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Tutorial 2:
Flex-Tune
This tutorial will guide you through the use of
Flex-Tune using the same “A2-A3-A2 sweep”
file.
Begin the tutorial by doing the following
(if you haven’t already from the previous
tutorial):
1. Load or import “A2-A3-A2 sweep” into a
track of your host program.
2. Set up Auto-Tune 8 to be an insert eect
on that track.
3. Set Auto-Tune 8 to Automatic Mode.
4. Set the Key to “A” and the Scale to “Major.”
5. Set the Retune Speed to zero.
6. Set the Correction Style to  (Classic).
7. In the Edit Scale Display, click the Remove
buttons next to the notes B, D, F# and G#.
8. Play “A2-A3-A2 sweep.”
You will now hear an arpeggiated A Major triad
because you have removed all the other notes
from the scale.
9. Set the Correction Style to a Flex-Tune
setting of 10.
10. Play “A2-A3-A2 sweep” again.
With a setting of 10, the correction range
around each scale note is quite wide.You will
hear each note of the A Major triad instantly
tuned as the sweep enters the correction
range, but as the sweep moves out of the
correction range, you will hear it transition to
the next note without correction.
11. Set the Correction Style to a Flex-Tune
setting of 55.
12. Play “A2-A3-A2 sweep” again.
At this setting, the correction range around
each scale note is quite narrow. Consequently,
each scale note will be tuned to only briefly
as the sweep passes through the narrow
correction range and will transition to the
next note without correction as it leaves each
correction range.
Tutorial 3:
Targeting Ignores Vibrato
Function
This tutorial will demonstrate the purpose and
use of the Automatic Mode’s Targeting Ignores
Vibrato function.
Begin the tutorial by doing the following:
1. Load or import “wide_vibrato” into a track
of your host program. This is a recording of
a male voice singing a sustained “G” with a
pronounced vibrato. Play the track so that
you are familiar with the original audio.
Despite the wide vibrato, you will notice
that the singer’s pitch drifts alternately
sharp and flat.
2. Set up Auto-Tune 8 to be an insert eect
on that track.
3. Set Auto-Tune 8 to Automatic Mode.
4. Set the Key to “C” and the Scale to
“Chromatic.”
5. Set the Input Type to Low Male Voice
6. Set Retune Speed to a value of 24.
7. Use your host program’s controls to Bypass
Auto-Tune 8. Set “wide_vibrato” to loop
continuously and put your host program
into Play mode. Watch the blue Detected
Pitch indication on Auto-Tune 8’s Virtual
Keyboard. As you will see, the singer’s
vibrato is so wide that it consistently gets
closer to G# and F# than G, causing Auto-
Tune to intermittently select those notes
as target pitches.
8. Check that Targeting Ignores Vibrato is
not selected and remove Auto-Tune 8
from Bypass. Watch the Detected Pitch
indication and listen to the result. As you
will hear, whenever Auto-Tune 8 thinks
G# or F# is the target pitch, it will move
the input closer to those notes, in eect
making the situation worse.