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.
Highlights
- Antares' groundbreaking Evo™ 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"
System Requirements
Mac
- AAX Native (64-bit only)
- Pro Tools 2018.1 or later.
- macOS 10.13 or later as required by your version of Pro Tools.
- VST3 (64-bit only)
- A compatible VST host program that supports the VST3 format.
- macOS 10.13 or later as required by your host.
- Audio Units (64-bit only)
- A compatible DAW that supports the AU format.
- macOS 10.13 or later as required by your host.
- Mac VST2 (64-bit only)
- Note: Only includes Auto-Tune Access and Auto-Key. (No other Mac Antares plugins available in VST2 format).
- A compatible VST host program that supports the VST2 format.
- macOS 10.13 or later as required by your host.
Windows
- AAX Native (64-bit only)
- Pro Tools 2018.1 or later
- Windows 10
- VST3 (64-bit only)
- A compatible DAW that supports the VST3 format.
- Windows 10
- Windows VST2 (64-bit only)
- Note: Only includes Auto-Tune Access, Auto-Tune EFX+, and Auto-Key. (No other Windows Antares plugins available in VST2 format).
- A compatible VST host program that supports the VST2 format.
- Windows 10
