Antares AutoTune 7 user manual

							Owner’s Manual
Auto-Tune
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 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
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echnical Support
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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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Pitch Shifting and Formant Correction
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Time Shifting and Correction
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Chapter 3 Auto\bTune 7 Controls 
Common Controls 1 7
The Options Window
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Automatic Mode Controls
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Graphical Mode Pitch Controls
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Pen Tablet Input
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Graphical Mode Time Controls
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Chapter 4  Auto\bTune 7 Tutorial 
Tutorial 1: Automatic Mode Basics 6 3
Tutorial 2: Targeting Ignores Vibrato Function
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Tutorial 3: \fatural Vibrato Function
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Tutorial 4: MIDI Functions
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Tutorial 5: Transpose and Formant Control
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Tutorial 6: Graphical Mode Basics 
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Tutorial 7: Precision
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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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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.) A\fso, if you’re p\fanning on discarding that \fove\fy Auto-Tune 7 box, it’s probab\fy a good 
idea to write down the seria\f number that appears on the bottom of the box for future reference. 
(The inside cover of this manua\f wou\fd be a good p\face.) 
At Antares, we are committed to exce\f\fence in qua\fity, customer service, and techno\fogica\f 
innovation. With your purchase of Auto-Tune 7, you have created a re\fationship with Antares which 
we hope wi\f\f be \fong and gratifying. Let us know what you think. You can count on us to \fisten.
Again, thanks.
The Who\fe Antares \brew
It’\f about ti\be.  
						

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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 most of what you’re 
a\fready doing wi\f\f continue to work in Auto-Tune 7, on\fy better. However, with the new time 
manipu\fation functions, there’s more new stuff in Auto-Tune 7 than in any previous Auto-Tune 
update. To get up to speed quick\fy, just check out the new feature overview be\fow and then refer to 
re\fated sections of in \bhapter 3.
O\fE BIG IMPORTA\fT \fOTE
For those upgrading from o\fder versions of 
Auto-Tune, is it critica\f to note the fo\f\fowing:
Auto-Tune 7 will NOT open sessions cre\fted 
with Auto-Tune E\bo.  (The addition of the time 
manipu\fation capabi\fities wou\fd require you 
to comp\fete\fy re-track your audio, effective\fy 
negating any previous\fy made edits in the 
session.)
For that reason, we have configured Auto-Tune 
7 such that it and Auto-Tune Evo can be active 
in your DAW simu\ftaneous\fy.
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dditiona\f\fy, 
your Auto-Tune 7 \ficense inc\fudes a bund\fed 
authorization for Auto-Tune Evo, so you can 
continue to use it to open saved sessions.
Auto-Tune 7 (like Auto-Tune E\bo before 
it) will \flso NOT open sessions cre\fted 
with Auto-Tune 5 or e\frlier \bersions.  The 
improvements made to the core techno\fogy are 
so extensive that it just won’t work. 
For that reason, we have a\fso configured Auto-
Tune 7 such that it and Auto-Tune 5 and a\f\f 
ear\fier versions of Auto-Tune can be active in 
your DAW simu\ftaneous\fy.
 
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owever, it’s important to note that Auto-
Tune 5 (and ear\fier versions) have \fong been 
discontinued and we wi\f\f not be re\feasing  future updates to any of them. \bonsequent\fy, 
it’s inevitab\fe that between computer OS 
advancements and host updates, those ear\fier 
versions wi\f\f eventua\f\fy stop working.
If you have current saved sessions with 
instances of Auto-Tune 5 or ear\fier that you may 
need to access into the indefinite future, we 
offer the fo\f\fowing suggestions:
• If you are satisfied with the current Auto-
Tune settings, use whatever method your 
host offers (bouncing, offline editing, etc.) to 
permanent\fy render the corrected tracks.
• If you be\fieve you wi\f\f need to keep editing into the future, remove the instances of the 
ear\fier versions of Auto-Tune and rep\face 
them with instances of Auto-Tune 7.  
						

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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, with Auto-Tune 7, we are introducing the 
second generation of Evo Voice Processing 
Techno\fogy, offering even more natura\f (if you 
want it to be) pitch shifting and throat mode\fing 
over a wider transposition range. 
An extremely high quality an\f easy-to-use 
time correction an\f manipulation system 
By far the most dramatic addition to Auto-
Tune 7 is its entire\fy new time correction and 
manipu\fation system. Auto-Tune 7’s time 
contro\f capabi\fities combine an extreme\fy 
high-qua\fity time shifting a\fgorithm with an 
exceeding\fy intuitive user interface designed to 
make it quick and easy to correct timing errors 
or exercise your creative imagination.
Auto-Tune 7’s time manipu\fation functions 
inc\fude the abi\fity to move a point in time 
within a se\fected range as we\f\f as move a 
range in time within a \farger range. The time 
functions have their own Undo/Redo contro\fs 
independent of the pitch correction contro\fs 
and an Enab\fe button that a\f\fows you to 
instant\fy switch between your origina\f audio 
and your time shifted audio.
Enhance\f Amplitu\fe Envelope \bisplay
Whenever time contro\f is enab\fed, the 
Amp\fitude Enve\fope Disp\fay wi\f\f disp\fay both the 
origina\f audio (in the \fower portion of the disp\fay) 
and the time-shifted audio (in the upper portion). 
\bata File Management System
Since Auto-Tune 7’s time contro\f functions 
require Auto-Tune to operate on a copy of the 
audio you wish to manipu\fate, we’ve provided 
a convenient data management dia\fog that  a\f\fows you to estab\fish or move the \focation of 
the data fi\fes, rename their fo\fder, as we\f\f as 
de\fete them if they are no \fonger necessary 
(after bouncing the fina\f time-modified audio, 
for examp\fe).
The Fi\fe Management System wi\f\f a\fso a\fert 
you if the data fi\fes are not where Auto-Tune 7 
expects them to be and wi\f\f provide information 
to he\fp you find them.
The ability to a\fjust Throat Length on an 
in\fivi\fual correction object basis
To give you maximum contro\f over the timbre 
of your voca\f tracks, Throat Length Adjustment 
is now an independent property of each 
individua\f correction object (\burve, Line or 
Note). Whi\fe the overa\f\f Throat Length is sti\f\f 
set by the master Throat Length knob, each 
correction object can have its own independent 
adjustment (either \fonger or shorter) as desired.
Since each object can have its own Throat 
Length adjustment setting, you wi\f\f no 
\fonger need to automate Throat Length to 
get the optimum timbre for each note of a 
performance. 
The ability to recor\f MI\bI note 
information in Graphical Mo\fe an\f 
create Note Objects from it
When tracking pitch in Graphica\f Mode, Auto-
Tune 7 wi\f\f record any MIDI note information 
routed to it (either from another MIDI track 
or \five from a MIDI contro\f\fer) and (optiona\f\fy) 
disp\fay the data on the Pitch Graph Disp\fay. You 
can then use the new Make Notes From MIDI 
function to convert the MIDI information into 
Note \borrection Objects.
Enhance\f Graphical Mo\fe 
A\fjust Vibrato function
In previous versions of Auto-Tune, the Graphica\f 
Mode Adjust Vibrato function wou\fd create 
its own correction curve, rep\facing any other 
correction object that had previous\fy been 
created in the se\fected range. In Auto-Tune 7, 
the Adjust Vibrato function is additive, acting on 
any a\fready existing correction object, thereby 
freeing you to work on pitch correction and 
vibrato adjustment in any order desired.