Antares TA-1VP Manuale Utente

(+1 or –1) signal levels. These levels represent the “rails” 

of the amplifier. As the Warmth Amount is increased, 

the amplification is increased. Any regions of the signal 

that increases beyond the rails generate distortion. 

(But instead of the usual ugly digital clipping, they are 

distorted the same way the tube pre-amp would distort 

the sound.)
Because the maximum drive is limited to +12 dB, using 

the Tube Saturation model requires the original signal to 

be at a level greater than –12 dB. If this is not the case, you 

should adjust the Input analog Trim control (in the Setup 

Menu) to increase the level of the sound. (Be careful that 

Input Level is not increased so much as to cause digital 

distortion.) It may be necessary to go back and forth 

between Warmth Amount and Input Trim a few times to 

get exactly the effect you want.

If your audio was recorded at an exceptionally low level, 

it may be that even maximum Input Trim and maximum 

Warmth Amount will still not result in a level high enough 

to generate distortion. In that case, either re-record your 

audio at a higher level (if possible) or use an available 

digital waveform editor to digitally increase the level 

(keeping in mind that this may negatively affect the signal 

quality).

If you want to add tube warmth without otherwise 

affecting your sound, set both the Source Mic and 

Modeled Mic to Bypass.

When this button is lit, the MIC MODELER module is 

active. When it is not lit, the module is bypassed. Pressing 

the button toggles its state. The Mic Modeler On/Off 

function can also be controlled by MIDI and/or by a 

footswitch.

Pressing the SCALE button brings up this page.
You tell Auto-Tune exactly which notes you want to 

correct on the Scale Page:

Ch:CC#DD#EFF#GG#AA#B

  :

This page allows you to specify the scale notes to which 

Auto-Tune tunes the input sound.
The TA-1VP comes with 25 preset scales: Chromatic, 12 

diatonic major and 12 diatonic minor. To select a preset 

scale, use the cursor buttons to move to the scale name 

field in the top left of the screen and turn the Data Knob 

to select the desired scale. Note that "

Ch

" is short for 

"Chromatic", the scale with all 12 notes.

In addition, you can customize any of the provided scales 

and save it as part of your preset. To modify a scale, press 

the Á cursor button to move the cursor to the bottom 

row of this screen, then use the cursor buttons to move to 

the desired scale note and turn the Data Knob to set it to 

one of the following three states:

Tune (i.e., the note name appears in the display, but 

the field under the note is blank): When the input is 

near a note set to Tune, Auto-Tune will retune the 

input to that note.
Bypass (i.e., the note name appears in the display and 

an “

*

” appears in the field under the note): When the 

input pitch is close to a note set to Bypass, the output 

remains uncorrected.
Blank (i.e., the note name disappears from the 

display): A note set to Blank will be omitted from the 

scale. For example, setting C#, D#, F#, G#, A# to Blank 

causes a C Major scale to remain. In that case Auto- 

Tune would always retune the input to the closest 

note of the C Major scale.

As an example, the following settings result in a D Major 

scale with no pitch corrections applied to F# and C#:

D : C#D E F#G A B

Ma:  *     *

To understand why it is sometimes necessary to set 

even correct scale notes to ”Blank,“ let’s look again at the 

example from Chapter 2.

10.0

10.5

11.0

D3

B2

C

#

3

ORIGINAL

PERFORMANCE

CORRECTED 

BY TA-1VP

This phrase is in D Major and, if all the pitch errors were 

no greater than about 49 cents, would work fine with a 

standard D Major scale (D, E, F# , G, A, B, C# ). However, the 

pitch error of three semitones at the end of the last note 

is so large that with B and C# present in the Scale, as the 

pitch fell, Auto-Tune would see first C# and then B as the 

target pitch and therefore allow the error to remain. With 

C# and B removed from the Scale, Auto-Tune continues 

to see D as the target pitch for the entire duration of the