Harmony Engine

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Permalink Reply by mnml_music on January 9, 2010 at 3:15pm

Welcome to the board, Joe.

Sounds like you might have some other automation going on. Check the volume controllers in Harmony Engine EVO to see if there is any movement. If so, remove the automation through Sonar.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan G on February 8, 2011 at 3:42pm

Sorry I can't help yet.  I'm new. BUT HOW DID YOU SEND MIDI TO THE HARMONY ENGINE.  I CAN'T GET THAT FAR.  I have Sonar 8.5.2.

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Pettit on February 17, 2011 at 8:45am

I'm not getting midi sent to HE either, Jonathan.  I've configured HE as a synth in Plugin Manager as instructed and HE still does not show up in the menu when you want to insert a synth to send midi to.

 

I wrote Tech Support on Monday about this and nothing back so far.

 

So...good luck.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan G on February 17, 2011 at 4:37pm

Well, misery loves company.  Please let me know when you hear from Tech Support.

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Pettit on February 17, 2011 at 5:26pm

Well, I did just hear from them now and guess what:  They think it's SONAR's fault.

 

Surprise!

 

(This is the only plugin of many--a number of which I have configured as syth--that doesn't work).

 

I think I'll download the EVO demo and see if IT works.  A little more money, but that way I get to circumnavigate the finger-pointing.  (The SONAR folks were no help either...)

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan G on February 17, 2011 at 5:29pm

EVO does work.  I had the demo, but I got 3 EFX products for the price of the HE EVO.  I guess it was not quite as good a deal as I thought.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan G on February 21, 2011 at 4:16pm

I made it work!  When I installed it, I did it as as VST not RTAS.  When I asked Sonar to "insert" from the "insert" menu, I had to go down to select "VST plugins".  There it was.  I set it to make a track folder, make a midi track and an audio track.  Once the plugin was made, I added three midi tracks to the folder for a total of 4.  Each of the four voices in HE is on it own midi channel.  The first voice on the left (not the input voice) is on channel 1, the second is on channel 2, and so on.  You have to program each of the midi tracks to go to a different channel and set "default" as the part.  Then I sang into the HE audio track.  I then had to record each midi track separately.  I ended up with some beautiful harmony when I used the "midi channels' mode and the "midi omni" mode.  I am guessing that there is a way to record all the midi tracks at the same time, but I haven't gotten that far.  I'll get back to you if I figure it out.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan G on February 24, 2011 at 6:32pm

If you choose "midi channels" mode, you can play up to four part harmony onto one midi track and HE will work.

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