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kantos 1.0

"I am in love... no, wait, lust... with Kantos... I am in heaven."

> Joe Solo, Producer/Songwriter

"Kantos is f***ing amazing. It only took me five minutes to make something totally dope and unique. Still, I'll be finding new stuff to do with it for years. It's like Othello: "A minute to learn, a lifetime to master." You can bet I'll use this on our next album."

> Nick Hexum, Lead singer/Programmer for 311

"Loops and beatboxes as sound sources yield impressive, other-worldly results, quite unlike anything you're used to in modern dance mixes."

> Francis Preve, Keyboard Magazine

"During the time I worked with kantos, I found myself encountering combinations of acoustic and electronic sounds that almost defied description."

> Francis Preve, Keyboard Magazine

"kantos is capable of taking sounds to places you've never heard before."

> Francis Preve, Keyboard Magazine

"Kantos sounds as striking as it looks... Kantos will allow you to do sonic damage to your audio tracks you never would have imagined possible."

Editors Choice Award, Innovation Award
Computer Music Magazine (UK)

"It's stable, powerful, and looks and sounds unlike any other soft synth available."

Editors Choice Award, Innovation Award
Computer Music Magazine (UK)

"...every so often, a unique plug-in comes along that can change the way artists approach making music and fill their brains with new ideas. Kantos is just such a product... it's destined to cause a ruckus in the music world."

> Markkus Rovito, Remix Magazine

"The results are often scary good and sometimes just plain scary."

> Markkus Rovito, Remix Magazine

"...it's much more expansive than a vocoder. You don't really need to understand what it does; just click around and enjoy the result."

> Markkus Rovito, Remix Magazine

"Creates something from nothing. Original. Inspiring."

> Markkus Rovito, Remix Magazine

" ...unlike conventional synthesis, kantos has an organic quality that I've not heard from any other instrument."

> Paul White, Sound on Sound (UK)

"We love kantos... it has definitely been revolutionary in helping us create textures. We have been processing everything with it. We're achieving sounds that we couldn't have dreamed of before."

> Donal Hodgson, working on Sting's latest CD

"Kantos is one of the coolest new tools I've seen for manipulating monophonic instruments. A really twisted, unique and contemporary way of manipulating audio. I've already used it on a bunch of tracks."

> BT, Producer/Composer/DJ

"kantos is a thing that has been extracted from every musician's wildest imaginings."

> David Frank, producer/composer/keyboardist
(Christine Aguilera, Phil Collins,
Chaka Khan, Steve Winwood)

"kantos has become a magic bag I have come to rely on. It can shape and twist even the most basic sound into something truly unique and otherworldly. Creating textures and music pieces for the Warner Bros TV Show The Surreal Life was effortless."

> Devin Powers - Composer for Film and TV
(Surreal Life, Blind Date, Sex And The City,
Big Brother, 60 Minutes, and many more)

"All the quirky Mod Pop songs for the show were brushed over with day glow color sounds and kantos was the Pandora's box I opened everyday ... and what came out was Surreal!!!"

> Devin Powers - Composer for Film and TV
(Surreal Life, Blind Date, Sex And The City,
Big Brother, 60 Minutes, and many more)

"Kantos is an amazing creative tool that is bound to create sparks whenever you apply it to anything. I don't know if I think of it as an instrument or an effect. It allows non keyboard players access to textures and sound designs using organic sources. I know of nothing else like it. It has become major tool in my sound design belt as well as sparking crazy ideas out of anything that I apply it to. I love it. I've used it on national TV scores as well as national CD releases for major labels. I've tried to keep it a secret but clients oohh and aahh too much when they see the interface. Amazing."

> Jim Chapdelaine - Composer/Producer/Musician

"kantos can:
tweak
twist
rip
fly
gnarl
fuzz
mutate
warp
freak
contort
truncate
manipulate
extrapolate
vibrate
shred
formulate
even levitate,
whatever floats your boat, kantos does it all.
Plus it's the radest looking software I've ever seen."

> Brain - Drummer/Percussionist/Composer
- Guns n' Roses - Primus

"Kantos is one of those unusual tools which has real depth. Sure you can stick a drum loop through it and get a funky mangled synth loop at the output, but the more you use it, the more you appreciate its real capabilities. The fact that you can use your own waveforms in the oscillators means its potential is all but unlimited."

> Jules Bromley - Composer/Producer/Remixer -
Trailermen/Columbo

Here's what some kantos users have to say.

"Kantos is one of the coolest new tools I've see for manipulating monophonic instruments. A really twisted, unique and contemporary way of manipulating audio. I've already used it on a bunch of tracks."

> BT, Producer/Composer/DJ

Simon Osborne, engineer working on Sting's latest CD

 

Kipper, producer working on Sting's latest CD

 

"We love kantos... it has definitely been revolutionary in helping us create textures. We have been processing everything with it. We're achieving sounds that we couldn't have dreamed of before."

> Donal Hodgson, working on Sting's latest CD

ATR-1a

"I've been using the ATR-1 for about 4 years now and I can't say enough good things about it. In a live situation it's amazing. For a high energy band like QUIET RIOT it's really useful when the monitors aren't what they should be or towards the end of a show when you're almost out of gas it really saves the day. My pitch has always been pretty good but why take any chances? The Auto-Tune makes you all you can be and more!"

> Kevin DuBrow - QUIET RIOT

"The ATR-1 saves us an unbelievable amount of time. It goes with me wherever I go."

> Al Schmitt, Producer

"[The ATR-1] is one of those few rare finds that I now find it hard to imagine making a record without."

> William Whitman, Recording Magazine

"The ATR-1 is one of those products that can save your butt. In fact, it saved my butt twice... It is indeed magical."

> Rob Shrock, Electronic Musician Magazine

"[The ATR-1] works so well it should come in different flavors and have a hole in the middle; it is truly a life saver... [It] took an otherwise uncomfortably out of tune vocal and turned it into a great vocal performance. It saved the record. Thank you."

> Tom Size, Producer/Engineer

"The third great invention of modern history... the ATR-1 has totally revolutionized the way we record."

> Scott Hybl, Northstar Productions

Here's what some ATR-1a users have to say.

"With the ATR-1a, vocal sessions can focus on attitude, not intonation."

> Madame Marie Curie*

 

"Nothing helps your peace of mind on tour like an ATR-1a in the rack."

> Franz Kafka*

 

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> Marcel Marceau*

 

 

*not their real names

AMM-1

"I found myself pulling it out for all sorts of material -- not just vocals but strings, drums, sampled Wurly, you name it. Mic Modeler never ceased to amaze me."

> John Krogh, Keyboard Magazine

"[My engineer Alan Meyerson] had experimented with the plug-in on the new Ridley Scott film "Gladiator" for composer Hans Zimmer, running the entire orchestra through Mic Modeler. For me, he was using the Mic Modeler for enhancing string samples. All I can say is that the difference was profound and wonderful. Mic Modeler is becoming one of my favorite plug-ins to make everything sound more vibrant and interesting."

> Jeff Rona, Film Composer, Media Ventures

..."the Microphone Modeler does what Antares claims: it provides a cabinet of extraordinarily solid sounding virtual mics."

> Eric Hawkins, Electronic Musician Magazine

"Mic Modeler can be a great way to bring in a new color to work with... The cool thing about this plug-in is that the tonality changes with the strength of the signal, so it's like a dynamic EQ of sorts, which is definitely a bonus for hard disk recording, where things can tend to sound flat and one-dimensional."

> Bill Gould, Producer/Engineer

"I turned an acoustic guitar recorded with a Fishman pick-up into a AKG C12 miked thing of beauty. Wow! ...Are you sure there's no little guys with mics inside there? Pretty amazing. Pretty amazing."

> Ted Perlman, Producer/Arranger for
MTV, Chicago, Kaci, The Manhattans

..."the AMM-1 [is] more than just a box that emulates microphones It's more of a box with endless possibilities of tonal and timbre combinations... a new way to create new sounds...!"

> David Reitzas, 2-time Grammy winning engineer
whose clients include Madonna, Barbra, Whitney,
Celine, Mariah and numerous Platinum recording artists

"It proved to be an amazing and powerful tool to quickly enhance any mono source I could throw at it."

> John Krogh, Keyboard Magazine

..."an amazing sculpting and sweetening tool."

> John Krogh, Keyboard Magazin

"Mic Modeler not only does what the name implies, it's just a great all-around processor. It's an extremely fast way to subtly shape a sound --miked or not -- to fit better into a track. Way more fun than straight EQ."

> Rob Shrock, Producer/Arranger for Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, Mikaila, Academy Awards

"Playing with the Proximity and Tube Saturation controls and adding room ambiance with Waves TrueVerb plug-in transformed a cheesy, flat, direct recording into a stunning live sound."

> Eric Hawkins, Electronic Musician Magazine

..."this plug-in is an invaluable tool for just about any musician, engineer, or producer who records with computers."

> John Krogh, Keyboard Magazin

"Microphone Modeler is a great tool for DAW-based personal studios with limited mic resources. It sounds great and is perfect for everything from mixing to tracking. Microphone Modeler definitely gets my vote as one of the most innovative plug-ins this year."

> Eric Hawkins, Electronic Musician Magazine

Auto-Tune

"Bottom line, Auto-Tune is amazing. It saves studio time, [and] it can do wonders on both marginal and expert singers..."

> Nicholas Batzdorf, Recording Magazine

"...the best pitch-correction program is Antares's Auto-Tune... I use that program to death..."

> George Duke, Musician/Composer/Producer

"Here is one product that you absolutely have to have... I have never encountered a device that is as remarkable as the Auto-Tune plug-in... It's completely amazing!"

> Pete Leoni, Pro-Rec Magazine Online

Infinity

"Well, get ready for the best thing to happen to sample editing since waveforms first appeared on a computer screen. Infinity... loops samples so well, so easily, and so transparently that even the most jaded sample jockey will be blown away. This is not just a good product -- this is a breakthrough."

> Craig Anderton, EQ Magazine