Harmor Architectureįirst, let’s look at the big picture. Frequency-domain filtering is by no means the only reason Harmor is an innovative wonder, but it’s a highly significant reason. This feature is emphasized not to demean other additive instruments, but Harmor does things rather differently than the others. Filtering in the frequency domain dramatically rewrites the rulebook. And it does this up to and including the filter stage. 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. 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. If we alter the characteristics of partials over time, which is standard operating procedure for additive synths, we get a changing or evolving sound. 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. Partials may be in phase with the fundamental frequency, but they do not have to be.
Any such single cycle can be decomposed into component sine waves with frequencies that are exact multiples of the fundamental wave. If this is making no sense, let’s review how additive synthesis works by working backward from a single cycle waveform. It maintains the sound representation in an “additive state” much longer than more conventional additive synths. So what’s all the fuss about? Other synths like Alchemy and Image-Line’s own Morphine are additive synths. Harmless is a worthy instrument in its own right, but it’s overshadowed by its vastly more competent successor, Harmor.
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There’s nothing quite like it out there, except for its predecessor, Harmless, which also just got the 64-bit upgrade treatment. Harmor is a thoroughly unique innovation. For a geek moment, read the sidebar “Why Delphi?”.
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Harmor is written in Delphi, a powerful development environment, but one that will never find life on the Mac platform.
Harmor’s author is Didier Dambrin, a brilliant (and I suspect slightly mad, but in a very good way 🙂 ) software innovator. But it’s PC-only, and that’s never likely to change. I’ll be saying some extremely complementary things about Harmor. But let me say up front: Mac users, read no further or you’ll just end up very disappointed. As such, a fresh look at this instrument is certainly warranted.
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The 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 warranted.īy David Baer, Sept.
The Harmor software synth from Image-Line debuted several years ago, but it has just recently matriculated to 64-bitness.
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