Antares AutoTune 4 user manual

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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.
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The horizontal grid lines represent scale pitches. The key annotation, scale
name, scale pitches and Scale Detune value are those defined in the
Automatic Mode. They do not affect the computations of the Graphical
Mode in any way. They are merely a reference to guide you in drawing the
target pitches. If you wish to change them, select the Automatic Mode and
change the Key pop-up, Scale pop-up, or the Scale Detune setting, respec-
tively. (Changing the Scale Detune setting will also result in the...

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The Graphical Tools
The graphical tools are used in conjunction with the edit buttons to create
the desired target pitch contour.
NOTE: In addition to clicking on the various tools, if your host passes
key presses to plug-ins, you can also select the various tools by pressing
the number keys 1-7*.
* NOTE ALSO: Some hosts reserve the numeric keypad for host
keyboard shortcuts even when a plug-in window is active. For that
reason, the tool selection shortcuts mentioned above are specifically
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THE CURVE TOOL (2)
The Curve Tool is used to draw arbitrary curves on the Pitch
Graph.
Start the process by selecting the Curve Tool and clicking any-
where on the Pitch Graph to set an anchor point. Hold down your mouse
button and move the cursor to draw the desired pitch contour curve. End
the process by releasing your mouse button.
Unlike the Line Tool, the Pitch Graph will not scroll if you attempt to move
the Curve Tool cursor outside the current display area.
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•In some host applications, holding down the Option/Alt key and
then clicking to drag will restrict the cursor to vertical
movements only (the cursor will change to indicate this
state). The effect of this is to allow you to modify the pitch
contour while preserving the object’s location in time. This
is particularly handy after using the “Make Curve” button,
discussed below.
•Clicking on the background of the Pitch Graph deselects all selected
objects.
ADDING AND DELETING ANCHOR POINTS
•Moving the...

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When the Magnifying Glass cursor is displaying the default “+”, clicking the
Magnifying Glass anywhere in the pitch display will increase the display’s
horizontal and vertical zoom factors one step (if possible).
Pressing Option(Mac)/Alt(PC) will cause the cursor to change to “-”. In this
state, clicking anywhere in the pitch display will decrease the display’s
horizontal and vertical zoom factors one step (if possible).
Dragging the Magnifying Glass in the Envelope display will cause the
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THE REDO BUTTON
The Redo button becomes active whenever you have
executed at least one Undo. Clicking the Redo button once
will redo the most recent undone change. If you have
executed multiple undos, you can continue to click Redo to redo additional
changes up to the limit that you set in the Options dialog.
THE CUT AND COPY BUTTONS
The Cut and Copy buttons become active whenever a pitch
contour object is selected. Cut removes selected objects.
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THE MAKE CURVE BUTTON
The Make Curve button is enabled whenever there is any
red input pitch contour data present in the Pitch Graph
(whether it is displayed in the current Pitch Graph view or
not). Pressing the Make Curve button causes yellow target pitch contour
objects (curves for short) to be created from the input pitch contour data.
These curve objects can then be dragged and stretched for very meticulous
pitch correction. This is the central technique of Auto-Tune 4’s Graphical
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Once you have used the Make Auto function to create a yellow (or blue)
target pitch curve, setting the Graphical Mode Retune Speed to 0 and
clicking Correct Pitch will result in exactly the same output as you would
have gotten by processing the audio through Automatic Mode. Alterna-
tively, you can adjust the Retune Speed or further edit the yellow curve
using any of the Graphical Mode tools to get precisely the effect you want.
If you aren’t satisfied with the results of the Make Auto function,...