How To Use Harmor

Sonic Academy presents How To Use FL Studio’s Harmor with the Jedi Master that is SeamlessR. Taking us through it’s massively powerful additive synth engine, SeamlessR gives us an overview of what addititve synthesis is, how it differs from Subtractive and how it can be applied to create some truly stunning results. Harmor is a software synth created by Image-Line Software for the music production program. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,.

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The Harmor software synth from Image-Line debuted several years ago, but it has just recently matriculated to 64-bitness. As such, a fresh look at this instrument is warranted.by David Baer, Sept. 2013 Harmor Grows UpThe Harmor software synth from Image-Line debuted several years ago, but it has just recently (at last!) matriculated to 64-bitness.

As such, a fresh look at this instrument is certainly warranted. But let me say up front: Mac users, read no further or you’ll just end up very disappointed. I’ll be saying some extremely complementary things about Harmor. But it’s PC-only, and that’s never likely to change.Harmor’s author is Didier Dambrin, a brilliant (and I suspect slightly mad, but in a very good way 🙂 ) software innovator.

Harmor is written in Delphi, a powerful development environment, but one that will never find life on the Mac platform. For a geek moment, read the sidebar “Why Delphi?”. Harmor is a thoroughly unique innovation. There’s nothing quite like it out there, except for its predecessor, Harmless, which also just got the 64-bit upgrade treatment. Harmless is a worthy instrument in its own right, but it’s overshadowed by its vastly more competent successor, Harmor.Harmor offers an additive synth engine.

So what’s all the fuss about? Other synths like Alchemy and Image-Line’s own Morphine are additive synths.

But Harmor does something unique. It maintains the sound representation in an “additive state” much longer than more conventional additive synths.If this is making no sense, let’s review how additive synthesis works by working backward from a single cycle waveform.

Any such single cycle can be decomposed into component sine waves with frequencies that are exact multiples of the fundamental wave. These are called “partials”. Partials may be in phase with the fundamental frequency, but they do not have to be. When all the partials are summed, the result is a single-cycle wave that is invariant as long as the partials all retain the same characteristics of amplitude and phase.If we alter the characteristics of partials over time, which is standard operating procedure for additive synths, we get a changing or evolving sound. Alchemy does this, as does Morphine. But those synths sum the partials fairly early on in the signal chain and pass them on to the familiar processes that are staples of subtractive synthesis, filters in particular.What makes Harmor stand out from the crowd is that it keeps the sound in the form of component partials much longer, or as Image-Line would put things, it keeps the data in the frequency domain.

And it does this up to and including the filter stage. Filtering in the frequency domain dramatically rewrites the rulebook.

This feature is emphasized not to demean other additive instruments, but Harmor does things rather differently than the others. Frequency-domain filtering is by no means the only reason Harmor is an innovative wonder, but it’s a highly significant reason. Harmor ArchitectureFirst, let’s look at the big picture. The figure above shows the GUI for Harmor. Yes, it’s crowded and a bit intimidating, but there is oh-so-much functionality. There are two identical parts that independently produce sound that is combined (if both parts are enabled) and passed on to a global effects section. The effects available are a typical collection of delay, distortion, et.al.

They are of good quality but are nothing unique, so we’re mostly going to overlook then in this review. The area of immediate interest is in the parts, the area in the upper portion of the interface with a purple background.There’s a lot going on here, and it can be a little overwhelming. We’ll look at the individual components in varying amounts of detail, but the important thing to keep in mind is that everything here is operating in the frequency domain.Let’s start with the dual “oscillators.” Into these you can select a stock waveform. You can also open an additive editor that lets you designate individual partial levels, and there’s a randomization function that should allow you to come up with arbitrarily complex single-cycle forms. Finally, you can supply your own single-cycle wave.Whatever the single-cycle waves look like in the end, they are not used in that form. They merely serve as the source of the amplitude and phase characteristics of the partials, upon which further manipulations will be done in the signal chain in the part.There’s more here that’s worthy of note, such as the sub-oscillator capabilities, but there are just so many capabilities in Harmor that we can’t discuss them all.Moving on, we have the Blur process. Horizontally (that is, in the time dimension), Blur can affect the attack and decay of partials.

This can be set to favor the processing of upper or lower frequencies. Blur is not something you’re likely to have seen elsewhere, and like any number of other things in Harmor, it takes some work to come to grips with what it does.Next there’s tremolo at last, back in familiar territory! This is very basic. Too bad this wasn’t taken a little further in terms of leveraging the frequency domain possibilities. On the other hand, there’s not a whole lot of room on the interface for more controls.Three other easy-to-grasp processes are the Harmonizer section, pictured, the Unison section and the Pitch section in which frequency, detune, vibrato and legato behavior are controlled. There’s nothing too far off the beaten path here, so we won’t linger. Harmor Filter, the Great and PowerfulAnd now we get to the filters, where much of the Harmor magic is enacted.

Here’s the thing about filtering partials: the filter can be anything you can imagine. Want an infinite-slope filter? Easy, just completely mute all the partials above the cutoff frequency.

There are unlimited possibilities, as you’ll see.Because the filters work as per-partial, time-variant amplifiers, the results are quite pristine sounding. If you’re looking for a cruder analog filter experience, Harmor is not the synth for you.Two filters are provided which can be combined in some combination of parallel or series mix. For each of these, there are stock filter types of all the usual variety on hand (low-pass, high-pass, etc.). Things start to get a bit unfamiliar when we look at resonance, where the choices include such options as “Cuberdon,” “Pedistal, “Sedge Hat,” and so forth. We’re definitely not in Kansas anymore. And if you don’t find a filter that fits what you need, you can simply draw one of your own design.If you want a demonstration of how uniquely Harmor’s filters can affect sound, check out the Pads/Dreamland preset.

One of the parts uses the Noise resonance-type in such a way that a wondrous wind-chime type of randomness is achieved. I don’t believe there’s another synth available today that could do this sort of magic.One final note, a single knob marked “Pluck” is part of the filter section. It applies a pre-configured time/LP-filter pattern that allows easily programming a pluck-type sound. Extremely convenient and useful! Resynthesis/Image-SynthesisWe need to take a detour from the upper panel now to look at another key part of Harmor – maybe its most powerful feature of all. But before discussing that, it’s time to bring up Harmor’s most problematic issue.

This is a complex and powerful instrument with much that is non-intuitive. Such an instrument requires first-rate documentation and lots of it.

Sadly, Harmor’s documentation comes nowhere close to being adequate. It’s far too sketchy throughout, but nowhere more so than in the area we’re about to look at.There’s an obscure thread on the KVR forum ( ) that talks about the resynthesis/image-synthesis (hereafter R/IS for brevity).

The expert (who I understand is an Image-Line technologist) talks about how the R/IS acts as a time-variant filter that operates on the composite wave generated by a part’s two oscillators. Seems like this might be important information, right? However, there’s no mention made of this in the documentation, and it’s a critical aspect of how this feature works.Those familiar with Alchemy’s resynthesis capabilities will have a clue as to what’s going on with R/IS here.

In this, Harmor and Alchemy do have some common ground.R/IS operates in two modes: resynthesis and image-synthesis. In the former, a wave file can be loaded and analyzed such that it can be reproduced with reasonable accuracy using Harmor’s additive sound generation capability. Once so decoded, playback speed and various other time-related manipulations can be applied. A decoded audio clip can be converted to images (one for amplitude and one for frequency). These can be copied and pasted into an external image editor for further manipulation. Or, you can just court serendipity, import any random image, and then see what kind of sound is produced.There is a very good demonstration of this starting at 6:40 in the following video:In fact, this video does a very good job of demonstrating a number of Harmor’s synthesis capabilities, a far more complete picture than I can paint here.

I recommend it highly. ModulationFinally let’s look at modulation. While Harmor may implement this in a way that’s a bit different from what you might be accustomed to, it’s thorough and powerful. Once again, the video above does a nice job of illustrating how modulation is applied. Both envelopes and LFOs have some capabilities that are extremely powerful (I seem to be using phrases like “extremely powerful” a lot in this review!) LFOs give you as the ability to apply an envelope of arbitrary complexity to an LFO wave sequence. For envelopes, you can drag and drop an external wave file onto the envelop panel and its amplitude envelope is analyzed to create a complex Harmor envelope. Both LFO and Envelope functions are pictured.Is Harmor for You?Harmor is one of the most impressive instruments in my collection.

It provides an ample list of factory presets, but so far there seems to be little activity in the sound design community for third-party preset libraries (hopefully the 64-bit version availability will change this). Harmor has a decidedly digital sound, as you might expect, so it’s not going to be a “this is the only synth you’ll ever need” type solution.I hope I’ve been able to convey just how remarkably innovative this synth is.

There’s honestly nothing else quite like it (at the moment anyway who knows what Alchemy is cooking up for their upcoming Alchemy 2.0 which we’ll hopefully see in 2014). If you purchase Harmor, you’re guaranteed to not be duplicating something close to what you already might have.Image-Line uses a customer friendly authorization scheme. In fact, when I downloaded the 64-bit upgrade, I didn’t even need to reapply the authorization. And Image-Line generously has a free-upgrades-for-life policy. You rock, Image-Line!But there are some downsides to Harmor, the inadequate documentation being the principal one. If you’re a preset-only type musician, this shouldn’t be of concern.

But if you like to dig into an instrument and do some of your own sound design, be prepared for a non-trivial learning curve. You’re probably going to need to do a lot of reverse engineering of factory sounds to get your head around how some of these features function.Harmor currently lists for $149 USD at the Image-Line site. Sales of Image-Line gear are not unheard of (in fact, all four of the Image-Line synths that I purchased were obtained with very attractive discounts), so patience may pay off for you.Find out more here:Why Delphi? A Geek MomentSome of you may wonder why a developer would choose a Windows-only development environment and lock themselves out of the Mac marketplace. The cross-platform C language is the conventional choice for use in plug-in development. Having worked with Delphi extensively in the 90s (and having been a regular contributor of articles for The Delphi Magazine to boot), I know something about it.

I can say without reservation that I have never encountered anything more productive and enjoyable to work with than this technology. For some of us anyway, Delphi, now relegated to a fringe niche, was at one time the most effective technology for rapidly developing complex, efficient and graphically complex software. I can’t fault Mr.

Dambrin in the slightest for making this choice, even though he realized that it would limit the potential customer base.

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Published on January 23rd, 2017 by wonderboy 24 Image-Line Harmor v1.3 WORKINGFew people wrote emails to upload main synthesizer plugin in FL Studio. I’m talking about Image-Line Harmor. Hope you’ll like it, because i really do. Download for free this archive with crack instantly! Where to start with this VST?! You can find so many features it’s unreal.

It has become a 2010 huge finding out curve applying Harmor pertaining to myself. Not to say that will be bad, in other words there is really many strategies for ingenuity to stream!I could first like to express Harmor’s capabilities to manipulate a sample you clicked in addition to dragged into your interface. Following clicking your IMG loss, and dragging your sound into Harmor, you may quickly realize the electricity this VST has. It’s such as a home-made ROMpler pertaining to personal employ; ).

After your sound crammed, you have the GUI to help tweak your current sound. Create vibrato, phaser, or utilize settings in IMG loss. This is this type of flexible in addition to powerful software, especially pertaining to vocals.You could fine song where you want the beginning of the observe to engage in, so in case you’re working with vocals, locate a word you like, and easily play in numerous pitches/notes!Harmor, to start with, takes a little time to become accustomed to. Figuring out and about how everything works, in addition to honestly, the ADSR envelope is usually a head-scratcher throughout Image-Line’s plugins, if an individual don’t employ their plugins generally.

The default establishing starts an individual off with a saw wave with a mix johnson that has the capacity to mix in between 2 different sort of waves to provide you with a “blended” samsung wave s8500. From there the query is “Which choice to choose? There is an choice to blend A-B designs to mix two versions as well as a Portion A & B Mix Knob. For those who like to obtain as technical because it gets, Harmor allows to see where your current added harmonics usually are hitting, or even removed.Aside from fun, powerful, and innovative sound-design, Harmor allows you to add effects from the GUI. Create compression, wait, reverb, and also the specialty influence, DISTORTION!

(Chorus is additionally an option). Then again after adding the effects to your current sound, Harmor allows you to arrange your current effect where order you want them to be! This is essential because should you put a great EQ ahead of compression, or even vice versa, you may get a different sound! Nice to get that flexibility, especially within a plugin!

Incredibly creative Image-Line!When i said, the number of choices with Harmor usually are endless. I adore the attribute of the ability to choose an audio from among your products and move it in Harmor in addition to creating several unique complex stuff. Remember you can blend 2 sounds collectively using A/B, this helps it be awesome when trying to blend 2 snares together to secure a super distinctive hit that will carries your beat. Image-Line often keeps their own prices affordable, and are more compared to your regular product.

Unsure of the way to use Harmor? No worries, Image-Line places tutorials for each product they put out to assist you to on your way.The choices are endless. The sound quality can be an industry standard and this can definitely teach among how sounds, knobs, filtration system, etc. A very quality product with a reasonable price.

One matter that created my eyebrows tweak however was while i looked in the VST ‘tokens’, some arbitrary space on the planet? Girl popped up. Unnecessary lol. But that’s only when you click the credits. A little thing when comparing it for the quality in addition to power with this VST, but still uncalled pertaining to!

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