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So I've been messing around with atares autotune lately, mainly on samples and it's pretty fun. Basically what I do is open a drum rack in ableton drop a bunch of synth/vox hits in and put antares at the end and lock the scale to whatever key i'm in. And then I set the retune speed to fast, and tracking on relaxed. Is this bad practice? It just sounds so cool, but i'm wondering if I'm using optimal settings in antares? What should I set the formant/amplitude/pitch amounts to. Should I even leave formant activated?

Also, I know I could just manually pitch these samples in key myself, but when you have little clips with several sounds in them being autotuned fast it has an awesome effect. I'm going for that hype 110 bpm style electro so these sounds work well with that.

Anyone used autotune for different stuff like this before?

not drums but I've used it on synths just to force all the notes to a scale to get an idea of the sound of some scales/patterns and sometimes it does a weird glitchy sound for certain notes when its in the middle of the two notes its trying to snap to. its pretty neat.

I use FL's Pitcher on some stuff - on choppy vocals slamming the time to fast does give a good effect imo, makes the pitch almost glide like a synth would. I also like the formant control in Pitcher.