Antares AutoTune 8 user manual

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Time Display Mode
Use this control to display the timeline labels in the Pitch Graph Display in either bars and beats (as defined by your host’s tempo), or absolute time in hours, minutes, seconds, and fractions of seconds.
NOTE: If you select Bars + Beats, you will only see the timeline labels for regions where you have tracked pitch or pitch and time.
ANOTHER NOTE: If after tracking pitch or pitch and time, you change the time signature in your host anywhere in the range of tracked audio, you will...

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Pitch Tracking and Correction Objects
Tr a c k   P i t c h
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.
NOTE: If you will only be correcting the pitch of your vocal and will not be editing the time, you need only use the Track Pitch function as described below. However, if you will also be editing the time, you should instead use the Track Pitch + Time function as described in the Graphical Mode Time Controls...

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Make Curve
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 blue 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 precise pitch correction. This is one of the central techniques of Auto-Tune 8’s Graphical Mode and is described in...

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If you aren’t satisfied with the results of the Import Auto function, simply switch to Automatic Mode, modify any of the settings as desired, and then return to Graphical Mode and click Import Auto again.
NOTE: In addition to its use as a Graphical Mode correction tool, the Import Auto function can also be used to provide an informative visual representation of the results of Automatic Mode settings. If there are times when you’d prefer to use Automatic Mode, but can’t quite zero in on the ideal...

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NOTE: If prior to clicking the Make Notes button, a range of time has been already selected by using the I-Beam Tool, the Make Notes function will apply only in the selected time range. 
Notes also display the audio’s envelope contour over the Note’s duration and a green output pitch curve based on the currently selected Retune Speed. 
NOTE: The Retune Speed behavior for Notes is a bit di!erent from that of the other correction objects. Unlike the other correction objects, Notes do not provide a blue...

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When Number of Note Objects is set to the “Less” end of its range:
• Small variations in pitch are treated as a single Note.
• Large cyclical variations in pitch are seen as vibrato and treated as a single Note.
• A gradual pitch change is seen as a transition between notes and no Note objects are created for it.
When Number of Note Objects is set to the “More” end of its range:
• Small variations in pitch are treated as separate Notes.
• Large cyclical variations in pitch are seen as individual notes...

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Whenever you select a single correction object, the Retune Speed Control will become active and its data display will show the object’s current Retune Speed.
If you select multiple objects with di(erent Retune Speeds, the Retune Speed control will move to a value that is an average of the Retune Speeds of all of the selected objects. However, the Retune Speeds of those objects will not be modified until you actually move the Retune Speed control, at which time all of the objects’ Retune Speeds will...

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Throat Length 
Adjust
To give you maximum control over the timbre of your vocal tracks, the Throat Length Adjust control lets you independently set the throat length of each individual correction object (Curve, Line or Note). While the overall Throat Length for your track is still set by the master Throat Length control in the Common Controls section, each correction object can have its own independent adjustment (either longer or shorter) as desired.
NOTE: Since each correction object can have its...

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In practice, if your MIDI file is a single melody line that has been carefully played or programmed such that no two notes overlap, everything will be as you expect. If notes overlap, you may or may not get exactly the result you want. If not, simply edit the MIDI data (or play more precisely). If your MIDI file is polyphonic, you’re likely to get pretty wacky results. If wacky isn’t what you’re looking for, it’s probably better not to do that.
Show MIDI
When the Show MIDI button is blue, any MIDI data...

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The Pitch and Envelope Graph Displays
envelope will be visible in the main editing window. This can be particularly useful when selecting edit points during time editing.
You can resize the Graphical Mode window to take advantage of those nice big high-resolution monitors that have become so a(ordable. In most hosts, Auto-Tune 8’s Graphical Mode window can be resized in real-time, limited only by the size of your monitor. 
In hosts that don’t support real-time resizing, the window size can be set in...