Antares Harmony Engine Evo user manual

							Owner’s Manual
Vocal Modeling 
Harmony Generator 
						

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							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. 
Use of Harmony Engine Evo 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 Evo 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 Evo 
License Agreement 
Antares Audio Technologies grants you a 
non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use 
Harmony Engine Evo under the terms and 
conditions stated in this agreement. Use of 
Harmony Engine Evo indicates your agreement 
to the following terms and conditions. 
License 
You may: 
  1.  Use Harmony Engine Evo on only one computer at a time.
You may not: 
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code of Harmony Engine Evo. 
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the use, quality, and performance of Harmony 
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Whew! Now that that’s over, let’s get on to the 
good stuff.  
						

							 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 Us Away  41
Let You Know 43
Index   45
 
  
						

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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 Evo 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 Evo, 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 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 Harmony 
Engine Evo for a while, but to get a good 
idea of Harmony Engine Evo’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 Evo 
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 
Evo was used to create some of the audio 
demos on our web site and installation DVD 
Ro M. 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 Evo settings. Tweak 
some controls and see what happens.
Finally, when you’re ready to learn everything 
Harmony Engine Evo 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 Evo.
Chapter 2: Introducing Harmony Engine Evo 
Provides a brief introduction to what Harmony 
Engine Evo is all about and gives an overview 
of Harmony Engine Evo’s key features.
Chapter 3: Harmony Engine Evo Controls 
This chapter is reference information 
for every control used in the 
Harmony Engine Evo interface. 
Chapter 4: The Factory Presets
Descriptions of the factory presets that 
ship with Harmony Engine Evo.
Chapter 5: Tutorial Sessions
Describes the complete host sessions 
provided as hands- on examples of 
how Harmony Engine Evo is used.