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Chapter 4: Auto-Tune 3 Tutorial
This chapter introduces you to how Auto-Tune 3 works by guiding you
through a a number of brief tutorials.
The Auto-Tune 3 installer installs a number of tutorial files which, depend-
ing on your plug-in format and host application, may be provided as
separate audio files or together in a project file. (We will assume that you
are familiar with loading audio files into your host application.)
Tutorial 1: Automatic Mode
This tutorial will guide you through the basic Automatic Mode functions
using the file “A2-A3-A2 sweep.” This is a simple synthesized waveform
sweeping slowly from A2 up to A3 and back to A2. While it is unlikely that
you’d ever need to process such an input with Auto-Tune 3, it provides a
very clear example of what each of the main Auto-Tune 3 controls do.
Begin the tutorial by doing the following:
1. Load or import “A2-A3-A2 sweep” into a track of your host program.
Play the track so that you are familiar with the original audio.
2. Set up Auto-Tune 3 to be an insert effect on that track.
3. Set Auto-Tune 3 to Automatic Mode.
4. Set the Key to “A” and the Scale to “Major.”
5. Set the Retune Speed to zero.
6. Set “A2-A3-A2 sweep” to loop continuously and put your host program
into Play mode.
What you will hear is an A major scale. This is because Auto-Tune 3 is
continuously comparing the input pitch to the notes of the A major scale
and instantaneously correcting the output pitch to the nearest of the scale
tones.
Now do the following:
1. In the Edit Scale Display, click the Remove buttons next to the notes B,
D, F# and G#.
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