User Manual

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lets you use Antares’ unique throat modeling
technology to modify a voice’s character by
passing it through a precise physical model of
the human vocal tract.
New to Auto-Tune 7 is the ability in Graphical
Mode to individually modify the throat modeling
for each note or correction object, offering an
entirely new level of creative control.
Time Shifting and Correction
By far the most dramatic addition to Auto-
Tune 7 is its entirely new time correction and
manipulation system. We’ve designed Auto-
Tune 7’s time control capabilities to combine
an extremely high-quality time-shifting
algorithm with an exceedingly intuitive user
interface designed to make it quick and easy to
correct timing errors or exercise your creative
imagination.
Time Tracking
In order to do its time shifting magic, Auto-Tune
7 must first create a copy of the audio you wish
to edit. This is accomplished with the Track
Pitch and Time function. To help manage this
audio data, we’ve provided a convenient Data
File Management dialog that allows you to
establish or move the location of the data files,
rename their folder, as well as delete them if
they are no longer necessary (after bouncing
the final time-modified audio, for example).
The File Management System will also alert
you if the data files are not where Auto-Tune 7
expects them to be and will provide information
to help you find them.
Time Tools
Although allowing for an enormous amount of
flexibility, Auto-Tune 7’s time shifting functions
make use of two easy-to-use tools; the Move
Point tool and the Move Region tool.
The Move Point tool allows you to select
a range of audio and pick any point in the
range and move it forward or back in time,
compressing and expanding the audio around it.
The Move Region tool is designed for moving
notes, words, or phrases while preserving
the timing of the moved element. As with the
Although you can also accomplish overall
transposition in Graphical Mode by selecting
all the correction objects in your track and
manually moving them up or down, in most
cases, using the Transpose function will provide
superior results.
Formant Correction
A sound’s ”formants” are the combined
acoustic resonances that result from the physical
structure of whatever is producing the sound.
In the case of a human voice, air from your
lungs is forced through your vocal chords,
causing them to vibrate. From there, the voice
is propagated through the throat, the mouth
and out through the lips. It is the shape of
these structures that create the resonant
characteristics that define your unique vocal
identity.
When a vocal is pitch-shifted by large intervals
without formant correction, not only is the pitch
of sung notes shifted, but the formants are
shifted as well. The resulting effect is not just
of a person singing higher or lower notes, but
of a person who is literally growing or shrinking
(depending on the direction of the shift).
While this can be useful for producing singing
chipmunks, it typically does not produce
realistic pitch-shifting over ranges larger than a
semitone or two.
Engaging Auto-Tune 7’s Formant Correction
prevents the shifting of a voice’s resonant
frequencies to ensure that its vocal
characteristics are preserved over the pitch
shift range.
AN IMPORTANT NOTE: Over the very
small intervals usually associated
with basic pitch correction, formant
shifting is essentially inaudible and Auto-
Tune’s classic pitch adjustment technology
still provides the optimum results. Formant
Correction is designed to be used with overall
transposition or on tracks where notes are
shifted by large intervals.
Throat Modeling
As mentioned above, the shape of a singer’s
throat is a prime contributor to their vocal
character. Auto-Tune 7’s Throat Length control