Antares AutoTune 8 user manual

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When performing time compression, Auto-Tune 8 needs to process the audio at faster than real time. At the limit of 10:1, audio must be processed at ten times it’s normal rate. Our tests have shown that computers that meet our published system requirements can accomplish this in most cases, but it’s important to keep in mind that if your session is particularly complex, with many tracks and lots of other potentially processor-hungry plug-ins all running at once, even the fastest computer may have...

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YET ANOTHER NOTE: Be cautious about changing the Tracking value after performing the Track Pitch + Time function. Auto-Tune 8 uses the Tracking setting during both the Track Pitch + Time function and while correcting pitch. Changing the Tracking setting after Tracking Pitch + TIme, but before correcting, may result in unpredictable pitch modifications or strange artifacts.
The Pitch Graph Display
In the process of time shifting, the articulation and transient profile of your audio is typically more...

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Time Control Functions
The Time Control section provides time edit control functions that are independent of the pitch edit controls described earlier.
The Enable Button
The Enable function is an easy way to quickly compare the e(ect of all of your current time edits to your original audio.
When this button is blue, time shifting is active. You will hear all of your current edits and are free to make new edits. When it is gray, time shifting is inactive. You will hear only your original audio and no...

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• A note, word, or phrase that both begins and ends at the correct times, but whose internal articulation you would like to edit.
Using the Move Point Tool is a two step process:
 1. Select the audio range you wish to operate on.
 2. Select the point within that range that you want to shift and move it forward or backward as desired. 
The Move Point Tool operates as a combination I-beam selection tool and time shifting tool as follows:
• Whenever the cursor is over an area that is not located in an...

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The Move Region Tool
The Move Region tool is designed for moving notes, words, or phrases in their entirety while preserving the timing of the moved element. 
NOTE: For clarity, in the following descriptions, a “range” is defined as the overall range of audio that you will be working with, while a “region” refers to the audio within that range that you wish to move.
As with the Move Point Tool, you first select a range of audio. Then, instead of moving a single point, you select the region within your...

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 2. When you place the Move Region Tool cursor within the range selected in step 1, it will turn into the double I-Beam Select Region cursor. Use the Move Region Tool to select the region that you wish to move.
 3. When you place the Move Region Tool cursor within the region selected in step 2, it will turn into the Move Region cursor. Click and hold anywhere within the selected region and move it forward or backward in time as desired.
Tr a c k e d   D a t a   M a n a g e m e n t
To help manage the...

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Before Tracking any Audio
If you instantiate Auto-Tune 8 on a track and use the Track Pitch + Time function to track some audio, a data folder for that instance will be automatically created at the default location for your computer and all data files created by that instance will be written to that folder. If that works for you (as it usually will), you needn’t take any other action. Just track and edit.
If, however, you specifically want to select a di(erent folder location (if, for example, you know...

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The symptoms of this situation are pretty unmistakable. When you play your track, you will hear audio from another place in the track, from another track, or from an entirely di(erent session. 
To correct the problem, click the “Find Data Folder…” button, dismiss the resulting alert, and navigate to the correct data folder.
Move Data Files…
To move the folder containing the data files to a new location:
• Click the “Move Data Files…” button. An alert message will appear (more about that in a bit)....

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If There’s a Problem
As mentioned above, if Auto-Tune 8 is unable to find previously recorded audio data at the location it expects, the Data File Management button will flash red to alert you to this problem. If this happens, click the button and you will see something like this:
As you will note, the dialog includes the location at which it expected to find the data folder, along with the name of the folder it expected to find there.
Find Data Folder…
Assuming that the folder hasn’t been deleted...

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4: Auto-Tune 8 Tu t o r i a l s
This chapter introduces you to how Auto-Tune 8 works by guiding you through a number of brief tutorials. 
These tutorials make use of a number of audio files. (We will assume that you are familiar with loading audio files into your host application.) 
If you purchased a packaged version of Auto-Tune 8, your will find the required files in the “Tutorial Audio” folder on the installation DVD. 
If you purchased your copy of Auto-Tune 8 via download, you will have to separately...