Owner`s manual

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The Create Vibrato Section
The controls in this section are designed to
add a synthesized vibrato to the input.
While vibrato is typically perceived to be a
variation solely in pitch, careful analysis shows
that, depending on the voice or instrument and
the style of the individual performer, variations
in amplitude (loudness) and formant resonances
are also involved. Reflecting this, Auto-Tune 5
includes a plethora of vibrato functions to allow
the creation of much more convincing vibratos.
(And for the adventuresome, they can be abused
to create some “interesting” effects.)
The controls are:
SHAPE MENU
Selects the
shape of the
vibrato. The
choices are:
NO VIBRATO Pretty self-explanatory.
SINE WAVE Changes smoothly from
minimum to maximum and back again.
The most common choice for a conventional
vibrato.
SQUARE Jumps to maximum where it spends
50% of the cycle and then jumps to minimum
for the remaining 50% of the cycle.
SAWTOOTH Gradually rises from minimum
to maximum and then drops instantaneously
to minimum to start the cycle again.
RATE
Sets the rate of the vibrato over a
range of 0.1 Hz to 10 Hz. The default
Rate setting is 5.5 Hz. Double-clicking
or Command (Mac)/Control (PC)
clicking the Rate knob will reset it to
that value.
VARIATION
Sets the amount of random variation
that will be applied to the Rate and
Amount parameters on a note to
note basis. Useful for humanizing the
vibrato by adding random “errors.”
The range is from 0 (no variation) to
100 (maximum variation). The default
Variation setting is 20. Double-clicking
or Command (Mac)/Control (PC) clicking the
Variation knob will reset it to that value.
ONSET DELAY
Sets the amount of time (in msec) between
the beginning of a note and the beginning of
the onset of vibrato. The range is from 0 to
1500ms (1.5 seconds). The default value is
500ms. Double-clicking or Command (Mac)/
Control (PC) clicking the Onset Delay knob will
reset it to that value.
ONSET RATE
Sets the amount of time (in msec) between
the end of the Onset Delay (set above) and
the point at which the vibrato reaches the
full Amounts set in the Pitch, Amplitude and
Formant Amount settings. The range is from 0
to 1500ms (1.5 seconds). The default value is
500ms. Double-clicking or Command (Mac)/
Control (PC) clicking the knob will reset it to
that value.
Onset Example: As an example of the above
parameters, assume an Onset Delay of
1000ms and an Onset Rate of 750ms. In that
case, each time a new note started there
would be no vibrato at all for the first second
(1000ms) followed by a 3/4 second (750ms)
period during which the vibrato depths would
increase from none to the full amounts set in
the various Amount parameters - for a total of
1.75 seconds from the beginning of the note to
the time full vibrato depth was reached.