User Manual

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Chapter 2:
Introducing Harmony Engine Evo
What the heck is this
thing?
Harmony Engine Evo is
the second generation of our Harmony
Engine real-time harmony generating plug-
in. Like its predecessor, Harmony Engine
Evo puts professional-quality vocal harmony
arrangements within reach of any songwriter,
producer, musician or engineer.
What’s new?
While clearly the most visible addition to
Harmony Engine Evo is the integration
of five channels of our unique CHOIR
Vocal Multiplier (and that is seriously
cool), the real story is tucked away
invisibly under the hood (so to speak).
During the development of Auto-Tune Evo,
the latest version of the worldwide standard
in professional pitch correction, Dr. Andy
went back to the proverbial drawing board to
create a seriously evolved voice processing
technology that takes advantage of the
hugely more powerful computers that are
now the norm for digital audio recording.
The result was Evo™ Voice Processing
Technology, setting a new standard for pitch
detection, pitch shifting, and throat modeling
that is substantially more accurate and reliable
over a much wider range of audio input quality.
Now we’ve turned our attention to
incorporating Evo Technology into Harmony
Engine. The result is an entirely new level of
sonic performance. With faster, more accurate
pitch detection, smoother, artifact-free pitch
shifting, and seamless, natural-sounding (if
you want it to be) throat modeling, Harmony
Engine Evo just works better. Leaving you
free to focus on creating your music.
What’s it do?
Traditionally, harmony tools offer two basic
operating modes:
On one hand are fully automatic modes based
on either parallel or “smart” scale-based
intervals. These are relatively easy to set up, but
offer very little in the way of creative control.
On the other hand (assuming organisms
with two hands) are MIDI modes that
provide control of each individual note of
each individual harmony voice. While these
techniques offer absolute control, they also
demand that you be skilled in the intricacies
of vocal arranging (as well as having the
time and patience to enter every note into
a MIDI track, hardly a trivial undertaking).
With Harmony Engine Evo, we set ourselves
the task of creating a tool that would let
anyone who could hear the harmonies they
wanted in their mind quickly and easily create
those harmonies in a song or other project.
While Harmony Engine Evo offers all of the
traditional harmony generation methods, it
adds a variety of new operating paradigms that
allow you to approach the harmony generation
process from a purely musical point of view.
What’s it got?
With four independent harmony voices
utilizing our advanced Evo™ Voice Processing
Technology, a variety of powerful harmony
generating modes, humanization features
for natural sounding performances, a flexible
real-time preset system for harmony and vocal
type, and five integrated channels of Antares’
unique CHOIR Vocal Multiplier, Harmony
Engine Evo provides incredibly easy-to-use
tools to quickly and easily produce virtually any
vocal arrangement you can imagine.