Antares AVOX 2 user manual

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NOTE : Audio Signal Pan 
only functions in Stereo or 
Mono->Stereo versions of 
ARTICULATOR.  If you have instantiated a 
Mono version, the slider will be disabled.
Command (Mac)/Control (PC) click 
the control to reset it to its default 
value of 0 (absolute center).
CONTROL 
SIGNAL LE VEL
This control applies 
gain or attenuation 
to the Control 
Signal. The range 
is from -inf (i.e., off) 
to 12 dBs of gain.
To adjust Control 
Signal Level, click on the knob and move 
the cursor up to turn the knob...

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 Again, better candidates are rich synth pads, 
distortion-rich guitar sounds, thick chords 
(from any combination of instruments), and 
even whole mixes. 
• An exception to the point above is that if 
you are only interested in using the Control 
Signal to provide amplitude modulation, the 
harmonic content of the Audio Signal will not 
be an issue.
• If you do want the Control Signal to provide 
the rhythmic articulation, the Envelope 
Amount control should be set at 100 and the 
Audio Signal should...

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Chapter 10: MUTATOR 
Extreme Voice Designer
MUTATOR provides a 
combination of tools for 
creating unusual, weird, or 
downright wacky voices. 
With high- quality pitch shifting, 
throat modeling,  a pitch-tracking 
ring modulator for “mutation,” and a 
mind-bending Alienization function, 
MUTATOR is the perfect tool for 
unique vocal effects and post-
production sound design.
Controls
Vocal 
Range
Use this 
control to 
select the 
range of the 
track you will be processing. Choices include 
soprano...

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MUTATOR’s pitch shifting automatically 
includes formant correction (i.e., it preserves 
the resonant characteristics of the original 
voice), however you can further modify the 
vocal characteristics using the Throat Length 
and Throat Width controls described below.
The range of the control is four octaves — two 
octaves up and two octaves down. The control 
is calibrated in 48 discrete steps of a semitone 
each.
Since an octave is equal to twelve semitones, 
the values of this control are...

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Command (Mac)/Alt (PC) clicking on the knob 
will reset it to its default value of 1.00.
THROAT WIDTH 
As you might imagine, this control is similar 
the the Throat Length control described above, 
but instead modifies the width of the modeled 
throat.
Values above 1.00 represent a widening of 
the throat while values below 1.00 represent 
a narrowing of the throat. The actual values 
represent the percentage change in the throat 
width. For example, a value of 1.20 represents 
a 20% increase in...

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MUTANT MIX 
This control allows you to set a mix between 
the original unprocessed voice and the voice 
after being processed by the Mutation control. 
This mix is then sent on to the Alienize section.
When this control is set to the extreme 
“Original” end of its range, only the original 
unprocessed voice will be sent. At the extreme 
“Mutated” end, only the processed voice will 
be sent. In the middle of the range, a selectable 
mix of the two will be sent.
To set the Mutant Mix, click on the knob...

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Input/Output Section
Here’s where you can adjust the output level, 
bypass the entire plug-in, and get a visual 
representation of the before and after versions 
of your audio.OUTPUT VOLUME 
This control applies 
gain or attenuation 
to the output signal. 
Since MUTATOR’s 
various functions can 
substantially increase or 
decrease the level of the 
input, you can use this 
control, in combination 
with the output level 
meter, to insure that 
your output is at an 
appropriate level without 
clipping....

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WARM is an easy-to-use plug-in that 
accurately models the sonic effects of 
recording audio through a high quality 
analog tube preamplifier.  

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Chapter 11: WARM 
Tube Saturation Generator
Based on Antares’ legendary (at least among those of us who work here and, based 
on the volume of emails we’ve gotten since we discontinued it, a fair number of 
others as well) Tube plug-in, WARM, warms up your vocals with Antares’ world-
renown tube modeling technology, while being so processing-efficient, you can put 
an instance on pretty much every track in your project and still barely see your CPU meter twitch. 
So what exactly is WARM? 
WARM is an...

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Controls
Input Level 
This control applies gain 
to the input signal before 
it’s passed to the tube 
model. It is typically used 
to ensure that the level of 
the input is high enough 
to exceed the clipping 
level in the tube model. 
As a starting point, adjust 
the gain such that the 
input level meter needle 
spends most of its time 
in the top two (gray and 
purple) meter segments.  
Further adjustments can 
be made in combination 
with the Drive setting 
(see below).
To adjust gain, click on...