Antares Harmony Engine

Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator
The Quickest, Easiest Tool For Creating Realistic Vocal Harmonies

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.

Harmony Engine incorporates Antares’ groundbreaking Evo™ Voice Processing Technology for faster, more accurate pitch detection, smoother, artifact-free pitch shifting, and seamless, natural-sounding (if you want it to be) throat modeling. And with 5 channels of Antares’ unique CHOIR Vocal Multiplier, you can create huge vocal ensembles out of a single vocal line.

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 can imagine. In fact, experimenting with different harmonies is so easy (and, dare we suggest, fun), you may find yourself using Harmony Engine Evo to explore harmonic alternatives you may have never otherwise considered.

Key Harmony Engine features include:

• Antares’ groundbreaking  Voice Processing Technology for faster, more accurate pitch detection and smoother, artifact-free pitch shifting.
• Four high-quality, formant-corrected harmony voices with independent vocal character, vibrato, and pan settings
• Five channels of our unique CHOIR Vocal Multiplier, to let you turn each voice into 2, 4, or 8 individual unison voices, perfect for creating jaw-droppingly amazing choirs out of a single vocal line
• 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 Evo 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”

Harmony Engine. The quickest, easiest tool for harmony creation. From the worldwide leader in professional vocal processing technology.

System Requirements:

Harmony Engine  requires an iLok (not included).

Mac

AAX Native (64 and 32-bit)

• Pro Tools 10.3.8 or later

• Mac OS 10.6.8 to 10.12 as required by your version of Pro Tools

RTAS

• Pro Tools 7.x to 10.x

• Mac OS 10.5.8 to 10.9.5 as required by your version of Pro Tools.

VST3

• A compatible VST host program that supports the VST3 format.

• Mac OS 10.6.8 to 10.12 as required by your host.

Audio Units

• A compatible host program that supports the Audio Units format.

• Mac OS 10.6.8 to 10.12 as required by your host.

Windows

AAX Native (64 and 32-bit)

• Pro Tools 10.3.8 or later

• Windows 7 to 10 as required by your version of Pro Tools

RTAS

• Pro Tools 7.x – 10.x

• Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, or 8.1 as required by your version of Pro Tools

VST2, VST3

• A compatible host program that supports the VST2 or VST3 format.

• Windows 7 to 10 as required by your host.

MIDI

Harmony Engine Evo’s MIDI functions require that your host allow routing of MIDI to plug-ins. If your host application does not support the routing of MIDI to plug-ins, Harmony Engine Evo’s MIDI functions will not operate.