As a certain master of a capella songwriting would tell you, don’t worry. The more vocal arranging theory you’ve mastered, the more you can easily take advantage of some of Harmony Engine’s advanced capabilities, but even the untrained will find that right out of the box, it’s easy to experiment and generate useful vocal enhancements from this fun plug-in. The harmonies and unison lines (doubles) generated by Harmony Engine are great sounding, and while you can easily push the plug-in to generate artificial sounds, it’s also quite easy to generate vocal accompaniment that sounds perfectly genuine in the context of your mix. OVERALL RATING = 3.6, which earns it a WIHO Award!ģ.6 stars or better: Outstanding, WIHO AwardĢ stars or better: Suited to specific needs If you missed out on singing with a young men’s choir in your youth, or you’ve always wanted to add a little gospel to your blues, Harmony Engine will provide a suitable shortcut to get you there, unless of course you have plenty of kids and church choirs at your disposal for recording sessions in your basement. A four-part harmony virtual machine, Harmony Engine makes it very easy to ensure that additional voices generated for your vocals do not sound like simple manipulations of your source audio, but rather distinctly unique harmony voices. Just when you thought Auto-Tune was a required studio standard for keeping your singers in tune, along came the AVOX Vocal Toolkit featuring Throat’s physical vocal tract modeling that transformed the actual tonal character of a voice.īut that wasn’t enough for Antares, who have now delivered to us Harmony Engine - a fantastic sounding plug-in that incorporates many technologies found in the previously mentioned products. Or perhaps they’re a fiery ball rolling down a hill! Whatever it is, they really don’t miss the mark with their constantly expanding suite of vocal processing plug-ins.