Antares Harmony EFX user manual

Owner’s Manual
Vocal Modeling 
Harmony Generator 

©2009 Antares Audio Technologies.  
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Antares Audio Technologies   
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www.antarestech.co m   
Printed in USA Rev 1.0 PN P31031- 0809 -M01 

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and this User’s Manual are protected by 
copyright law. Making copies, adaptations, 
or derivative works without the prior 
written authorization of Antares Audio 
Technologies, is prohibited by law and 
constitutes a punishable violation of the law. 
Antares Audio Technologies retains all 
ownership rights to the Harmony EFX software 
and its documentation. Use of Harmony EFX 
is limited by the following license agreement. 
Please...

Term of the Agreement 
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by you or Antares. You may terminate the 
agreement at any time by notifying Antares and 
destroying all copies of the manual, and erasing 
Harmony EFX from all machine-readable 
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In the event of breach of any of the terms of 
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Contents
Chapter 1  Getting Started 
How to use this manual  3
Installing and Authorizing  4
Technical Support  4
Chapter 2 Introducing Harmony EFX  
What the heck is this thing?  5
Chapter 3 Harmony EFX Controls 
Original Input  9
Harmony Voices  10
Humanization   12
Glid e   14
Harmony Modes  14
Harmony Presets  22
Appendix Factory Presets and Tutorial Sessions 24
Index   25
 
  

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1
 Welcome!
o n behalf of everyone at Antares Audio Technologies, we’d like to offer both 
our thanks and congratulations on your decision to purchase Harmony EFX, the 
most affordable, quickest, easiest-to -use tool for creating realistic vocal harmony. 
Before you proceed any farther, we’d like to strongly encourage you to register 
and authorize your copy of Harmony EFX. ( You can skip ahead to the Authorization and Installation 
instructions on page 3. We’ll wait.)
As a Harmony EFX owner, you are...

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Chapter 1: Getting Started
How to use this manual
We know you’re probably 
anxious to get some harmony 
going. While we’ve designed the Harmony 
EFX interface to be largely self-explanatory, 
Harmony EFX introduces some new concepts 
to the process of quickly and easily creating 
realistic harmonies, so, to really get the most 
out of Harmony EFX, we strongly encourage 
you to read this manual.
o f course, you’re welcome to just launch your 
host and play around with Harmony EFX for a 
while, but to...

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Authorizing Harmony EF X 
Authorization is the process by which Harmony 
EFX is allowed to run on your computer. 
Detailed instructions covering the available 
authorization options will be found in the file 
“Authorization Read Me” which is included 
on the installation DVD RoM or with your 
software download. 
N OTE: When initially installed, 
this software will run for ten 
days without authorization. 
So even if you can‘t authorize it right away you 
can still use your software in the meantime....