You can also right-click most controls to open the associated Envelope ready for modulation. Program the plugin, a picture is worth 1000 words, so they say. We recommend opening the Visual Feedback panel while you are learning to NOTES: The Harmor GUI color-codes knobs and sliders so related controls share the same color.
TRIAL ONLY: Harmor is available as a demo in FL Studio and needs to be purchased separately so you can save projects containingĬlick on the image above to jump to the help for that section
Just cut-and-paste between Harmor and your editor of choice.Ĭheck the video series Image-Line | Harmor (VST & Native Plugin Instrument), or the Harmor preset forum here. Image & Audio Resynthesis - Images and audio files (WAV, AIFF, WavPack, MP3, OGG, REX1&2) can be dragged and dropped on Harmor to provide 'sampler-quality' reproduction of sounds or work with image-based synthesis when used in conjunction with your favorite image editor.
Draw filter shapes and gain precise control over every aspect of the sound generation process. These are featured in Harmor but, because they are performed on additive synthesis data, rather than audio, offer more freedom.Īdditive / subtractive synthesis - In Harmor no audio-stream exists, instead a table of frequency and amplitude data is manipulated efficiently, accurately and in ways not possible with traditional methods, that process an audio stream. Its modules will look familiar to subtractive synthesizer enthusiasts: oscillators, filters & phasers.
It's 200 bucks and looks like it's going to take a long ass time to really use it up to its full potential, but it seems like the best option for someone who really wants to go balls deep into granular synthesis.Like its predecessor Harmless, Harmor is powered by a powerful additive synthesis engine. I could see this being my workhorse synth for pretty much everything. Just flipping through presets I turned a break into a lush ambient pad and a dead simple two operator FM8 sound into a bunch of not only crazy, but good sounding patches. The last demo I tried is "Crusher X6." Holy fuck. "MMBandGranular," a name that rolls right off the tongue, took a couple days to figure out and seemed very promising for the price, but while it has a shit ton of bells and whistles, I couldn't believe it didn't have ADSR for the grains, and being an effect rather than a VST instrument, playback position cannot be specified so the grains roll along with little control of what part of the audio file they start from. While a step beyond M4L I still wanted more control (but at $20 I might still pick it up anyway).
Drawback? The actual grain playback is limited to either forward, reverse, or a coin-flip algorithm between the two. "The Mangle" took me about an hour to figure out, but despite it's simplicity it has a lot of possibilities, whether through modulation or simultaneously layering grains from different samples all with their own envelope/filter parameters. I've tried out three demos recently as I am looking to take my granular synth making beyond M4L's Granular 2 (which, especially as a "free" plugin, is still pretty good)