Antares Harmony Engine user manual

							Owner’s Manual
Harmony 
Engine
Vocal Modeling 
Harmony Generator 
						

							©2007 Antares Audio Technologies.  
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Antares Audio Technologies  
231 Technology Circle, Scotts Valley, California 95066 USA  
www.antarestech.co m   
Printed in USA Rev 1.0 PN P25035 - 0607-M01 
						

							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.
Please carefully read all the terms and 
conditions of this license agreement. At 
the time of installation of the Harmony 
Engine 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 Engine License Agreement
Antares Audio Technologies grants you a 
non-transferable, non-exclusive license to 
use Harmony Engine under the terms and 
conditions stated in this agreement. Use of 
Harmony Engine indicates your agreement 
to the following terms and conditions.
License
You may:
  1.    Use Harmony Engine on only one 
computer at a time.  Authorization 
requires an USB iLok Smart Key which 
must be purchased separately.
You may not:
  1.    Make copies of Harmony Engine or  of the user manual in whole or in part 
except as expressly provided for in this 
agreement. Your right to copy Harmony 
Engine and the user manual is limited by 
copyright law. Making copies, verbal or 
media translations, adaptations, derivative 
works, or telecommunication data 
transmission of Harmony Engine 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 Engine (or any copy) or 
disassemble or de-compile Harmony 
Engine (or any copy), or attempt to discover 
the source code of Harmony Engine.
  3.    Sub -license, lease, lend, rent, or grant  other rights in all or any portion of 
Harmony Engine (or any copy) to others. 
						

							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 and Required Activation
There are technological measures in the 
Harmony Engine that are designed to prevent 
unlicensed or illegal use of the Software.  
You agree that Antares Audio Technologies 
may use these measures to protect Antares 
Audio Technologies against software piracy.
Limited Warranty And Disclaimer
Harmony Engine 
AND ACCOMPANYING 
MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” 
WITHOUT WARRANT Y OF ANY KIND, 
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, 
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND 
FITNESS FOR A PARTICUL AR PURPOSE.
Antares Audio Technologies does not 
warrant that the functions contained in 
the program will meet your requirements. 
The entire risk as to the use, quality, and 
performance of Harmony Engine is with you.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW 
LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED 
WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE 
LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. 
THIS WARRANT Y GIVES YOU SPECIFIC 
LEGAL RIGHTS. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE 
OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM 
JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION.
Limitation of LiabilityIN NO EVENT WILL ANTARES BE LIABLE 
FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF 
DATA, LOST PROFITS OR OTHER SPECIAL, 
INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INDIRECT 
DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF 
Harmony Engine OR ACCOMPANYING 
MATERIALS. THIS LIMITATION WILL APPLY 
EVEN IF ANTARES OR ITS AUTHORIZED 
AGENT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE 
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. YOU 
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE LICENSE 
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ALLOW LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION 
OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR 
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE 
LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Whew! Now that that’s over, let’s 
get on to the good stuff.  
						

							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 Kno w  40 
						

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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 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 Engine, 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 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 
while, but to get a good idea of Harmony Engine’s capabilities (and how to accomplish various 
basic tasks) you should at least check out Chapter 4, Factory Presets. We’ve included a variety 
of presets that configure Harmony Engine to let you quickly and easily interact with its various 
modes and functions. Then check out Chapter 5, Tutorial Sessions, where you can see (and hear) 
exactly how Harmony Engine was used to create some of the audio demos on our web site and 
installation CD ROM. 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 Engine settings. Tweak some controls and see what happens.
Finally, when you’re ready to learn everything 
Harmony Engine 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 Engine.
Chapter 2: Introducing Harmony Engine 
Provides a brief introduction to what Harmony 
Engine is all about and gives an overview of 
Harmony Engine’s key features.
Chapter 3: Harmony Engine Controls 
This chapter is reference information for every 
control used in the Harmony Engine interface. 
Chapter 4: Factory Presets
Descriptions of the factory presets that ship 
with Harmony Engine. Chapter 5: Tutorial Sessions
Describes the complete host sessions 
provided as hands-on examples of how 
Harmony Engine is used.Installing Harmony Engine 
Harmony Engine 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. 
Authorizing Harmony Engine 
Authorization is the process by which Harmony 
Engine 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 CD ROM or with your software 
download. 
N OTE: When initially installed, this 
software will run for ten days without 
authorization.  
						

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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 version of 
the software. You can download and install 
the latest version of the software 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://www.antarestech.com/drivers
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.  Check our web page for tips, techniques, 
or any late-breaking information:
   http://www.antarestech.com
  3.  Consult our searchable knowledgebase at:
   http://www.antarestech.com/support/
index.html
  4.  Call your local Antares dealer.