Antares auto-tune
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| developer | Antares Audio Technologies, Andy Hildebrand ( Exxon ) |
| Publishing year | Spring 1997 |
| Current version | 8th |
| operating system | Microsoft Windows , Mac OS X , Linux |
| category | Music software |
| License | proprietary |
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Antares Auto-Tune is software for the automatic pitch correction of music recordings. It was introduced in 1996 by the US company Antares and for several years was considered the standard tool of music studios for correcting vocal passages, for example to bring a wrongly intoned melody track to the correct pitch. The term Auto-Tune is often used synonymously for pitch correction systems from other manufacturers, of which there are many. The heavily exaggerated pitch correction, deliberately used as a sound effect, became known through the song Believe by Cher from 1998 and is therefore often referred to as the Cher effect .
Working method
Auto-Tune is one of the music effects . The program analyzes the pitch of a monophonic ( monophonic ) audio signal (mostly vocals), checks whether and how far the found frequency is from the next correct semitone of a given mood , and pulls ( pitches ) the signal to the correct pitch if necessary. In order to minimize the interference with the audio material and to make the result sound as natural as possible, the correction can be restricted to certain pitches (e.g. the tonic of a key ) and specified that deviating tones are only corrected by a definable amount. Because the system smooths out vibrati to corrected pitches or eliminates them entirely, you can use Auto-Tune to generate artificial vibrati for fading tones.
The speed at which the signal is corrected to the correct frequency can also be selected with Auto-Tune. If the correction speed is set very high, glissandi end up with unnaturally gurgling, mechanical sounding jumps. This effect is sometimes used on purpose, such as As in the hit single Sensual Seduction by Snoop Dogg widely known from or Believe by Cher .
history
The process developed at the end of 1996 works digitally and was initially offered as a plug-in for hard disk recording systems, and since 1998 as a single device. To date, seven versions of Auto-Tune have already appeared, but the basic principle has not changed.
Alternative products
There are a number of alternative products that can also be used to correct pitch, such as:
- Melodyne from Celemony Software GmbH
- Waves Tune by Waves Audio
- Intonator from the Danish company TC Electronic
literature
- Thomas Görne: Sound engineering. 1st edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, Leipzig, 2006, ISBN 3-446-40198-9 .
- Roland Enders: The home recording manual. 3. Edition. Carstensen Verlag, Munich, 2003, ISBN 3-910098-25-8 .
- Klaus Walter: The voice as a toy . In Spex , December 2009
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Antares Auto-Tune 8
- ↑ Some programs that work similarly to Auto-Tune: GSnap, VisualVox VST, Visual Vox Polyphonie, Celemony Melodyne, Waves Tune, iZotope The T-Pain Effect, Nectar, Bias Pitch Craft EZ. The pitch correction is also standard in larger music software packages such as Cakewalk Sonar, Apple Logic Pro, Steinberg Cubase, Apple GarageBand, Adobe Audition, FL Studio. Music machines (i.e. hardware) with pitch correction: Boss VE-20 Vocal Performer, Digitech Vokalist Live 3 G, Tascam TA-IVP, TC-Helicon Voicetone Series, TC-Helicon Voice Works Plus, Electro Harmonix V256 Vocoder.