User manual ANTARES AUTO-TUNE 7

[. . . ] Auto-Tune 7 ® World Standard Professional Pitch and Time Correction Owner's Manual ©2010 Antares Audio Technologies. Auto-Tune®, Antares®, AVOX® and Harmony Engine® are registered trademarks of Antares Audio Technologies. www. antarestech. com Printed in USA Rev 1. 0 PN P23037-0710-M01 The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-Jumbo The Antares® Auto-Tune® 7 software and this User's Manual are protected by copyright law. Making copies, adaptations, or derivative works without the prior written authorization of Antares Audio Technologies, is prohibited by law and constitutes a punishable violation of the law. [. . . ] What this means is that if two MIDI notes overlap at all, the later note's Note On will also generate a Note Off for the earlier note. In practice, if your MIDI file is a single melody line that has been carefully played or programmed such that no two notes overlap, everything will be as you expect. If your MIDI file is polyphonic, you're likely to get pretty wacky results. If wacky isn't what you're looking for, it's probably better not to do that. 43 Show MIDI When the Show MIDI button is blue, any MIDI data that has previously been recorded will be displayed as red boxes on the Pitch Graph. Clicking the Show MIDI button will toggle its state. NOTE: The red MIDI notes display is for reference only. Unless you choose to make Note Objects from the MIDI notes as described below, the MIDI notes will have no effect on Auto-Tune 7's pitch correction. Make Notes From MIDI Clicking the Make Notes From MIDI button will convert any currently recorded MIDI notes into Note Correction Objects. NOTE: If a range of time has been selected using the I-Beam Tool, the Make Notes From MIDI button works only in the selected time range. Otherwise it works on all red MIDI data. Since the assumption is that you will create your MIDI track with your desired timing, the recorded MIDI notes are not affected by the time manipulation tools. As a result, if you will be performing time correction on your audio in a range where you will be using the Make Notes From MIDI function, you should use the following workflow: 1. Create a MIDI track with the desired timing and route it to Auto-Tune 7. If necessary, click the Show MIDI button to display the recorded MIDI notes. Use the time tools described later in this chapter to adjust the timing of your audio to match the timing of the displayed MIDI notes. Click the Make Notes From MIDI button to convert the MIDI notes in Note Correction Objects that will now be in perfect sync with your audio. 44 The Pitch and Envelope Graph Displays The Pitch Graph Display The Pitch Graph displays the pitch contour of the audio to be processed as well as the pitch correction objects that you create and a plot of the exact output pitch based on each object's current Retune Speed. Additionally, the amplitude envelope of the displayed audio is displayed as a background element of the graph. On the display, the vertical axis represents pitch (with higher notes towards the top) while the horizontal axis represents time. The horizontal grid lines or lanes (depending on the current display mode) represent scale pitches. The grid lines provide a reference to guide you in drawing and editing correction objects. The positions of the graph lines correspond to the pitches of the notes in the currently selected scale. Changing the Scale Detune setting will result in the scale pitch graph lines moving up or down relative to the tracked pitch. You can resize the Graphical Mode window to take advantage of those nice big high-resolution monitors that have become so affordable. In most hosts, Auto-Tune 7's Graphical Mode window can be resized in real-time, limited only by the size of your monitor. In hosts that don't support real-time resizing, the window size can be set in the Options Dialog as described above. In VST hosts, resizing is limited to a maximum size of 1600 x 1200 pixels -- still not too shabby. Show Lanes The Pitch Graph Display's default mode displays horizontal lines that represent each pitch. This is probably the most useful mode with Curve and Line correction objects. [. . . ] China. · · Greek diatonic genus: A seven-tone scale from ancient Greece. This scale is derived by tuning twelve pure perfect fifths upward and adjusting the octaves downward. This leads to some pure intervals and some very impure intervals. · Barnes-Bach (chromatic): A twelve-tone scale. A variation of the Vallotti & Young scale designed to optimize the performance of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. · Ethnic Tunings · Indian: This 22 tone scale is used in India to perform ragas. [. . . ]