Antares Harmony Engine user manual

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•	 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 using 
Fixed Interval mode), using the Vibrato 
controls may cause interference between 
the natural and programmed vibratos, with 
unnatural-sounding results. This is not to 
say that this can’t be an interesting effect, 
only that it is unlikely to sound realistic.
•	 If 	the 	Input 	Audio 	contains 	its 	own 	natural	
vibrato and the...

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Humanization
The functions in the Humanize section are 
designed to allow you to add a selectable 
amount 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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Freeze
The Freeze functions allow you to freeze either 
the formants or both the pitches and formants 
of the harmony voices while the original input 
continues. Which mode you select depends 
on the specific effect you desire.Formant Only
Click the Formant 
Only button to engage 
the Formant Only 
Freeze function. 
The button will turn blue to indicate the 
function is active and the harmony voices’ 
formants and articulation will be frozen 
at the instant the button is clicked. 
In Formant Only...

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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 controls in the 
Harmony Control section are disabled.
In this mode, each enabled harmony voice 
tracks the original input at the interval defined 
by the number of semi-tones up or down 
selected in the track’s Interval popup. 
Since no allowance is made for diatonic scale 
tones, using this mode in conventional diatonic 
harmony with any...

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In Scale Interval mode, each harmony 
voice tracks the original input at the interval 
defined by the scale degree selected 
in its Interval popup in combination 
with the Key and Scale settings. 
In contrast to the Fixed Interval mode, this 
mode always chooses harmony notes that fall 
in the selected key and scale. For example, If 
you have selected C Major as the key and set a 
harmony voice’s Interval popup to +3rd, when 
the input is C, the harmony voice will sound at 
E (a major 3rd). However,...

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Register & Spread
The 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...

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active channel and the progressively higher 
pitched notes will be assigned in order to 
the progressively lowered numbered active 
channels. For example, for a four note chord, 
the lowest note will be assigned to harmony 
channel 4, the next higher to channel 3, the 
next higher to channel 2 and the highest to 
channel 1.
This ensures that you can use each channel’s 
Throat Length control to define a timbre, 
confident of that channel’s general range. 
In the example above, for instance, since...

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and then, if you need to change the key of your 
song, you can simply change the Key/Root and 
Scale popups and all of your button presets will 
automatically be transposed to the new key.
NOTE : As mentioned in the 
Register and Spread section, the 
harmony notes will be assigned 
to the various harmony channels such that 
the lowest pitched note will be assigned to 
the highest numbered active channel and 
the progressively higher pitched notes will 
be assigned in order to the progressively...

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In Chord Name mode, the Key/Root popup 
is used to define the root note of the chord. 
(And yes, this is where the discussion of 
enharmonic equivalents that we’ve already 
included twice above would go. If you don’t 
already know it by heart, check it out in the 
Chord Degrees section.)
The Chord popup is used to define the 
type of chord, and the Inversion popup, not 
unexpectedly, defines the inversion. 
The Register and Spread controls function 
exactly as described above.
As in the Chord Degree...