User Guide

Auto-Tune UserÕs Manual 33
Lesson 5: Using the Make Curve Button
1. Use the line tool to draw a horizontal tine as shown below.
2. Set the Retune slider to 20 and play back the sound.
Vibratos and other pitch gestures occur with related loudness gestures. Spe-
ciÞcally, with vibratos, some vocalists produce mostly pitch variations and
little loudness variations while others produce small pitch variations and a
lot of loudness variations. (Some have called the latter a Tremolo.) Nonethe-
less, almost all voices seem to produce a combination of both pitch and
related loudness variations. Therefore, trying to take an existing vibrato
and change it (say speed it up) sometimes sounds unnatural because the
new pitch variation does not correspond to the old loudness variation.
These considerations are also important when correcting pitch. It isnÕt
always best to draw in a different pitch gesture at the desired pitch even
though that gesture may have worked well elsewhere.
The following techniques usually work well in this regard:
¥ The Þrst technique uses the Make Curve button to create a curve of the
existing pitch and drag that curve up or down, or stretch it by dragging
one end vertically. The Retune slider can then be set very fast (0 to 5).
This will force a precise re-tuning, but it will sound very natural since
the target pitch curve will follow the original loudness gestures of the
voice.