Antares AutoTune EFX 3 user manual

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2: How It Works 
Some background 
In 1997, Antares first introduced the ground-breaking Auto-Tune Pitch Correcting 
Plug-In and Recording Magazine called Auto-Tune a “holy grail of recording.” In 
the intervening years, Auto-Tune has established itself as the worldwide standard in professional 
pitch correction. Today, it’s used daily by tens of thousands of audio professionals to save studio 
and editing time, ease the frustration of endless retakes, or save that otherwise once-in-a-lifetime...

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How to do it  
Auto-Tune EFX 3 has been designed to make 
almost everything automatic. Simply follow 
the steps below: 
Pitch Correction or  
The Auto-Tune Vocal Effect
  1.  Set Tracking
In most cases, simply 
leaving the Tracking 
switch at its default 
setting of “Normal” 
will ensure accurate 
pitch detection and 
tracking. In the rare 
event that you encounter a problem (e.g., 
a vocal playing back at the wrong octave), 
moving the switch to “Choosy” should 
make everything right.
  2.  Select...

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 6.  Adjust the Retune Speed
    If your initial Retune Speed setting did not 
give you the results you want, speed it up 
or slow it down as necessary.
  7.  Customize the Scale
    Depending on the specific vocal line, 
adding or removing scale notes can give 
you distinctly different results. Try any 
combination of the following:
 
•  Click on a lit blue Note button to remove 
it from the scale and prevent Auto-Tune 
EFX 3 from correcting or quantizing the 
output to that note.
 
•  Click on an...

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Auto-Motion Vocal Pattern 
Generation
 1. Select a Pattern 
    Auto-Tune EFX 3 comes with a varied 
selection of melodic patterns (but see 
Chapter 4 for info on expanding the 
selection and creating your own). Click the 
Select Pattern menu to pick one.
    While we’ve tried to name each pattern in 
a way to suggest its style, the easiest way 
to become familiar with them is just to try 
them out.
  2.  Select a Pattern Style
The Auto-Motion 
Pattern Style 
switch lets you 
select the speed 
of the...

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 • 1/32. (dotted 32nd note) 
 •  1/32 ( 32nd note) 
 •  1/32T (32nd note triplet)
    For example, if you select 4/4, each note of 
your pattern will last for four beats, while 
selecting 1/16 will result in one pattern note 
per sixteenth note. 
   Absolute BPM:  When Sync to Host is not 
selected, the Tempo knob lets you set the 
tempo in beats per minute. The available 
range is 20 BPM to 260 BPM.
  4.  Trigger the Pattern
    Play your track. At any point, click and hold 
the Trigger button to play...

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Auto-Motion Vocal Pattern 
Generation
 1.  Auto-Motion depends on the same Voice 
Type, Tracking, Key, and Scale settings 
as pitch correction and the Auto-Tune 
Vocal Effect. Even if you aren’t doing 
pitch correction or using the Auto-Tune 
Vocal Effect, be sure to correctly set those 
controls.
  2.  Try using different patterns in different 
parts of your track by using your host’s 
automation capability to switch patterns 
at the appropriate points in the track.
  3.  Try triggering a pattern on...

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3: Auto-Tune EFX 3 Tutorials 
This chapter introduces you to how Auto-Tune EFX 3 works by guiding you through three brief 
tutorials. The tutorials require a number of audio files. They can be found on the Auto-Tune EFX 3 
DVD, or you can download them from:  
http://www.antarestech.com/download/latest-software.php
Then just follow these steps: 
Tutorial 1: Pitch Correction 
 1. Import the tutorial files “dont_give_up_
vocal.wav” and “dont_give_up_accomp.
wav” onto two tracks of your project.
  2....

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Tutorial 3: Auto-Motion Vocal 
Pattern Generation
The best way to become familiar with Auto-
Motion is simply to play around with it. To get 
star ted:
 1.  Load the “hidin” files from Tutorial 1 and 
set the controls as instructed in that 
tutorial.
  2.  Set your host’s tempo to 132 BPM and set 
the Auto-Motion tempo to “Sync to Host” 
an d “1/1 6 .”
  3.  Set the Auto-Motion Pattern Style to Hard 
EFX.
  4.  Select the pattern “Half Steps.”
  5.  Start playing the project. Click and hold 
the...

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4: Creating, Editing and Updating    
  Auto-Motion Patterns
For the adventuresome among you, Auto-Tune EFX 3’s patterns are stored in a dedicated file in 
the standard MusicXML format. Besides making it easy for us to release updated and expanded 
pattern collections without having to release completely new versions of the plug-in, it also 
allows anyone with an application that can open and edit MusicXML files (and there are free 
open source apps that can do this) to edit existing patterns and...