Auto-Tune EFX 3 Real-Time Auto-Tune Pitch Correction, Vocal Effect and Auto-Motion™ Vocal Pattern Generation Owner’s Manual
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Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started Installing and Authorizing Technical Support 3 3 Chapter 2 How It Works What’s it do? How to do it Useful tips 5 6 9 Chapter 3 Auto-Tune EFX Tutorials 1: Pitch Correction 2: Auto-Tune Vocal Effect 3: Auto-Motion Vocal Pattern Generation 11 11 12 Chapter 4 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 3, 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 3.
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3 1: Getting Started Installing Auto-Tune EFX 3 Auto-Tune EFX 3 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 3 installer and following the resulting directions will be all you need to do.
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5 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. Today, it’s used daily by tens of thousands of audio professionals to save studio and editing time, ease the frustration of endless retakes, or save that otherwise once-in-a-lifetime performance.
6 How to do it Auto-Tune EFX 3 has been designed to make almost everything automatic. Simply follow the steps below: Pitch Correction or The Auto-Tune Vocal Effect 1. Set Tracking In most cases, simply leaving the Tracking switch at its default setting of “Normal” will ensure accurate pitch detection and tracking. In the rare event that you encounter a problem (e.g., a vocal playing back at the wrong octave), moving the switch to “Choosy” should make everything right. 2.
7 6. Adjust the Retune Speed If your initial Retune Speed setting did not give you the results you want, speed it up or slow it down as necessary. 7. Customize the Scale Depending on the specific vocal line, adding or removing scale notes can give you distinctly different results. Try any combination of the following: • • Click on a lit blue Note button to remove it from the scale and prevent Auto-Tune EFX 3 from correcting or quantizing the output to that note.
8 Auto-Motion Vocal Pattern Generation 3. Set Pattern Tempo 1. Select a Pattern Auto-Tune EFX 3 comes with a varied selection of melodic patterns (but see Chapter 4 for info on expanding the selection and creating your own). Click the Select Pattern menu to pick one. While we’ve tried to name each pattern in a way to suggest its style, the easiest way to become familiar with them is just to try them out. 2.
9 • • • 1/32. (dotted 32nd note) 1/32 (32nd note) 1/32T (32nd note triplet) For example, if you select 4/4, each note of your pattern will last for four beats, while selecting 1/16 will result in one pattern note per sixteenth note. Absolute BPM: When Sync to Host is not selected, the Tempo knob lets you set the tempo in beats per minute. The available range is 20 BPM to 260 BPM. 4. Trigger the Pattern Play your track.
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 3: Auto-Tune EFX 3 Tutorials This chapter introduces you to how Auto-Tune EFX 3 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 3 DVD, or you can download them from: http://www.antarestech.com/download/latest-software.php Then just follow these steps: Tutorial 1: Pitch Correction 1. Import the tutorial files “dont_give_up_ vocal.wav” and “dont_give_up_accomp. wav” onto two tracks of your project. 2.
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 4: Creating, Editing and Updating Auto-Motion Patterns For the adventuresome among you, Auto-Tune EFX 3’s patterns are stored in a dedicated file in the standard MusicXML format.
