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Chapter 5: New Feature Quick Start Guide
This chapter brings all of the new Auto-Tune Evo features together in one place to
help experienced Auto-Tune 5 users learn the new features without having to slog
through all of the stuff they already know. (The items below also appear in their
appropriate places elsewhere in the manual.)
With a few exceptions, the new features in Auto-Tune Evo are additions to the current Auto-Tune 5
functionality. In other words, pretty much everything that isn’t a new feature works pretty much the
same as it did in Auto-Tune 5. The exceptions are noted below.
ONE BIG IMPORTANT NOTE
It is critical to note that Auto-Tune Evo will NOT
open sessions created with Auto-Tune 5. The
improvements made to the core technology
are so extensive that it just won’t work. For
that reason, we have configured Auto-Tune Evo
such that it and Auto-Tune 5 can be active in
your DAW simultaneously.
However, it’s also important to note that we will
not be releasing future updates to Auto-Tune 5,
so it is inevitable that between computer OS
advancements and host updates, Auto-Tune 5
will eventually stop working.
If you have current saved sessions with
instances of Auto-Tune 5 that you may need to
access into the indefinite future, we offer the
following suggestions:
•
If you are satisfied with the current Auto-
Tune 5 settings, use whatever method your
host offers (bouncing, offline editing, etc.) to
permanently render the corrected tracks.
•
If you believe you will need to keep editing
into the future, remove the instances of Auto-
Tune 5 and replace them with instances of
Auto-Tune Evo.
Now back to the good stuff.
General Features
Dramatically enhanced core technology
While Auto Tune’s patented processing
technology has always provided unmatched
speed and accuracy, for Auto-Tune Evo, Dr.
Andy has gone back to the proverbial drawing
board to create a seriously evolved voice
processing technology that takes advantage of
the hugely more powerful computers that are
now the norm for digital audio recording.
The result is Evo™ Voice Processing
Technology, offering powerful new features
and capabilities along with pitch detection and
correction that is substantially more accurate
and reliable over a much wider range of audio
input quality.
Redesigned user interface
Continuing the process begun with Auto-Tune
5, we have again refined the Auto-Tune user
interface to allow for smoother, more intuitive
workflow.
Reorganized common controls
With the addition of the new pitch shifting,
formant correction, and throat modeling
capabilities described below, we have
reorganized the common control area to
ensure that all of the parameters used by
both correction modes are easily available at
all times. The following controls that were
previously located in the Automatic Mode
window are now in the common area: