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The Antares Aspire is the world's first tool for modifying a voice's
breathiness independently of its harmonic content. Whether reducing a bit of
vocal rasp or adding a bit of smokiness, Aspire allows modification of the
amount and quality of a voice’s aspiration noise without otherwise affecting the
vocal’s harmonic characteristics.
When you speak or sing, air from your lungs is forced through your vocal
chords, causing them to vibrate. The resulting waveform is propagated through
the throat, the mouth and out through the lips. It is the shape of these
structures that create the resonant characteristics that define a unique vocal
identity.
But going into a bit more detail, the vocal waveform is actually a
combination of two different components. One, the one we usually think of as the
primary element of vocal timbre, is the harmonic content generated by the
process described above. However, there is a second component that is generated
by the turbulence of the air rushing past the vocal chords. This component,
aspiration noise, does not have harmonic content and can roughly be thought of
as “breathiness.”
Aspiration noise presents itself in a variety of ways, from a subtle bit of
breathiness to a full-blown rasp. Of course, whether it’s a problem or not
depends on the amount of noise and the style of a performance. A whole lot of
roughness that would work well for screaming punk or roots blues might well be a
problem for mainstream pop or a smooth ballad (of course, it also might not). Up
to now, there wasn’t much you could do about it. Now, with Aspire, there is.
Plug-in Format Compatibility
Macintosh (Universal Binaries)
PC
System Requirements for
Mac:
- Minimum: 1.5GHz G4 processor
- Recommended: 1.8GHz (or faster) G5 or Intel processor
- Pace ilok USB Key required for authorization (sold
separately)
- RTAS
- Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools LE 7.x or later
- Mac OS 10.4 or later as required by your version of Pro Tools
- VST
- A host program that supports the VST format.
- Mac OS 10.4 or later as required by your host
- Audio Units
- A host program that supports the Audio Units format
- Mac OS 10.4 or later as required by your host
System Requirements for PC:
- Minimum: 1.7 GHz single core processor
- Recommended: Any dual core processor
- Pace ilok USB Key required for authorization (sold
separately)
- RTAS
- Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools LE 7.x or later
- Windows XP or Vista as required by your version of
Pro Tools
- VST
- A host program that supports the VST format
- Windows XP or Vista as required by your
host