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can accomplish this in most cases, but it’s
important to keep in mind that if your session is
particularly complex, with many tracks and lots
of other potentially processor-hungry plug-ins
all running at once, even the fastest computer
may have trouble keeping up.
To alert you to any data access problems, the
Data Error indicator will light red anytime Auto-
Tune 7 is unable to read data from its disk file in
the time available. If this happens, you should
consider the following options:
•
Listen carefully to the point in your audio
where the Data Error indicator lights. Very
much like a VU meter’s clip light, not every
instance will result in an audible problem.
If you can’t hear anything wrong, you can
safely ignore it.
•
Decrease the amount of time compression
by a tiny bit. If you’re right on the edge of
your computer’s capability, an extremely
small change can eliminate the problem.
•
Temporarily simplify your session (mute other
tracks, bypass other plug-ins) and render or
bounce or your time edits to a new track.
•
Since data access depends on everything
going on at any particular time in your session,
for cases that are on the edge of your
computer’s capability, it’s possible that the
Data Error indicator might light on one pass,
but not on another. It’s always worthwhile
just playing the track again to see if Data Error
indication was a one-time anomaly.
•
Buy a faster computer. If you’ve been looking
for an excuse to upgrade, the Data Error
indicator may be your ticket to that hot new
Mac or PC you lust after.
Track Pitch + Time
The process of tracking
pitch and time is very much
like that of simply tracking
pitch alone. The only
difference is that in addition
to normal pitch tracking,
Auto-Tune 7 also makes a recording of the
actual audio to be processed.
IMPORTANT NOTE: As was noted in
the Track Pitch section, you should
always start tracking pitch and time
in an area of silence before the audio you want
to correct, or from the very start of the track.
Starting tracking in the middle of audio will
typically result in an artifact.
To track pitch and time, locate the desired audio
and press the Track Pitch + Time button. (If you
are using Auto-Tune 7’s Internal clock, you may
(depending on your host) need to click the Reset
button to reset the clock position to 00:00:0.)
The Track Pitch + Time button will flash blue
and red to indicate that Auto-Tune is in Track
Pitch + Time mode.
Next, start playback of the audio. A graphic
representation of the pitch and its amplitude
envelope will be drawn to the display as the
audio plays. When all of the audio you want to
correct has played, stop playback. You will exit
Track Pitch + Time mode and, if you have Auto-
Scroll enabled, the Pitch Graph will automatically
scale in such a way as to include all of the
tracked audio. If you have not enabled Auto-
Scroll, no scaling will occur.
In addition, the central horizontal axis of the
Envelope Display will turn red to indicate the
range of audio that has been recorded and is
available for time shifting.
NOTE: If you are using Auto-Tune 7’s
Internal Clock, after stopping playback
in your host, you must click the clock
Reset button to stop Auto-Tune 7’s transport and
return you to the beginning of your tracked region.
ANOTHER NOTE: Although tracking
time does not involve the Buffer Size
setting in the Options dialog, tracking
pitch (which happens simultaneously) does.
Consequently, if the length of the audio to be
processed exceeds the currently set Buffer Size
(or your start point lies beyond the current buffer
area), tracking of both pitch and time will stop
when the buffer is full and a warning message
will appear notifying you of that fact. If this
happens, increase the buffer size as necessary.
YET ANOTHER NOTE: Be cautious
about changing the Tracking value (in
the Options dialog) after performing
the Track Pitch + Time function. Auto-Tune 7
uses the Tracking setting during both the Track
Pitch + Time function and while correcting pitch.
Changing the Tracking setting after Tracking
Pitch + TIme, but before correcting, may result
in unpredictable pitch modifications or strange
(though possibly interesting) artifacts.