User Manual

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How to use this manual
If this is your first experience of Auto-Tune, you
will find that Auto-Tune 7 has a very friendly
user-interface and is extraordinarily easy to
use. However, because Auto-Tune 7 does
things that have never been done before,
some aspects of the user-interface may not
be immediately obvious. You should at least
read either Chapter 3, Auto-Tune 7 Controls,
or Chapter 4, Auto-Tune 7 Tutorial, to learn the
essential information you will need to operate
Auto-Tune 7.
The contents of this manual
Chapter 1: Getting Started
The chapter you are reading.
Chapter 2: Introducing Auto-Tune 7
This chapter presents some basic facts about
pitch and how Auto-Tune 7 functions to correct
pitch errors, as well as an introduction to Auto-
Tune 7’s new time control features. The basic
functionality of Auto-Tune 7 is discussed,
and information you need in order to use it
effectively is provided.
Chapter 3: Auto-Tune 7 Controls
This chapter is reference information for all of
the controls used in the Auto-Tune 7 interface.
Chapter 4: Auto-Tune 7 Tutorial
This chapter introduces you to details of how
Auto-Tune 7 works by guiding you through
several tutorials. The tutorials will give you
insight into how and when to use each of Auto-
Tune 7’s key functions.
Chapter 5: The Auto-Tune Vocal Effect
What it is. How to do it.
Chapter 6: The Auto-Tune 7 Scales
Brief descriptions of the various scales available
in Auto-Tune 7.
Smooth continuous scrolling
of graphical audio data
If you have selected Auto Scroll in Graphical
Mode, the graphical data will scroll smoothly
across the screen during playback, maintaining
the currently playing audio at the vertical center
of the window.
Amplitude envelope in the
graphical editing window
A display of the tracked audio’s amplitude
envelope now appears as a background
element in the graphical editing window. While
its primary function is to help make precise
selections for time shifting, since it is always
visible in the center of the window, it provides
a helpful indication of the presence of tracked
audio, even if that audio is currently beyond the
upper or lower boundaries of the window.
Expanded Key Binding shortcuts
to incorporate the new time
manipulation controls
What the title says. You can program custom
keyboard access to all of the new time
manipulation tools and controls.
The option to display the graphical
timeline as bars and beats
Primarily designed as reference for time
manipulation, you can now display the graphical
timeline in either absolute time or as bars and
beats relative to your project’s tempo.
NOTE: Bars and beats will only be
displayed for the range(s) of tracked
audio.
Increased vertical zoom range
in Graphical Mode
For ease of extremely precise pitch editing, you
can now zoom all the way in to the one-cent-
per-pixel level.
A display of the cursor’s position in time
Yup. A display of the cursor’s position in time.
The display will read out in seconds or bars and
beats, depending on the current Time Display
setting.