Antares Vocal Express user manual

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Vocal Express
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Five easy-to-use plug-ins give you everything 
you need for recording great vocal tracks. 
Optimized for GarageBand and other leading 
Mac and Windows recording software.
Production Tools for Vocalists
Owner’s Manual
Auto-Tune EFX 2
Real-time pitch correction and Auto-Tune Vocal Efect
PUNCH Evo
Vocal Impact Enhancer
DUO Evo
Stereo Vocal Modeling Auto-Doubler
WARM
Tube Saturation Generator
MUTATOR Evo
Extreme Vocal Designer
From the makers of Auto-Tune® pitch correction 

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The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-\fumbo 
The Antares Voca\f Express software and this 
User’s Manua\f are protected by copyright \faw. 
Making copies, adaptations, or derivative works 
without the prior written authorization of 
Antares Audio Techno\fogies, is prohibited by \faw 
and constitutes a punishab\fe vio\fation of the \faw.  
Antares Audio Techno\fogies retains a\f\f ownership 
rights to the Voca\f Express software and its 
documentation. Use of Voca\f Express is \fimited 
by the fo\f\fowing...

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\ferm of the Agreement 
This agreement is effective unti\f terminated 
by you or Antares. You may terminate the 
agreement at any time by notifying Antares and 
destroying a\f\f copies of the manua\f, and erasing 
Voca\f Express from a\f\f machine-readab\fe media, 
whether on-\fine or on archiva\f copies.  
In the event of breach of any of the terms of this 
agreement, you sha\f\f pay the attorney’s fees of 
Antares that are reasonab\fy necessary to enforce 
the agreement p\fus resu\fting damages....

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Contents 
 Getting Started 03 
Chapter 1 \futo-Tune \bFX 2 04
Tutorials 11
\futo-Motion Vocal Pattern Generation 13
Chapter 2 PU NCH \bvo 14
Chapter 3 DU O \bvo 16 
Chapter 4 W\f RM 20 
Chapter 5 MU T\fTOR \bvo 25   
    

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We\fcome!
On beha\ff of everyone at Antares Audio Techno\fogies, we’d \fike to offer both our 
thanks and congratu\fations on your decision to purchase Antares Voca\f Express, a 
bund\fe of five powerfu\f, but easy-to-use p\fug-ins for recording great voca\f tracks.
Before you proceed any farther, we’d \fike to strong\fy encourage you to register and authorize your 
copy of Voca\f Express. (You can skip ahead to the Authorization and Insta\f\fation instructions on page 
03. We’\f\f wait.) If you’re...

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Getting Started 
Insta\f\fing Voca\f Express
Voca\f Express is designed to work with a wide variety of digita\f audio app\fications. P\fease refer to your 
host app\fication’s user manua\f for more information on insta\f\fing and using p\fug-ins. (A\fthough in most 
cases, simp\fy doub\fe-c\ficking the Voca\f Express insta\f\fer and fo\f\fowing the resu\fting directions wi\f\f be a\f\f 
you need to do.)
Authorizing Voca\f Express
Authorization is the process by which Voca\f 
Express is a\f\fowed to...

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1   Auto-Tune EFX 2
Some background 
In 1997, Antares first introduced the ground-breaking Auto-Tune Pitch \borrecting 
P\fug-In and Recording Magazine ca\f\fed Auto-Tune a “ho\fy grai\f of recording.” In 
the intervening years, Auto-Tune has estab\fished itse\ff as the wor\fdwide standard in professiona\f 
pitch correction. Today, it’s used dai\fy by tens of thousands of audio professiona\fs to save studio 
and editing time, ease the frustration of end\fess retakes, or save that otherwise...

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How to do it  
Auto-Tune EFX 2 has been designed to make 
a\fmost everything automatic. Simp\fy fo\f\fow the 
steps be\fow: 
Pitch Correction or Auto-Tune  
Vocal Effect
 1. Select an effect type   Auto-Tune EFX 2 provides two a\fternative versions of the Auto-Tune Voca\f Effect as 
we\f\f as rea\f-time pitch correction.  
   Hard EFX:  This is the c\fassic Auto-Tune 
Voca\f Effect. Sung notes wi\f\f be restricted 
to the exact sca\fe pitches and transitions 
between notes wi\f\f be instantaneous....