The legato also prevents polyphony, which is not necessarily desired on complex sounds.Note – This software is Windows compatible only and will not function on Mac computers! Turning on the “legato” allows instances of overlapping notes to change the pitch without re-triggering the start point of the envelope. The example above shows a linear progression for a beat and a half followed by a hovering effect back and forth for the last 2 and a half beats. Manipulating this time envelope is a very creative way to manipulate the sample. The slope need not be linear and can be curved (right click on a point and a menu of shapes between points is available), which creates a variation in the speed of the sound’s play back. If the slope is inverted it plays the sample in reverse. If the slope is horizontal it will play a tone. The steeper the slope the faster the sample plays. Take a listen by clicking on a key with your mouse or on you MIDI controller to see if it sounds like you want. Now click on the “Tempo” button and drag the peak point on the envelope to the nearest beat or bar (depending on how long you want your loop).
Once you select “Prepare time envelope”, the “ENV” screen below automatically appears (Notice the two drop downs above the envelope display “Image time offset” and “Envelope” – so that you may get back to the display when you want to). Hit the circular drop down again and select “Prepare time envelope”. The following screen appears once you make the selection.ĥ. Hit the button and select “Set viewed zone as loop region”: Above the image of the sample information is a circular drop down button that contains several options for manipulating the image information. We are looking for peaks in the intensity of the image horizontally where we can repeat, reverse, or hover around.Ĥ. By analyzing the graphic representation we can find areas (points of interest in the image below) in the representation that will be good candidates for manipulating through an envelope. You will notice the sample once dragged into the “image section” has a graphic representation. Drag the sample file you want to use into the “image section” This saves times for creating future presets from samples.ģ. Finally, save this preset as “HQ_Resynthesis” in the Template directory.Fourth, go to the bottom “Freq” filter knob, choose “Class high pass” from the drop down, then right click and choose “Quick Map To” -> “Modulation Y”.Third, go to the top “Freq” filter knob for which should be set at “Crude low pass”, right click and choose “Quick Map To” -> “Modulation X”.Second hit the “ADV” tab and go to the “image/resynthesis” drop down and select “High precision”.
First hit the “FX” tab and go to the Compression section and select “Burning” and raise the “amt” slightly above halfway or as high as you desire.Before bringing in a sample, lets improve the Resynthesis preset make sure that we can enhance the quality of the sample sound in Harmor and also map the low pass filter to the X Modulation and the high pass filter to the Y Modulation. NOTE: You may want to prepare the sample for “Resynthesis” by using a plug-in like Newtone or Celemony Melodyne to correct the pitch to a C note and normalize the sound for optimum sound quality.Ģ. Open up Harmor and select Presets -> Template -> Resynthesis.
I have barely begun to tap into the possibilities with this plug-in, but the following tutorial will show you how to take sounds from sample information and transform them into something much more malleable.ġ. Harmor VST is a very distinctive Synth/Sampler that allows you to make some pretty wild sounds, and breath new life into old samples.