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Tutorial 10:
Make Notes Function
This tutorial will help you become familiar
with Auto-Tune 8’s Notes correction objects
and how they are used for pitch correction and
selective pitch shifting.
For this tutorial, we will use the “dont_give_
up_ vocal.wav” and “dont_give_up_accomp.
wav” audio files.
1. Load or import the audio files onto two
tracks in your host program.
2. Set up Auto-Tune 8 to be an insert eect
on “dont_give_up_ vocal.wav” and select
Graphical Mode.
3. Select D Major as the Key and Scale and
“soprano” as the Input Type.
4. Press the Track Pitch button.
5. Play the project and track the first 17
seconds of the track (until right after the
word “remain”). Stop the transport to exit
the tracking function. Assuming Auto-
Scroll is enabled, the display will scale to
include all of the tracked audio.
Notice that the singer (who made us promise
to tell you that she did this on purpose at our
request) is generally flat throughout.
6. Click the “Make Notes” button.
Play the project. Note that the default settings
for the Number of Note Objects and Retune
Speed do a good job of correcting the pitch for
most of the phrase. However, the final syllable
of “remains” goes so flat that some additional
adjustment is necessary.
At this point, it should look like this:
The first thing we need to do is correct the dip
in pitch before the final C#3. We could do this
by selecting each of the two low Note Objects
(A2 and B2) and individually moving them
up to C#3, but it’s easier just to expand the
existing C#3 object.
7. Select the Arrow tool and move the cursor
over the left end of the long C# note
so that the cursor turns into the length
adjustment cursor (little horizontal left-
and-right arrows). Drag the left end of the
note until it just butts up against the end
of the previous D3 Note Object.
8. Since there’s also a large dip in pitch
towards the very end of the word, move
the Arrow cursor over the right end of
the long C#3 note and drag it to the right
until it extends over the entire remaining
waveform (to a cursor position of about
16.870 seconds).