Antares AVOX Evo user manual

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Chapter 2: Introducing AVOX
T
he heart of any great song is a great 
vocal sound. With the AVOX Antares 
Vocal Toolkit, we’ve combined five 
state-of-the-art vocal processing 
modules that open up an entirely new world of 
vocal processing capabilities. AVOX gives you 
the power you need to create stunning vocal 
tracks in any musical style as well as design 
unique vocal effects for audio post-production 
applications.
In the following chapters we’ll deal with each 
AVOX tool in turn, but first let’s...

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SYBIL Variable Frequency De-Esser SYBIL 
tames vocal sibilance with threshold, ratio, 
attack and decay controls as well as a variable 
sidechain high pass frequency to match any 
vocal performance.
AVOX  Processing Guidelines
While it might seem to be convenient to 
consolidate all of the AVOX functions in 
one integrated plug-in, some of the AVOX 
functions use quite a bit of processing power. 
By organizing them as separate plug-ins, you 
can choose to instantiate only those you need 
for each...

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Chapter 3: THROAT Physical Modeling 
Vocal Designer
T
HROAT is a revolutionary new vocal tool 
that lets you process a vocal through a 
meticulously crafted physical model of 
the human vocal tract. THROAT begins 
by neutralizing the effect of the original singer’s 
vocal tract and then gives you the ability to 
specify the characteristics of the modeled 
vocal tract. 
THROAT’s controls allow you to modify the 
voice’s glottal waveform as well as globally 
stretch, shorten, widen or constrict the...

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creation of vocal tract models well beyond 
the limits of physical human anatomy, offering 
the possibility of vocal characteristics that are 
simply unattainable by any other means.
In order to understand what THROAT is 
doing and how you can use it to process your 
vocal tracks, it helps to know how our throats 
actually work to create what we perceive as 
unique vocal qualities. 
Vocal production starts with the vocal chords. 
Air from our lungs is forced through the vocal 
chords, causing them to...

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To select vocal type, click on the Vocal Type 
pop-up and then select the closest stylistic 
character of the vocal performance from the 
pop-up list. 
Source Throat Precision
If you’ve already been poking around the 
THROAT interface, you might be asking 
yourself, “What the heck is throat precision?” 
And a good question it is. 
As it happens, this control works a bit 
differently than the previous two. Here, you’re 
not being asked to tell THROAT something 
about the input, but instead to tell...

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Model Throat Length
The Throat Length control allows you to 
globally lengthen or shorten the modeled 
throat. Values above 1.00 represent a 
lengthening of the throat while values below 
1.00 represent a shortening of the throat. 
The actual values represent the percentage 
change in the throat length. For example, a 
value of 1.20 represents a 20% increase in 
throat length, while a value of 0.80 represents 
a 20% decrease in throat length.
Changes made to this control are reflected on 
the Graphic...

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Important Note: Keep in mind that 
this control interacts with the Glottal 
Voice Type control below. Each Voice Type sets 
a default Pulse Width that is associated with 
it. So if you set this control and then select a 
new Voice Type below, the value of this control 
will change to the new voice type’s associated 
pulse width default. For that reason, it is usually 
best to select the Glottal Voice Type first and 
then make any desired adjustments to the 
pulse width.
Command (Mac)/Control (PC)...

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human anatomy. As long as all control points 
and plot lines fall in this area, the results of 
your model will be more or less “realistic.”  
The darker blue area represents the range of 
adjustments that exceed the dimensions of 
typical human vocal tracts. When any control 
point or plot line falls in this area, the result 
may or may not sound like something that you 
might recognize as a human voice. The more 
points and/or plot lines fall in this area, the 
more extreme the effect.
When you...

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have. Checking out the factory presets, with 
a particular eye towards model plot shapes, 
should help you on your way.
Reset
Clicking the Reset button cancels any custom 
contour you have programmed, but retains any 
global Stretch and Width settings set by the 
Model Throat Length and Width controls. To 
reset those controls, Command (Mac)/Control 
(PC) click them to set them to their default 
values.
Output Gain
This control lets you adjust the output level of 
the modeled vocal over a range of...

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•  If you just want to start playing, try the following brief  tutorial.
  Start by assigning THROAT 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 effect. Depending, 
of course, on the source vocal, you might 
typically hear the...