User Manual

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AVOX  Overview
The AVOX  Antares Vocal Toolkit includes:
Harmony Engine Evo
Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator
Harmony Engine Evo is a real-time harmony
generating plug-in that puts professional-
quality vocal harmony arrangements within
reach of any songwriter, producer, musician or
engineer.
With four independent harmony voices, a
variety of powerful harmony generating
modes, humanization features for natural
sounding performances, five integrated
channels of CHOIR Evo Vocal Multiplier, and a
flexible real-time preset system for harmony
and vocal type, Harmony Engine Evo provides
incredibly easy-to-use tools to quickly and
easily produce virtually any vocal arrangement
you can imagine.
Whether you’re an experienced vocal arranger,
a songwriter looking for that perfect backup
vocal, or a composer experimenting with
unique vocal eects, Harmony Engine Evo
gives you entirely new ways to create the
harmony parts you hear in your head. In fact,
experimenting with dierent harmonies is so
easy (and, dare we suggest, fun), you may find
yourself using Harmony Engine Evo to explore
harmonic alternatives you may have never
otherwise considered.
Mic Mod EFX
Classic Microphone Modeler
Mic Mod EFX lets the mics you own sound like
the mics your wish you owned.
Using our patented Spectral Shaping Tool™
technology, we’ve created precise digital
models of a wide variety of historical classic
and exotic microphones. Simply tell Mic Mod
EFX what microphone you are actually using
and what microphone you’d like it to sound
like. It’s as simple as that.
With over 125 microphones models included
in Mic Mod EFX, you can aord to record each
track through a model of the specific mic
that will best produce that ideal sound you’re
looking for. Or use it in live performance to get
the sound of mics you’d never consider using
on stage. You can even use it during mixdown
to eectively change the mic on an already
recorded track.
THROAT Evo
Physical Modeling Vocal Designer
THROAT Evo is a revolutionary new vocal
tool that lets you process a vocal through a
meticulously crafted physical model of the
human vocal tract. THROAT Evo begins by
neutralizing the eect of the original singer’s
vocal tract and then gives you the ability to
specify the characteristics of the modeled
vocal tract.
THROAT Evo’s controls allow you to modify
the voice’s glottal waveform as well as globally
stretch, shorten, widen or constrict the
modeled vocal tract. For even more detailed
control, THROAT Evo’s graphical Throat
Shaping display allows you to individually
adjust the position and width of five points
in the vocal tract model, from the vocal
chords, through the throat, mouth and out to
the lips. THROAT Evo’s Breathiness controls
let you add variable frequency noise to the
model, resulting in a range of vocal eects
from subtle breathiness, to raspiness, to a
full whisper. Finally, THROAT Evo allows you
to shift the pitch of the voice up or down an
octave to create a wide range of alternative
vocal characters.
While THROAT Evo has been designed to
allow subtle modifications to a voice’s vocal
quality, the range of the controls also allows
the creation of vocal tract models well beyond
the limits of physical human anatomy, oering
the possibility of vocal characteristics that are
simply unattainable by any other means.
DUO Evo
Vocal Modeling Auto-Doubler
DUO Evo automatically generates a doubled
vocal part from an existing vocal. In addition
to allowing programmable variation in pitch,
timing and vibrato depth, for even more
realism, DUO also includes a simplified version
of THROAT Evo’s vocal modeling to provide
timbral variation for the doubled part. DUO
Evo’s output section gives you independent
control of the level and stereo position of the
original and doubled voices.