User Manual

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4: THROAT Evo
PHYSICAL MODELING VOCAL DESIGNER
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 constrict the modeled
vocal tract. For even more detailed control,
THROAT Evo’s graphical Throat Shaping display
allows you to individually adjust the position and
width of five points in the vocal tract model,
from the vocal chords, through the throat, mouth
and out to the lips. THROAT Evo’s Breathiness
controls let you add variable frequency noise to
the model, resulting in a range of vocal effects
from subtle breathiness, to raspiness, to a full
whisper. Finally, THROAT Evo allows you to shift
the original pitch of your vocal up or down a full
octave in semitone intervals.
While THROAT Evo has been designed to
allow subtle modifications to a voice’s vocal
quality, the range of the controls also allows the
creation of vocal tract models well beyond the
limits of physical human anatomy, offering the
possibility of vocal characteristics that are simply
unattainable by any other means. In order to
understand what THROAT Evo is doing and how