Antares AVOX 4 user manual

Owner’s Manual
Antares Vocal Toolkit
AVOX  4 

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the following license agreement.
Please carefully read all the...

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Product Installation and...

Contents
Chapter 1 Getting Started   2
Chapter 2  Introducing AVOX 4  4
Chapter 3  Harmony Engine Evo Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator  8
Chapter 4  Mic Mod EFX Classic Microphone Modeler  8
Chapter 5  THROAT Evo Physical Modeling Vocal Designer  9
Chapter 6  DUO Evo Vocal Modeling Auto-Doubler  19
Chapter 7  CHOIR Evo Vocal Multiplier  23
Chapter 8  PUNCH Evo Vocal Impact Enhancer   26
Chapter 9  SYBIL Evo Variable Frequency De-Esser  28
Chapter 10  ARTICULATOR Evo Digital Talk Box  31
Chapter 11...

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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 4 Antares 
Vocal Toolkit, a suite of uniquely powerful DSP tools for creating spectacular 
vocal tracks. As an AVOX 4 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.
At...

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1:  Getting Started
Consequently, we encourage you to at least 
scan each of the individual plug-in’s chapters 
for descriptions of their various parameters. 
In particular, Harmony Engine Evo offers new 
(and extremely intuitive) ways to specify vocal 
harmony, while THROAT Evo, ARTICUL ATOR 
Evo and ASPIRE Evo offer entirely new 
approaches to vocal processing, providing 
capabilities that have simply never before 
existed in a DSP plug-in. We strongly suggest 
that you read their chapters in their...

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Authorizing AVOX 4 
Authorization is the process by which 
AVOX 4 is allowed to run on your computer. 
Detailed instructions covering the available 
authorization options will be found in the file 
“Authorization Read Me” which is included 
on the installation DVD ROM or with your 
software download. 
AVOX 4 authorization requires an iLok USB 
smart key. If you already own other audio 
plug-ins, you probably already have one. If not, 
they can be purchased from many local music 
stores as well as most...

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2: Introducing AVOX 4
The heart of any great song is a great vocal sound. With the AVOX 4 Antares Vocal Toolkit, we’ve 
combined eleven state-of-the-art vocal processing modules that open up an entirely new world of 
vocal processing capabilities. AVOX 4 gives you the power you need to create stunning vocal tracks 
in any musical style as well as design unique vocal effects for audio post-production applications.
In the following chapters we’ll deal with each AVOX tool in turn, but first let’s take a...