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Tutorial 4: Using the Automatic Mode MIDI Functions
With Target Notes Via MIDI, Auto-Tune 5 looks
at its MIDI input in real time to determine its
current target note(s). Try the following with
the provided audio and MIDI files:
1. Set up your host program and load or
import the “somewhere” audio and MIDI
files as described in steps 1–4 above.
2. Select Automatic Mode and click the
“Target Note Via MIDI” button so that
it turns blue and its indicator changes to
“On.”
3. Click the Octaves as Played button so that
it turns blue (if it is not already).
4. Play the audio and MIDI track together and
watch the current target note change in
real time on the Virtual Keyboard — and
listen to the results.
The most interesting part of the Target Notes
Via MIDI feature is that it only operates for
the duration of the MIDI note — that is, when
there is no current MIDI Note On value, Auto-
Tune 5 is effectively in Bypass mode. This
means that if you delay the MIDI notes, then
the audio performs its attacks as performed
and then corrects to pitch when the MIDI note
occurs (of course, at whatever Retune Speed
is set). In the case of the ‘Somewhere’ vocal
performance, most of the intonation problems
happen during the notes’ sustain portions. Try
moving the notes in the MIDI file around and
listen to the results. This gives far more subtle
control than Automatic Mode alone, while not
being quite as tweaky as operating in Graphical
Mode.
NOTE:
The MIDI functions look only
at MIDI note values. Controller data
such as Pitch Bend or Mod Wheel
do not affect Auto-Tune 5’s performance.
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
the correct scale for a particular melody
without knowing a G-sharp from a B-flat.
Simply play the melody on a MIDI keyboard
which is patched through your host application
to Auto-Tune 5 or play an existing MIDI file
with contains the MIDI notes of the melody to
be processed.
Begin the tutorial by doing the following:
1. Load or import the audio file “somewhere”
into a track of your host program. This
is a recording of Somewhere Over the
Rainbow sung with fairly extreme pitch
errors. (Our very talented singer made
us promise to tell you that she did this on
purpose at our request.)
2. Set up Auto-Tune 5 to be an insert effect
on that track.
3. Import the MIDI file “somewhere.mid”
into your host program’s MIDI sequencer.
4. Select Auto-Tune 5 as the target for the
MIDI track.
5. Select Automatic Mode and click the “Learn
Scale from MIDI” button so that it turns
blue and its indicator changes to “On.”
6. Click the All Octaves button so that it turns
blue (if it is not already).
7. Play the MIDI file through once and watch
as the scale develops on Auto-Tune 5’s
virtual keyboard and in the Scale Edit
window. As each note is sung, it is added
to the scale until the scale includes every
note that appears in the melody.
8. Set the Retune control to 20 and play the
audio track using this scale.
NOTE:
You can also instantaneously
define a scale by playing all of the
notes of the scale as a chord (i.e.,
all scale notes played on the same beat) and
recording that into a MIDI track. This is an ideal
way to use Auto-Tune 5 in music with many
key (scale) changes.