Antares Audio Technologies

Aspire is the world’s first tool for modifying a voice’s breathiness independently of its harmonic content.

With Aspire, you can match a vocal quality to a performance style by decreasing or increasing a voice’s natural breathiness.

Aspire analyzes a vocal in real time and separates the aspiration noise (breathiness) from the harmonic content.

It then allows you to adjust the amount of aspiration noise, and affect its character independently by applying a parametric EQ to the noise component. It also includes a real-time display that lets you visualize the effect of the aspiration noise processing.

Whether reducing vocal rasp or adding a bit of smokiness, Aspire allows modification of the amount and quality of a voice’s breathiness—without affecting the vocal’s harmonic characteristics.

The Human Voice. Synthesized

Immediately recognizable, always unforgettable. Produce the unmistakable effect made famous on dancefloor bangers by Daft Punk, electro-pioneers Kraftwerk, 70’s rock classics by ELO, and many more.

Introducing Auto-Tune Vocodist

Auto-Tune Vocodist delivers the legendary sound of vintage vocoders with the full force and flexibility of Auto-Tune built in.

Create Like the Legends

This advanced vocoder plug-in includes models of all the classic vocoders you know and love. Plus, we built an extensive collection of artist presets featuring P-Thugg (Chromeo), producer Buddy Ross (Frank Ocean), electronic artist Rachel K. Collier, and more to jump-start your creativity.

Easy to Use and Built for Speed

Auto-Tune Vocodist lets you control the pitch of your vocoded sound with your voice or your favorite MIDI keyboard. Designed for ease-of-use, a built-in 8-voice, dual oscillator synthesizer helps you start vocoding quickly and easily. Or use any external audio source via sidechain input and explore!

Push it to the Limit

Customize the classic vocoder sound even further with built-in vocal effects. For extreme vocal mutations, explore otherworldly enhancements with analog tube saturation, lush choruses, and ring modulation.

Auto-Tune Under the Hood

As the world’s only vocoder plug-in with Auto-Tune built-in, you can tune your vocals without ever leaving Vocodist. Dial it in for subtle results, or crank it up to combine the iconic Auto-Tune Effect with vocoder vibes to create your unique sound.

Features

• The legendary sounds of classic vocoders
• Extensive collection of artists presets
• Built-in 8-voice dual-oscillator synthesizer
• Control vocoded sounds with MIDI keyboard
• Customize with built-in vocal effects
• Compatible with Auto-Key and Auto-Key Mobile

CHOIR – Vocal Multiplier

Turn a single voice into up to 32 individual unison voices.

CHOIR​​ is a unique vocal processor that turns a single monophonic voice into a lush choir of 4, 8, 16, or 32 distinct individual unison voices, each with its own pitch, timing and vibrato variations.

CHOIR accomplishes its magic with just a few simple controls. Choir​ ​Size​ allows you to select the number of individual voices that will be generated from the original voice. The Vibrato Variation​, Pitch​ ​Variation​, and Timing​ ​Variation​ controls allow you to control the amount of subtle variation applied to each of the generated voices. Finally, the Stereo​ ​Spread​ ​control lets you spread the voices across the stereo field.

CHOIR is the perfect tool for quickly and easily turning a single voice into a group of voices, each with its own unique character.

When multiple instances of CHOIR are assigned to individual harmony parts, the result is an amazingly realistic large vocal ensemble.

Auto-Key is an automatic key and scale detection plug-in, designed to enhance your Auto-Tune workflow and save valuable time in the studio.

Choosing the correct key and scale for your music is an essential part of effective pitch correction, and Auto-Key makes this quick and easy. It’s also useful for choosing samples and loops that match the key of your project.

Place Auto-Key on a track to analyze your music in real time, or upload an audio file for faster than real-time analysis. It then automatically detects and displays the key and scale of your music, as well as the tuning reference frequency. The onscreen keyboard also lights up to show detected pitches.

Click the “Send to Auto-Tune” button, and compatible versions of Anatare’s Auto-Tune are automatically updated with the correct key and scale settings.

Even if you already know the key and scale of your music, Auto-Key will streamline your workflow by allowing you to conveniently set the key and scale for multiple instances of Auto-Tune with a single click.

Key and Scale Detection

Auto-Key makes it quick and easy to find the key and scale of your music. Just place it on an instrument track or master bus and begin playback.

Auto-Key will analyze the audio in real time and display the key and scale after a few seconds of playback analysis. You can also upload an audio file to analyze an entire song in seconds.

In addition to key and scale, Auto-Key also tells you the reference frequency of your music. Most modern music is tuned so that A is equal to 440 Hz, but this is not always the case. If your music or samples are tuned to a different reference frequency, Auto-Key will show you what it is, so you can make the necessary adjustments when applying pitch correction or selecting samples.

Harmony Engine – Automatic Vocal Harmony Generator

Create professional quality harmony arrangements from a single track.

Whether you’re an experienced arranger, a songwriter looking for the perfect backup vocal, or a producer experimenting with unique effects, Harmony Engine gives you new ways to create the harmony parts you hear in your head. It offers a variety of control modes, from fully automatic to individual control of every note.

Harmony Engine features four high-quality harmony voices with independently adjustable vocal character, vibrato, and pan settings for realistic or extreme effects.

And five channels of our Choir vocal multiplier lets you turn each harmony voice into 2, 4, 8, or 16 individual unison voices.

Harmony Engine provides all the tools you need to produce lush and convincing harmonies. Meticulously craft your own vocal arrangement note-by-note, perform your harmonies with your MIDI controller, or simply choose the chords and let Harmony Engine do the rest.

Harmony engine is also compatible with the Auto-Key plug-in, which is designed to save you countless hours in the studio by automatically detecting the key and scale of your music, and sending that information to Harmony Engine with a single click.

With four independent harmony voices, a variety of flexible harmony generating modes, and humanization features for more natural sounding performances, Harmony Engine gives you the tools you need to produce any vocal arrangement you can imagine.

MAIN FEATURES

• Antares’ groundbreaking Voice Processing Technology for faster, more accurate pitch detection and smoother, artifact-free pitch shifting.
• Four high-quality, formant-corrected harmony voices with independent vocal character, vibrato, and pan settings
• Five channels of our unique CHOIR Vocal Multiplier, to let you turn each voice into 2, 4, or 8 individual unison voices, perfect for creating jaw-droppingly amazing choirs out of a single vocal line
• Antares Throat Modeling technology that lets you process each harmony voice through a physical model of the human vocal tract
• A variety of innovative Harmony Control modes, from fully automatic to individual control of every note:
• Fixed or Scale Intervals: Simply set the key and harmony voice intervals and let Harmony Engine do the rest
• Chord Degrees or Chord Name: Define your harmony chord-by-chord, complete with inversions and variable vocal ranges
• Chord by MIDI: Define your harmony in real time via a MIDI controller or pre-recorded MIDI track
• MIDI Omni: Directly “play” the four harmony voices as if they were voices of a synth or sampler
• MIDI Channel: Use four separate MIDI channels for absolute control over each note of your vocal arrangement
• Spread and Register controls that allow you to quickly and intuitively set the pitch range and harmony style of your vocal arrangement
• Humanize functions that provide selectable amounts of variation to each harmony voice for realistic, natural sounding results
• A Freeze function that allows a unique variety of backup vocal effects by letting you instantly freeze pitch and/or formant articulation
• A Harmony Preset matrix that lets you create up to 15 complete harmony settings and instantaneously recall them in real time or via automation.
• A Voice Parameter Preset matrix that lets you create and instantly recall up to 6 different “vocal groups”
• Five-channel output capability (host dependent) that lets you assign or export the original input and each of the four harmony voices to their own channels for further processing
• And lots more…

Auto-Tune EFX+ is a versatile new vocal production tool, which combines the core features of Auto-Tune with the extensive Auto-EFX multi-effects rack, and Auto-Motion pitch-shifting melodic pattern generator.

For the producer, engineer, or musician looking for genuine real-time Auto-Tune pitch correction, Auto-Tune EFX+ provides a professional solution with low latency for live performance or tracking in the studio.  Fully adjustable Retune Speed and Humanize parameters let you fine-tune the desired effect for your tracks, from transparent pitch correction to the full Auto-Tune Effect.

And compatibility with Auto-Key (sold separately) means never having to worry about finding the key of your music before tuning. Auto-Key detects the key and scale and sends that information to Auto-Tune EFX+ with a single click.

New to Auto-Tune EFX+ is an extensive multi-effects rack that opens up a world of creative possibilities, from subtle enhancements to extreme vocal mutations and transformations. It includes six different effects modules, an XY Pad for real-time parameter control, and a library of multi-effects patches designed by industry leading producers, composers, and sound designers: Mike Dean, Jeff Rona, and Richard Devine.

MAIN FEATURES

Real-time, low latency Auto-Tune pitch correction with fully adjustable Retune Speed and Humanize parameters let you achieve everything from transparent pitch correction to the full Auto-Tune effect.

Auto-EFX multi-effects rack that includes six different effects modules and an XY Pad for real-time parameter control:

• Pitch and Throat: for real-time pitch and formant shifting
• Duet: for realistic doubling, with adjustable pitch and timing variation
• Vocode: for vintage analog vocoder emulations
• Tube Amp: for analog tube distortion modelling
• Mutate: for ring modulated audio mutation
• Filter: a high-pass filter for EQ and special effects

Library of Auto-EFX multi-effects patches designed by industry leading producers, composers, and sound designers such as: Mike Dean, Jeff Rona, and Richard Devine

Automatic Key and Scale Detection with Auto-Key (sold separately) – The Auto-Key plug-in automatically detects the key and scale of your music and sends that information to one or more instances of Auto-Tune EFX+. Auto-Key may also be used to simultaneously set the Key and Scale parameters of multiple instances of Auto-Tune EFX+, saving valuable time in the studio.

Auto-Motion melodic pattern generator lets you create new melodic patterns and hooks by automatically pitch-shifting your original vocal or instrumental tracks.  Auto-Motion features an extensive library of melodic patterns that intelligently adapt to match the key and tempo of your project.  Auto-Motion also includes three different Trigger Modes, so you can trigger patterns manually, toggle them on and off, or automatically trigger when an incoming pitch is detected.

ARTICULATOR – Digital Talkbox

Recreate the sound of classic talkbox effects.

Articulator is a modern digital version of the classic talk box, made famous on recordings by artists like Peter Frampton, Zapp, and Bon Jovi.

Perfect for talking guitars, singing synths, and a wide range of special effects.

If you’ve ever seen a guitarist with a plastic tube in their mouth and a guitar that sounds like it’s talking, then you have a basic idea of what a talk box is.

A physical talk box works by applying a filter (the human mouth) to an audio signal (usually a guitar or synth).

Articulator models this process by extracting the formant and amplitude information from a vocal track and applying it to another audio track or to its built-in noise generator in real time.

Articulator also features a built-in EQ, a formant modulation section, which lets you sculpt your vocal sound using our throat modeling technology, and an amplitude modulation control, which lets you dial in exactly how much of the effect you want on your track.

The Easiest Way to Access the Essential Auto-Tune Features

Auto-Tune Access is the easiest and most affordable way to start using Auto-Tune. It delivers the core Auto-Tune features with a simple and intuitive interface.

Its light CPU footprint and professional quality processing also make it a convenient option for more advanced users working with larger projects.

Three-position Retune Speed and Humanize knobs allow for a variety of tuning applications, from subtle and natural-sounding pitch correction to the most extreme Auto-Tune Effect.

Low latency processing lets you perform through Auto-Tune Access in real-time on stage or in the studio, without worrying about distracting delay.

Compatibility with Auto-Key (sold separately) means never having to worry about finding the key of your music before tuning. Auto-Key detects the key and scale and sends that information to Auto-Tune Access with a single click.

Pitch Correction and Auto-Tune Effect

Auto-Tune Access delivers the same core Auto-Tune technology that professional artists and producers have relied on for years, in a more affordable and easy-to-use package.

Retune Speed and Humanize controls allow you to choose the desired effect for your track. Turn up Humanize for a more natural sound, or crank the Retune Speed for the full Auto-Tune Effect.

Low Latency

Thanks to its low latency processing you can sing or play through Auto-Tune Access and listen to your tuned performance in real-time, without distracting delay.

Auto-Key Compatibility

Choosing the correct key and scale for your music is an essential part of effective pitch correction. Auto-Tune Access works with the Auto-Key plug-in (sold separately) to make this quick and easy.

Just place Auto-Key on an instrumental or master track, and it will determine the correct key and scale. Then send that information to Auto-Tune Access with a single click.

DUO – Automatic Vocal Doubler

The quickest, easiest way to create realistic vocal doubling.

Doubling is one of the best techniques for fattening up a lead vocal or giving it extra depth. And Duo is the easiest way to enhance vocals with a realistic doubled vocal part—automatically generated from your existing vocal.

In addition to programmable variation in pitch, timing and vibrato depth, Duo includes adjustable vocal timbre modeling, so you can create a doubled part that sounds like the same person as the lead vocalist—or like someone else entirely.

It also gives you independent control of the level and pan of the original and doubled voices, so you can craft the perfect stereo mix.

Just put Duo on your vocal track, and adjust the variation parameters and output controls to create exactly the doubling effect you’re looking for Instant doubling.

The Industry Standard for Pitch Correction and Vocal Effects – Optimized for Real-Time Tracking and Live Performance

Auto-Tune Artist (formerly Auto-Tune Live) is designed to meet the demanding needs of working musicians, producers, and live sound engineers. It includes all of the advanced real-time pitch correction features of Auto-Tune Pro and is optimized for low latency performance on stage or in the studio.

Auto-Tune Artist is also packed with powerful new features and enhancements, starting with a sleek new interface, redesigned for ease-of-use and optimal workflow. Antares have added Basic and Advanced Views so you can find the tools you need, when you need them.

They’ve also added Flex-Tune for more natural and transparent pitch correction, Classic Mode for the “Auto-Tune 5 sound,” and Transpose for real-time pitch shifting. Compatibility with the Auto-Key plug-in (sold separately) means never having to worry about finding the key of your music before tuning. Auto-Key detects the key and scale and sends that information to Auto-Tune Artist with a single click.

Auto-Tune Artist also features Humanize to preserve subtle pitch variations on sustained notes, automatic Formant Correction, adjustable Throat Modeling, real-time MIDI Control, and advanced Vibrato Controls.

MAIN FEATURES

Pitch Correction and the Auto-Tune Effect

Auto-Tune Artist offers the transparent and natural-sounding pitch correction required for professional quality audio production and the classic effects that have become a staple of top-charting hits.

Use Flex-Tune and Humanize to bring a vocal perfectly into tune without sacrificing the soul of the performance, or crank the Retune Speed for the legendary Auto-Tune Effect.

Classic Mode

Classic Mode is the return of the celebrated “Auto-Tune 5 sound.” As Antares have added new features to Auto-Tune, the algorithm has evolved, and its sonic qualities have undergone subtle changes, with each Auto-Tune version having its own slightly different character.

Over the years, the sound of Auto-Tune 5 has developed a strong following among pro audio engineers, musicians and producers. After repeated requests from the professional music-making community, Antares have made the sound of Auto-Tune 5 easily accessible via Classic Mode in Auto-Tune Artist

Streamlined User Interface

Auto-Tune Artist features a sleek, all-new interface, redesigned for ease-of-use and optimal production workflow, with two unique screen views. Basic View gives you convenient access to the most popular Auto-Tune features, and Advanced View unlocks the powerful MIDI, scale editing and vibrato tools.

Auto-Key Compatibility

Auto-Tune Artist is fully compatible with the Auto-Key plug-in. Auto-Key is designed to save you countless hours in the studio by automatically detecting the key and scale of your music, and sending that information to Auto-Tune Artist with a single click.

Even if you already know the key and scale of your tracks, Auto-Key will streamline your workflow by allowing you to conveniently set the Key and Scale parameters for all of your Auto-Tune plugins within the project simultaneously.

Important Note: Auto-Key is sold separately and is not included with Auto-Tune Artist.

Mic Mod EFX – Classic Microphone Modeler

Make the mics you own sound like the mics you wish you owned.

Mic Mod is the microphone modeling tool that makes the mics you own sound like the mics you wish you owned.

Instantly expand your mic locker with models of vintage mics from Neumann, AKG, and others, plus a wide selection of modern boutique mics.

Mic Mod includes precise digital models of over 100 legendary microphones. Just tell it what mic you’re using and what mic you want it to sound like.

Mic Mod not only reproduces all of the subtle sonic characteristics that make each microphone unique, it also gives you control of each mic’s specific options. Does the mic have a low cut filter? If so, it’s in the model. Close or far placement? Just dial in the proximity control. Each option results in the same sonic effect that it would have with the actual mic. For that final touch of perfection, you can even add some tube saturation.

Mic Mod gives you a huge virtual microphone collection that you can use for recording, mixing, and even in live performance to get the sound of mics you would never consider using on stage. It’s also a great tool for broadcast and podcasting applications.

MAIN FEATURES

Source Mic and Modeled Mic

• Simply select the mic you’re using (or used during your original recording) and the mic you want it to sound like.

Proximity

• Proximity Effect is a bass boost that results from placing a directional mic in close proximity to a signal source (e.g., a singer’s lips). With Mic Mod EFX’s Proximity controls, you can actually create the effects of different mic distances based on the specific physical properties of each individual modeled mic.

Low Cut Filter

• If your source mic has a low cut filter, enter its setting in the Source Mic Low Cut menu. If your selected modeled mic has a low cut filter, you can model the effects of any of its settings with the Modeled Mic Low Cut menu.

Pickup Pattern

• If your source mic has variable pickup patterns, enter the selected pattern in the Source Mic Pattern menu. If your selected modeled mic has variable pickup patterns, you can experiment with the effects of any of its patterns with the Modeled Mic Pattern menu.

Tube Saturation

• Based on the same technology as Antares’ famed WARM Tube Saturation Generator, the Tube Saturation control lets you give your track the warmth of a high-quality tube pre-amp.

Mic Mod EFX is available as a plug-in for RTAS (Mac & PC), VST (Mac & PC) and Audio Units. At a fraction of the cost of even a modestly lust-worthy mic.

MUTATOR – Extreme Voice Designer

A powerful tool for special vocal effects and post-production sound design.

Mutator provides a combination of sound design tools for creating unusual and otherworldly voices.

With high quality pitch shifting, throat modeling, ring modulator-based mutation, and a mind-bending tempo-synced alienize function, Mutator is the perfect tool for unique vocal effects, character design, and post-production sound design.

Mutators’s voice processing tools are divided into three sections.

• Voice Design
• Mutate
• Alienize

The voice design section lets you use our unique throat modeling and pitch shifting technologies to craft the basic characteristics of your voice.

The mutate section lets you transform and mangle that voice into a variety of strange creatures, with 24 different varieties of “mutation” created with pitch-tracking ring modulation.

Finally, the alienize section gives your vocal track the quality of an alien language by chopping it up into small segments and playing each segment in reverse.

You can even create your own unique language by varying the length of the speech segments, or syncing them to the tempo of your track.

SYBIL – Variable Frequency De-Esser. Tame vocal sibilance quickly and easily.

Sybil is designed to tame excessive vocal sibilance (ess, tsss, ch, and sh sounds), with a flexible compressor and a variable-frequency high pass filter to ensure optimum de-essing for any vocal performance.

The compressor section includes threshold, ratio, attack and release controls, and the high-pass frequency control lets you adjust which high frequency content will get compressed, to ensure that the sibilance is reduced while the rest of the voice remains pristine.

With Sybil, everything you need to get control of vocal sibilance is right at your fingertips.

MAIN FEATURES

• Tames sibilance precisely and effectively
• Threshold, attack, decay, and ratio controls
• Variable sidechain highpass frequency
• AAX Native, RTAS, VST, and Audio Units
• Mac/PC

Model the sound of vintage analog tube saturation

WARM

Nothing warms up a vocal track (or pretty much any track) like being recorded through a high quality analog tube preamp. And thanks to Warm, you can add this tube warmth to every track in your mix.

Warm offers the choice of two different tube models.

Velvet tube gives you the subtle effects of classic tube saturation. While most often used for adding warmth to vocals, it sounds just as good on acoustic guitar, horns, strings, synth pads, or pretty much anything.

Crunch tube gives you the deep, warm distortion of an overdriven tube amplifier. You can crank it up for an “industrial” vocal sound, or as an effect on guitar, bass, or synths.

Warm’s unique Omni Tube feature lets you apply tube saturation to the entire signal, instead of just the transients, as is typically the case with a tube preamp.

And since Warm is extremely DSP efficient, you can use it on an almost unlimited number of tracks simultaneously.

Once you start using Warm, you’re going to want it on almost everything.

Auto-Tune Vocal EQ is the only dynamic equalizer with patented Auto-Tune pitch tracking technology built in.

Engineered specifically for vocals, Auto-Tune Vocal EQ allows you to isolate and accentuate precise frequencies to make vocals sound smoother and shine in the mix.

Powerful dynamic nodes combined with proprietary Auto-Tune pitch metering makes it easy to find the optimum place in the frequency spectrum to work in for any vocalist.

Auto-Tune Vocal EQ is the fastest and easiest way to EQ vocals as well as instruments and other audio tracks. 

Pitch Metering 

Watch a vocalist’s pitch move across the frequency spectrum in real-time to visualize range and thresholds.
 
Pitch Tracking  

Lock an EQ band to a vocalist’s pitch to focus on fundamental pitch or harmonics.

Vocal Learning  

Automatically determine input type and highlight the average vocal range (alto, tenor, soprano) for a quick start to EQing.

Auto-Tune Vocal EQ comes complete with a range of powerful tools to give you an extensive range of control over every aspect of a track to get the right mix every time. 

• 6 Full Parametric Bands 
• Low-Pass and High-Pass Filters 
• Air Band for adding a smooth high-end presence
• Tilt EQ Filter to balance the high and low end of the spectrum 
• Spectrum Analyzer 
• External Sidechain for adding dynamic filters
• Band/Solo Mode
• Dry/Wet