User Manual

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When a Mute button is blue, that channel’s
Mute Mode in engaged. Click a Mute button to
toggle its state.
NOTE: If both a channel’s Solo and
Mute buttons are pressed, Solo takes
precedence. However, if Solo is then
disengaged, the channel will then be muted
Throat Length
This control uses Antares’ unique Throat
Modeling technology to define the vocal quality
of a Harmony Voice by actually varying the
geometry of the channel’s model vocal tract.
It is used in combination with the various forms
of pitch shifting to define gender and/or vocal
quality.
The Throat Length control allows you to
lengthen or shorten its Harmony Voice channel’s
modeled throat. The range of this control is
.75 to 1.50. Values above 1.00 represent a
lengthening of the throat while values below
1.00 represent a shortening of the throat.
The values represent the percentage change
in the throat length. For example, a value
of 1.20 represents a 20% increase in throat
length, while a value of 0.80 represents a 20%
decrease in throat length.
In addition to simply changing vocal timbre,
increasing throat length is useful when the
original input is female and you want the
Harmony Voices that are being shifted down
to sound male. Conversely, decreasing throat
length is useful when the original input is male
and you want the Harmony Voices that are
being shifted up to sound female or childlike.
NOTE: While this control gives you
the ability to radically change the
throat length, keep in mind that
the variation in the length of human vocal
tracts is rarely more than about 20% in either
direction. If you are looking for a “realistic”
vocal characteristic, start with modest settings
of this control. More extreme settings can
produce dramatic results, but probably
not what anyone would call “realistic.”
Command (Mac)/Control (PC) click the control to
reset it to its default value of 1.00.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This function
is specifically for changing the
existing quality of a voice, not
for manual formant compensation for
pitch shifting. Harmony EFX automatically
applies appropriate formant correction
when it shifts a channel’s pitch.
Interval
The Interval popup sets a Harmony Voice’s
pitch interval relative to the original vocal in
Fixed Interval and Smart Interval modes.
In both modes, the range is plus-or-minus two
octaves. In Fixed Interval mode, the popup
displays half-steps in the range -24 to +24. In
Smart Interval mode, the popup displays scale
degrees in the range 16va to 16vb.
This control is inactive in all Chord Name and
MIDI modes.
NOTE: Harmony EFX remembers
the most recent Interval settings for
each of the two interval harmony
modes. So, if you select Fixed Interval and set
a harmony voice to +3 semitones, and then
change to Smart Interval and set that same
harmony voice to -5th, if you then change back
to Fixed Interval, the Interval setting will return
to +3 semitones.
For reference, here are the equivalent scale
intervals for each semitone interval:
SEMITONES = SCALE INTERVAL
1 = minor 2nd
2 = major 2nd
3 = minor 3rd
4 = major 3rd
5 = perfect 4th
6 = aug 4th/dim 5th
7 = perfect 5th
8 = aug 5th/min 6th
9 = major 6th
10 = minor 7th
11 = major 7th
12 = octave
13 = minor 9th
14 = major 9th
15 = minor 10th
16 = major 10th