User Manual

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If you just want to start playing, try the
following brief tutorial.
Start by assigning THROAT Evo to a vocal
part and set the above contour on the Throat
Shaping display.
Be sure you have set the proper Vocal Range
and Source Glottal settings and leave all the
other controls at their default values.
Now, while listening to your vocal, slowly move
the Model Throat Length slider from 1.00 to
1.25. Note the effect. Depending, of course, on
the source vocal, you might typically hear the
vocal quality become subtly darker, more male,
older, etc.
Then try moving it back to 0.75. Again note the
effect. In this case the result might be subtly
more bright, female, young, etc.
Next, return the Model Throat Length slider
to 1.00 and repeat the above with the Model
Throat Width.
Experiment with various combinations of the
two controls. As you become familiar with
their effects, try more extreme settings of the
controls.
Finally, use the Pitch control to shift the vocal
up or down 4-6 semitones and repeat the
steps above to see how the controls affect the
shifted vocal.
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Speaking of weird, it may be useful to
understand just why extreme models are
perceived as “unrealistic” or strange.
As mentioned above, the range of human
vocal anatomy is actually relatively small. In
order that we can differentiate between the
voices of the many people we encounter in
our lives, the auditory processing function in
our brains is extremely sensitive to very small
differences in vocal timbre within the typical
range of variation. But as a result of this, we
have no frame of reference for vocal timbres
that fall outside of the range of common
human anatomy. We can’t picture the person
who would sound like that. So we think more
in terms of “filtered,” “tubular,” or whatever.
Trust us, if there were people with vocal tracts
of the more extreme dimensions THROAT Evo
is capable of, this is what they’d sound like.
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While THROAT Evo has been designed for
voice, experiments here have shown that it
can produce quite striking effects when used
on other instrumental tracks. Try it with drums,
guitars, bass, in fact pretty much anything. (In
particular, applying it to a drum loop and then
following that up with PUNCH Evo has resulted
in some truly twisted beats. Give it a try.)
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Play, play, play.