Antares Harmony Engine - The Ultimate Vocal Harmony Generator
The quickest
and easiest way to create stunningly realistic harmonies. Harmony
Engine is the latest offering from Antares, the company that revolutionized professional vocal production
with Auto-Tune pitch correction technology. Harmony Engine is a real-time
harmony generating plug-in that puts professional-quality vocal harmony
arrangements within reach of any songwriter, producer, musician or engineer.
With four independent harmony voices, a variety of powerful harmony
generating modes, humanization features for natural sounding performances, and a
flexible real-time preset system for harmony and vocal type, Harmony Engine
provides incredibly easy-to-use tools to quickly and easily produce virtually
any vocal arrangement you could ever need.
Whether you're an experienced vocal arranger, a songwriter looking for that
perfect backup vocal, or a composer experimenting with unique vocal effects,
Harmony Engine gives you entirely new ways to create the harmony parts you hear
in your head. In fact, experimenting with different harmonies is so easy (and,
dare we suggest, fun), you may find yourself using Harmony Engine to explore
harmonic alternatives you may have never otherwise considered. Please check
out the MP3 demos below to hear Harmony Engine in action.
Key Harmony Engine Features Include:
- Four high-quality, formant-corrected harmony
voices with independent vocal character, vibrato, and pan settings
- 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
Antares Harmony Engine - MP3 Demos
Pop Ballad
Starting with a vocal track by singer/songwriter Paloma Ramos and piano
accompaniment by co-writer Jason Poyner, producer Brian English generated MIDI
data from Jason's original keyboard performance and edited it for use as harmony
control input to a single instance of Harmony Engine.
Brian also automated Harmony Engine's Formant Only Freeze function at various
points in the arrangement to turn the harmony voices into wordless backup
parts.
Original
Piano and Vocal
Processed
through Harmony Engine
A Choir From One Voice
In this demo, we took a (none-too-spectacular) solo performance by a single
tenor voice and used MIDI Channel mode to create four-part harmonies. We then
used Harmony Engine's Five-Channel output mode to let us put an instance of AVOX
CHOIR on each voice to create a full chorus.
Every note you hear was generated in real time from the original vocal track
by a single instance of Harmony Engine with no overdubbing.
Original
vocal track
Processed
with Harmony Engine and CHOIR
A Full Production
Producer/DJ/remixer Morgan Page uses Harmony Engine to create backup
harmonies for his song, On My Chest.
On
My Chest
Country/Folk
In this demo, Gerry Bassermann uses Harmony Engine for the song Lift Us Away.
Two vocal parts, each with Harmony Engine.
Lift
Us Away
Techno
Erik D and Stacey Dawn use Harmony Engine on the vocals of this tasty bit of
techno.
Let
You Know
Macintosh (Universal Binaries)
*
RTAS
* VST
*
Audio Units
PC Formats
* RTAS
* VST
MAC REQUIREMENTS
To
use the Macintosh Audio Units Version you need:
* A host program that
supports the Audio Units plug-in format
* Mac
OS 10.4.x or later as required by your host
* iLok Key Required (iLok.com)
To use the Macintosh
RTAS Version you need:
* Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools LE
6.2 or later
* Pro Tools HD 7.2 or Pro Tools
LE 7.3 or later required for Graphical Mode sync
*
Mac OS 10.3.9 or later as required by your version of Pro Tools
* iLok Key
Required (iLok.com)
To use the VST Version you need:
* A host program that supports
the VST plug-in format
* Mac OS 10.4.x or
later as required by your host
* iLok Key Required (iLok.com)
PC REQUIREMENTS
To use the RTAS Version you need:
* Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools LE
6.2 or later
* Pro Tools HD 7.2 or Pro Tools
LE 7.3 or later required for Graphical Mode sync
*
Windows XP or later as required by your version of Pro Tools
* iLok Key Required
(iLok.com)
To use the VST Version you need:
* A host program that supports
the VST format
* Windows XP as required by
your host
* iLok Key Required (iLok.com) |
