Antares AutoTune EFX 2 user manual

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Chapter 2: How It Works 
Some background 
In 1997, Antares first introduced the ground-breaking Auto-Tune Pitch \borrecting P\fug-In and Recording Magazine ca\f\fed Auto-Tune a “ho\fy grai\f of recording.” In the intervening years, Auto-Tune has estab\fished itse\ff as the wor\fdwide standard in professiona\f pitch correction. Today, it’s used dai\fy by tens of thousands of audio professiona\fs to save studio and editing time, ease the frustration of end\fess retakes, or save that otherwise...

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How to do it  
Auto-Tune EFX 2 has been designed to make a\fmost everything automatic. Simp\fy fo\f\fow the steps be\fow: 
Pitch Correction or Auto-Tune  
Vocal Effect
 1.  Select an effect type    Auto-Tune EFX 2 provides two a\fternative versions of the Auto-Tune Voca\f Effect as we\f\f as rea\f-time pitch correction.  
   Hard EFX: This is the c\fassic Auto-Tune Voca\f Effect. Sung notes wi\f\f be restricted to the exact sca\fe pitches and transitions between notes wi\f\f be instantaneous.  
   Soft...

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A TIP: If you don’t know the key of your track, trial-and-error works pretty well. Start by setting Major or Minor and then just trying one Key after another until one sounds good. 
 5.  Play your track     Auto-Tune EFX 2 wi\f\f process your input voca\f and,  depending on your choice of Effect Type, wi\f\f  either correct or quantize it to the target sca\fe notes. Mr. Hand wi\f\f continuous\fy indicate the current target note.
    If you \fike the resu\ft, you’re done. If not, continue with the next...

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   Soft EFX: Transitions between notes of the pattern wi\f\f be s\fight\fy \fess 
instantaneous. 
   Legato: The notes of the pattern wi\f\f g\fide smooth\fy from one to the next.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Despite the similarities, the Pattern Style selection is completely independent of the Effect Style selection. For example, if you select Hard EF\b for the Effect Type and Legato for the Pattern Style, you will get classic Auto-Tune Vocal Effect on the vocal when a pattern is not being triggered, but when a...

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 4.  Trigger the Pattern  
P\fay your track. At any point, c\fick and ho\fd 
the Trigger button to p\fay the se\fected pattern. \bontinuing to ho\fd down the Trigger button wi\f\f cause the pattern to repeat for as \fong as you ho\fd it down. Re\fease the Trigger button to stop the pattern. Repeat as desired.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Since the Auto-Motion patterns are being generated from your vocal track, they will only play as long as there is actually vocal present on the track. If you continue to hold down...

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Auto-Motion Vocal Pattern Generation
 1.  Auto-Motion depends on the same Voice Type, Tracking, Key, and Sca\fe settings as pitch correction and the Auto-Tune Voca\f Effect. Even if you aren’t doing pitch correction or using the Auto-Tune Voca\f Effect, be sure to correct\fy set those contro\fs.
  2.  Try using different patterns in different parts of your track by using your host’s automation capabi\fity to switch patterns at the appropriate points in the track.
  3.  Try triggering a pattern on...

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Chapter 3: \futo-\bune EFX 2 \butorials 
This chapter introduces you to how Auto-Tune EFX 2 works by guiding you through three brief tutoria\fs. The tutoria\fs require a number of audio fi\fes. They can be found on the Auto-Tune EFX 2 DVD, or you can down\foad them from:  
http://www.antarestech.com/down\foad/update.shtm\f 
Then just fo\f\fow these steps: 
Tutorial 1: Auto-Tune Vocal Effect 
 1.  \breate a new project in your host and import the tutoria\f fi\fes “hidin_voca\f.wav” and...

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Tutorial 3: Auto-Motion Vocal 
Pattern Generation
The best way to become fami\fiar with Auto-Motion is simp\fy to p\fay around with it. To get started:
 1.  Load the “hidin” fi\fes from Tutoria\f 1 and set the contro\fs as instructed in that tutoria\f.
  2.  Set your host’s tempo to 132 BPM and set the Auto-Motion tempo to “Sync to Host” and “1/16.”
  3.  Set the Auto-Motion Pattern Sty\fe to Hard EFX.
  4.  Se\fect the pattern “Ha\ff Steps.”
  5.  Start p\faying the project. \b\fick and ho\fd the...

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Chapter 4: Creating, Editing and 
Updating \futo-Motion Patterns
For the adventuresome among you, Auto-Tune EFX 2’s patterns are stored in a dedicated fi\fe in the standard MusicXML format. Besides making it easy for us to re\fease updated and expanded pattern co\f\fections without having to re\fease comp\fete\fy new versions of the p\fug-in, it a\fso a\f\fows anyone with an app\fication that can open and edit MusicXML fi\fes (and there are free open source apps that can do this) to edit existing...