Antares AVOX 2 user manual

Owner’s Manual
v1.1 11 March 2008
AVOX 2
Antares Vocal Toolkit 

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The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-Jumbo 
The Antares AVOX 2 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 AVOX 2 software and 
its documentation. Use of AVOX 2 is limited by 
the following license agreement.
Please carefully read all the...

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 
AVOX 2 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.
Product Installation and...

Contents
Chapter 1 Getting Started   3
Chapter 2  Introducing AVOX 2  5
Chapter 3  Harmony Engine Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator  9
Chapter 4  THROAT Physical Modeling Vocal Designer  11
Chapter 5  DUO Vocal Modeling Auto-Doubler  19
Chapter 6  CHOIR Vocal Multiplier  21
Chapter 7  PUNCH Vocal Impact Enhancer   23
Chapter 8  SYBIL Variable Frequency De-Esser  25
Chapter 9  ARTICULATOR Vocal Formant and Amplitude Modeler  27
Chapter 10  MUTATOR Extreme Voice Designer  37
Chapter 11  WARM Tube Saturation...

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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 AVOX 2 Antares 
Vocal Toolkit, a suite of uniquely powerful DSP tools for creating spectacular 
vocal tracks. As an AVOX 2 owner, you are entitled to receive notification of 
any software updates, 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.
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Chapter 1: Getting Started
How To Use This Manual
The plug-ins that make up the AVOX 2 suite have been designed with clear, 
consistent, friendly user-interfaces. If you come to AVOX 2 with previous 
vocal processing experience, you will find that most of their functions are self-evident and are 
extraordinarily easy to use. However, since some of the AVOX 2 tools do things that have never 
been done before (or do them in new ways), a few aspects of their user-interfaces may not be 
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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 will no longer be able to launch AVOX 2 
until it’s authorized. 
Technical Support  
In the unlikely event that you experience a 
problem using AVOX 2, try the following: 
 1.  Make sure you have the latest version of 
the software. You can download and install 
the latest version of the software from the 
following web page:...