Antares AutoTune 7 user manual

Owner’s Manual
Auto-Tune
®
 7
World Standard Profe\f\fional  
Pitch and Ti\be Correction 

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Contents
Chapter 1 Getting Started  
What’s \few in Auto\bTune 7 3
I nstalling and Authorizing
 6
T

echnical Support
 6
Chapter 2 I ntroducing Auto\bTune 7 
Some background  7
S o what exactly is Auto\bTune 7? 
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 little bit about pitch
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w Auto\bTune 7 detects pitch
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w Auto\bTune 7 corrects pitch 
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utomatic Mode
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Graphical Mode 
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2
Pitch Shifting and Formant Correction
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3
Time Shifting and Correction
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Chapter 3 Auto\bTune 7 Controls 
Common Controls 1 7
The Options...

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Tutorial 8: Make Curve Function 69
Tutorial 9: Import Auto Function
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Tutorial 10: Make \fotes Function
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Tutorial 11: Time: Error Correction
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Tutorial 12: Time: Creative Editing
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Chapter 5  The Auto\bTune Vocal Effect  7 7
Chapter 6 
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 he Auto\bTune 7 Scales
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ndex
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Welcome!
On beha\ff of everyone at Antares® Audio Techno\fogies, we’d \fike to offer both our 
thanks and congratu\fations on your decision to purchase Auto-Tune® 7, the \fatest 
(and indisputab\fy greatest) generation of the wor\fdwide standard in professiona\f 
pitch correction. 
Before you proceed any farther, we’d \fike to strong\fy encourage you to register and authorize your 
copy of Auto-Tune 7. (You can skip ahead to the Authorization and Insta\f\fation instructions on page 
6. We’\f\f wait.)...

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Chapter 1: Getting Started
Auto-Tune 7, with its new-from-the-ground-up time manipu\fation capabi\fities, 
represents the most substantia\f advancement in functiona\fity since Auto-Tune’s 
origina\f introduction in 1997. 
If you are new to Auto-Tune, we encourage you to read this manua\f and work through the tutoria\fs in 
\bhapter 4. It’s the quickest way to become fami\fiar with what Auto-Tune 7 does and how it does it.
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Auto-Tune, you wi\f\f find that...

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What’s new in Auto-Tune 7 
The fo\f\fowing are the key new features that 
have been added in Auto-Tune 7: 
The secon\f generation of Evo
™ Voice 
Processing Technology
In 2008, Auto-Tune Evo introduced Antares’ 
serious\fy evo\fved Evo Voice Processing 
Techno\fogy, setting a new standard in pitch 
detection, pitch shifting, and formant processing 
performance. In the intervening years, Evo Voice 
Processing Techno\fogy has been integrated 
into Antares’ fu\f\f \fine of voca\f processing too\fs. 
Now,...