® Real-Time Auto-Tune Vocal Effect, Pitch Correction and Auto-Motion Vocal Pattern Generation TM Owner’s Manual
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Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started Installing and Authorizing Technical Support Chapter 2 How It Works What’s it do? How to do it Useful tips Chapter 3 Chapter 4 3 3 5 6 9 Auto-Tune EFX Tutorials 1: Auto-Tune Vocal Effect 2: Pitch Correction 3: Auto-Motion Vocal Pattern Generation 11 11 12 Updating, Creating and Editing Auto-Motion Patterns 13
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1 Welcome! On behalf of everyone at Antares Audio Technologies, we’d like to offer both our thanks and congratulations on your decision to purchase Auto-Tune EFX 2, the quickest, easiest tool for real-time pitch correction, creating the Auto-Tune Vocal Effect and our new Auto-Motion™ Vocal Pattern Generation. Before you proceed any farther, we’d like to strongly encourage you to register and authorize your copy of Auto-Tune EFX 2.
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3 Chapter 1: Getting Started Installing Auto-Tune EFX 2 Auto-Tune EFX 2 is designed to work with a wide variety of digital audio applications. Please refer to your host application’s user manual for more information on installing and using plug-ins. (Although in most cases, simply double-clicking the Auto-Tune EFX 2 installer and following the resulting directions will be all you need to do.
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5 Chapter 2: How It Works Some background In 1997, Antares first introduced the ground-breaking Auto-Tune Pitch Correcting Plug-In and Recording Magazine called Auto-Tune a “holy grail of recording.” In the intervening years, Auto-Tune has established itself as the worldwide standard in professional pitch correction.
6 How to do it Auto-Tune EFX 2 has been designed to make almost everything automatic. Simply follow the steps below: Pitch Correction or Auto-Tune Vocal Effect 1. Select an effect type Auto-Tune EFX 2 provides two alternative versions of the Auto-Tune Vocal Effect as well as real-time pitch correction. 2. Set Tracking In most cases, simply leaving the Tracking switch at its default setting of “Normal” will ensure accurate pitch detection and tracking.
7 A TIP: If you don’t know the key of your track, trial-and-error works pretty well. Start by setting Major or Minor and then just trying one Key after another until one sounds good. 5. Play your track Auto-Tune EFX 2 will process your input vocal and, depending on your choice of Effect Type, will either correct or quantize it to the target scale notes. Mr. Hand will continuously indicate the current target note. If you like the result, you’re done. If not, continue with the next step. 6.
8 Soft EFX: Transitions between notes of the pattern will be slightly less instantaneous. Legato: The notes of the pattern will glide smoothly from one to the next. IMPORTANT NOTE: Despite the similarities, the Pattern Style selection is completely independent of the Effect Style selection.
9 4. Trigger the Pattern Some useful tips Pitch Correction and Auto-Tune Vocal Effect Play your track. At any point, click and hold the Trigger button to play the selected pattern. Continuing to hold down the Trigger button will cause the pattern to repeat for as long as you hold it down. Release the Trigger button to stop the pattern. Repeat as desired.
10 Auto-Motion Vocal Pattern Generation 1. Auto-Motion depends on the same Voice Type, Tracking, Key, and Scale settings as pitch correction and the Auto-Tune Vocal Effect. Even if you aren’t doing pitch correction or using the Auto-Tune Vocal Effect, be sure to correctly set those controls. 2. Try using different patterns in different parts of your track by using your host’s automation capability to switch patterns at the appropriate points in the track. 3.
11 Chapter 3: Auto-Tune EFX 2 Tutorials This chapter introduces you to how Auto-Tune EFX 2 works by guiding you through three brief tutorials. The tutorials require a number of audio files. They can be found on the Auto-Tune EFX 2 DVD, or you can download them from: http://www.antarestech.com/download/update.shtml Then just follow these steps: Tutorial 1: Auto-Tune Vocal Effect 1. Create a new project in your host and import the tutorial files “hidin_vocal.wav” and “hidin_accomp.
12 Tutorial 3: Auto-Motion Vocal Pattern Generation The best way to become familiar with AutoMotion is simply to play around with it. To get started: 1. Load the “hidin” files from Tutorial 1 and set the controls as instructed in that tutorial. 2. Set your host’s tempo to 132 BPM and set the Auto-Motion tempo to “Sync to Host” and “1/16.” 3. Set the Auto-Motion Pattern Style to Hard EFX. 4. Select the pattern “Half Steps.” 5. Start playing the project.
13 Chapter 4: Creating, Editing and Updating Auto-Motion Patterns For the adventuresome among you, Auto-Tune EFX 2’s patterns are stored in a dedicated file in the standard MusicXML format.
