Antares kantos 10 user manual

							Owner ’s Manual 
						

							©2002 Antares Audio Technologies. All rights reserved.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Antares Audio Technologies
231 Technology Circle
Scotts Valley, California 95066 USA
voice: (831) 461 7800
fax: (831) 461 7801
email: [email protected]
web: www.antarestech.com
Printed in USA Rev 1.7rgb 09/2002 
						

							The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-Jumbo
The Antares kantos 1.0 software and this User’s Manual are protected by
copyright law. Making copies, adaptations, or derivative works without the
prior written authorization of Antares Audio Technologies, is prohibited by
law and constitutes a punishable violation of the law.
Antares Audio Technologies retains all ownership rights to the kantos 1.0
software and its documentation. Use of kantos 1.0 is limited by the follow-
ing license agreement.
Please carefully read all the terms and conditions of this license agreement.
At the time of installation of the kantos 1.0 software you will be presented
with a copy of the agreement and asked whether or not you agree to it.
Continuing with the installation process beyond that point constitutes such
agreement.
kantos 1.0 License Agreement
Antares Audio Technologies grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive
license to use kantos 1.0 under the terms and conditions stated in this
agreement. Use of kantos 1.0 indicates your agreement to the following
terms and conditions.
You may:
1. Use kantos 1.0 on only one computer.
You may not:
1. Make copies of kantos 1.0 or of the user manual in whole or in part
except as expressly provided for in this agreement. Your right to copy
kantos 1.0 and the user manual is limited by copyright law. Making
copies, verbal or media translations, adaptations, derivative works, or
telecommunication data transmission of kantos 1.0 without prior
written authorization of Antares, is prohibited by law and constitutes a
punishable violation of the law.
2. Make alteration or modifications to kantos 1.0 (or any copy) or disas-
semble or de-compile kantos 1.0 (or any copy), or attempt to discover
the source code of kantos 1.0.
3. Sub-license, lease, lend, rent, or grant other rights in all or any portion
of kantos 1.0 (or any copy) to others.
TERM OF THE AGREEMENT
This agreement is effective until terminated by you or Antares. You may
terminate the agreement at any time by notifying Antares and destroying
all copies of the manual, and erasing kantos 1.0 from all machine-readable
media, whether on-line or on archival copies. 
						

							In the event of breach of any of the terms of this agreement, you shall pay
the attorney’s fees of Antares that are reasonably necessary to enforce the
agreement, plus resulting damages.
LIMITED WARRANTY AND DISCLAIMER
kantos 1.0 AND ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS”
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUD-
ING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABIL-
ITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Antares Audio Technologies does not warrant that the functions contained
in the program will meet your requirements. The entire risk as to the use,
quality, and performance of kantos 1.0 is with you.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN
IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY
TO YOU. THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS. YOU MAY
ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM JURISDICTION TO JURISDIC-
TION.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT WILL ANTARES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING
LOSS OF DATA, LOST PROFITS OR OTHER SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSE-
QUENTIAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF kantos 1.0
OR ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS. THIS LIMITATION WILL APPLY EVEN IF
ANTARES OR ITS AUTHORIZED AGENT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBIL-
ITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE LICENSE FEE
REFLECTS THIS ALLOCATION OF RISK. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW
LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUEN-
TIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Whew! Now that that’s over, let’s get on to the good stuff. 
						

							Contents
How To Use This Manual Chapter 1 01
Installation and Chapter 2 02
Overview Chapter 3
Audio Input and Gate Generator 04
Oscillators and Filters, Articulator,
Noise Generator and Filter 05
Modulation Matrix, LFOs, Envelope
Generators, Delay, tempo Control,
Sub-Mixer 06
Main Mixer 07
Tracking Tips 07
Control Protocols Chapter 4
Sliders, Buttons, Biaxial Graphic
Adjusters, Numericals 08
Fun With Oscillators Chapter 5
Loading Presets 09
The Oscillator 09
The Filter 12
the Chorus 14
The Noise Generator 14
Applied Mixology, Chapter 6
The Sub-Mixer 15
The Main Mixer and Output 16
Authorization
and Filters
Delay and Tempo Sync 
						

							The Delay 18
Delay Tempo Sync/Tap Tempo 19
The Articulator Chapter 7 20
Modulation Mastery Chapter 8
What Is Modulation? 22
The Gate Generator 22
The Modulation Matrix 25
Modulation Sources and Destinations 26
LFOs, Tempo Sync/Tap Tempo 28
About Envelopes 29
Modulation Amount Destinations 30
Triggering New Parts from Loops 31
Creative Applications Chapter 9 33
Using kantos with guitar, polyphonic
and unpitched input, loop applications,
re-synthesizing a synth part
The Factory Presets Chapter 10 36
Creating Your Own Chapter 11 38
Reference Chapter 12 39
Index 49 Wavetables 
						

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Welcome!
e at Antares Audio Technologies offer both our thanks and congratulations
on your decision to purchase kantos 1.0, the world’s first audio controlled
synthesizer.
Before proceeding, please register and authorize your copy of kantos 1.0.
(You can skip ahead a few pages to the Authorization and Installation
instructions. We’ll wait.) Also, if you plan to discard that lovely kantos 1.0
box, write down the serial number that appears on the bottom of the box
for future reference. (The inside cover of this manual would be a good
place, or if you’re getting a tattoo any time in the near future, that’s
another option.)
As a registered kantos 1.0 owner, you’ll receive notification of any software
upgrades, technical support, and advance announcements of upcoming
products. But we can’t send you stuff unless we know who and where you
are. So please, register. Note that we do not share this information with
people who will pester you.
At Antares, we are committed to excellence in quality, customer service,
and technological innovation. With your purchase of kantos 1.0, you have
created a relationship with Antares which we hope will be long and
gratifying. Let us know what you think. You can count on us to listen.
Again, thanks.
The Whole Antares Crew 
						

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Technical Support
n the unlikely event that you experience a problem using kantos 1.0, 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: http://www.antarestech.com
3. Call your local Antares dealer.
4. Email our tech support department by pointing your web browser to:
http://www.antarestech.com/support/etech.shtml and filling in the form
there.
5. Call us at (831) 461-7814 Monday through Friday between 10:00 am
and 5:00 pm USA Pacific Standard Time (or leave a message any time
and we’ll get back to you).
For options 3, 4, or 5, please be prepared to provide the Registration Code
of your copy of kantos 1.0.
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Chapter 1: How To Use This Manual
ead the words, look at the pictures. Upon completing a page, flip to the
next one.
Okay, there’s a little more to it than that. We know you hate to read
manuals. Therefore, we’ve inserted learn-by-doing tutorials along with
some brief explanatory text. Hey, why should we force you read to
hundreds of words on what a filter sounds like when you can just
twiddle some parameters and hear for yourself?
The next chapter has all the boring, but necessary, installation and
registration information. After that comes the payoff: set aside 67
minutes — the time needed to read the main part of the manual and do
the tutorials — and you will well on your way to becoming a kantos 1.0
power user.
(And for the inveterate manual readers among you, we’ve provided all
the info in linear text form in Chapter 12: Reference.)
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Chapter 2:
Installation and Authorization
Installing kantos 1.0
For any special instructions on installing kantos 1.0 for your specific plug-in
format, check the Read Me file that accompanies the plug-in. This file may
also contain any last-minute kantos 1.0 information… so read it!
kantos 1.0 works with many digital audio applications, and each one
handles plug-ins slightly differently. Please refer to your host application’s
documentation for more information on installing and using plug-ins.
Authorizing  kantos 1.0
To run kantos 1.0, the computer on which it runs needs to be authorized
using a “challenge/response” authorization technique. The first time you
launch this software, you will be presented with a string of words (the
Challenge) and will be asked to enter another string of words (the Re-
sponse).
Note: When initially installed, this software will run for ten days
without authorization.
So even if you can’t authorize it right away, you can still use your software.
(During this period, click the “Try It” button whenever you are presented
with the Trial Period screen at launch.) But don’t procrastinate too long.
After those ten days are up, you can’t launch kantos 1.0 until you enter the
correct Response.
CHALLENGE/RESPONSE AUTHORIZATION
You can obtain a Response via the Antares web site, email, or fax. Web
authorization, an automated process, is available 24 hours a day. Email and
fax authorization involve the participation of actual live people and,
depending on when you send your challenge, may take from one to three
days to provide a response.
For web authorization, follow these directions:
Launch kantos 1.0. To access Challenge/Response authorization, press
“Next” at the Trial Period screen to access the Challenge screen.