayed in the Pitch Graph as a red curve. Create a target pitch function using the Graphical tools and adjust the Retune slider for the desired effect. Press Correct Pitch and play back the sound. This will cause the pitch to be corrected as specied. Setup your playback so that Auto-Tune processes the file "A2-A3-A2 sweep" . Play the sweep signal through Auto-Tune. After the playback stops, or is stopped by you, you will have to press the Track Pitch button again to stop the tracking function. In Graphical Mode, it is important that the sound played back for pitch correction begins precisely at the same spot as the sound played back for pitch detection. This is because the plug-ins do not know the absolute time-of-day. The specied target pitch function will be applied to whatever sound occurs after playback begins, even if it is a completely different sound. In other words, before you press Correct Pitch and play, make sure that the counter is set to start from the exact place you started Track Pitch. Auto-Tune Users Manual 25 Auto-Tune Tutorial 1. Press the Zoom/Select tool and drag out a box on the Pitch Graph that encloses the red curve. Press the Line tool and enter a line similar to that below. By clicking multiple points on the Pitch Graph, line segments joining the points will be drawn. If you move the cursor outside the Pitch Graph during point entry, the graph will be automatically scrolled. To exit, double-click a point or press <esc> on the keyboard. To erase the last point entered, press <delete> on the keyboard. 3. Press Correct Pitch and play back 26 Auto-Tune Users Manual Lesson 2: Graphical Mode 4. Select the Curve tool, then click and hold down the mouse on the Pitch Graph. A curve will be drawn as the mouse is dragged. Create a curve similar to the one shown: 5. Press Correct Pitch and play back the sound to hear the effect. [. . . ] Be cautious about changing the Tracking slider after performing the Track Pitch function. Auto-Tune uses the Tracking slider setting during Track Pitch and during Correct Pitch functions. Changing the Tracking slider settings will cause different parts of the sound to be pitch corrected. If you change this slider before Pitch Correction, your target pitch function may inadvertently make corrections you did not intend, possibly resulting is strange artifacts. 50 Auto-Tune Users Manual Graphical Mode Controls The Retune slider The Retune slider is only used during pitch correction. [. . . ]