Antares AutoTune 5 user manual

Owner’s Manual
Auto-Tune 5
Pitch Correcting Plug-in 

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Contents
	Chapter	1	 Getting 	Started	
What’s New in Auto-Tune 5   3 
Installing and Authorizing   5
Technical Support   6
	Chapter	2	 Introducing 	Auto-Tune 	5	
Some background    7
A little bit about pitch   7 
How Auto-Tune 5 detects pitch   9
How Auto-Tune 5 corrects pitch   9
Automatic Mode    10
Graphical Mode   12
	Chapter	3	 Auto-Tune 	5 	Controls	
Common Controls    15
Automatic Mode Controls    18
MIDI Functions    23
Graphical Mode Controls   30
Pen Tablet Input   39
	Chapter	4	 Auto-Tune 	5...

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	Chapter	5	 New 	Features 	Quick 	Start 	Guide 		 51
	Chapter 	6	 Creative 	Applications 		 57 



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 5, 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 5. (You can skip ahead to the Authorization and Installation instructions on page 5. We’ll wait.) Also, if you’re planning on discarding that lovely  Auto-Tune 5 box,...

 



Chapter	1: 	Getting 	Started
If you are new to Auto-Tune, we encourage you to read this manual and work through the tutorials in Chapter 4. It’s the quickest way to become familiar with what Auto-Tune 5 does and how it does it. 
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Auto-Tune, you will find that most of what you’re already doing will continue to work in Auto-Tune 5, only better. To get up to speed quickly, just check out the new feature overview below and then refer to the detailed New...



• Selectable Clock Source: For hosts that do not provide valid time information, Auto-Tune 5’s clock display and selection functions let you use an internal time reference for Auto-Tune 4 style operation.
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Realtime pitch tracking display: During the Track Pitch process, the graphic representation of the pitch will be displayed in realtime as the audio plays.
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Full-time correction mode (host dependent): Whenever Auto-Tune 5 is not specifically tracking audio (and correction curves exist),...