[Mt.Everest]

My experience has always been that Autotune AS/Graphic mode works more accurately and naturally. It does a GREAT job most of the time. You can actually start with whatever they call it, I think it's called "quicktune." At any rate, it's the icon at the bottom middle left of the plug-ins' screen when you are in graphic mode. Once you choose that (if the pitch was close in the first place) then go further by cleaning up the automatically placed correction lines a bit more. They tend to be written with attacks than the real desired notes. With some practice, that always works better for me than than ANY automatic mode you could ever try.

Then, there are some pitches, by nature, that just don't tune well, and they really need to be "partially" tuned. Discretion and the art of using Autotune are really what makes it a great tool. It''s kind of like music, in that much of the time, "less is more" thus sparseness of use, coupled with the artistic use of it, can make AT hardly noticed when a good "tuner" is using it.

Also, some pitches , I found, are better tuned with Serrato "Pitch"2.2, especially if they are more that a step away from intended note. I've used Speed too and it can work OK as well but Serrato kicks butt. I woud not doubt if there are a couple of other pitch altering plug-ins that do well now too.

With pitch correction, I tend to think of it this way...How can anything like Autotune (a very affordable $400 plug-in) track a melody intuitively enough to not only capture the proper notes, slurs, inflections, timbres, vibratos, and more, all in an automatic modenearly perfectly? It does a pretty fantastic job of doing that right now anyway. If one; however, wants his or her vocals or instrument to have all the right pitches, durations, and relative phrasing, etc. WITHOUT sounding like there are artifacts or funky vibratos within the tuned portions...they will see that it takes more than a mouse click sometimes to get all of the nuances they desire, even though this wonderful technology based society has given us something as incredible as Autotune at our disposal.

Sorry for the long winded blah blah balh, I've just had a bunch of ecperience with this tool, and my associate primarily does award winning vocal A Capella work and he uses Autotune as one of his main tools very well.

Thanks for the "longwinded blah blah" but its not a 'how-to' post. Im very well versed in the ways of Autotune and various other ptich apps. Quite an expert if i do say so myself.
This is merely about how TDM version of the plug doesnt work as it should, but RTAS does.

P.S. Im getting kernel panics and Unexpected Quits when tweaking Autotune of ANY kind (TDM/RTAS). What is up with it?

MT