Antares AVOX 4 user manual

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AVOX 4 Overview
The AVOX 4 Antares Vocal Toolkit includes:
Harmony Engine Evo  
Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator
Harmony Engine Evo is a real-time harmony 
generating plug-in that puts professional-
quality vocal harmony arrangements within 
reach of any songwriter, producer, musician or 
engineer.
With four independent harmony voices, a 
variety of powerful harmony generating 
modes, humanization features for natural 
sounding performances, five integrated 
channels of CHOIR Evo Vocal Multiplier, and...

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CHOIR Evo  
Vocal Multiplier
Neither a harmonizer nor a conventional 
chorus effect, CHOIR Evo is a unique processor 
that actually turns a single voice into 4, 8, 16, or 
32 distinct individual unison voices, each with 
its own pitch, timing and vibrato variations. 
The voices can, if desired, be spread across the 
stereo spectrum. Assign an instance of CHOIR 
Evo to each of four voices singing four-part 
harmony and voilà, instant choir. 
PUNCH Evo   
Vocal Impact Enhancer
PUNCH Evo is a unique...

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AVOX 4 Processing Guidelines
While it might seem to be convenient to 
consolidate all of the AVOX 4 functions in one 
huge integrated plug-in, some of the AVOX 4 
functions use quite a bit of processing power. 
By organizing them as separate plug-ins, you 
can choose to instantiate only those you need 
for each particular vocal track, thereby using 
only as much of your computer’s DSP power as 
you absolutely need. 
While it’s not likely that you’ll be using all ten 
plug-ins on every track, it is...

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3: Harmony Engine Evo
VOc AL M OdELING H ArMON y GENE rATO r
You’ll find a separate Harmony Engine Evo PDF manual included with your AVOX 4 download. Read 
it, try out the factory presets, and play with the included tutorial sessions.
4:  Mic Mod EFX
cL ASSI c MI crOPHONE MO dELE r
You’ll find a separate Mic Mod EFX PDF manual included with your AVOX 4 download. Read it.  

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5: THROAT Evo  
PH ySI cAL  MO dELING  VOcAL  dESIGNE r
THROAT Evo is a revolutionary vocal tool 
that lets you process a vocal through a 
meticulously crafted physical model of the 
human vocal tract. THROAT Evo begins by 
neutralizing the effect of the original singer’s 
vocal tract and then gives you the ability to 
specify the characteristics of the modeled 
vocal tract. 
THROAT Evo’s controls allow you to modify 
the voice’s glottal waveform as well as globally 
stretch, shorten, widen or...

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are simply unattainable by any other means. 
In order to understand what THROAT Evo is 
doing and how you can use it to process your 
vocal tracks, it helps to know how our throats 
actually work to create what we perceive as 
unique vocal qualities. 
Vocal production starts with the vocal chords. 
Air from our lungs is forced through the vocal 
chords, causing them to vibrate. The contour 
of this vibration is the glottal waveform. The 
actual shape of the waveform is affected 
by each individual’s...

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There is no need to obsess over subtle 
distinctions. If in doubt, just pick one. Once 
you have set up a model, you can always 
come back and try another setting and see if it 
makes a (positive) difference. 
To select vocal type, click on the Vocal Type 
pop-up and then select the closest stylistic 
character of the vocal performance from the 
pop-up list.
Source Throat Precision
If you’ve already been poking around the 
THROAT Evo interface, you might be asking 
yourself, “What the heck is throat...

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The sonic character of the breathiness will 
depend both on the articulation of the original 
vocal and, more dramatically, the setting of the 
Highpass Frequency control described below. 
Command (Mac)/Control (PC)/Option (Pro 
Tools) click the control to reset it to its default 
value of 0. 
Highpass Frequency 
This control lets you set the high pass frequency 
of the breathiness component  
(i.e., the frequency above which the breathiness 
will be present). This frequency determines the 
audio...

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Model Throat Width
The Throat Width control allows you to 
globally widen or constrict 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 
throat width, while a value of 0.80 represents 
a 20% decrease in throat width. 
Changes made to this control are reflected on 
the Graphic Throat...

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To select vocal type, click on the Vocal Type 
pop-up and then select the desired stylistic 
character from the pop-up list. 
Glottal Pulse Width
This control allows you to select the pulse 
width of the modeled glottal waveform. If you 
are at all familiar with analog synthesizers, 
you can think of this as being vaguely similar 
to the variable pulse width control on a square 
wave oscillator (and if you’re not familiar with 
analog synthesizers, don’t worry, just move 
the slider and listen to what...