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Waves Audio Now Shipping Waves Harmony Plug-in

Waves Harmony user interface

Waves Audio is now shipping the Waves Harmony plug-in.

With Waves Harmony, users can now create instant vocal harmonies -- up to eight voices generated from a single voice -- and quickly craft your dream vocal production. Easily personalize the character and texture of each voice with built-in pitch, formant, panning, delay, filtering, and drag-and-drop modulation, to back up vocal leads with creative color. Harmony creates drama to suit a multitude of musical genres: pop, hip hop, R&B, rock, country, folk, and more.

Waves Harmony enables users to take a solo vocal and immediately surround it with epic multi-part harmonies, spread among low and high, male and female (yes, you can transform any voice), light and heavy. In seconds, users can audition sounds styled after Kanye, Jacob Collier, Ty Dolla $ign, and Imogen Heap in a song. Better yet --perform them live in real time.

Don't know music theory? Quick-harmony chord presets will supply users with beautiful and musically rich results on any material, the company says, with surprising voicings users may have not thought about.

Producing a complex vocal arrangement? Save hours of comping, editing, tuning, and additional takes - users can just draw in the voices and automate snapshots to move with the song.

Performing live? MIDI control lets users play backing vocals on stage in real time.

Waves Harmony gives users three choices of workflow, so whether you're a producer, songwriter, mix engineer or composer, it's easily adaptable to your creative process, the company says.

Three workflow modes are available:

*Automatic mode: To have the plug-in instantly create harmonies on any vocal, users can simply scroll through a versatile bank of chord presets and pick what they like -- the easiest way to generate harmonies if you're not sure where to go.

*Playable MIDI mode: Users can connect a MIDI keyboard and play notes or chords in real time to harmonize their voice-once you set the key and scale, everything you play will sound musical, the company says.

*Graphical mode: Click to draw in harmonies on the visual display -- arrange, tune, shift formant, delay, filter and pan -- then adjust per song section using snapshots.

Beyond harmonies, the Waves Harmony plug-in is a powerful vocal FX palette in any production or mix. Users can efficiently layer thick vocal stacks and create exceptional doubling effects, as well as complex delay arrays, creative voicings, modulated melodies, and sequencing.

Waves Harmony features:

*Real-time vocal harmony plug-in
*Instant generation of up to eight voices from a single vocal
*Adjust pitch, formant, panning, delay, filtering, modulation of each voice
*Three workflow modes: Automatic harmonies, MIDI control, graphical mode
*Perfect for the studio and performing on stage
*Powerful vocal FX playground for harmonization, doubling, layering, modulated FX
Harmony is included in Waves' Mercury, SD7 Pro Show, Pro Show and Vocal Production bundles. To learn more, click here.

NEW Waves Harmony | Real-time Vocal Harmony Playground: youtu.be/wG59mueE5wg

Create Your DREAM Vocal Production: Getting Started with Waves Harmony: youtu.be/FQxRUjgAHGs

5 AMAZING Vocal Harmony Effects You Can Create Right Now: youtu.be/50_n5qfNWfE

WWWwww.waves.com


(2 August 2022)

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