Antares Harmony Engine

Harmony Engine description:

The Antares Harmony Engine is a Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator which offers the quickest, easiest tool for creating realistic harmonies.

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, Antares Harmony Engine provides incredibly easy-to-use tools to quickly and easily produce virtually any vocal arrangement you can imagine.

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.

The main features of the Antares Harmony Engine 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
• 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

The system requirements are:

Macintosh Versions

• Minimum: 1.5GHz G4 processor
• Recommended: 1.8GHz (or faster) G5 or Intel processor
• 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

PC Versions

• Minimum: 1.7 GHz single core processor
• Recommended: Any dual core processor
• 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

Additional requirements for Mac and PC:

• Harmony Engine'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's MIDI functions will not operate (and trust us, you will be seriously bummed).
• Harmony Engine authorization requires an iLok USB smart key (sold separately) and the ability to access ilok.com (from any computer).