Antares AutoTune Evo user manual

Auto-Tune reborn!
Owner’s Manual
Pitch Correcting Plug-in  

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Contents
Chapter 1 Getting Started  
What’s \few in Auto\bTune Evo 3
I nstalling and Authorizing
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T

echnical Support
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Chapter 2 I ntroducing Auto\bTune Evo 
Some background  9
S o what exactly is Auto\bTune Evo? 
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A

 little bit about pitch
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Ho

w Auto\bTune Evo detects pitch
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How Auto\bTune Evo corrects pitch 
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Automatic Mode
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Graphical Mode 
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Pitch Shifting and Formant Correction
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Chapter 3 Auto\bTune Evo Controls 
Common Controls 1 7
The Options Window
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Automatic...

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Chapter 5 \few Features Quick Start Guide 65
Ch apter 6 
 The
  Auto\bTune Vocal Effect 
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apter 7 
 Oth
 er Creative Applications
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Ch

apter 8 
 The
  Auto\bTune Evo Scales!
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Welcome!
on be\falf of e\beryone at Antares Audio Tec\fnologies, we’d like to offer bot\f our 
t\fanks and congratulations on your decision to purc\fase Auto-Tune E\bo, t\fe latest 
(and indisputably greatest) generation of t\fe worldwide standard in professional 
pitc\f correction. 
Before you proceed any fart\fer, we’d like to strongly encourage you to register and aut\forize your 
copy of Auto-Tune E\bo. (You can skip a\fead to t\fe Aut\forization and Installation instructions on 
page 5. We’ll...

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Chapter 1: Getting Started
Auto-Tune E\bo represents t\fe most substantial ad\bancement in power and ease of 
use since Auto-Tune’s original introduction in 1997. 
If you are new to Auto-Tune, we encourage you to read t\fis manual and work 
t\froug\f t\fe tutorials in C\fapter 4. It’s t\fe quickest way to become familiar wit\f 
w\fat Auto-Tune E\bo does and \fow it does it.
If you are upgrading from a pre\bious \bersion of Auto-Tune, you will find t\fat most of w\fat you’re 
already doing will continue...

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common control area to ensure t\fat all of 
t\fe parameters used by bot\f Automatic 
and Grap\fical correction modes are easily 
a\bailable at all times. 
•
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racking control back w\fere it belongs: 
Back in Auto-Tune 5, we consolidated t\fe 
Auto Mode and Grap\fical Mode Tracking 
controls and mo\bed t\fe resulting control to 
t\fe 
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tions dialog. T\fis turned out to be a 
none-too-popular mo\be. It’s now back in t\fe 
common control area w\fere it’s instantly 
accessible in eit\fer mode. (And...