TC Electronic INTONATOR, User Manual

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OPERATION
major. Without hesitation you hook up the Intonator . . .
Solution :
Automatic mode is the best tool to fix the uncomfortable pitch
mistakes in this track.
- You need to know the key and scale of the piece. In this case
we know the key at the beginning of the song is D major. After
the bridge the song modulates to E major.
- Make all appropriate connections to hook up the Intonator.
- On the front panel, turn the ALPHA dial knob to select a
“Major scale”. To confirm the selection, push in the data entry
knob.
- Using the front panel keyboard select “D” as the beginning key
of the song. When “D” is pushed the notes in the D major
scale are lit in green.
- Cue up the vocal entry, make sure “Correction” is not
bypassed and roll audio.
Now it's time to set the three controls that tailor the pitch
correction to your needs: Window, Attack, and Amount.
In this case, the singer is only drifting out of tune, never more
than a semitone. Therefore, set the WINDOW control around 80
to 100 cents. This will allow Intonator to catch these pitch
mistakes, but ignore the rest. As this song is a ballad the melody
is not moving around very quickly. Therefore, the pitch
correction will sound the most natural with a slower Attack time.
- Try setting Attack between Medium and Slow.
- The Amount control can be set for your preference. A setting
between 4 and 6 (max.) will allow for perfect pitch or some
natural deviation.
- Almost done. Just need to remember the key change. On the
downbeat of the key change after the bridge change the key of
Intonator by pushing the “E” key on the keyboard.
Manual Mode
Press the MANUAL key in the Correction Processing section on
the front panel to activate Manual mode. The MANUAL ON
LED will be lit.
In this mode you can manually force the Input to a specific note.
This can be done in several ways. Either by pressing the relevant
NOTE key on the keyboard or by activating the NOTE key via
MIDI or by using the Manual Pitch knob.
When the key is pressed or activated via MIDI, the key LED will
be lit. This is a nice feature especially when remote controlling
the Intonator via MIDI.
The Input will be corrected to the pressed note but only if the
Input is within the set Pitch Window. The Pitch Window is the
area the Input pitch must be within, to be corrected to a Target
note. The range of the Intonator Pitch correction is +/-200 cents.
Since 100 cents = 1 semitone, you are able correct notes that are
as far off pitch as 1 whole tone (200 cents).
Be aware the as soon as the Input note exceeds the Pitch
Window, no pitch correction will be performed. When selecting
Target notes via MIDI, the Intonator can handle the same Target
note being pressed several times simultaneously. This is
especially useful when using chords on a MIDI keyboard for
Target notes.
(You often double notes when you play chords on a keyboard).
Example on where and how to use Custom Scale mode.
Problem :
It's time to mix some tracks you recorded months ago.
Everything is going great. During tracking nobody ever noticed
this, but on the last song, in the last chorus the lead vocal botches
an important note. You don't know the key of the song and there
is no guitar or keyboard lying around to figure it out.
The Intonator can fix it . . .
Manual mode is the tool to use for single pitch mistakes.
Especially when the key and scale of the piece is unknown.
Solution :
- Make all appropriate connections to hook up the Intonator
- Select Manual mode from the front panel and make sure
Intonator is not bypassed.
- Cue up a loop on your playback device to repeat the vocal
mistake that you want to correct.