Auto-Tune 3

A while back I sent Antares some suggestions for how Auto-Tune could
support user-definable tunings. They have a new version out now, and as
far as I can tell, they didn't support any of those suggestions, but
they appear at least to have something more or less equivalent.

If I understand the Antares propaganda, along with some clarification by
a tech-support person, correctly, the new version of Auto-Tune lets you
send it MIDI note and pitch-bend messages whereby you can tell it what
pitch to retune digital audio to. In concept then, there should be
nothing stopping you from retuning "real" instruments to arbitrary
tunings.

I've used Auto-Tune a bit, and so far I've been impressed with its
ability to change tuning of monophonic digital audio with surprisingly
little effect upon other aspects of that audio.

--- In tuning@y..., Gary Morrison <MR88CET@T...> wrote:
> A while back I sent Antares some suggestions for how Auto-Tune could
> support user-definable tunings. They have a new version out now,
and as
> far as I can tell, they didn't support any of those suggestions, but
> they appear at least to have something more or less equivalent.

Gary,

It is greatly appreciated that you tried to get them to make this
plug more flexible. I use it too, and I find more and more that it
just won't accommodate my tunings. Really sad too.

> If I understand the Antares propaganda, along with some
clarification by
> a tech-support person, correctly, the new version of Auto-Tune lets
you
> send it MIDI note and pitch-bend messages whereby you can tell it
what
> pitch to retune digital audio to. In concept then, there should be
> nothing stopping you from retuning "real" instruments to arbitrary
> tunings.

I still think this is an unforTUNEate solution! Why couldn't they
just simply make it where you could type in cents values? With this
you've got to get your external gear involved. The big problem with
this for me, is I don't usually work with "pitch bend" retunings with
synths and such. They still don't have this where it needs to be for
total flexibility.

> I've used Auto-Tune a bit, and so far I've been impressed with its
> ability to change tuning of monophonic digital audio with
surprisingly
> little effect upon other aspects of that audio.

Yes, it's great for ironing out wavering pitch samples, but when I
look at the list of scales it will tune to, I feel left out in the
cold by Antares.

Gary - if you get this and try it out with the pitch bend midi, will
you please let me know how it worked out for you? This is important
to me as well.

Thanks for this update,

Jacky Ligon

> I still think this is an unforTUNEate solution! Why couldn't they
> just simply make it where you could type in cents values?

Yes, I'd prefer to have user-definable tunings, but I'll be happy with this as a first step. It
is, at least, a nearly general solution, it can realize a wide variety of tunings.

I told them that if they'd just provide an option to read a raw ASCII text file newline-separated
of frequencies to quantize pitch to (with no implied repetition in octaves), that would be
minimally sufficient, and a major step forward. Scala, JICalc, and such could take over from
there. I then supplied some successively more elegant alternatives.