Antares AutoTune 8 user manual

Owner’s Manual
World Standard Professional 
Pitch and Time Correction
Auto-Tune 8 

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v 2.0 PN P23038-1014-M01 

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Contents 
Chapter 1 Getting Started  
What’s New in Auto-Tune 8 3
Installing and Authorizing 5
Technical Support  5
Chapter 2 Introducing Auto-Tune 8
Some background  6
So what exactly is Auto-Tune 8? 6 
A little bit about pitch 6
How Auto-Tune 8 detects pitch 7
How Auto-Tune 8 corrects pitch 8 
Automatic Mode 8
Graphical Mode  11
Pitch Shifting and Formant Correction 12
Time Shifting and Correction 13
Chapter 3 Auto-Tune 8 Controls  
Common Controls 15
The Options Dialog 19
Automatic Mode Controls 22...

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Chapter 4 Auto-Tune 8 Tutorials
  Tutorial 1: Automatic Mode Basics 64
  Tutorial 2: Flex-Tune 66
  Tutorial 3: Targeting Ignores Vibrato Function  66
  Tutorial 4: Natural Vibrato Function 67
  Tutorial 5: Transpose and Formant Control 68
  Tutorial 6: Graphical Mode Basics  68
  Tutorial 7: Precision 70
  Tutorial 8: Make Curve Function 70
  Tutorial 9: Import Auto Function 72
  Tutorial 10: Make Notes Function 74
  Tutorial 11: Time: Error Correction 76
  Tutorial 12: Time: Creative Editing 78...

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Welcome!
On behalf of everyone at Antares Audio Technologies, we’d like to o(er both our thanks and congratulations on your decision to purchase Auto-Tune 8, the latest (and indisputably greatest) generation of the worldwide standard in professional pitch and time correction and manipulation. 
Before you proceed any farther, we’d like to strongly encourage you to register and authorize your copy of Auto-Tune 8. (You can skip ahead to the Authorization and Installation instructions on page 5. We’ll...

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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. It’s the quickest way to become familiar with what Auto-Tune 8 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 8, only better. To get up to speed quickly, just check out the new feature overview below and then refer to related sections of in Chapter 3....

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Graphical Mode
Editing Tools Active During Playback
For those XIP
prefer editing on the fly or with looped segments, Auto-Tune 8’s editing tools are now active during playback, so you never haWF to stop and restart just to hear the results of an edit.
Audio Feedback of Note Object Pitch
Auto-Tune’s Note mode was already the easiest way to re-pitch already recorded melodies. In Auto-Tune 8, you can choose to have any note edits provide audio feedback of the note’s pitch, so selecting new notes is just a...