User Manual

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Key Harmony Engine Evo features include:
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Four high-quality, formant-corrected harmony
voices featuring Evo™ Voice Processing
Technology providing independent vocal
character, vibrato, and pan settings
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Antares Throat Modeling technology that lets
you process each harmony voice through a
physical model of the human vocal tract
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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
Scale Degree 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
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Spread and Register controls that allow you
to quickly and intuitively set the pitch range
and harmony style of your vocal arrangement
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Humanize functions that provide selectable
amounts of variation to each harmony voice
for realistic, natural sounding results
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A Freeze function that allows a unique
variety of backup vocal effects by letting
you instantly freeze pitch and/or formant
articulation
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A Harmony Preset matrix that lets you create
up to 15 complete harmony settings and
instantaneously recall them, in real time or
via automation
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A Voice Parameter Preset matrix that lets you
create and instantly recall up to 6 different
“vocal groups”
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Five integrated channels of our unique
CHOIR Vocal Multiplier, to let you turn the
input voice and/or each harmony voice into
2, 4, or 8 distinct individual unison voices,
each with its own pitch, timing and vibrato
variations. Perfect for creating entire choirs
out of a single vocal line.
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Five-channel output capability (host
dependent) that lets you assign the original
input and each of the four harmony voices to
their own channels for further processing
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 Evo
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 Evo to explore
harmonic alternatives you may have never
otherwise considered.
Harmony Engine Evo is, quite simply, the
quickest, easiest tool for flexible, realistic
harmony creation.