Antares Harmony Engine Evo user manual

Owner’s Manual
Vocal Modeling 
Harmony Generator 

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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. 
Use of Harmony Engine Evo is limited 
by the following license...

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 Evo from all machine-readable 
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In the event of breach of any of the terms of 
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 Contents
Chapter 1  Getting Started 
How to use this manual  3
Installing and Authorizing 4
Technical Support 4
Chapter 2 Introducing Harmony Engine Evo  
What the heck is this thing?  5
Chapter 3 Harmony Engine Evo Controls 
Controls   7
Setup  8
Original Input 10
Harmony Voices  12
Vibrato Controls 15
Humanization  16
Glid e  17
Freeze  17
CHOIR  18
Harmony Control  20
Harmony Presets 29
Voice Parameter Presets  31
Chapter 4 The Factory Presets 
The Presets  33
Chapter 5 Tutorials
Stay By Me  40
Lift...

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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 Evo, the 
second generation of 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 Evo. ( You can skip ahead to the Authorization and 
Installation instructions on page 3. We’ll wait.)
As a Harmony Engine...

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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 Evo interface to be largely 
self-explanatory, Harmony Engine Evo 
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 Evo, we strongly 
encourage you to read this manual.
o f course, you’re welcome to just launch your host and play around with...