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Chapter 6: Creative Applications for
Auto-Tune
Auto-Tune 5 works on vocals so well you may think that’s all it can do.
Actually, lots of instruments can use it to great advantage. Fretless bass,
electric violin, trombone, even the theremin, all feature continuous pitch
potential, unconstrained by frets or keys. Here are some other ideas for
using Auto-Tune 5:
• Produce instant double tracking in one
take! Record onto two tracks, processing
only one of the tracks through Auto-Tune
5. If you’re going for a tight double track,
set Retune Speed rather fast and Detune
Auto-Tune 5 slightly. Increase both of these
parameters to broaden the doubled effect.
You can also use some Vibrato to make
a more dynamic effect (small depth and
rate values are best, with medium delay).
Of course, you can also decide to record
a single virgin track, and bounce that to
another, processing through Auto-Tune 5.
This way you can dial in the effect 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 varies with
some different pitch material). The more
constrained your scale is in Auto-Tune 5, the
more variation there will be between the
two performances.
• To set up a drone or ambient aura behind
a melodic performance, try sending some of
the signal to Auto-Tune 5 with an extremely
constrained scale (for example, in the key
of C: C, F, G, A#) and then on to a lush, long
reverb. The effect produced will be a steady
backdrop of chanting tones behind the main
melodic material.
• Don’t be afraid to use just as little
of Auto-Tune 5 as you need. It’s quite
possible that a performer has really quite
good intonation, but fails consistently on one
or two notes. In this case, use Auto-Tune
5’s individual Bypass function (using the Edit
Scale display or on the Virtual Keyboard) to
bypass all the notes except the one(s) which
need the retuning. This way, Auto-Tune 5 is
working in a completely transparent mode,
and only when needed.