If you’ve been waiting for the second generation of Antares AVOX, your wait is finally over! Antares Audio Technologies has announced that the AVOX 2 Vocal Toolkit will ship in April. Not only does this new version include the original AVOX plug-ins, but it also adds an additional five state-of-the-art vocal processing modules, including the recently released Harmony Engine Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator. The new plug-ins:
- MUTATOR Extreme Voice Designer provides a combination of tools for creating unusual, weird, or downright freaky voices
- ARTICULATOR Vocal Formant and Amplitude Modeler is a modern-day version of the venerable talk box. It lets a user extract the formant and amplitude information from a vocal (or any other dynamic source, for that matter) and apply it to any other audio track.
- WARM Tube Saturation Generator is based on Antares’ Tube plug-in. As you might guess, it warms up vocals while being so processing-efficient that it can be used on every track in a project with negligible impact on overall CPU usage.
- ASPIRE Aspiration Noise Processor is a tool for modifying any voice’s breathiness independently of its overall harmonic content.
AVOX 2 will be available for Mac OS X and Windows in AU, VST, and RTAS formats at a retail price of $599 (which represents a savings of more than 60% over the list prices of the individual plug-ins). Upgrades will also be available to current owners of both the Harmony Engine and the original AVOX bundle.
