User Manual

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5: THROAT Evo
PHYSICAL MODELING VOCAL DESIGNER
THROAT Evo is a revolutionary 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 original pitch of your vocal up or
down a full octave in semitone intervals.
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