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Plug-In To 4-Part Harmonies
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Antares release the Harmony Engine Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator for Mac and PC 26/06/07
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Antares have announced the imminent release of Harmony Engine a Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator for native plug-in formats including RTAS (Mac and PC), VST (Mac and PC) and Audio Units (Mac).
Antares tell us that that Harmony Engine is a real-time harmony generating plug-in that puts professional-quality vocal harmony arrangements within reach of any songwriter, producer, musician or engineer. They say that, 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, Harmony Engine provides incredibly easy-to-use tools to quickly and easily produce virtually any vocal arrangement you can imagine. Key Harmony Engine Features 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:
Fixed or Scale Intervals: Simply set the key and harmony voice intervals and let Harmony Engine 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"
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
And lots more...
Pricing and Availability:
Harmony Engine will be available in July
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