Antares Harmony Engine Evo user manual

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This control is inactive in all Chord Name and MIDI modes.
NOTE : Harmony Engine Evo 
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...

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Vibrato Controls
The following four controls are used to add an 
independently programmable vibrato to each 
Harmony Voice. In using these controls, it’s 
useful to consider the following principles:
• If the Input Audio does not contain its own natural vibrato, you can feel free to do pretty 
much whatever you want with the Vibrato 
controls. 
• If the Input Audio does contain its own natural vibrato and the Humanize control 
has been set to allow it to be present in the 
Harmony Voices (or you are...

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Humanization
The functions in the Humanize section are 
designed to allow you to add a selectable bit 
of random variation to each harmony voice 
as well as deciding how much (if any) of the 
original input’s vibrato and pitch gestures 
will be present in the harmony voices.
Each of these controls affect all active 
harmony voices. However, they affect 
each harmony voice individually (i.e., if 
you set a certain range of pitch variation, 
the actual amount of variation will be a bit 
different for...

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The range of the control is from 0 (no pitch variation) to a maximum of 100 .
The default Pitch Variation value is 30. option (Mac)/Control (PC)-clicking the knob returns it 
to that value. 
Timing 
Variation
 The Timing 
Variation control 
lets you select 
the amount of 
random variation 
in timing applied  
to each 
harmony voice. The higher the value, the 
larger the maximum amount of allowable 
timing variation. As mentioned above, 
the actual amount of timing variation will 
be different (and...

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behind the lead singer (in this case, the original input). There are, however, a lot of other really 
intriguing possibilities (highly dependent on 
your particular vocal). We encourage you to play 
around and discover some for yourself.
NOTE : The Formant Only mode is 
not available in Fixed Interval or 
Smart Interval modes. The button is 
disabled in those modes.
Formant + Pitch
Click the Formant + 
Pitch button to engage 
the Formant + Pitch 
Freeze function. 
The button will turn blue to indicate...

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Choir SizeThis control 
allows you 
to select the 
number of 
individual 
voices that will be generated from the input 
or harmony voice. The choices are 2, 4, and 8 
voices.
Vibrato
The Vibrato control allows you to select 
the range of variation in vibrato depth 
applied to the generated voices. Each 
voice is individually assigned a vibrato 
variation relative to the original voice. 
The higher the value of this control, the 
greater the possible vibrato variation.
Command (Mac)/Control (PC) click...

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Some CHOIR Tips• Experiment with different combinations of the Pitch and Timing controls. They 
can create dramatically different vocal 
ensembles. With Timing at its minimum 
and substantial Pitch Variation, you have 
a choir that’s rhythmically tight but a bit 
loose with intonation. Conversely, reversing 
those settings gives you a group that’s 
solidly in tune, but rhythmically loose. 
And there are of course many variations 
in between. Match the performance 
style to the style of your music.
•...

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The desired harmony mode is selected with the Harmony Source popup menu. Depending 
on which mode you select, various of the other 
controls in this section will be either activated 
or disabled as necessary. Rather than discuss 
each control separately, we’ll look at all of the 
controls that function in each mode.
Here’s how they all work:Fixed Interval Mode
When Fixed Interval 
mode is selected, the 
Interval popups in the 
individual harmony 
voice channels are 
enabled and all of the other...

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To use Scale Interval mode, select your song’s key with the Key/Root popup. Note that 
sharp/flat keys are specified as flats with the 
exception of F. If your song is in an unlisted key, 
you should choose the enharmonic equivalent:Db = C#
Eb = D#
F = g bAb = g #Bb = A#
The Scale popup offers three variations of the 
major and four variations of the minor scales as 
follows:  Major
Major with no 7th (Maj/no 7th)
Major with a flat 7th (Maj/flat 7th)
Natural Minor (Minor)
Harmonic Minor (Harm. minor)...

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Register and SpreadThe Register and Spread controls are used 
together with their associated graphic 
display to define the general range and 
“closeness” of the harmony notes in Chord 
Degrees, Chord Name, and Chord via MIDI 
modes. They provide an amazingly easy 
and intuitive method of arranging your 
harmonies in almost any desired style.
Since they function identically in all three 
modes, we’ll describe their use here and 
then just reference them in the individual 
mode descriptions that...