Antares ATR-1a manual Song Mode

If a performance is quite close to begin with and only requires minor correction (i.e., never more that 50 cents), it’s often sufficient to simply choose the Chromatic scale, set Speed to about 10 and leave it there.

If you are working in the studio to correct an already recorded track, you might use Program Mode to deal with the track one section at a time, stoping to change Programs between sections.

Song Mode

Song Mode offers a more elaborate set of controls primarily designed to facilitate the use of the ATR-1a in a live performance situation, whether in actual concert or during tracking in the studio.

The ATR-1a provides 20 Songs. For each Song, you can program a series of up to 15 Song Steps. Each Step can contain a Program (with associated scale) or one of a number of navigation controls (See Chapter 4 for details). In performance you move from Song Step to Song Step via the foot switch or MIDI. You can also call up different Songs via MIDI Program Change messages.

Each Song also contains its own Speed and Vibrato settings that override those settings in the individual Programs. In this way, an individual Program’s scale can be used in any number of songs, each with different Speed and Vibrato settings. (To accomplish the same thing in Program Mode would require you to create multiple Programs, each with the identical scale but with the different Speed and Vibrato settings. Very inefficient. )

There is of course no hard and fast rule for which mode to use in any particular situation. Try out both modes and use what feels comfortable to you.

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