Antares AVP1 Hardware user manual

AVP-1

Antares Vocal  Producer
Owner’s Manual 

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designations appearing in this manual are used solely to identify the
microphones analyzed in the development of our digital models and
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of the named manufacturers.
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Contents
Getting Started
Welcome v
Technical Support vi
Introducing the Antares Chapter 1
AVP Overview 2
Auto-Tune Pitch Correction 3
Antares Microphone Modeling 7
Understanding Compression 8
What is a De-Esser? 15
Equalization 15
Setting Up Chapter 2
Setting up the AVP is easy 20
Panel Controls Chapter 3
The front panel 21
The back panel 24
Operation Chapter 4
Live or mixdown? 25
Patching the AVP into your system 25
Controls and Display Screens 28
Master Module 28
Microphone Modeler Module 40...

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Get Creative Chapter 5 58
Appendix
Factory Presets 60
Realistic Mic Modeling Expectations 64
Specifications 66
Index 68 

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Welcome!
On behalf of everyone at Antares Audio Technologies, we’d like to
offer both our thanks and congratulations on your decision to
purchase the Antares Vocal Producer.
Before you proceed any farther, we’d like to strongly encourage you
to fill out and return the AVP-1 registration card. To make it as easy
as possible, we’ve included a sticker with your serial number already
attached to the card. It’s probably a good idea also to write it in
your manual for future reference.
As an AVP-1 owner, you...

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Technical Support
In the unlikely event that you experience a problem using your
Antares Vocal Producer, try the following:
1. Make another quick scan through this manual. Who knows? You
may have stumbled onto some feature that you didn’t notice the
first time through.
2. Check our web page for tips, techniques, or any late-breaking
information: www.antarestech.com
3. Call your local Antares dealer.
4. Call us at  (831) 461-7800 Monday through Friday between
9am and 5pm USA Pacific Standard Time.
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Chapter 1:
Introducing the Antares Vocal Producer
How to use this manual
The Antares Vocal Producer (henceforth referred to as the AVP) has a very
friendly user-interface and is extraordinarily easy to use. However, to get
the full benefit of its capabilities, we recommend that you give this
manual at least a quick once over.
If the AVP is your first experience with vocal signal processing, you’ll find a
brief introduction to the theory and application of the various processing
modules in this chapter....

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Chapter 4: Operation
This is a guide to all of the features and functions of the AVP. If you’re
only going to read one chapter, this is the one.
Chapter 5: Creative Applications for the AVP
Some cool, but not-so-obvious stuff you can do with the AVP.
Antares Vocal Producer Overview
The heart of any great song is a great vocal sound. With the Antares Vocal
Producer, we’ve combined our world-renowned Auto-Tune Pitch Correc-
tion and TEC-Award-winning Microphone Modeler technologies with
state-of-the-art...

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•Flexible Parametric EQYou can fine-tune your vocal sound with two
independent bands of equalization that let you select from 6dB or 12dB
high or low cut, high or low shelving with variable slope, bandpass,
notch and fully parametric peaking.
•Automatic Mono or Stereo Double TrackingYou can automatically mix
a doubled track into the AVP’s main output or route it to a separate
output for post-processing and mixing.
•Fully ProgrammableOnce you’ve created the perfect vocal sound for a
particular track,...

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A little bit about pitch
Pitch is typically associated with our perception of the “highness” or
“lowness” of a particular sound. Our perception of pitch ranges from the
very general (the high pitch of hissing steam, the low pitch of the rumble
of an earthquake) to the very specific (the exact pitch of a solo singer or
violinist). There is, of course, a wide range of variation in the middle. A
symphony orchestra playing a scale in unison, for example, results in an
extremely complex waveform, yet you...