Antares AutoTune 3 user manual

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©2001 Antares Audio Technologies.
All Rights Reserved.
Antares Audio Technologies
231 Technology Circle
Scotts Valley, California 95066 USA
voice: (831) 461 7800
fax: (831) 461 7801
service: (831) 461 7814
web: www.antarestech.com
Printed in USA Rev 1.0-02/01
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The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-Jumbo
The Antares Auto-Tune 3 software and this User’s Manual are
protected by copyright law. Making copies, adaptations, or
derivative works without the prior written authorization of
Antares Audio Technologies, is prohibited by law and constitutes
a punishable violation of the law.
Antares Audio Technologies retains all ownership rights to the
Auto-Tune 3 software and its documentation. Use of Auto-Tune 3
is limited by the following license agreement.
Please carefully...

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Term of the Agreement
This agreement is effective until terminated by you or Antares. You
may terminate the agreement at any time by notifying Antares and
destroying all copies of the manual, and erasing Auto-Tune 3 from
all machine-readable media, whether on-line or on archival copies.
In the event of breach of any of the terms of this agreement, you
shall pay the attorney’s fees of Antares that are reasonably
necessary to enforce the agreement plus resulting damages.
Limited Warranty and Disclaimer...

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Contents
Getting Started Chapter 1
What’s New in Auto-Tune 3 2
Installing Auto-Tune 3 3
Authorizing Auto-Tune 3 4
Technical Support 5
Introducing Auto-Tune 3 Chapter 2
Some background 6
A little bit about pitch 7
Some pitch terminology 8
How Auto-Tune 3 detects pitch 9
How Auto-Tune 3 corrects pitch 10
Automatic Mode 10
Graphical Mode 13
Auto-Tune 3 Controls Chapter 3
Common Controls 15
Sample Rate Display 15
Input Type 16
Correction Mode 16
Select Pitch Reference 16
Bypass 17
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Bypass 21
Remove 21
Cents 22
Set Major/Minor Scale 23
Target Notes via MIDI 23
Learn Scale from MIDI 24
Scale Detune 25
Retune Speed 26
Tracking 26
the Vibato Section 27
The Pitch Change Indicator 28
Graphical Mode Controls 29
The Playback Controls 29
The Pitch Graph Display 31
The Graphical Tools 32
Tracking 37
Retune Speed 38
The Use Cursor Button 39
Auto-Tune 3 Tutorial Chapter 4
Tutorial 1: Automatic Mode 40
Tutorial 2: Graphical Mode 42
Tutorial 3: Precision 44
Tutorial 4: The Make Curve Function...

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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 Auto-
Tune 3, the most powerful intonation correction tool in the world. Before
you proceed any farther, we’d like to strongly encourage you to register
and authorize your copy of Auto-Tune 3. (You can skip ahead to the
Authorization and Installation instructions on page 4. We’ll wait.) Also, if
you’re planning on discarding that lovely Auto-Tune 3 box, it’s...

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Chapter 1: Getting Started
What’s New in Auto-Tune 3
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Auto-Tune, you will find
that most all of what you’re already doing will continue to work in Auto-
Tune 3, only better.
The following are the key new features that have been added in Auto-
Tune 3:
•A revised core pitch detection algorithm that greatly improves pitch
detection reliability in both Automatic and Graphical Modes.
•“Source Specific” pitch detection and correction algorithms. Choices
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•An AudioSuite version (TDM only).
•A spiffy new user interface.
How To Use This Manual
Auto-Tune 3 has a very friendly user-interface and is extraordinarily easy
to use. However, because Auto-Tune 3 does things that have never been
done before, a few aspects of the user-interface may not be immediately
obvious. You should read either Chapter 3, Auto-Tune 3 Controls, or
Chapter 4, Auto-Tune 3 Tutorial, to learn the essential information you will
need to operate Auto-Tune 3.
The Contents Of This Manual...

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Authorizing Auto-Tune 3
Authorization (the process by which this software is allowed to run on
your computer) is accomplished by a technique called “Challenge/Re-
sponse.” Basically, the first time you launch this software you will be
presented with a string of words (the Challenge) and will be asked to
enter another string of words (the Response).
Note: When initially installed, this software will run for ten days
without authorization.
So even if you can’t authorize it right away you can still use...