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Contents

Chapter 1 Getting Started

What’s New in Auto-Tune 5

Installing and Authorizing

Technical Support

Chapter 2 Introducing Auto-Tune 5

Some background

A little bit about pitch

How Auto-Tune 5 detects pitch

How Auto-Tune 5 corrects pitch

Automatic Mode

Graphical Mode

Chapter 3 Auto-Tune 5 Controls

Common Controls

Automatic Mode Controls

MIDI Functions

Graphical Mode Controls

Pen Tablet Input

Chapter 4 Auto-Tune 5 Tutorial

Tutorial 1: Automatic Mode Basics

Tutorial 2: Targeting Ignores Vibrato Function

Tutorial 3: Natural Vibrato Function

Tutorial 4: MIDI Functions

Tutorial 5: Graphical Mode Basics

Tutorial 6: Precision

Tutorial 7: Make Curve Function

Tutorial 8: Import Auto Function

Summary of Contents for Auto-Tune 5

Page 1: ...Owner s Manual Auto Tune5 PitchCorrectingPlug in...

Page 2: ...reserved Certified Isinglass free All trademarks are property of their respective owners Antares Audio Technologies 231 Technology Circle Scotts Valley California 95066 USA www antarestech com Printe...

Page 3: ...s agreement Your right to copy Auto Tune 5 and the user manual is limited by copyright law Making copies verbal or media translations adaptations derivative works or telecommunication data transmissio...

Page 4: ...DATA LOST PROFITS OR OTHER SPECIAL INCIDENTAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF AUTO TUNE 5 OR ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS THIS LIMITATION WILL APPLY EVEN IF ANTARES OR ITS AUTHORI...

Page 5: ...Graphical Mode 12 Chapter 3 Auto Tune 5 Controls Common Controls 15 Automatic Mode Controls 18 MIDI Functions 23 Graphical Mode Controls 30 Pen Tablet Input 39 Chapter 4 Auto Tune 5 Tutorial Tutorial...

Page 6: ...vi Chapter 5 New Features Quick Start Guide 51 Chapter 6 Creative Applications 57...

Page 7: ...good idea to write down the serial number that appears on the bottom of the box for future reference The inside cover of this manual would be a good place As an Auto Tune 5 owner you are entitled to r...

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Page 9: ...of use With Auto Tune 5 we have undertaken a complete graphic redesign The result is both easy on the eyes and logically groups related controls for intuitive functionality Consolidated Pitch Tracking...

Page 10: ...The behavior of the various editing tools has been changed such that for every tool except the I Beam moving the cursor onto the Envelope Display causes the tool to temporarily change into the Magnify...

Page 11: ...e 5 Some cool but not so obvious stuff you can do with Auto Tune 5 InstallingAuto Tune5 Any unique instructions for installing Auto Tune 5 for your specific plug in format are located in the Auto Tune...

Page 12: ...rlok drivers You can download and install the latest version for your operating system from the following web page http portal knowledgebase net article asp article 174703 p 5764 If your problem is no...

Page 13: ...art digital signal processing algorithms many interestingly enough drawn from the geophysical industry to continuously detect the pitch of a periodic input signal typically a solo voice or instrument...

Page 14: ...waveform is of a violin section playing a single note in unison Our ears still sense a specific pitch but the waveform does not repeat itself This waveform is a summation of a number of individually...

Page 15: ...uto Tune 5 will occasionally interpret the pitch an octave lower This is because it interprets a two cycle repetition as a one cycle repetition On the low end Auto Tune 5 will detect pitches as low as...

Page 16: ...by the Retune Speed and Humanize settings described below and in Chapter 3 Scales The heart of Automatic Mode pitch correction is the Scale Auto Tune 5 lets you choose from major minor chromatic or 26...

Page 17: ...dness and formant resonant frequencies You can also specify delayed vibrato with independently programmable onset delay and onset rate By combining a fast Retune Speed setting with Auto Tune 5 s Vibra...

Page 18: ...e top while the horizontal axis represents time The red curve represents the original pitch contour of the input track while the desired target pitch or pitch contour is indicated in blue The horizont...

Page 19: ...ical editor allows easy editing including cut copy and paste functions The basic steps you will perform in Graphical Mode are In your host application select some sound for processing Bring up Auto Tu...

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Page 21: ...osing the wrong Input Type or just forgetting to set it at all can result in compromised performance Pay attention ANOTHER NOTE When any Input Type other than Bass Instrument is selected Auto Tune 5 i...

Page 22: ...dealing with a particularly breathy or guttural voice it may be necessary to allow more signal variation higher Tracking numbers However under these circumstances tracking is not guaranteed and a too...

Page 23: ...able number here up to 20 Choosing a higher number allocates more memory for saving intermediate states Sample Rate Display This display indicates the sample rate of the current audio file as reported...

Page 24: ...harmonically equivalent scales For example if you select Db Major the Edit Scale Display will duly display the Db Major scale However if you then go to the Scale selection pop up and select Minor the...

Page 25: ...in the fifth octave of the harmonic series The scale degrees that correspond to the classic just intervals are the major second major third perfect fifth and major seventh by tuning twelve pure perfec...

Page 26: ...en the input pitch is close to this note Auto Tune 5 will correct the pitch to this note at the rate set by the Retune Speed control If the scale selected in the Scale popup contains exactly 12 notes...

Page 27: ...d B removed from the Scale Auto Tune 5 continues to see D as the target pitch for the entire duration of the note and therefore pulls the phrase up to the correct pitch Cents The number in the Cents c...

Page 28: ...ange its state and the key will retain that state until some other action causes it to change KEYBOARD EDIT These buttons are used to select which state Remove or Bypass will be toggled when you click...

Page 29: ...s defined by all MIDI notes that are on For example if MIDI notes A C and E are held Auto Tune 5 s input will be retuned to an A C or E whichever is closest to the input pitch The source of the MIDI i...

Page 30: ...with all notes removed In this state Auto Tune 5 will pass all notes with no correction applied So don t do that ANOTHER NOTE We realize that there is some possibility of confusion between the Learn...

Page 31: ...tempo note duration and vocal style among others As always let you ears be your guide The default Retune value is 20 Double clicking or Command Mac Control PC clicking the Retune knob will reset it t...

Page 32: ...erformance style the other Automatic Mode settings and the specific effect you desire The default Humanize setting is 0 Double clicking or Command Mac Control PC clicking the Humanize knob will reset...

Page 33: ...om variation that will be applied to the Rate and Amount parameters on a note to note basis Useful for humanizing the vibrato by adding random errors The range is from 0 no variation to 100 maximum va...

Page 34: ...of the Retune Speed control Hence even with a slow retune value of 50 a square wave vibrato will make instantaneous changes in pitch NOTE As mentioned above although we perceive vibrato primarily as a...

Page 35: ...o Tune 5 is lowering the pitch by 50 cents to bring the input back to the desired pitch Hold Button Clicking and holding the Hold button while Auto Tune 5 is processing audio will freeze both the Pitc...

Page 36: ...op when the buffer is full If this happens increase the buffer size as necessary YET ANOTHER NOTE Be cautious about changing the Tracking value in the Options dialog after performing the Track Pitch f...

Page 37: ...de To select Auto Tune 5 s Internal clock click the Internal button To track and correct pitch in Internal Clock mode 1 Use your host transport to move to the beginning of the section you want to corr...

Page 38: ...red pitch data Once you have used the Import Auto function to create a blue target pitch curve setting the Graphical Mode Retune Speed to 0 will result in exactly the same output as you would have go...

Page 39: ...djust Vibrato slider A blue correction curve will be created that reflects your setting If a correction curve already exists in the selected range as a result of Make Curve Import Auto or the use of t...

Page 40: ...ch Graph Scale Buttons control the horizontal time and vertical pitch scaling of the graph Clicking the appropriate button causes the view to zoom in while clicking a button causes it to zoom out NOTE...

Page 41: ...heGraphicalTools The graphical tools are used in conjunction with the edit buttons to create the desired target pitch contour NOTE In addition to clicking on the various tools if your host passes key...

Page 42: ...nywhere on the Pitch Graph to set an anchor point Hold down your mouse button and move the cursor to draw the desired pitch contour curve End the process by releasing your mouse button Unlike the Line...

Page 43: ...oggling on first reading in practice it s quite intuitive Spend a minute or two playing with the Arrow Tool and all will become clear NOTE If while the Arrow Tool is selected you move the cursor onto...

Page 44: ...nction relative to the current pitch display state it will be grayed out If it does have a valid function it will appear dark gray The Clear All Button Clicking the Clear All button erases all trackin...

Page 45: ...s that you want to keep Keyboard Equivalents Some host applications support the following keyboard command equivalents for the above Edit Buttons Others reserve these commands for their own use Consu...

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Page 47: ...egin the tutorial by doing the following 1 Load or import A2 A3 A2 sweep into a track of your host program Play the track so that you are familiar with the original audio 2 Set up Auto Tune 5 to be an...

Page 48: ...unction Begin the tutorial by doing the following 1 Load or import wide_vibrato into a track of your host program This is a recording of a male voice singing a sustained G with a pronounced vibrato Pl...

Page 49: ...the Pitch Graph 12 Notice that the blue curve is now a straight line on G indicating that the Improved Targeting algorithm has accurately identified the pitch excursions as vibrato and has therefore...

Page 50: ...formance Long live MIDI This tutorial will introduce you to Auto Tune 5 s two Automatic Mode MIDI functions Learn Scale From MIDI and Target Notes Via MIDI With Learn Scale From MIDI you can create th...

Page 51: ...Pitch button again to stop the tracking function To continue 1 Select the Magnifying Glass tool and drag out a box on the Pitch Graph that encloses the red curve The result will be something like the...

Page 52: ...t one or more objects and play with the Edit Buttons Undo Cut Copy Paste Select All This would also be a good time to see if the Edit Button keyboard equivalents work in your host application Command...

Page 53: ...background of the Pitch Graph to cancel the area selection 8 Both anchor points of the new curve will be selected Select the Arrow Tool and click precisely on the left end of the curve to select only...

Page 54: ...in another performance As this tutorial has demonstrated the following two techniques are the most commonly successful approaches to Graphical Mode pitch correction The first technique uses the Make C...

Page 55: ...ction in the Pitch or Envelope Graph as shown 8 Click the Import Auto button Auto Tune 5 will compute a new blue curve object from the existing pitch data PITCH DRAWN TO NEIGHBORING TONE Assuming that...

Page 56: ...aised pitch indicated above This occurs because the Automatic Mode Retune slider value of 20 is slow compared to the rapidly increasing pitch that is occurring at that point in time But even with the...

Page 57: ...the Options dialog for set it and forget it simplicity Graphical Mode color schemes Auto Tune 4 introduced an optional color scheme designed for readability by people with the most common forms of co...

Page 58: ...een vibrato and intended pitch changes adjusting the vibrato depth while leaving intended pitch changes intact The Natural Vibrato function acts independently of the pitch correction functions Of part...

Page 59: ...s dialog playback will stop when the buffer is full If this happens increase the buffer size as necessary YET ANOTHER NOTE Be cautious about changing the Tracking value in the Options dialog after per...

Page 60: ...button play the desired audio and then stop the transport 4 Use the various tools described below to create your pitch correction curves 5 Use your host transport to return to the precise start locat...

Page 61: ...nto the Magnifying Glass Tool perfect for quickly moving to another portion of your audio without having to manually change tools Using the I Beam to make a selection on the Envelope Display now autom...

Page 62: ...not it is currently visible on the Pitch Display Since you can not undo this function and accidentally executing it could be catastrophic you must confirm your intent in a warning dialog The Snap To N...

Page 63: ...t while auditioning the mix Recording with two mics as above while improvising can also produce heterophonic effects the effect of two players and instruments playing the same melody which actually va...

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