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If you aren’t satisfied with the results of
the Import Auto function, simply switch to
Automatic Mode, modify any of the settings
as desired, and then return to Graphical Mode
and click Import Auto again.
NOTE: In addition to its use as a
Graphical Mode correction tool,
the Import Auto function can also
be used to provide an informative visual
representation of the results of Automatic
Mode settings. If there are times when you’d
prefer to use Automatic Mode, but can’t quite
zero in on the ideal settings, examining the
results of various settings with the Import
Auto function can give you a visual picture of
exactly what’s going on. This will often make
it readily apparent which Automatic Mode
settings need to be changed to give your
desired results.
STILL ANOTHER NOTE: One potentially
confusing aspect of the Import Auto
function is the relationship between
the Automatic Mode Retune Speed setting and
the Graphical Mode Retune Speed setting. To
summarize:
The Automatic Mode Retune Speed controls
how the input audio would be processed in
Automatic Mode. Changing this setting will
change the shape of the blue curve that will be
created by the Import Auto function.
The Graphical Mode Retune Speed controls
how quickly the pitch of the input audio will be
changed to that of the blue target pitch curve.
As mentioned above, to precisely duplicate the
results of Automatic Mode, set the Graphical
Mode Retune Speed to .
Make Notes
The Make Notes function provides an entirely
new range of ways to use Auto-Tune 8.
For pitch correction, it combines the ease of
Automatic Mode with the control of Graphical
Mode to allow you to get optimum results
with a minimum of tedious tweaking.
Combined with Auto-Tune 8’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 the Auto-Tune Vocal
Eect, 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 8 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 8 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).