1. How To Set My Auto Tune On Mac
2. How To Set My Auto Tune On Iphone
3. How To Set My Auto Tune Account
4. How To Use Auto Tune

The Auto-tune to HD feature automatically changes to the high definition (HD) feed when you watch or record programming on your TV. This feature requires a HD or HD / DVR receiver. This feature is not available on mini boxes, DTAs, or CableCARD equipment. Mar 26, 2019  A video on how to setup your autotune and get the key from your home studio or bedroom, in any DAW i.e Pro tools, Fl studio abelton etc. TEMPLATE DOWNLOAD: h. Apr 13, 2020 How to Use Auto Tune. Autotune adjusts and manipulates the pitch of a vocal track and is known for its use in popular hip-hop music. While it can create a robotic, high-pitched voice, it also can regulate traditional singing voices and make them pitch perfect. How to properly tune up your engine 'In tune, perfect harmony.' Our indepth guide covers car engine tuning for all popular types of engine. We also answer what exactly we mean by engine tuning. First up we have to accept that there are many different types of engines. Click “Effects” and select “Auto-tune” from the drop-down menu. This opens up a separate window containing the Auto-tune control parameters. Hit “Play” so you can hear the influence of.

'In tune, perfect harmony.'

Our indepth guide covers car engine tuning for all popular types of engine. We also answer what exactly we mean by engine tuning.

First up we have to accept that there are many different types of engines. (from engine configuration to fuel delivery and engine design there is an almost endless array of engines.)

So that said we will provide generic theory in this article on how to tune a car which should give a good starting point with whatever engine you have.

If you need more specific advice you sign up to our car forums where our helpful and friendly members will assist you further.

For many 'a tuned car' is simply one running at peak efficiency and they would achieve this by a full service and adjustment to factory specifications.

Their aim is for smooth running and maximising fuel economy.

For others (and most of our readers) the aim is to get the car running and performing better than originally intended.

Due to the conservative settings/parts used by manufacturers and low cost production methods and techniques there are plenty of opportunities to improve your engine.

What is a tune up then?

Most of TorqueCars members are interested in maximizing the performance of their cars. But these methods can also be used to maximize economy by pushing the engine into it's most efficient range.

Your first step is to ensure that the engine is running as it was intended.

A highly tuned engine will often highlight weakspots or problems that were not evident thanks to the soft/standard factory setup.

Change the oil and filter, fit new spark plugs and perform a full service if the leads are old they will also need replacing.

Get the engine compression tested and rectify any major issues like worn piston rings and broken or worn valves. (Checking the valve clearance is also a very good idea as this can lose a fair bit of power.)

So we'll take the rest of this guide and apply it to popular engine configurations.

How to tune a Carburettor engine

These typically rely on a breaker to distribute the spark with a crude mechanical advance as the RPM rises.

By timing the spark to occur a fraction earlier you can extract a more complete burn cycle and more efficiently convert the fuel and air mix into power.

Too much advance is a bad thing as the engine will start to knock.

Generally speaking a trial and error approach can often be used, if you gradually turn up the advance until the engine starts knocking and then back it off a bit you will have a good setup.

Getting the right timing and spark duration will help improve power and economy as the engine is running more efficiently.

Using a strobe light connected to the spark plug pulse you can effectively freeze the engine and see the timing mark.

The timing mark is located at the bottom of the cambelt on the pulley, there is typically a small groove and a little notch marked on the engine.

If you mark the groove and white notch with some white paint it will show up when the strobe light hits it. This will enable you to better adjust the engine timing.

By rotating the distributor housing you can adjust the timing by advancing it or retarding it.

Adjustment should be done gradually and the engine will need to be tested under load at the full rpm range. A rolling road dynometer is the best environment for this as you can make adjustments live.

If you want to increase the fuel to match the intake air you will need to a larger jet (some wrongly refer to jets as needles!).

Carb setup can be a real art and if you have twin carbs then the job gets even harder. Most carbs come with the correct jet sizes and you should only uprate them if you want to make dramatic alterations to the engine and increase the intake air charge significantly.

The key is matching the fuel to air delivery and with modern fuel injection engines this is becoming a dying art.

How to tune a fuel injection engine

Fuel injected engines are much more sophisticated, both the amount of fuel and the timing of the spark is delivered and is adjusted.

The old mechanical spark distribution was far from ideal and meant that most of the time the engine was not running at peak efficiency.

Spark timing needs to vary a lot more than a simple linear curve will allow. So to address this issue we now have a computer in our cars that stores a fuel and timing map across varying loads and intake conditions to provide optimum running.

Most modern engines operate on a closed loop which basically means that the parameters for the next combustion cycle are set by the previous one.

The exhaust is sniffed for oxygen to determine if the car is running rich or lean and the intake fuelling is adjusted to match.

Many popular engines learn over time the optimum settings and every 200 miles or so adjust the ideal map to keep the engine running efficiently.

This takes into account driving style, seasonal temperature adjustments and varying grades of fuel.

As the fuel delivery and timing map is stored and controlled on computer there is little a home tuner can do other than replace the chip or add a piggy back device. (See ECU tuning.)

On a naturally aspirated engine you can probably wring another 10% power out of the engine by tightening up the fuel delivery and timing maps. Manufacturers tend to set the engine conservatively.

How to tune a turbo engine.

The points about fuel delivery and timing the spark are just as essential in a turbo engine.

All of the above point apply to turbo engines but the gains are much more noticeable due to the effect of the turbo.

As the turbo is pushing more air into the engine and is making more power you have a lot more to gain.

The turbo is the heart of the engine so we also need to pay attention to this. Matching the exhaust and intake compression impellers to your air needs can make dramatic alterations to the power band.

You can hybridize the turbo using a stock OEM turbo casing and uprating the internals.

Another option is to fit a second turbo or just replace the existing turbo with a larger unit.

It all depends what your power requirements are. See our turbo tuning articles to get more of an idea on what is involved in a tuned turbo engine.

Pre 2000 engines are typically very hard to remap so you are stuck with piggy back devices or a risky chip change.

After 2000 most cars came with OBDII ports or similar and these allow a relatively easy way to upload and reflash the cars computer.

On a modern turbo engine the computer will typically control the boost and waste gate in addition to the fuelling and timing so you have much more scope for power gains.

A modern turbo engine can often make a power gain of 40% quite easily on stock parts with a simple remap.

Other ways to tune an engine.

Further modifications and links to more information on them.

Once you know about the characteristics of timing it is worth looking at the many other options and seeing what extra mods can be done to your cars engine. Windows 10 auto tuning disable.

We have mainly looked at timing so far. There are a large number of other modifications you can do to an engine to increase it's state of tune.

Balancing your engine allows an engine to run at higher RPM, adding a sports camshaft will further raise the power band and alter the timing and duration of the engines induction, compression, bang and exhaust cycles.

Moving the air through the engine faster is also a priority and a set of performance headers a sports exhaust, sport catalyst and some head work such as porting and polishing will further increase the power band.

If you have a turbo then you also have some additional options open to you. An intercooler will reduce the intake air temperature and allow bigger power gains.

You could also uprate your turbo by fitting a larger turbo, a twin scroll turbo or get your existing turbo hybridized with uprated internals. Wastegate and blow off control can also be altered to increase the power produced by the engine.

Diesel engine tuning is covered in this diesel tuning article.

There are also Rotary engines and various 2 stroke engine configurations, and how to tune these are covered in our modified car forum.

How To Set My Auto Tune On Mac

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1. I am a retired ASE mechanic and emergency vehicle fleet manager who built street rods also. Using a vacuum gauge and dwell meter when adjusting a carb is by far the best way to tune older engines. At 71 I have adjusted my share of 1, 2 and 4 barrel carbs and in multiples. Two 4’s can be a brain-drain! Don’t forget the vacuum gauge to balance everything out. Old man…old tricks!

   • I forgot, for those who never used one, vacuum gauges(test equipment type) usually come with notes explaining how to hookup and read.

What I find most fascinating about Antares Auto-Tune is that everyone and their mother knows what it is, despite the fact that it's just another digital audio plugin used in bedroom and professional studios alike. Even people who have no clue what an EQ or compressor does somehow at least know of the word 'Auto-Tune' and even the general effect it has on the human voice.

But even though Auto-Tune has evolved to become this cultural phenomenon, very few artists or producers truly understand how to get it to sound like the way it sounds on major records.

In case you don't know what it is, Auto-Tune, in a nutshell, is a pitch correction software that allows the user to set the key signature of the song so that the pitch of the incoming signal will be corrected to the closest note in that key (and does so in real time). There are other pitch correction programs out there that do similar functions: Waves Tune, Waves Tune Real-Time, and Melodyne (which is pitch correction, but not in real time), but Auto-Tune seems to have won the standard for real-time pitch correction.

Auto-Tune traditionally is used on vocals, although in some cases can be used on certain instruments. For the sake of this article we will be discussing Auto-Tune and its effect on the human voice. Listen to this early example from the 'King of Auto-Tune,' the one artist who did more to popularize its effect than any other, T-Pain.

Working as a full-time engineer here at Studio 11 in Chicago, we deal with Auto-Tune on a daily basis. Whether it's people requesting that we put it on their voice, something we do naturally to correct pitch, or even for a specific creative effect. It's just a part of our arsenal that we use everyday, so over the years we have really gotten to know the ins and outs of the program—from its benefits to limitations.

So let's delve further into what this software really is and can do, and in the process debunk certain myths around what the public or people who are new to Auto-Tune may think. If you were ever wondering why your Auto-Tune at home doesn't sound like the Auto-Tune you hear from your favorite artists, this is the article for you.

To set the record straight, as I do get asked this a lot of times from clients and inquiring home producers, there really are no different 'types' of Auto-Tune. Antares makes many different versions of Auto-Tune—Auto-Tune EFX, Auto-Tune Live, and Auto-Tune Pro—that have various options and different interfaces, but any of those can give you the effect you're after. Auto-Tune Pro does have a lot of cool features and updates, but you don't need 'Pro' to sound pro.

I wanted to debunk this first, as some people come to me asking about the 'the Lil Durk Auto-Tune,' or perhaps that classic 'T-Pain Auto-Tune.' That effect is made from the same plugin—the outcome of the sound that you hear depends on how you set the settings within the program and the pitch of the incoming signal.

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So if your Auto-Tune at home sounds different from what you hear on the radio, it's because of these factors, not because they have a magic version of Auto-Tune that works better than yours at home. You can achieve the exact same results.

In modern music Auto-Tune is really used with two different intentions. The first is to use it as a tool in a transparent manner, to correct someone's pitch. In this situation, the artist doesn't want to hear the effect work, they just want to hit the right notes. The second intent is to use it as an audible effect for the robotic vocals you can now hear all over the pop and rap charts.

But regardless of the intent, in order for Auto-Tune to sound its best, there are three main things that need to be set correctly.

1. The correct key of the song. This is the most important part of the process and honestly where most people fail. Bedroom producers, and even some engineers at professional studios who might lack certain music theory fundamentals, have all fallen into the trap of setting Auto-Tune in the wrong key. If a song is in C major, it will not work in D major, E major, etc.—though it will work in C major's relative minor, A minor. No other key will work correctly. It helps to educate yourself a bit about music theory, and how to find the key of a song.

2. The input type. You have the option to choose from Bass Instrument, Instrument, Low Male, Alto/Tenor, and Soprano. Bass Instrument and Instrument are, of course, for instruments, so ignore them if you're going for a vocal effect. Low Male would be selected if the singer is singing in a very low octave (think Barry White). Alto/Tenor will be for the most common vocal ranges, and soprano is for very high-pitched vocalists. Setting the input type correctly helps Auto-Tune narrow down which octaves it will focus on—and you'll get a more accurate result.

3. Retune speed. This knob, while important, is really all dependent on the pitch of the input source, which I will discuss next. Generally speaking, the higher the knob, the faster it will tune each note. A lower speed will have the effect be a bit more relaxed, letting some natural vibrato through without affecting a vocalist's pitch as quickly. Some view it as a 'amount of Auto-Tune knob,' which isn't technically true. The amount of correction you hear is based off the original pitch, but you will hear more effects of the Auto-Tune the faster it's set.

So let's say you have all of these set correctly. You have the right key, you choose the right range for the singer, and the retune speed is at its medium default of 20ms. You apply it on the singer expecting it to come out just like the pros. And while their voice does seem to be somewhat corrected, it's still not quite corrected to the right pitch.

Here's why your Auto-Tune doesn't sound like the pros:

The pitch of the vocalist prior to Auto-Tune processing must be close enough to a note in the scale of the key of the song for Auto-Tune to work its best. In other words, the singer has to be at least near the right note for it to sound pleasing to the ears.

Whether you're going for a natural correction or the T-Pain warble, this point still stands. If the note the singer originally sings is nowhere near the correct note in the key, Auto-Tune will try to calculate as best it can and round up or down, depending on what note is closest. And that's when you get undesirable artifacts and hear notes you weren't expecting to hear. (Here is an example of how it sounds when the incoming pitch isn't close enough to the scale, resulting in an oddly corrected pitch.)

So if you put Auto-Tune on a voice and some areas sound good, some sound too robotic and a bit off, those are the areas that the singer needs to work on. Sometimes it can be difficult for non-singers to hear slight sharp or flat notes, or notes that aren't in the scale of the song, so Auto-Tune in many cases can actually help point out the problem areas.

This is why major artists who use Auto-Tune sound really good, because chances are they can sing pretty well before Auto-Tune is even applied. The Weeknd is a great example of this—he is obviously a very talented singer that has no problem hitting notes—and yet his go-to mixer, Illangelo, has said before that he always uses at least a little bit of Auto-Tune on the vocals.

If you or the singer in your studio is no Weeknd, you can correct the pitch manually beforehand with a program like Melodyne, or even with built-in pitch correction tools in your DAW, where you can actually go in and change the pitch of each syllable manually. So if you find yourself in a situation where you or an artist you are working with really want Auto-Tune on their vocals, but it's not sounding right after following all the steps, look into correcting the pitch before you run it through Auto-Tune.

If you get the notes closer to the scale, you'll find the tuning of Auto-Tune to be much more pleasing to the ears. For good reason, T-Pain is brought up a lot when discussing Auto-Tune. Do you want to know why he sounds so good? It's not a special Auto-Tune they are using, its because he can really sing without it. Check it out:

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Hopefully this helps further assist you in your understanding and use of Antares Auto-Tune, and debunk some of the myths around it. Spend some time learning some basic music theory to help train the ear to identity keys of songs, find which notes are flat and which notes are sharp. Once you do, you'll find you'll want to use Auto-Tune on every song, because let's face it—nearly a decade after Jay-Z declared the death of Auto-Tune on 'D.O.A.'—it still sounds cool.

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