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Tutorial 2: Targeting Ignores Vibrato Function
This tutorial will demonstrate the purpose and
use of the Automatic Mode’s Targeting Ignores
Vibrato function.
Begin the tutorial by doing the following:
1. Load or import “wide_vibrato” into a track
of your host program. This is a recording of
a male voice singing a sustained “G” with
a pronounced vibrato. Play the track so
that you are familiar with the original audio.
Despite the wide vibrato, you will notice
that the singer’s pitch drifts alternately
sharp and flat.
2. Set up Auto-Tune Evo to be an insert effect
on that track.
3. Set Auto-Tune Evo to Automatic Mode.
4. Set the Key to “C” and the Scale to
“Chromatic.”
5. Set the Input Type to Low Male Voice
6. Set Retune Speed to a value of 24.
7. Use your host program’s controls to Bypass
Auto-Tune Evo. Set “wide_vibrato” to loop
continuously and put your host program
into Play mode. Watch the blue Detected
Pitch indication on Auto-Tune Evo’s Virtual
Keyboard. As you will see, the singer’s
vibrato is so wide that it consistently gets
closer to G# and F# than G, causing Auto-
Tune to intermittently select those notes as
target pitches.
8. Check that Targeting Ignores Vibrato is
not selected and remove Auto-Tune Evo
from Bypass. Watch the Detected Pitch
indication and listen to the result. As you
will hear, whenever Auto-Tune Evo thinks
G# or F# is the target pitch, it will move
the input closer to those notes, in effect
making the situation worse.
9. Now, leaving all other settings the same,
click Targeting Ignores Vibrato. With
Targeting Ignores Vibrato engaged, Auto-
Tune Evo’s vibrato identification algorithm
recognizes the pitch excursions as vibrato
and continues to use “G” as the target
pitch.
Next, we’ll use Graphical Mode for a dramatic
graphic demonstration of the effect of Targeting
Ignores Vibrato:
1. Still using “wide_vibrato,” set up Auto-Tune
Evo as described in Steps 1-5 above.
2. Set Retune Speed to 0.
3. Make sure Targeting Ignores Vibrato is Off.
4. Set Auto-Tune Evo to Graphical Mode.
5. Click the Track Pitch button and play
wide_vibrato through Auto-Tune Evo. A
red curve representing the pitch contour of
wide_vibrato will be drawn to the screen as
the file plays.
6. Stop playback and click the Track Pitch
button again to stop the tracking function.
7. Click the Import Auto button. A blue curve
will appear. This curve represents the
pitch correction that would result from
processing the audio with the current
Automatic Mode settings. Note all the
instances in which Auto-Tune Evo identifies
G# or F# as the target pitch.
8. Set Auto-Tune Evo back to Automatic
Mode.
9. Set Targeting Ignores Vibrato to On.
10. Return once again to Graphical Mode.
11. Click Import Auto (there is no need to track
pitch again, as the red pitch curve is still
present in the Pitch Graph).
12. Notice that the blue curve is now a straight
line on “G,” indicating that the Improved
Targeting algorithm has accurately
identified the pitch excursions as vibrato
and has therefore ignored it as far as target
pitch selection is concerned.