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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Printed in USA Rev 1.0 PN P31031- 0809 -M01 
						

							The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-Jumbo 
The Antares Harmony EFX software 
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 carefully read all the terms and 
conditions of this license agreement. At 
the time of installation of the Harmony 
EFX software you will be presented 
with a copy of the agreement and asked 
whether or not you agree to it. Continuing 
with the installation process beyond that 
point constitutes such agreement. Harmony EFX License Agreement 
Antares Audio Technologies grants you a 
non-transferable, non-exclusive license to 
use Harmony EFX under the terms and 
conditions stated in this agreement. Use 
of Harmony EFX indicates your agreement 
to the following terms and conditions. 
License 
You may: 
 
1.  Use Harmony EFX on only 
one computer at a time.
You may not: 
  1.  Make copies of Harmony EFX or of the 
user manual in whole or in part except as 
expressly provided for in this agreement. 
Your right to copy Harmony EFX and 
the user manual is limited by copyright 
law. Making copies, verbal or media 
translations, adaptations, derivative 
works, or telecommunication data 
transmission of Harmony EFX without 
prior written authorization of Antares, 
is prohibited by law and constitutes 
a punishable violation of the law. 
  2.  Make alteration or modifications 
to Harmony EFX (or any copy) or 
disassemble or de-compile Harmony 
EFX (or any copy), or attempt to discover 
the source code of Harmony EFX. 
  3.  Sub-license, lease, lend, rent, or grant 
other rights in all or any portion of 
Harmony EFX (or any copy) to others. 
						

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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 
media, whether on-line or on archival copies. 
In the event of breach of any of the terms of 
this agreement, you shall pay the attorney’s 
fees of Antares that are reasonably necessary 
to enforce the agreement plus resulting 
damages. 
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FITNESS F oR A PARTICUL AR PURP oSE. 
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that the functions contained in the program will 
meet your requirements. The entire risk as to 
the use, quality, and performance of Harmony 
EFX is with you. 
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Whew! Now that that’s over, let’s get on to the 
good stuff.  
						

							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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 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 entitled to receive notification of any software upgrades, 
technical support, and advance announcements of upcoming products. But we can’t send you stuff 
unless we know who and where you are. So please, register.
With your purchase of Harmony EFX, you have created a relationship with Antares which we hope 
will be long and gratifying. Let us know what you think. You can count on us to listen.
Again, thanks.
The Whole Antares Crew 
						

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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 get a good idea of Harmony EFX’s 
capabilities (and how to accomplish various 
basic tasks) you should at least:
•  Check out the Factory Presets Guide PDF 
that you will find on the installation DVD 
or included with your download. We’ve 
included a variety of presets that configure 
Harmony EFX to let you quickly and easily 
interact with its various modes and functions 
and the guide will help you discover what 
they’re about. 
• Check out the Tutorial Sessions Guide that 
you will also find on the installation DVD or 
included with your download. The Tutorial 
Sessions let you see (and hear) exactly how 
Harmony EFX was used to create some of 
the audio demos on our web site and on the 
installation DVD. The demos’ composers 
have been kind enough to allow us to include 
the actual sessions for you to load into your 
host and experiment with.  open them up. 
Check out the Harmony EFX settings. Tweak 
some controls and see what happens.
Finally, when you’re ready to learn everything 
Harmony EFX can do, check out Chapter 3 for 
detailed descriptions of every function.
The contents of this manual 
Chapter 1: Getting Started 
The chapter you are reading. 
Provides information on installing 
and authorizing Harmony EFX.
Chapter 2: Introducing Harmony EFX 
Provides a brief introduction to what 
Harmony EFX is all about and gives an 
overview of Harmony EFX’s key features.
Chapter 3: Harmony EFX Controls 
This chapter is reference information for every 
control used in the Harmony EFX interface. 
Appendix: Factory Presets 
& Tutorial Sessions
A brief discussion of the accompanying Factory 
Presets Guide and the Tutorial Sessions Guide.
Installing Harmony EFX 
Harmony EFX is designed to function as a plug-
in in a wide variety of digital audio applications. 
Please refer to your specific host application’s 
user manual for more information on installing 
and using plug-ins. (Although in most cases, 
simply double- clicking the Harmony EFX 
installer and following the resulting directions 
will be all you need to do.) 
						

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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. 
(During this period, click the “Continue” button 
whenever you are presented with the Trial 
Period screen at launch.) But don’t procrastinate 
too long. After those ten days are up you will no 
longer be able to launch Harmony EFX until it’s 
authorized. 
Technical Support  
In the unlikely event that you experience a 
problem using Harmony EFX, try the following: 
  1.  Make sure you have the latest version of 
the plug-in. You can download and install 
the latest version of Harmony EFX from the 
following web page:
    http://www.antarestech.com/download/
update.shtml
  2.  If you are having problems authorizing 
your software, be sure that you have the 
latest version of the PACE Interlok drivers. 
You can download and install the latest 
version for your operating system from the 
following web page:
    http://portal.knowledgebase.net/article.
asp?article=174703&p=5764
If your problem is not resolved after taking the 
above actions, try the following:
  1.  Make another quick scan through this 
manual. Who knows? You may have 
stumbled onto some feature that you didn’t 
notice the first time through.
  2.  Consult our searchable knowledgebase at:
    http://www.antarestech.com/support/
index.html
  3.  Check our web page for tips, techniques, or 
any late-breaking information:
    http://www.antarestech.com
  4.  Join the Antares o nline Community. The 
Antares  online Community is a place 
where Antares product users can gather 
to exchange information, compare notes, 
and get to know other Antares users from 
around the world. Check it out at:
    http://www.antarestech.net