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Tutorial 10: Make Notes Function
This tutorial will help you become familiar with
Auto-Tune 7’s new Notes correction objects
and how they are used for pitch correction and
selective pitch shifting.
For this tutorial, we will once again use the
“somewhere” audio file.
1. Load or import the audio file “somewhere”
into a track of your host program.
2. Set up Auto-Tune 7 to be an insert effect on
that track.
3. Select Graphical Mode and select G Major
as the Key and Scale.
4. Press the Track Pitch button.
5. Play the “somewhere” file and track the
initial phrase, “Somewhere, over the
rainbow, skies are blue…” (approximately
the first 17 seconds of the file). Stop the
transport and click Track Pitch again to exit
the tracking function. Assuming Auto-Scroll
is enabled, the display will scale to include
all of the tracked audio.
There are two obvious problem areas in this
phrase, the words “rainbow” and “blue.” We’ll
start with “rainbow.”
6. Select the Zoom tool and drag it across the
tracked pitch from about 7 seconds to 10
seconds to zoom in to the area of interest.
If Auto-Scroll is currently enabled, turn it
off.
7. Select the I-Beam tool and highlight the
range of the word “rainbow” (again, from
about 7 seconds to 10 seconds).
8. Click the Make Notes button and adjust the
Number of Note Objects control to get two
notes, the first on F#3 and the second on
G3. (Note that if you set Number of Note
Objects too high - above 80 in this case -
unwanted notes will be created on F3 as a
result of the drop in pitch at the beginning
and end of “rain…”) Your display should
look something like this:
You will notice that the two syllables of
“rainbow” have different problems. “Rain…”
is slightly flat, while “…bow” is quite sharp.
Luckily, thanks to Auto-Tune 7’s independent
object Retune Speeds, we can quickly
customize each note’s correction.
9. Select the Arrow tool. Click the graph
background to deselect both notes and
then click on the F#3 note to select it.
Adjust the Retune Speed control. Observe
the green output pitch curve and audition
the resulting range of correction.
10. With the Arrow tool still selected, click
on the G3 note. Again, adjust the Retune
Speed for the desired correction. Note that
with a long held note like this, too fast a
Retune Speed can sound unnatural. The
trick is to select a speed that pulls the
overall note in tune, while still allowing
enough of the singer’s original natural
variation.
A NOTE: An indication of Auto-Tune
7’s seriously enhanced pitch-tracking
capabilities is the wildly oscillating
curve at the end of “rainbow.” That is actually
the result of Auto-Tune 7 tracking the faint
reverb tail at the end of the word.
We’ll continue with an example of selective
pitch shifting.
11. Ensure that Formant Correction is engaged.
With the Arrow tool still selected, move the
cursor over the middle of the G3 note and
notice that it turns into the pitch shift cursor
(little vertical up-and-down arrows).