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Listen to the track to become familiar with
it. We’re going to use the Move Region tool
to move the second note of the pattern and
change the feel of the bass line.
2. Set up Auto-Tune 7 as an insert effect on
the track and select “Bass Inst” as the
Input Type.
3. Select Graphical Mode and select Bars +
Beats as the Time Display mode.
4. Press the Track Pitch + Time button.
5. Play the “Bass_riff” file and track the
two-bar line. Stop the transport to exit the
tracking function. Adjust the zoom and
scroll controls to focus on the first measure
of the bass line.
6. Click the Make Notes button. Although
we’re only interested in the timing of this
example, the Note objects provide a useful
visual reference of the bass line.
Our goal here is move the second note, an A#,
so that instead of being a pickup note to the
third beat, it falls squarely on the second beat,
creating a distinctly different feel to the line.
7. Select the Move Region tool and, using
the main edit window’s envelope display
as reference, select the initial range from
the end of the first note’s decay (at time
position 1:1.58) to the end of the A#’s
decay (at time position 1:2.93). You can
check out the graphic below for reference.
8. Now, we’ll use the Move Region tool to
select the region to be moved. Again using
the envelope display as reference, select
the region from the beginning of the A# (at
time position 1:2.38) to a bit before end of
the A#’s decay (at time position 1:2.86).
NOTE: The reason that we don’t
select the entire A# is that when we
move the note forward in the next
step, we want to leave a bit of it for Auto-Tune
7 to stretch into a natural decay leading into the
note on the third beat.
At this point, your display should look like this:
9. Still using the Move Region tool, click and
hold anywhere in the region selected in
Step 8 and move the region to the left until
the beginning of the note’s main envelope
is lined up exactly on beat 2.
Your display should now look like this:
Play back your track and note the new feel. You
can click the Time Control Enable button to A/B
the original and time shifted versions.
Also note how Auto-Tune 7’s time shifting
algorithm has turned the small bit of audio
at the end of the moved A# into a natural-
sounding decay leading into the following C.