Antares ATR1a Hardware user manual

©2000 Antares Audio Technologies. All Rights Reserved.
Antares Audio Technologies
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Contents
Getting Started
Welcome 5
Tech Support 6
A few words from Dr. Andy 7
Introducing the ATR-1a Chapter 1
Background 9
So what exactly is it? 9
A little bit about pitch 10
Some pitch terminology 10
How the ATR-1a determines pitch 11
How the ATR-1a corrects pitch 12
Program Mode vs. Song Mode 13
Setting Up the ATR-1a Chapter 2
Setting up the ATR-1a 15
Panel Controls and Chapter 3
Front panel 17
Back panel 19
Display Screens and Chapter 4
Flash screen 20
Mode pages 20
Program Edit pages 22
Speed page...

Program Name page 27
Save Program page 27
Song Edit pages 27
Song Speed page 28
Song Items page 28
Song Vibrato page 29
Song Name page 30
Save Song page 30
System Edit pages 30
Bass Mode page 31
Sensitivity and LCD page 31
Foot Switch and Detune page 32
MIDI page 1 33
MIDI page 2 34
MIDI page 3 35
MIDI page 4 35
MIDI page 5 36
Owner Message page 36
Creative Applications Chapter 5 37
Appendix
Factory Programs 40
Scale and Chord Guides 41
MIDI SysEx message formats 44
MIDI SysEx message examples 47
MIDI...

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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 the
absolute best intonation correction hardware in the world.
Before you proceed much farther, we’d like to strongly encourage you to
fill out and return the ATR-1a registration card. As an ATR-1a owner, you
are entitled to receive notification of any firmware upgrades, technical
support, and advance announcements of upcoming products. But we
can’t send you...

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Technical Support
In the unlikely event that you experience a problem using your ATR-1a,
try the following:
1. Make another quick scan through this manual. Who knows? You may
have stumbled onto some feature that you didn’t notice the first time
through.
2. Check our web page for tips, techniques, or any late-breaking
information: www.antarestech.com
3. Call your local Antares dealer.
4. Call us at (831) 461-7814 Monday through Friday between 9am and
5pm USA Pacific Standard Time.
5. Email us at:...

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A few words from Dr. Andy
I remember, as if it were yesterday, sitting in my junior high school band,
happily playing away on my flute, when I noticed that our conductor was
screaming and jumping up and down on the podium. What was this
about? Suddenly, I realized she was screaming at me. And just in time too
— since I was able to duck and watch a baton fly past my head, missing
me by inches. “Why [expletive] can’t you play in tune?” she asked. But I
was in tune. Everybody else was out of tune. It was...

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Chapter 1:
Introducing the ATR-1a
Some background
In 1997, Antares first introduced the ground-breaking Auto-Tune Pitch
Correcting Plug-In for ProTools™ (followed a bit later by the VST and
stand-alone versions). Here was a tool that actually corrected the pitch
of vocals and other solo instruments, in real time, without distortion or
artifacts, while preserving all of the expressive nuance of the original
performance. Recording Magazine called Auto-Tune a “Holy Grail of
recording.” And went on to say,...

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A little bit about pitch
Pitch is typically associated with our perception of the “highness” or
“lowness” of a particular sound. Our perception of pitch ranges from the
very general (the high pitch of hissing steam, the low pitch of the rumble
of an earthquake) to the very specific (the exact pitch of a solo singer or
violinist). There is, of course, a wide range of variation in the middle. A
symphony orchestra playing a scale in unison, for example, results in an
extremely complex waveform, yet you...