Antares AutoTune 4 user manual

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The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-Jumbo
The Antares Auto-Tune 4 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 4
software and its documentation. Use of Auto-Tune 4 is limited by the
following license agreement.
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In the event of breach of any of the terms of this agreement, you shall pay
the attorney’s fees of Antares that are reasonably necessary to enforce the
agreement plus resulting damages.
LIMITED WARRANTY AND DISCLAIMER
AUTO-TUNE 4 AND ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS”
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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Contents
Getting Started Chapter 1
What’s New in Auto-Tune 4 2
Installing and Authorizing 4
Technical Support 4
Introducing Auto-Tune 4 Chapter 2
Some background 5
A little bit about pitch 6
How Auto-Tune 4 detects pitch 8
How Auto-Tune 4 corrects pitch 8
Automatic Mode 9
Graphical Mode 11
Auto-Tune 4 Controls Chapter 3
Common Controls 13
Automatic Mode Controls 17
MIDI Functions 25
Graphical Mode Controls 33
Auto-Tune 4 Tutorial Chapter 4
Tutorial 1: Automatic Mode Basics 40
Tutorial 2: Improved...

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New Features Chapter 5 61
Creative Applications Chapter 6 69
Index 70 

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Welcome!
On behalf of everyone at Antares Audio Technologies, we’d like to offer
both our thanks and congratulations on your decision to purchase Auto-
Tune 4, the most powerful intonation correction tool in the world. Before
you proceed any farther, we’d like to strongly encourage you to register
and authorize your copy of Auto-Tune 4. (You can skip ahead to the
Authorization and Installation instructions on page 4. We’ll wait.) Also, if
you’re planning on discarding that lovely Auto-Tune 4 box, it’s...

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Chapter 1: Getting Started
If you are new to Auto-Tune, we encourage you to read this manual and
work through the tutorials in Chapter 4. Its the quickest way to become
familiar with what Auto-Tune 4 does and how it does it.
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Auto-Tune, you will find
that most of what you’re already doing will continue to work in Auto-Tune
4, only better. To get up to speed quickly, just check out the new feature
overview below and then refer to the detailed New Feature...