Contents Contents Introducing Throat Quick Start Try Out a Few Presets Choose the Audio Input Settings for Your Track Adjust the Throat Dimensions Try Out a Different Glottal Model Shift the Pitch Add Breathiness Adjust the Gain Controls Audio Input Settings...
Contents Introducing Throat Throat lets you process your vocals through a meticulously crafted physical model of the human vocal tract, so you can literally design your own vocal sound. It begins by neutralizing the effect of the original singer’s vocal tract and then lets you specify the characteristics of the modeled vocal tract, giving you individual control over each of the elements that go into creating a distinct vocal character.
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Whether you want to subtly enhance the quality of an existing voice, or create dramatically unique vocal effects, Throat gives you an unprecedented amount of control over the human voice.
Follow these steps to get started with Throat: Try Out a Few Presets Throat comes with a large collection of factory presets designed to help you get up and running. Start by trying out a few presets to get an idea of the range of creative effects you can achieve with Throat.
Controls Audio Input Settings The Audio Input Settings help to optimize Throat’s performance by letting you specify the characteristics of your source audio and the type of modeling you’d like to do. Vocal Range The Vocal Range menu lets you select the pitch range of your track, to optimize the pitch tracking and throat modeling algorithms.
The Source Glottal Voice Type menu lets you specify the intensity level of the vocal performance that you’re processing. This allows Throat to neutralize the glottal waveform of the source audio so that you can specify a new glottal waveform using the Model Glottal Voice Type menu.
Contents Breathiness Controls The Breathiness Controls let you add variable frequency noise to the model, for a wide range of vocal effects from subtle breathiness, to raspiness, to a full whisper. Breathiness High Pass Frequency The Breathiness High Pass Frequency control lets you set the frequency above which breathiness will be added to your vocal This determines the frequency range and character of the breathiness effect.
It’s determined in part by the anatomy of the singer’s vocal tract, but also varies based on loudness or intensity of singing. While the Source Glottal Voice Type setting is used to help Throat neutralize the effect of the original vocal’s glottal waveform, the Model Glottal Controls let you apply a new glottal waveform.
Model Throat Controls The Model Throat controls let you adjust the overall length and width of the modeled throat. Changes made to these controls will be reflected in the Graphic Throat Display, and the positions of the throat contour control points will be scaled to reflect the new throat dimensions.
Graphic Throat Display The Graphic Throat Display lets you create a custom model throat shape with 5 movable control points that specify the boundaries of the vocal tract (as illustrated in the head diagram to the left of the display).
Note: When the Throat Width control is adjusted, the red line and control points on the Graphic Display will move up and down in parallel to illustrate a widening or narrowing of the entire vocal tract.
The Bypass button lets you bypass Throat and pass your audio through unprocessed. Use it to quickly compare the processed and unprocessed audio, or automate it in your DAW to bring in the modeled throat effect at certain times in your track.
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