Owner`s manual

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Auto-Tune Live comes with 29 preprogrammed scales. The first three
equal-tempered scales, chromatic, major, and minor, are the ubiquitous
scales typically found in Western tonal music. The other scales are historical,
ethnic, and micro-tonal scales. An in-depth discussion of these scales and
their history is beyond the scope of this manual. The interested reader will
find more information in Tuning In — Micro-tonality In Electronic Music by
Scott R. Wilkinson, published by Hal Leonard Books.
A brief description of each scale can be found in Chapter 6, The Auto-Tune
Live Scales
Scale Detune
The Detune parameter allows you to
change the pitch standard of Auto-
Tune Live from the default A = 440Hz.
The value is set in cents (100 cents = 1
semitone). The range of adjustment
is from -100 to +100 cents. For convenience, the detune amount is also
displayed in Hertz relative to A440.
The Detune function can be used to tune a vocal performance to some
irreparably out-of-tune instrument (a piano or organ, for example), or to
allow correction to other than the conventional 440Hz standard.
A Tip: If you have a tone that you want to use as the pitch standard, select
that tone and play it in a loop. Adjust Scale Detune until the Change meter
reads zero. (You may be required to use the Edit Scale Display to remove
adjacent notes so that Auto-Tune Live doesn’t tune to the wrong note.)
The default Scale Detune setting is 0 cents. Double-clicking or Command
(Mac)/Control (PC) clicking the Scale Detune knob will reset it to that value.
Throat Length
As mentioned back in Chapter 2, the shape of a
singer’s throat is a prime contributor to their vocal
character. Auto-Tune Live lets you modify the vocal
quality of a performance by actually varying the
geometry of a physical model of the human vocal
tract and processing the your performance through that model in real time.
The Throat Length control lets you modify the length of the modeled
throat. The range of the control is 50 to 180. Values above 100 represent a
lengthening of the throat while values below 100 represent a shortening of
the throat.