Antares AutoTune 7 user manual

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How to use this manual
If this is your first experience of Auto-Tune, you 
wi\f\f find that Auto-Tune 7 has a very friend\fy 
user-interface and is extraordinari\fy easy to 
use. However, because Auto-Tune 7 does 
things that have never been done before, 
some aspects of the user-interface may not 
be immediate\fy obvious. You shou\fd at \feast 
read either \bhapter 3, Auto-Tune 7 \bontro\fs, 
or \bhapter 4, Auto-Tune 7 Tutoria\f, to \fearn the 
essentia\f information you wi\f\f need to operate...

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Installing Auto-Tune 7
Any unique instructions for insta\f\fing Auto-Tune 
7 for your specific host or p\fug-in format are 
\focated in the Auto-Tune 7 Read Me fi\fe that 
accompanies the p\fug-in. This fi\fe may a\fso 
contain any \fast-minute Auto-Tune 7 information 
that didn’t make it into this manua\f. 
Auto-Tune 7 is designed to work with a wide 
variety of digita\f audio app\fications. P\fease refer 
to your host app\fication’s user manua\f for more 
information on insta\f\fing and using...

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Chapter 2: Introducing Auto\bTune 7
Some background
In 1997, Antares Audio Techno\fogies first introduced the ground-breaking Auto-Tune 
Pitch \borrecting P\fug-In. Auto-Tune was a too\f that actua\f\fy corrected the pitch of 
voca\fs and other so\fo instruments, in rea\f time, without distortion or artifacts, whi\fe preserving a\f\f of 
the expressive nuance of the origina\f performance.  Recordin\b Ma\bazine ca\f\fed Auto-Tune the “ho\fy 
grai\f of recording.” And went on to say, “Bottom \fine,...

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midd\fe. A symphony orchestra p\faying a sca\fe 
in unison, for examp\fe, resu\fts in an extreme\fy 
comp\fex waveform, yet you are sti\f\f ab\fe to 
easi\fy sense the pitch.
The voca\fists and the so\fo instruments that 
Auto-Tune 7 is designed to process have a 
very c\fear\fy defined qua\fity of pitch. The sound 
generating mechanism of these sources is a 
vibrating e\fement (voca\f chords, a string, an air 
co\fumn, etc.). The sound that is thus generated 
can be graphica\f\fy represented as a...

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How Auto-Tune 7 detects pitch
In order for Auto-Tune 7 to automatica\f\fy correct 
pitch, it must first detect the pitch of the input 
sound. \ba\fcu\fating the pitch of a periodic 
waveform is a straightforward process. Simp\fy 
measure the time between repetitions of the 
waveform. Divide this time into one, and you 
have the frequency in Hertz. Auto-Tune 7 does 
exact\fy this: It \fooks for a periodica\f\fy repeating 
waveform and ca\fcu\fates the time interva\f 
between repetitions.
The pitch...

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Automatic Mode
Auto-Tune 7’s Automatic Mode works by 
continuous\fy tracking the pitch of an input 
sound and comparing it to a user-defined 
sca\fe. The sca\fe tone c\fosest to the input 
is continuous\fy identified. If the input pitch 
exact\fy matches the sca\fe tone, no correction 
is app\fied. If the input pitch varies from the 
desired sca\fe tone, an output pitch is generated 
which is c\foser to the sca\fe tone than the 
input pitch. (The exact amount of correction is 
contro\f\fed by the...

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Retune Spee\f 
Auto-Tune 7 a\fso gives you contro\f over how 
rapid\fy, in time, the pitch adjustment is made 
toward the sca\fe tone. This is set with the 
Retune Speed contro\f (see \bhapter 3 for more 
detai\fs). 
Fast Speed settings are appropriate for short 
duration notes and for mechanica\f instruments, 
\fike oboe or c\farinet, whose pitch typica\f\fy 
changes a\fmost instant\fy. A fast enough setting 
wi\f\f a\fso minimize or comp\fete\fy remove a 
vibrato, as we\f\f as produce the iconic...

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Graphical Mode 
The Graphica\f Mode is simi\far to the Automatic 
Mode in that it a\fso continuous\fy tracks the 
pitch of the incoming sound and modifies the 
output pitch to be c\foser to a desired pitch. But 
in the Graphica\f Mode, the desired pitch is not a 
predefined sca\fe tone, but rather is a graphica\f 
representation of your desired pitch (ca\f\fed a 
“correction object”).  
As in Automatic Mode, the rate of change 
towards the desired pitch is contro\f\fed by the 
Retune Speed contro\f,...

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The horizonta\f grid \fines (or Lanes, when Show 
Lanes in se\fected) represent sca\fe pitches. The 
key annotation, sca\fe name, and sca\fe detune 
va\fue are those defined by the common area 
contro\fs at the top of the interface. They do not 
affect the computations of the Graphica\f Mode 
in any way. They are mere\fy a reference to 
guide you in setting the target pitches. 
Graphica\f Mode a\fso inc\fudes the Enve\fope 
Graph, which disp\fays the amp\fitude (\foudness) 
enve\fope of the sound...

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\fets you use Antares’ unique throat mode\fing 
techno\fogy to modify a voice’s character by 
passing it through a precise physica\f mode\f of 
the human voca\f tract.
New to Auto-Tune 7 is the abi\fity in Graphica\f 
Mode to individua\f\fy modify the throat mode\fing 
for each note or correction object, offering an 
entire\fy new \feve\f of creative contro\f.
Time Shifting and Correction
By far the most dramatic addition to Auto-
Tune 7 is its entire\fy new time correction and 
manipu\fation system....