AVOX 4

ARTICULATOR: Making Me Cry

ASPIRE Example

CHOIR: Backup Singer - Dry

One female vocalist with multi-tracked harmony.

CHOIR: Backup Choir

The same tracks with CHOIR applied to each track.

CHOIR: Male Trio - Dry

One male vocalist with multi-tracked harmony.

CHOIR: Male Choir

The same tracks with CHOIR applied to each track.

CHOIR: Backup Singer - Dry

One female vocalist with multi-tracked harmony.

CHOIR: Backup Choir

The same tracks with CHOIR applied to each track.

DUO: Female Vocal - Dry

DUO: Female Vocal - Processed with DUO

HARMONY ENGINE: Time

Allen Papouban uses Harmony Engine with vocalist Holly Prothman to create the harmonies in his song, Time. The CHOIR function is used to thicken up the backing vocals in the first half of the song, while the second half features five-part harmony.

HARMONY ENGINE: Sing in Harmony

Composer Jeff Essex recorded Jerry Kennedy singing the lead vocal, then used Harmony Engine's MIDI Channel mode to produce all of the harmony parts, including the integrated CHOIR on some of the phrases.

HARMONY ENGINE: A Full Production

Producer/DJ/remixer Morgan Page uses Harmony Engine to create backup harmonies for his song, On My Chest.

HARMONY ENGINE: A Pop Ballad - Original Tracks

The original vocal track by singer/songwriter Paloma Ramos and piano accompaniment by co-writer Jason Poyner.

HARMONY ENGINE: A Pop Ballad with Harmony Engine

MIDI data from Jason's original keyboard performance is used as harmony control input to a single instance of Harmony Engine. At various points in the arrangement , the Formant Only Freeze function turn the harmony voices into wordless backup parts.

HARMONY ENGINE: Country Folk

In this demo, Gerry Bassermann uses Harmony Engine for the song Lift Us Away. Two vocal parts, each with Harmony Engine.

HARMONY ENGINE: Lift Us Away

Erik D and Stacey Dawn use Harmony Engine on the vocals of this tasty bit of techno.

MUTATOR: The Unprocessed Vocal

Erik D and Stacey Dawn use Harmony Engine on the vocals of this tasty bit of techno.

MUTATOR: Shifted Down

Pitch Shift and Throat Modeling

MUTATOR: Shifted Up

Pitch Shift and Throat Modeling

MUTATOR: Demonize

In this demo, we combine Pitch Shift, Throat Modeling, and one of the 24 varieties of Mutation to turn our vocalist into a demon.

MUTATOR: Basic Alienization

Applying Alienization with a medium Dialect setting to the otherwise unaffected vocal.

MUTATOR: Short Period Alienization

Another variety of Mutation and Dialect set to a shorter period, allowing more recognizable bits of the original phrase to come though.

MUTATOR: Long Period Alienization

Yet another variety of Mutation with Dialect set to a much longer period, moving fully into the land of the weird.

MUTATOR: Tempo-Synced Alienization

In this demo by Allen Papouban, MUTATOR's Tempo-Synced Alienization function is used to sync the alienized vocal to the tempo of the song.

MUTATOR: Automated Variation

All of MUTATOR's various tools can be automated. Here we torture our vocal for the last time, varying pitch shift, throat models, mutation, processed/original mix and alienization.

MUTATOR: My Life - Original

Singer/songwriter Hope Mayo's song in its original form so that you can clearly hear what MUTATOR has done with it (plus, it's just a really nice song that deserves to be heard the way Hope intended).

MUTATOR: My Life - Processed

Processed in real time with one instance of MUTATOR, using automation to vary the pitch shift, throat length and width, original and processed mix (to produce harmony), and even a little alienization.

PUNCH: Original Track

Note how the level of each vocal phrase tails off at end.

PUNCH: Processed with PUNCH

Note the consistent level and increased dynamic impact.

THROAT Example

In this piece, which features one male and one female vocalist, THROAT has been used to create all of the various lead and backup vocal sounds. DUO, CHOIR and PUNCH also make appearances.