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Tutorial 12:
Time: Creative Editing
In this tutorial we’ll use Auto-Tune 8’s Move
Region function for a creative, rather than
corrective, purpose.
1. Load or import the audio file “Bass_ri”
(a two-bar bass line) into a track of your
host and set your host’s tempo to 110 BPM.
Listen to the track to become familiar with
it. We’re going to use the Move Region
tool to move the second note of the
pattern and change the feel of the bass
line.
2. Set up Auto-Tune 8 as an insert eect
on the track and select “Bass Inst” as the
Input Type.
3. Select Graphical Mode and select Bars +
Beats as the Time Display mode.
4. Press the Track Pitch + Time button.
5. Play the “Bass_ri” file and track the
two-bar line. Stop the transport to exit
the tracking function. Adjust the zoom
and scroll controls to focus on the first
measure of the bass line.
6. Click the Make Notes button. Although
we’re only interested in the timing of this
example, the Note objects provide a useful
visual reference of the bass line.
Our goal here is move the second note, an A#,
so that instead of being a pickup note to the
third beat, it falls squarely on the second beat,
creating a distinctly dierent feel to the line.
7. Select the Move Region tool and, using
the main edit window’s envelope display
as reference, select the initial range from
the end of the first note’s decay (at time
position 1:1.58) to the end of the A#’s decay
(at time position 1:2.93). You can check out
the graphic below for reference.
8. Now, we’ll use the Move Region tool to
select the region to be moved. Again using
the envelope display as reference, select
the region from the beginning of the A#
(at time position 1:2.38) to a bit before end
of the A#’s decay (at time position 1:2.86).
NOTE: The reason that we don’t
select the entire A# is that when we
move the note forward in the next
step, we want to leave a bit of it for Auto-Tune
8 to stretch into a natural decay leading into
the note on the third beat.
At this point, your display should look like this:
9. Still using the Move Region tool, click and
hold anywhere in the region selected in
Step 8 and move the region to the left
until the beginning of the note’s main
envelope is lined up exactly on beat 2.