Antares Auto-Tune efx, Owner'S Manual

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Some background
In 1997, Antares first introduced the ground-breaking Auto-Tune Pitch Correcting
Plug-In and Recording Magazine called Auto-Tune the “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
performance.
Chapter 2: How It Works
But in addition to its use in pitch correction,
Auto-Tune has also gained renown as the tool
of choice for what has become one of the
signature vocal sounds of our time.
First heard on Cher’s 1998 mega-hit “Believe,”
variations of the Auto-Tune Vocal Effect
have gone on to appear on songs from a
huge variety of artists. Most recently, its
use by artists in the pop, R&B and hip-hop
communities has rekindled intense interest in
the effect and introduced the magic of Auto-
Tune to an even larger community of musicians
and producers.
As a result, we have created Auto-Tune EFX, an
affordable, easy-to-use tool for basic real-time
pitch correction and creating the Auto-Tune
Vocal Effect.
What’s it do?
Auto-Tune EFX lets you choose between two
different flavors of the Auto-Tune Vocal Effect
and real-time pitch correction.
Pitch Correction
Auto-Tune EFX pitch correction works by
continuously tracking the pitch of your vocal
and comparing it to the notes in the (user-
customizable) scale of your song. The scale
note closest to the input pitch is identified
as the target note. If the vocal’s pitch exactly
matches the target note, no correction is
applied. If the vocal’s pitch varies from the
target note, either sharp or flat, the output pitch
is smoothly corrected to the target note.
Auto-Tune Vocal Effect
The Auto-Tune Vocal Effect is what is
technically known as “pitch quantization.”
That is, instead of allowing all of the small
variations in pitch and the gradual transitions
between notes that are a normal part of singing
(and speaking, for that matter), the Auto-Tune
Vocal Effect limits each note to an exact pitch,
stripping out any variation, as well as forcing
instantaneous transitions between notes.
The process of choosing the pitches to quantize
to is the same as described above for pitch
correction. The difference is that for pitch
correction, the correction is done smoothly in
order to make the process as transparent as
possible. For the Auto-Tune Vocal Effect, the
correction is instantaneous.