Antares AutoTune Live user manual

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Auto-Tune
®
 Live
Ultra Low Latency Pitch Correction 
and A\fto-T\fne Vocal \bffect
Owner’s Manua\f 

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©2012 Antares Audio Tec\fnologies. All rig\fts reser\bed.
Certified Isinglass-free™
All trademarks are property of t\feir respecti\be owners.
www.antarestec\f.com
Printed in USA Re\b 1.0 PN P28031-0612-M01 

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The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-\fumbo 
T\fe Antares Auto-Tune Li\be software and t\fis User’s Manual are protected 
by copyrig\ft law. Making copies, adaptations, or deri\bati\be works wit\fout 
t\fe prior written aut\forization of Antares Audio Tec\fnologies, is pro\fibited 
by law and constitutes a punis\fable \biolation of t\fe law. 
Antares Audio Tec\fnologies retains all owners\fip rig\fts to t\fe Auto-Tune 
Li\be software and its documentation. Use of Auto-Tune Li\be is limited by 
t\fe following...

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Term of the Agreement 
T\fis agreement is effecti\be until terminated by you or Antares. You may 
terminate t\fe agreement at any time by notifying Antares and destroying 
all copies of t\fe manual, and erasing Auto-Tune Li\be from all mac\fine-
readable media, w\fet\fer on-line or on arc\fi\bal copies. 
In t\fe e\bent of breac\f of any of t\fe terms of t\fis agreement, you s\fall pay 
t\fe attorney’s fees of Antares t\fat are reasonably necessary to enforce t\fe 
agreement plus resulting damages....

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Contents
 
C\fapter 1  Getting Started   07 
Installing and Aut\forizing  07
Tec\fnical Support   08
  C\fapter 2   Introd\fcing A\fto-T\fne Live  10
Some background   10 
So w\fat exactly is Auto-Tune Li\be?   10
A little bit about pitc\f   11
How Auto-Tune Li\be detects pitc\f  13
How Auto-Tune Li\be corrects pitc\f  14 
Formant Correction   16 
Latency   17
  C\fapter 3   A\fto-T\fne Live Controls   18
  C\fapter 4   A\fto-T\fne Live T\ftorials   40
1: Pitc\f Correction Basics   40
2:...

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\belcome!
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 Li\be, an ultra low latency \bersion of t\fe worldwide standard 
in professional pitc\f correction and manipulation optimized for real time 
operation and control. 
Before you proceed any fart\fer, we’d like to strongly encourage you to 
register and aut\forize your copy of Auto-Tune Li\be. (You can skip a\fead to 
t\fe Aut\forization and...

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Chapter 1: Getting Started
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 Li\be does and \fow it does it.
If you’\be used or are currently using a fairly recent \bersion of Auto-Tune’s 
real time Automatic Mode, you will find t\fat w\fat you’re already doing will 
continue to work in Auto-Tune Li\be, only wit\f minimal latency and wit\f 
MIDI control of all t\fe key...

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A\fthorizing A\fto-T\fne Live 
Aut\forization is t\fe process by w\fic\f Auto-Tune Li\be is allowed to 
permanently run on your computer. Detailed instructions co\bering t\fe 
a\bailable aut\forization options will be found in t\fe file “Aut\forization Read 
Me” w\fic\f is included on t\fe installation DvD R oM or wit\f your software 
download. 
NOT\b: You will need to au\Lthorize Auto-Tune Li\fe before you \ban run it in 
your host. If you pl\Lan to follow along with t\Lhe manual (a good idea), go 
do...

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Chapter 2: Introducing Auto-Tune Live
Some backgro\fnd
In 1997, Antares Audio Tec\fnologies first introduced t\fe ground-breaking 
Auto-Tune Pitc\f Correcting Plug-In. Auto-Tune was a tool t\fat actually cor-
rected t\fe pitc\f of \bocals and ot\fer solo instruments, in real time, wit\fout 
distortion or artifacts, w\file preser\bing all of t\fe expressi\be nuance of t\fe 
original performance. Recording Magazine called Auto-Tune t\fe “\foly grail 
of recording.” And went on to say, “Bottom line,...