Antares AutoTune 3 user manual

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Note: When you start the process by pressing the Make Scale
From MIDI button, all notes are first Removed from the chro-
matic scale in preparation for adding just the notes you play. If
you then press the Make Scale From MIDI button again without
playing any notes, you will be left with a chromatic scale with
all notes removed. In this state, Auto-Tune 3 will pass all notes
with no correction applied. So don’t do that.
Another Note: We realize that there is some possibility of
confusion between the...

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If you have a tone that you want to use as the pitch standard, select that
tone and play it in a loop. Adjust Scale Detune until the Change meter
reads zero. (You may be required to use the Edit Scale dialog to remove
adjacent notes so that Auto-Tune 3 doesn’t tune to the wrong note.)
The default Scale Detune setting is 0 cents. Double-clicking the Scale
Detune knob will reset it to that value.
Retune Speed
Retune Speed controls how rapidly the pitch correc-
tion is applied to the incoming sound. The...

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The default Tracking setting is 25. Double-clicking the Tracking knob will
reset it to that value.
Note: The improved pitch detection algorithm in Auto-Tune 3
(in combination with the new Input Type selection described
above) results in noticeably more reliable pitch detection
compared to previous versions of Auto-Tune. If you have used
older versions of Auto-Tune, you may find that situations that
previously required constant modifications of the Tracking
control now track perfectly at the default...

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The Pitch Change Indicator
The Pitch Change Indicator
shows you how much the
pitch is being changed,
measured in cents (100 cents
= one semitone). For example,
if the indicator bar has moved to the left to -66, it indicates that the input
pitch is 66 cents too sharp and Auto-Tune 3 is lowering the pitch by 66
cents to bring the input back to the desired pitch.
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Graphical Mode Controls
The Playback Controls
Track Pitch
The Track Pitch function is used to detect the pitch of the
audio to be processed so that it can be displayed on the
Pitch Graph Display.
Locate the desired audio and press the Track Pitch button. Its
“LED” will flash to indicate that Auto-Tune is waiting for
audio. Next, start playback of the audio. (The Track Pitch LED
will light steadily.) When all of the audio you want to correct
has played, stop playback. Track Pitch is automatically...

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Correct Pitch
After you have used the graphical tools (as described below) to create a
target pitch contour, this button is used to apply the pitch correction to
the audio.
In all cases, pressing the Correct Pitch button and then starting playback
will cause the pitch correction to be applied to the audio. In some host
applications, starting playback when the Pitch Graph contains any yellow
pitch correction contour will automatically engage the Correct Pitch
function. Check your Auto-Tune 3 Read Me...

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The Pitch Graph Display
The Pitch Graph displays the pitch contour of the audio to be processed as
well as the target pitch contour objects that you create. On this display,
the vertical axis represents pitch (with higher notes towards the top) while
the horizontal axis represents time.
The red curve represents the original pitch contour of the input track,
while the desired target pitch or pitch contour is indicated in yellow.
The horizontal grid lines represent scale pitches. The key annotation,...

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Note: The horizontal scale buttons always control the Pitch
Graph. They also control the Envelope Graph when it is set to
“Tie” (see below).
The Envelope Graph Display
The Envelope Graph displays the amplitude (loudness) envelope of the
sound whose pitch is shown in the Pitch Graph.
Envelope Graph Scale
The “+” and “-” buttons next to the Envelope Graph control the vertical
scale as expected, while the horizontal (time) scale is controlled by the
“All” and “Tie” buttons.
Clicking the All button causes...

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Pressing Option/Alt on your keyboard during line entry will force the
current segment to be perfectly horizontal.
Only one pitch contour object (line or curve) can exist at any time point on
the Pitch Graph. When you complete the entry of a line object, any
object(s) that previously existed at the same time will be deleted.
The Curve Tool
The Curve Tool is used to draw arbitrary curves on the Pitch Graph.
Start the process by selecting the Curve Tool and clicking anywhere
on the Pitch Graph to set an...

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•Moving the Pointer Tool over a pitch contour object anchor point
(whether that point is currently selected or not) causes the cursor to
change into the anchor point cursor (four diagonal arrows).
Clicking on an anchor point with the anchor point cursor deselects
all other objects and anchor points and selects that anchor point
so that it can be dragged. Dragging an anchor point stretches or
compresses the pitch contour object relative to the nearest unselected
anchor point(s).
•The extent to which...