User manual ANTARES HARMONY ENGINE EVO

[. . . ] Vocal Modeling Harmony Generator Owner's Manual ©2009 Antares Audio Technologies. Antares Audio Technologies 231 Technology Circle, Scotts Valley, California 95066 USA www. antarestech. com Printed in USA Rev 1. 0 PN P25032-0109-M01 The Obligatory Legal Mumbo-Jumbo The Antares Harmony Engine Evo 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 Evo software and its documentation. [. . . ] Not every song needs the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Harmony Control The controls in this section allow you to choose the method by which Harmony Engine Evo decides which harmony notes are assigned to each harmony voice. These controls, in combination with the Freeze controls and the Harmony and Voice Parameter Preset sections described below, is where the truly unique power of Harmony Engine Evo lies. While Harmony Engine Evo offers the usual extremes of automatic fixed and "smart" scale interval modes on one hand (very easy to use, but with little creative control) and the ability to completely specify every note of each harmony voice via MIDI on the other (ultimate control, but requiring solid expertise in note-by-note vocal arranging), it's the powerful new options in the middle that we believe will provide you with innovative (and downright entertaining) ways of creating the harmony arrangements you hear in your mind. 21 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 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 voice's Interval popup. Since no allowance is made for diatonic scale tones, using this mode in conventional diatonic harmony with any intervals aside from octaves will almost certainly result is dissonant, out-ofscale notes. As a result, this mode is best for drones, chants and other applications where absolutely parallel harmony is desired. all of the input audio's pitch gestures are followed regardless of the Naturalize setting. Increasing the Naturalize setting above 0 will actually expand the range of those gestures. NOTE: In Fixed Interval mode, Scale Interval Mode When Scale Interval mode is selected, the Key/Root and Scale popups are enabled (along with the Interval popups in the individual harmony voice channels) and all of the other controls in the Harmony Control section are disabled. 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, when the input is D, the harmony voice will sound at F (a minor 3rd). In that case, the harmony voice will track the input note-for-note, regardless of whether they are scale notes or not. IMpORTANT NOTE: An exception 22 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 = gb Ab = 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. 6th) Minor with a major 7th (Minor/Maj7th) There aren't really any hard-and-fast rules for picking one over the others. Depending on the structure of your particular song, one may offer better results. Trial-and-error is the method of the day. original Harmony Engine, when you were using Scale Interval mode in combination with the Harmony preset buttons described below, the settings of the Key/Root and Scale popups were not stored with button presets. The settings of the Key/Root and Scale popups ARE now stored with button presets. [. . . ] In MIDI Channel mode, a harmony voice is only active when MIDI data is present on its channel, so it's easy to have a duet in one section and four part harmony in the next (or even from note to note). THInGS TO Try: Select different intervals in the male singer's Scale Intervals sections. Try different Register and Spread settings during the male's Chord Name section. Set Choir Size to 4 voices and engage it on all of the Harmony Voices. [. . . ]