You want to have the option of going back to the unprocessed copy, if need be.

It’s always important to make a backup of the track or the project when you’re doing destructive editing. In Logic, the process is called “Selection-Based Processing.” Most DAWs offer something similar. For those unfamiliar with Pro Tools, AudioSuite effects are not inserted on a channel but are applied destructively to selected audio regions. He works on one phrase at a time and renders his changes to the audio file as he goes along. You’ll notice in the excerpt that Greg’s workflow with Auto-Tune in Pro Tools entails using it as an AudioSuite effect. You can open Auto-Tune as a track insert or use it as an AudioSuite (rendered) effect. It’s also always helpful to have a keyboard instrument within reach when you’re tuning-it could be a real or MIDI piano-that you can use to identify notes from the vocal or figure out the correct destination for a particular note.īack to Greg, he says his essential philosophy on using Auto-Tune is that it shouldn’t be detectable by the listener unless you’re using it as an effect, such as on R&B vocals with “the Auto-Tune Effect.” If you set it subtly, you can tighten up the vocal intonation without anyone knowing that you did. You can make better tuning decisions if you have some harmonic context. Not for Auto-Tune, which has its own internal tuning reference, but for your ear.

A good reason to leave at least one instrument on when you’re tuning is to provide a pitch reference. (Note that he’s using Auto-Tune 8, and the examples and graphics in this article use Auto-Tune Pro, the most recent version.) GETTING IT JUST RIGHTĪs Greg is working on tuning the vocal track, he sometimes listens to the voice soloed, but more often with the guitar and piano in. In this excerpt from Episode 6 of “Greg Wells Start to Finish,” Greg shows us his workflow and discusses his strategies for setting Antares Auto-Tune.

Depending on the intonation of the singer, the tuning process can be painstaking and require many parameter adjustments along the way. Tuning vocals is an art form that often entails a lot more than just inserting a pitch correction plug-in on a vocal track and hitting play.

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