There are two tools for making those timing changes.

This is extremely handy for quickly seeing edits. The bottom display splits into two waveforms during Time Correction, displaying the original timing on the bottom and the corrected timing on the top. Another amplitude display below the editing window can be either a zoomed-out overview of all tracked audio, or a direct mirror of the editing window''s time selection. Loading the audio into the Time Correction engine is simple the audio records into the plug-in in real time, giving you a highly useful overview of the waveform''s amplitude behind the editing display''s familiar pitch-tracking curves. (Neither Antares nor other customers have been able to reproduce this crash, so it''s likely system-specific.) (I can get a few more instances in my Pro Tools HD 8.1 studio setup on an 8-core Mac Pro with 6GB RAM.) On both systems, I experienced a couple of crashes when using the line tool to pencil in extensive pitch-correction data, but overall, the software has been quite stable. I''ve been running Auto-Tune 7 in Pro Tools 9 on my 2.2GHz MacBook with 4GB RAM, obtaining up to five simultaneous instances before encountering processor errors.

Installation is quite easy, but requires an iLok account and dongle ($50). (This happens in different ways, depending whether you use Time Correction see below.) Aside from enhanced pitch-detection algorithms for both modes, Auto-Tune 7''s new features deal almost exclusively with Graphical Mode functions. Automatic Mode works its magic in real time (although with 2,660 samples of latency at 44.1kHz in Pro Tools), while Graphical Mode entails recording audio from your track into the plug-in, which then takes over playback of the tracked audio from the host. Auto-Tune''s two modes-Automatic and Graphical-each open their own panes underneath the global settings. By far, the biggest enhancement in Auto-Tune is the addition of Time Correction tools, which allow altering a performance''s timing from within the Graphical interface window. The Auto-Tune 7 GUI hasn''t changed much from Auto-Tune Evo. And I''m certainly not referring to the well-known, wildly overused extreme-setting application, which is, remarkably, well into its second decade of making purists cringe. I''ll skip the philosophical discussion over what that says about both our collective desire for pitch perfection and our inability to obtain it without digital help-many engineers are finding ways to use Auto-Tune (and other pitch-correction software) both to solve problems and create new effects for vocals as well as instruments. That''s right-Antares'' Auto-Tune is the best-selling audio plug-in ever.

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