HANDS-ON TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

Step by step

1. Enhancing vocals with Antares Auto-Tune

1 Antares Auto-Tune is a remarkably dexterous suite of voice-manipulating software, and is now capable of far more, particularly via the family of sub-plugins such as Auto-Key and EFX.

2 We’ve got a demo we’re working on, with a vocal melody concocted of samples. However the samples are dry and entirely out of tune and roughly in tempo with our track pitch. (Check out the file ‘Sample 1’ at the Tutorials folder downloaded via FileSilo).

3 Opening Antares Auto-Tune, the first thing we do is snap our vocal track to the correct pitch key using Auto-Key. This recent addition to the Antares family intelligently discerns our root key. We can then send the key to Auto-Tune.

4 Setting the Re-Tune speed higher can make our vocal snap more sharply to the key of the track. Cranking it right