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Chapter 5: New Feature Quick Start Guide
This chapter brings all of the new Auto-Tune 5 features together in one
place to help experienced Auto-Tune 4 users learn the new features without
having to slog through all of the stuff they already know. (The items below
also appear in their appropriate places elsewhere in the manual.)
With a few exceptions, the new features in Auto-Tune 5 are additions to the
current Auto-Tune 4 functionality. In other words, pretty much everything that isn’t a new feature
works pretty much the same as it did in Auto-Tune 4. The exceptions are noted below.
General Features
• Improved pitch detection algorithm:
While Auto Tune’s patented pitch detection
technology has always provided unmatched
speed and accuracy, Auto-Tune 5 introduces
improvements in performance with marginal
quality (noisy, poorly isolated, etc.) audio.
• A sleek new interface: As Auto-Tune’s
features have proliferated from version to
version, we have continually focused on
maintaining its ease 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.
Options Dialog
• Consolidated Pitch Tracking control: The
Automatic and Graphical Mode Tracking
controls have been consolidated into a single
control and relocated to 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 color blindness. For
Auto-Tune 5, we have designed the standard
Graphical Mode color scheme to be equally
readable. Consequently, the optional color
schemes are no longer necessary and have
been removed from the Options dialog.
Automatic Mode Features
Highlights
• Humanize function
• Realtime natural vibrato adjustment
• Improved Targeting function renamed
Details
Humanize
One of the criticisms occasionally (if, we feel,
unfairly) leveled at pitch correction is that it
results in performances that are “too perfect.”
Frankly, it’s been our experience that for the
skillful engineer, Auto-Tune has always offered
the means to perform its magic in a way that
makes it virtually impossible for the listener
to hear that it has been used (without, of
course, comparing the result to the original
performance).
Nonetheless, one situation that could
previously send you to Graphical Mode was
a performance that included both very fast
notes and longer sustained notes. The problem
was that in order to get the fast notes in tune,
you’d have to set a fast Retune Speed, which
would then make any sustained notes sound
unnaturally static. The solution was adjusting in
Graphical Mode.
Now, with the new Humanize function, you
can get the same results quickly and easily
in Automatic Mode. The Humanize function
differentiates between short and sustained