Antares Harmony Engine user manual

Owner’s Manual
Harmony 
Engine
Vocal Modeling 
Harmony Generator 

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Antares Audio Technologies  
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www.antarestech.co m   
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The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-Jumbo 
The Antares Harmony Engine 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 
Engine software and its documentation. 
Use of Harmony Engine is limited by 
the following license agreement....

Term of the Agreement
This agreement is effective until terminated 
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 Engine 
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.
Product Installation...

Contents
 Chapter 1  Getting Started  
How to Use This Manua l 3
Installing and Authorizin g  3
Technical Suppor t 4
 Chapter 2  Introducing Harmony Engin e 
What the Heck is This Thing ? 5
 Chapter 3  Harmony Engine Control s 
Setup 8
Original Inpu t  10
Harmony Voices   12
Humanizatio n  16
Glid e  17
Freez e  18
Harmony Modes   19
Harmony Preset s  27
Voice Parameter Preset s  28
 
Chapter 4: Factory Preset s  
The Preset s  31
Chapter 5: Tutorial Session s 
Stay By Me   38
Lif t Us Awa y  39
Let You...

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

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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 Engine interface to be largely self-explanatory, 
Harmony Engine introduces some entirely new concepts to the process of 
quickly and easily creating realistic harmonies, so, to really get the most out 
of Harmony Engine, we strongly encourage you to read this manual. 
Of course, you’re welcome to just launch your host and play around with Harmony Engine for a...

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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 Engine until it’s authorized. 
Technical Support  
In the unlikely event that you experience 
a problem using Harmony Engine, try the 
following: 
 1.  Make sure you have the latest...