OK, I finally saw this email under another 2 sales confirmations from Antares LOL.
OK, here is my admittedly basic understanding of it. Anyone else who uses it, feel free to chime in. When you open the plugin, after the standard Pro Tools controls, you've got a bunch of options which I just skip, they'll say stuff like h1, h2, save parameter, but they all seem to be binary values, which I think is wrong anyways. The first parameter, and it's the same with all the Antares stuff, you got voice type, so like Altos / Tennor, Baritone / Bass, etc. After that there's a whole load of stuff, to try and ileviate confusion, and get to the point, I'll like the parameters you really care about, all the rest are just icing on the cake. Input select or something it's called, initially it's set to chords or something. I have my default preset (and I've never had cause to change this value) to MIDI Omni. This, my midi geek friend tells me, this is a posh way of saying MIDI Only, and basically, it means whatever midi data the plugin receives, it makes into harmonies (up to 4 notes of course). Main or Master solo / Mute. I can't remember how it's worded, but it's pretty obvious, and basically, it gives you the very useful ability to mute or solo the original vocals, to prevent you getting a doubling affect. MIDI Sensativity. I used to make the mistake of leaving this one alone, and to say the results were varied is a grose under statement. Mine stays firmly at 0% now. The other stuff is kind of superfluous, but you'll definitely want to play with them, or your voices get panned in strange ways. Below is a link to one of our demo tracks, which uses Harmony Engine Evo. Setting it up. Here's how you set it up. I'll assume you've already got one vocal track, which you've recorded a vocal on, and it's got no more than say compression, and pitch correction on or whatever. Most importantly, if it has something like reverb or delay on it, the result is liable to sound disgusting. In the sends of the track, choose an empty send. Set it to new track, and type the name accordingly. Leave the level at 0 for now, you can change it if you don't like i. Navigate to the new track, and insert Antares Harmony Engine Evo from the pitch menu, and apply the desired settings. Next, go back to your mix window, and create yourself a MIDI track. Not a software instrument track, but a MIDI track. Set it's input to whatever you need (I use all), and it's output to some channel (I use 1), or Harmony Engine Evo. Next, start playing your project. Basically, anything you play on your midi keyboard, will become harmonies on the vocal track. You can arm the MIDI track, and save the stuff you make. If you ever re-record the vocals, your harmonies will be there, xecept now they'll be affecting your live voice, not the recorded one. Well, that's about it. Here's a linke to our track, so you can hear it in action. The point of this is that we could reproduce all this stuff live, only my hardware harmoniser sounds pretty horrible in a studio, so this is what we use. Hope you enjoy, and hth. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4219494/Nights%20In%20White%20Satin%20Take%201.wav On 25/06/2012, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, no problem. Take your time. just wanted to be sure I didn't miss > anything. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Norman" <chris.norm...@googlemail.com> > To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 6:54 AM > Subject: Re: Harmoney Engine Instructions > > >> No, I haven't done it yet, and no, I've not sent it, I'll try and do >> it today, but all you need to know, is, it works fine with VoiceOver. >> Just skip passed the things that say h1 row header and all that, to >> the voice type bit. I'll send something more detailed when I've >> actually got PT loaded. >> >> HTH. >> >> On 23/06/2012, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> It's an Antares plugin, for doing auto harmonizing, apparently. Chris >>> NOrman was supposed to be e-mailing either me, or the list instructions >>> >>> on >>> >>> how with Voiceover to get it to work in P T, as he's done it. I can't >>> figure the bloody thing out to save my life. NO, I don't think you need >>> premade presets, but let's see what Chris has to say on it. BTW Chris, >>> again, no hurry, but i still haven't gotten those directions from you. >>> Did >>> >>> you ever send them? >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Kevin Reeves" <reeves...@gmail.com> >>> To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:13 PM >>> Subject: Re: Harmoney Engine Instructions >>> >>> >>> Sorry for being behind on this. What is harmony engine? >>> On Jun 22, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: >>> >>>> I'm also c seeing this directly to Chris Norman, just to be sure he >>>> gets >>>> this. >>>> >>>> I never got the e-mail you said you'd send with the instructions on >>>> using >>>> >>>> Harmoney Engine. >>>> >>>> I checked my junk/spam folders, and it's not there either. Did you >>>> ever >>>> send it? If not, there is absolutely no rush, but would love to get >>>> them >>>> >>>> when you can type them up. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Chris. >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Take care, >> >> Chris Norman. >> >> <!-- chris.norm...@googlemail.com --> > > -- Take care, Chris Norman. <!-- chris.norm...@googlemail.com -->
