There's a control called Retune - it appears as a rotary knob in version 3's GUI and as a slider in earlier versions - which adjusts the rate at which pitch correction takes place. The secret to making Auto-Tune sound natural is in not trying to make it correct sounds too quickly. This could be contributing to the 'warbly' effect you're encountering, so make sure you have set the plug-in to work off the appropriate key and scale type for the melody you're treating. You can also leave Auto-Tune set to a chromatic scale, but I've found that this rarely works perfectly, especially if the singer uses a lot of bends or vibrato, as you can end up creating trills between two adjacent semitones. Auto-Tune then uses a pitch-shifting algorithm to adjust the pitch of the input to the nearest note in a preset or user-definable scale. The plug-in works by detecting the pitch of the incoming material in real time. On the plus side, it means you can treat a messy guitar solo that includes double notes or partial chords and they will all be ignored, leaving Auto-Tune to do its job only on single sustained notes. This means if you have a vocal track with a lot of spill from other sources, Auto-Tune may refuse to work properly. It is important to note that it can only handle monophonic sources, so if it sees complex mixed material, or sounds that have been treated with delay or reverb, it will tend to pass those sounds through untreated. Can you offer any advice?Įditor In Chief Paul White replies: Auto-Tune is designed to address the problem of vocal pitching imperfections, though I've also used it successfully on other instruments, including electric guitar solos and fretless basses. Even when using the plug-in's Automatic mode, I can't get a good sound out of it - the corrected voice sounds 'warbly' and fake. I've recently started using the Antares Auto-Tune plug-in (version 3), and I need help! I used it recently on a male vocal that needed tuning.

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