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If, on the other hand, your signal is noisy or
not well-isolated (as might be more common
in a live performance situation) or you are
dealing with a particularly breathy or guttural
voice, it may be necessary to allow more signal
variation (higher Tracking numbers). However,
under these circumstances tracking is not
guaranteed and a too “relaxed” setting may
introduce distortion and popping.
NOTE: The improved pitch detection
technology in Auto-Tune 8 (in
combination with the Input Type
selection described above) results in noticeably
more reliable pitch detection compared to
Auto-Tune 5 and earlier. If you have used older
versions of Auto-Tune, you may find that
situations that previously required constant
modifications of the Tracking control now
track perfectly at the default setting.
Select Pitch Reference
Auto-Tune 8 provides the
ability to pitch correct
stereo tracks while
maintaining the tracks’
phase coherence. (Refer
to your host application’s
manual for instructions on assigning a plug-in
to a stereo track.) Click the appropriate button
to select which of the two stereo tracks (left or
right) Auto-Tune 8 will use as a pitch reference.
NOTE: If there is a marked dierence
in the two tracks, pick the cleanest,
most isolated track. For example, if
one track is a close mic’d vocal while the other
is mic’d from farther away for ambience, or is
heavily processed, select the close mic’d track.
ANOTHER NOTE: Auto-Tune 8 will
only pitch correct true stereo tracks.
If the second track (i.e., the track
not selected as a pitch reference) is simply an
independent unrelated track, unpredictable
(and potentially unpleasant) sounds may
result. On the other hand, something
interesting might happen. You never know.
When Auto-Tune 8 is instantiated on a mono
track, this control is inactive (grayed out).
Low Latency
Normally, Auto-Tune makes use
of a processing delay to provide
the best processing quality when
executing transposition (as
opposed to just pitch correction).
When you do your pitch and time
correction during mixdown, your DAW’s delay
compensation will account for this processing
delay. However, if you want to use Auto-Tune
8 during the tracking process or to process
a live performance, that delay would prove
distracting. In that case, click the Low Latency
button to reduce the processing delay to a
virtually undectable level.
Key Selection
This control lets you select the
key of the track you plan to
process.
To select the desired key, click
on the Key pop-up and then select the desired
note from the pop-up list. This determines the
pitch of the first note of the scale according to
the standard A = 440 Hertz.
Scale Selection
This control is used in
combination with the Key
selection above to define
the scale of the track you
plan to process.
To select a scale, click on the Scale popup and
then select the desired scale from the pop-up
list.
NOTE: To avoid having to deal with
scales containing those annoying
double flats, double sharps and
notes like Cb, E#, Fb and B#, Auto-Tune 8
will automatically choose the simpler of two
enharmonically equivalent scales. For example,
if you select Db Major, the Edit Scale Display
will duly display the Db Major scale. However,
if you then go to the Scale selection pop-up
and select Minor, the Key will automatically be
changed to C# and the Edit Scale Display will, in
fact, display the much friendlier C# Minor scale.
This will be reflected on both the Auto Mode
Scale Edit display and the Pitch Graph Display
in the Graphical Mode.