Antares AutoTune user manual

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¥Pelog: This seven-tone Indonesian scale is more interesting than Slendro
and is now the primary scale in Balinese music.
¥Arabic 1: This 17 tone scale is the original Arabic scale adopted from the
Pythagorean scale.
¥Arabic 2 (chromatic): This twelve-tone scale is the modern version of the
Arabic scale popular in Arabic music today.
Contemporary Tunings:
Equal tempered scales with a large number of tones are typically used to
play common tonal harmony...

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¥Carlos Gamma: This scale achieves perfect purity of the primary inter-
vals 3/2, 4/3 and 5/4. This scale divides the octave into 34.188 steps
forming intervals of 35.1 cents.
¥Harmonic (chromatic): This twelve-tone scale is created in the partials in
the Þfth octave of the harmonic series. The scale degrees that correspond
to the classic just intervals are the major second, major third, perfect Þfth
and major seventh.
The Key popup
This determines the pitch...

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arate from the other scales. If a seven tone scale is being edited, the Edit
Scale dialog appears:
The top line shows the current scale as selected from the Scale popup. The
second line shows the current key.
The left most column is labelled Òdo not trackÓ. Clicking in this column
places a ÒchkÓ indicator. This has the effect that when the pitch of the
incoming sound is close to a tone so edited, the output pitch is not changed
from the input. This is...

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The Òset major scaleÓ button, when clicked, will check tones in the remove
column such that the remaining scale is a major scale. Similarly for Òset
minor scaleÓ.
If a scale with more than twelve tones is edited, the Edit Scale dialog
appears:
The microtuning data at the bottom is presented as information to help you
make decisions concerning what tones to include and exclude from the
scale.
The Scale Detune slider
The Scale Detune slider allows the scale to...

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The Retune slider
The Retune slider controls how rapidly the pitch correction is applied to the
incoming sound. The units are milliseconds. A value of zero will cause
instantaneous changes from one tone to another and will completely sup-
press a vibrato (note that any related volume changes will remain). Values
from 10 to 50 are typical for vocals. Larger values let through more vibrato
and other interpretative pitch gestures but also slow down how...

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The Change meter
The Change meter shows you how much the pitch is being changed, mea-
sured in cents (100 cents = one semitone). 
Graphical Mode Controls
The Arrow buttons
The arrow buttons next to the Pitch Graph control the horizontal and ver-
tical scaling of the graph.
The arrow buttons next to the Envelope Graph control the vertical scales
as expected, but the left and right arrows are replaced by ÒallÓ and ÒtieÓ.
These control the horizontal scale: ÒallÓ...

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The Graphical tools
These buttons are the graphical tools. They allow you to draw and edit the
target pitch function. 
The Line tool
Use this tool to click multiple points on the Pitch Graph. Line segments
joining the points will be drawn. Any existing line or curve will be over-
written. If you move the cursor outside the Pitch Graph during point entry,
the graph will be automatically scrolled.
To exit, double-click a point or press the  on the...

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If you hold down the option key and then click to drag, the cursor will be
restricted to vertical only movements. This is particularly handy after using
the ÒMake CurveÓ button, discussed below.
The Zoom/Select tool
Use the zoom/select tool in the Pitch Graph to press and drag a zoom box.
After you lift the mouse, the scale and position of the Pitch Graph will be
changed to show the area enclosed by the box. Dragging off the Pitch Graph
automatically scrolls...

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The Select All Button
The Select All button causes all target pitch function objects to become
selected.
Keyboard equivalents:   
The following are keyboard equivalents to the respective Graphical Mode
buttons:
The Make Curve button
The Make Curve button is enabled whenever there is any input sound pitch
(red) data. If a range of time has been selected by applying the zoom/select
tool in the Envelope Graph, the Make Curve button works in the selected
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created from input sound pitch (red) data. The Make Auto computation
uses the input sound pitch curve to precisely create target pitch function
curves that are equivalent to the pitch of the Automatic Mode output. That
includes the Scale edits, the Detune slider, the Retune slider and the Vibrato
section.
Note that the Automatic Mode Tracking slider is not involved, because its
function is used to determine the input sound pitch. In Graphical Mode, the
input...