Harmor

My absolute favorite plugin. I really regret putting off buying this while using more recent versatile wavetable plugins such as Serum or Harmless via Image-Line's signature bundle. When I finally got this from the end of year sale, I stopped using most of my other plugins because my ears are too addicted to Harmor. The sound is more than just luscious, it is crisp additive ecstasy.

Speaking of additive, this plugin is advertised (as well as Harmless) as a combined additive-subtractive engine synthesizer. Coming from subtractive and wavetable synthesis, I was skeptical how Harmor could compete with other plugins. Why not just use Sytrus to add edited waveshapes and them FM / filter them through a matrix? Why would I care about a plugin that just "adds" and "subtracts"? I was gravely mistaken.

Combining additive+subtractive engines is actually extremely powerful. You aren't just adding harmonics and passing it into a filter, rather the filter is WITHIN the additive engine. These spectral filters are special as the filter has a custom and crude cut off that directly subtract the "additive" harmonics, which creates a clean, fat, and crisp filter sound. Normal plugin filters and post FX filters have various slopes and are imperfect are filtering the sound perfectly. Harmor on the other hand essentially acts as a pure additive engine, where you create harmonics (starting from the classic all over-tone Saw wave or any other custom variation of sine harmonics) and pass them through two additive spectral filters/two spectral resonators/spectral phaser/blur (additive preverb)/pluck (time-controlled spectral filter) and perhaps add more harmonics through the harmonizer and special distortion effect while controlling the inputs for all additive engines and effects. Not to mention the powerful remappable Unison pitch and Prism harmonic detune. Additionally, Harmor has a unique image synthesis, which basically takes an image or sound and creates a spectral additive wavetable. All engines including the image synthesis engine can by modulated and there are remap features to create custom additive engines. The power and crisp of sending additive wavetable into the other additive-subtractive engines elevates the possibilities beyond infinity. Harmor is it's own unique plugin, you have complete control over the power of sound by adding and subtracting harmonics to shape perfect crisp high quality sounds.

I use to use all kinds of other plugins, but I can't imagine I'll stop using Harmor soon, the possibilities of doing additive subtractive at the same time are limitless. I love this beautiful piece of art instrument.