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common control area to ensure that all of
the parameters used by both Automatic
and Graphical correction modes are easily
available at all times.
• Tracking control back where it belongs:
Back in Auto-Tune 5, we consolidated the
Auto Mode and Graphical Mode Tracking
controls and moved the resulting control to
the Options dialog. This turned out to be a
none-too-popular move. It’s now back in the
common control area where it’s instantly
accessible in either mode. (And speaking of
the Tracking control, the new Evo Processing
technology allows the Tracking control to
more easily correct (the now rare) octave
pitch-tracking errors.)
Automatic Mode Features
• Real-time pitch shifting: Auto-Tune Evo’s
new Transpose control provides extremely
high-quality real-time pitch shifting over a
two-octave range (+/- one octave in semi-
tone increments).
• Formant correction (Native versions
only): While Auto-Tune’s classic pitch
adjustment technology still provides the
optimum results for the very small intervals
typical of conventional pitch correction, for
larger intervals or outright pitch-shifting,
engaging Auto-Tune Evo’s Formant
Correction function preserves vocal character
over a much wider pitch-shift range.
• Throat modeling (Native versions only):
Utilizing the latest incarnation of Antares’
unique throat modeling technology, the new
Throat Length control actually allows you to
modify vocal character by passing it through
a variable-length physical model of the
human vocal tract.
(Throat modeling is only available when
Formant Correction is engaged.)
Graphical Mode Features
• Resizable Graphical Mode window: In
most hosts, Auto-Tune Evo’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. In VST
hosts, resizing is limited to a maximum size
of 1600 x 1200 pixels — still not too shabby.)
• New Note-based pitch correction
and pitch shifting: In addition to Lines and
Curves, Auto-Tune Evo introduces an entirely
new method of pitch editing: Note Objects.
Clicking the Make Notes button will cause
Auto-Tune Evo to analyze the tracked audio
and create graphic representations of the
target notes (which can be fine-tuned with
the Number of Note Objects control). These
objects can then easily be edited, shifted
in pitch, and individually pitch corrected or
retuned. New Note Objects can be drawn
with the new Notes Tool, and the transitions
between Notes can easily be customized
with the Curve Tool.
Like Auto-Tune Evo’s other editing
techniques, Note Objects can be employed
in selected parts of your track and intermixed
with the other techniques. You are always
free to select whichever method (Notes,
Curves or Lines) is most effective for each
particular editing task.
• Object-based Retune Speed settings! In
one of Auto-Tune Evo’s initially less obvious,
but functionally most powerful changes,
Retune Speed is now an independent
property of each individual correction object
(Curve, Line or Note).
Since each object can have its own Retune
Speed setting, you will no longer need to
automate Retune Speed to get the optimum
rate for each note of a performance.
(Because of this, the Retune Speed knob is
only active when one or more objects are
selected.)