AutoTune® Advanced Tutorial: How to Use Our Most Advanced Automatic Pitch Correction Plugin
September 24, 2026
Read time: 4 mins
Meet AutoTune Advanced, the new flagship of automatic pitch correction from AutoTune, built around the patent-pending DVA™ vibrato preservation — AutoTune's next-generation vibrato engine. In this hands-on tutorial, recording artist Primo the Alien and mixing/mastering engineer Taylor J. Webb take AutoTune Advanced for a spin at Create Music Group Studios in Los Angeles, walking through every control, mode, and creative trick the plugin has to offer.
What Is AutoTune Advanced?
AutoTune Advanced is AutoTune's most advanced automatic pitch correction plugin, combining a rebuilt Auto Mode correction engine, the new DVA vibrato engine, an ultra-low-latency Live Mode, and an updated Formant Designer — built so you can tune as hard as a track needs while the vocal still sounds unmistakably human.
AutoTune Advanced Features
- Auto Mode Engine: A rebuilt correction engine for cleaner tuning with no artifacts, even at aggressive settings.
- DVA Vibrato Engine: Preserves natural vibrato at fast retune speeds via a Preserve control, with wide/narrow threshold and cut/boost adjustments, plus creative vibrato FX (sine, square, saw, and triangle waveforms).
- Live Latency Mode: The fastest latency in AutoTune history: 37 samples, or about 0.8 milliseconds, under 1ms across all sample rates. Built for live performance and multi-instance vocal tracking.
- Formant Designer: Linked transpose and formant shifting (±12 semitones) for real-time vocal character changes, controllable live via MIDI mapping.
- The Triangle of Tone: Retune Speed, Humanize, and Flex Tune: the three core controls governing tuning intensity, sustained-note naturalness, and note-to-note pitch bends.
- MIDI Perform: Lets MIDI input dictate which notes AutoTune allows through, enabling vocoder-style effects, arpeggiation, and automatic key changes during live performance.
- 78-Note Visual Keyboard: Expanded scale customization across multiple octaves, with an Octave Sync option for uniform or per-note control.
- Modern and Classic Modes: Modern Mode is AutoTune's most transparent correction algorithm; Classic Mode recreates the original AutoTune sound, with Flex Tune disabled.
Watch the full tutorial above for a complete walkthrough of every control, mode, and creative technique covered in this post.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is AutoTune Advanced?
AutoTune Advanced is AutoTune’s most advanced automatic pitch correction plugin, featuring a rebuilt Auto Mode correction engine, the patent-pending DVA vibrato engine, an ultra-low-latency Live Mode, and an updated Formant Designer. It is available as a perpetual license or included with an AutoTune Unlimited subscription.
How does the DVA vibrato engine work?
DVA detects the vibrato a singer naturally produces and protects it while everything else gets corrected, so you can push retune speed hard without flattening the performance. You can also narrow or widen the vibrato, cut or boost it, or generate vibrato from scratch using sine, square, saw, or triangle waveforms.
What is Live Latency Mode and when should I use it?
Live Latency Mode delivers under 1ms of latency across all sample rates, built for real-time monitoring on stage and in the tracking booth. Switch to Low Latency for responsive studio work or High Quality when you move into the mix.
How do I get AutoTune Advanced?
AutoTune Advanced is available as a perpetual license or included with an AutoTune Unlimited subscription alongside AutoTune Pro 11, AutoKey 2, and the full AI-powered vocal chain.
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Brian has 15+ years of experience in the music industry, transitioning from his early 2000s roots touring with bands to becoming an audio engineering professional after earning his degree in 2011. Before joining AutoTune, Brian built his expertise working with legendary music technology brands including M-Audio, HeadRushFX, and Akai Pro. When he's not developing marketing strategies for AutoTune, Brian rocks out with his Math Rock band Between 3&4.