User Manual

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The actual range of variation in human
anatomy is quite small relative to the overall
range oered by THROAT Evo. When you’re
first getting started, try limiting control
changes to around +/- 15%. As you get a
feeling for the eect of various settings,
slowly increase the ranges until things start
sounding weird (not that that’s necessarily a
bad thing).
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If you just want to start playing, try the
following brief tutorial.
Start by assigning THROAT Evo to a vocal
part and set the above contour on the
Throat Shaping display.
Be sure you have set the proper Vocal Range
and Source Glottal settings and leave all the
other controls at their default values.
Now, while listening to your vocal, slowly
move the Model Throat Length slider from
1.00 to 1.25. Note the eect. Depending,
of course, on the source vocal, you might
typically hear the vocal quality become
subtly darker, more male, older, etc.
Then try moving it back to 0.75. Again note
the eect. In this case the result might be
subtly more bright, female, young, etc.
Next, return the Model Throat Length slider
to 1.00 and repeat the above with the Model
Throat Width.
Experiment with various combinations of
the two controls. As you become familiar
with their eects, try more extreme
settings of the controls.
Finally, use the Pitch control to shift the
vocal up or down 4–6 semitones and repeat
the steps above to see how the controls
aect the shifted vocal.
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Speaking of weird, it may be useful to
understand just why extreme models are
perceived as “unrealistic” or strange.
As mentioned above, the range of human
vocal anatomy is actually relatively small. In
order that we can dierentiate between the
voices of the many people we encounter in
our lives, the auditory processing function
in our brains is extremely sensitive to very
small dierences in vocal timbre within the
typical range of variation. But as a result
of this, we have no frame of reference for
vocal timbres that fall outside of the range
of common human anatomy. We can’t
picture the person who would sound like
that. So we think more in terms of “filtered,”
“tubular,” or whatever. Trust us, if there
were people with vocal tracts of the more
extreme dimensions THROAT Evo is capable
of, this is what they’d sound like.
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While THROAT Evo has been designed for
voice, experiments here have shown that
it can produce quite striking eects when
used on other instrumental tracks. Try it
with drums, guitars, bass, in fact pretty
much anything. (In particular, applying
it to a drum loop and then following
that up with PUNCH Evo has resulted in
some truly twisted beats. Give it a try.)
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Play, play, play.