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Make Curve
The Make Curve 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 Curve button causes
blue target pitch contour objects (curves
for short) to be created from the input pitch
contour data. These curve objects can then
be dragged and stretched for very precise
pitch correction. This is one of the central
techniques of Auto-Tune 8’s Graphical Mode
and is described in more detail in Chapter 4.
Additionally, green output pitch curves are
created that represent the exact pitches
output at the currently selected Retune Speed.
If you select the correction curve, move it,
and adjust the Retune Speed, you will see the
green output curve change in real time to
reflect the changing Retune Speed.
NOTE: If a range of time has been
selected by using the I-Beam
Tool (see below), the Make Curve
button works only in the selected time range.
Otherwise it works on all red pitch data.
ANOTHER NOTE: Whenever you
create Correction curves with the
Make Curve function, those curves
will initially be assigned the default Curves
Retune Speed set in the Options dialog. If that
default value is “0” (as it may well be), the
green output curve will be positioned exactly
on top of the blue correction curve, eectively
hiding it. Even though you can’t see it, it may
still be selected and edited in all the ways
described in the Editing Tools section.
YET ANOTHER NOTE: Remember that
while all new curves are created with
the default Curves Retune Speed,
you can then select individual curves (or cut
up single curves to create multiple curves) and
assigned a custom Retune Speed to each one.
This is an incredibly powerful capability for
insuring that your corrections are as natural
and seamless as possible.
Import Auto
The Import Auto 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 Import Auto button causes blue
target pitch contour objects (curves for short)
to be created from the red input pitch contour
data. The blue curve(s) created by the Import
Auto function is a precise representation of
the pitch correction that would result from
processing the tracked input pitch through the
current settings of Auto-Tune 8’s Automatic
Mode. In addition to the Key and Scale
selections, the Retune Speed, Correction Style
and any Scale Detune, it reflects the Automatic
Mode’s Edit Scale settings, Targeting Ignores
Vibrato mode (if selected), and Humanize,
Natural Vibrato and Create Vibrato settings.
As described above for Make Curve, green
output pitch curves are also created that
represent the exact pitches output at the
currently selected Retune Speed.
NOTE: If a range of time has been
selected by using the I-Beam Tool,
the Import Auto button works only
in the selected time range. Otherwise it works
on all red pitch data.
ANOTHER NOTE: The curves created
by Import Auto will initially be
assigned the same default Curves
Retune Speed as those created with Make
Curve. In fact, pretty much everything we
said about the Make Curve function above is
equally applicable to the Import Auto function.
Once you have used the Import Auto function
to create a blue target pitch curve, setting the
Graphical Mode Retune Speed to  (or having
set the default Curves Retune Speed to ) will
result in exactly the same output as you would
have gotten by processing the audio through
Automatic Mode. Alternatively, you can adjust
the Retune Speed for all or selected correction
curve segments, or further edit the blue curve
using any of the Graphical Mode tools to get
precisely the eect you want.