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and assigned a custom Retune Speed to each
one. This is an incredibly powerful capability for
insuring that your corrections are as natural and
seamless as possible.
Import Auto
The Import Auto button is enabled whenever
there is any red input pitch contour data
present in the Pitch Graph (whether it is
displayed in the current Pitch Graph view or
not).
Pressing the Import Auto button causes blue
target pitch contour objects (curves for short)
to be created from the red input pitch contour
data. The blue curve(s) created by the Import
Auto function is a precise representation of
the pitch correction that would result from
processing the tracked input pitch through the
current settings of Auto-Tune 7’s Automatic
Mode. In addition to the Key and Scale
selections, the Retune Speed, and any Scale
Detune, it reflects the Automatic Mode’s Edit
Scale settings, Targeting Ignores Vibrato mode
(if selected), and Humanize, Natural Vibrato and
Create Vibrato settings.
As described above for Make Curve, green
output pitch curves are also created that
represent the exact pitches output at the
currently selected Retune Speed.
NOTE: If a range of time has been
selected by using the I-Beam Tool,
the Import Auto button works only in
the selected time range. Otherwise it works on
all red pitch data.
ANOTHER NOTE: The curves created
by Import Auto will initially be
assigned the same default Curves
Retune Speed as those created with Make
Curve. In fact, pretty much everything we said
about the Make Curve function above is equally
applicable to the Import Auto function.
Once you have used the Import Auto function
to create a blue target pitch curve, setting the
Graphical Mode Retune Speed to 0 (or having
set the default Curves Retune Speed to 0) will
result in exactly the same output as you would
have gotten by processing the audio through
Automatic Mode. Alternatively, you can adjust
the Retune Speed for all or selected correction
curve segments, or further edit the blue curve
using any of the Graphical Mode tools to get
precisely the effect you want.
If you aren’t satisfied with the results of
the Import Auto function, simply switch to
Automatic Mode, modify any of the settings as
desired, and then return to Graphical Mode and
click Import Auto again.
NOTE: In addition to its use as a
Graphical Mode correction tool,
the Import Auto function can also
be used to provide an informative visual
representation of the results of Automatic Mode
settings. If there are times when you’d prefer
to use Automatic Mode, but can’t quite zero in
on the ideal settings, examining the results of
various settings with the Import Auto function
can give you a visual picture of exactly what’s
going on. This will often make it readily apparent
which Automatic Mode settings need to be
changed to give your desired results.
STILL ANOTHER NOTE: One potentially
confusing aspect of the Import Auto
function is the relationship between
the Automatic Mode Retune Speed setting and
the Graphical Mode Retune Speed setting. To
summarize:
The Automatic Mode Retune Speed controls
how the input audio would be processed in
Automatic Mode. Changing this setting will
change the shape of the blue curve that will be
created by the Import Auto function.
The Graphical Mode Retune Speed controls
how quickly the pitch of the input audio will be
changed to that of the blue target pitch curve.
As mentioned above, to precisely duplicate the
results of Automatic Mode, set the Graphical
Mode Retune Speed to 0.
Make Notes
The Make Notes function provides an entirely
new range of ways to use Auto-Tune 7.
For pitch correction, it combines the ease of
Automatic Mode with the control of Graphical
Mode to allow you to get optimum results with
a minimum of tedious tweaking.