Owner`s manual
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Chapter 2: Introducing Auto-Tune Live
Some background
In 1997, Antares Audio Technologies first introduced the ground-breaking
Auto-Tune Pitch Correcting Plug-In. Auto-Tune was a tool that actually cor-
rected the pitch of vocals and other solo instruments, in real time, without
distortion or artifacts, while preserving all of the expressive nuance of the
original performance. Recording Magazine called Auto-Tune the “holy grail
of recording.” And went on to say, “Bottom line, Auto-Tune is amazing…
Everyone with a Mac should have this program.” (In fact, we know of quite
a few people back then who bought kilo-buck Pro Tools™ systems just to be
able to run Auto-Tune.)
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 around the world to save studio and
editing time, ease the frustration of endless retakes, save that otherwise
once-in-a-lifetime performance, or to create what has become the signa-
ture vocal eect of our time.
Now, with Auto-Tune Live, we’ve created a version of Auto-Tune optimized
for real-time use in performance or when tracking in the studio.
So what exactly is Auto-Tune Live?
Auto-Tune Live is a real-time tool for correcting intonation and timing
errors or creatively modifying the intonation of a performance. Auto-Tune
Live provides world professional standard Auto-Tune pitch correction
optimized for tracking and live performance with ultra-low latency and
comprehensive MIDI control.
Thanks to its ultra-low latency, Auto-Tune Live allows virtually instant
response in performance or when tracking in the studio. And with its MIDI
control capabilities, you can control all of Auto-Tune Live’s key performance
parameters in real time, for the ultimate in creative pitch processing.
Auto-Tune Live employs state-of-the-art digital signal processing algo-
rithms (many, interestingly enough, drawn from the geophysical industry)
to continuously detect the pitch of a periodic input signal (typically a solo
voice or instrument) and instantly and seamlessly change it to a desired
pitch (defined by any of a number of user-programmable scales or by MIDI
input).