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Combined with Auto-Tune 7’s formant
correction and throat modeling capabilities, it
provides an easy, intuitive method of modifying
the pitch of individual notes or phrases.
And when programming Auto-Tune Vocal
effects, it gives you absolute control over
exactly which notes will be quantized to.
Here’s how it works:
The Make Notes button is enabled whenever
there is any red input pitch contour data present
in the Pitch Graph (whether it is displayed in
the current Pitch Graph view or not). Pressing
the Make Notes button causes Auto-Tune 7
to analyze the input pitch and create Target
Note objects (Notes for short), each of which is
centered on a horizontal Pitch Graph line. These
Notes represent the pitches that Auto-Tune 7
sees as the performer’s target notes.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In selecting target
pitches, the Make Notes function
considers only the notes in the
currently selected Key and Scale. If the melody
includes many accidentals, it may be more
convenient to select the chromatic scale..
Since it is likely that the first thing you will
want to do after Making Notes is to adjust the
Number of Note Objects setting (as described
in the next section), when you click the Make
Notes button, the entire range of tracked audio
will be selected, enabling the Number of Note
Objects control (this is equivalent to having
selected the I-Beam and double-clicked in the
pitch graph — except you don’t actually have to
do that).
NOTE: If prior to clicking the Make
Notes button, a range of time has
been already selected by using the
I-Beam Tool, the Make Notes function will apply
only in the selected time range.
Notes also display the audio’s envelope contour
over the Note’s duration and a green output
pitch curve based on the currently selected
Retune Speed.
NOTE: The Retune Speed behavior
for Notes is a bit different from that
of the other correction objects. Unlike
the other correction objects, Notes do not
provide a blue correction curve. The implied
correction curve is the horizontal Pitch Graph
line upon which the Note is centered (unless
the Note has been moved off of that line - see
the Snap To Note function for details). Setting
the Retune Speed to “0” will cause the output
to be locked to that note, suppressing any of
the original performance’s expressive gestures.
As you select slower Retune Speeds, the
output progressively reflects the shape and
position of the original tracked input pitch.
This is much easier to understand visually than
to describe. Simply zoom in on a Note and
adjust its Retune Speed over its entire range.
You will see the green output curve change in
real time and all will be clear.
ANOTHER NOTE: Remember that
while all new Notes are created with
the default Notes Retune Speed
set in the Options dialog, you can then select
individual Notes (or cut up single Notes to
create multiple Notes) and assigned a custom
Retune Speed to each one.
Once created, Note objects can be dragged up
or down to change their pitch, can have their
beginning and/or end positions moved forward
or backward, or can be cut into multiple shorter
Notes for individual processing. Check out the
tutorial in Chapter 4 for an example of working
with Notes.
Number of
Note Objects
When
Auto-Tune
7 analyzes
the input
pitch for the
purpose of creating Note objects, it must make
decisions about what constitutes notes and
what constitutes transitions between notes as
well as differentiating between a single note
with wide vibrato and a series of separate
notes of alternating pitch. Often, the “right”
choice depends on the style and technique of