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Before Tracking any Audio
If you instantiate Auto-Tune 8 on a track and
use the Track Pitch + Time function to track
some audio, a data folder for that instance
will be automatically created at the default
location for your computer and all data files
created by that instance will be written to that
folder. If that works for you (as it usually will),
you needn’t take any other action. Just track
and edit.
If, however, you specifically want to select
a dierent folder location (if, for example,
you know you will be moving your project
and want to have the data folder in the same
location as your project file), call up the Data
File Management Dialog before tracking any
audio. You will see the following:
At the top of the dialog window you will
see the default data folder location for your
computer. To select a dierent location:
•
Click the “Setup Folder Location…” button
(initially, all other buttons are disabled). A
navigation window will appear.
•
Navigate to your desired location and click
Choose. An alert message will confirm that
you have changed the folder location.
•
Your new location will now be displayed at
the top of the dialog window and the other
dialog buttons will become active.
•
Optionally, rename the data folder as
described in the next section.
•
Click “Close” to dismiss the Data File
Management Dialog.
•
Save your session. (If you close your session
without saving, your new folder location will
not be retained the next time you open the
session.)
NOTE: While the “Setup Folder
Location…” function is only available
before tracking any audio, if you
initially track audio to the default folder
location and later decide that you’d like to have
it at a dierent location, you can, at any time,
simply use the “Move Data Files…” function
described in the next section.
After Tracking Audio
Once you have tracked some audio using the
Track Pitch + Time function, calling up the
Data File Management Dialog will result in
something like this:
Here’s what you can do:
Find Data Folder…
This function is typically used in a situation
where Auto-Tune 8, for some reason, is unable
to find data files where it expects to find
them. That situation is covered below in the “If
There’s a Problem” section.
There is, however, an extremely unlikely but
not entirely impossible situation where Auto-
Tune 8 thinks it is pointing at the correct data
folder, but actually isn’t. This would most
likely be the result of manually copying and/or
renaming data files and/or folders (yet another
reason for not doing that).