Harmony Vocal plug in effects

[ANAYV]

Hi all.
New here.

I would like to hear from anyone who have good results with any harmony plug ins?

Specifically, I sing melody parts and want to create a few harmony backing vocals.
I dont hear harmony..and my mind keeps going back to the melody ...

I rarely know what key the songs I sing are in ( and I wrote and performed the music for them

Over the years, I used a few TC. Helicon Voice Prism, VoiceWorks/ Plus/ Voice One and Voice Live 3.

I do have Waves Harmony and Vox Guru, , but the little time I tried them, I didn't like the results. There is also a new plug in for vocals/ harmony called Altitude


It seems Artifacts are present with these type plug ins..similar to the older hardware I used to achieve this.

Any thoughts, suggestions on how to get decent harmony vocals?
Hardware, software?
A way to learn/ hear harmony?

Thanks!
ANAYV

[osiris]

Melda has a good one. Two actually. I think Harmonizer and Ensemble are the names. I also had good results with Zplane Vielkling 2.

[Andreya_Autumn]

Some degree of "artificial-ness" is always present with these indeed. Maybe you like that, in which any of the ones mentioned should be fine. Or Izotope Vocalsynth, whatever the Antares one is called again, etc etc...

If you want to minimize that Imogen Heap sound in favor of something more acoustic sounding, nothing beats actually tracking all the harmony parts for real. Absent that possibility, I guess try things and see what you like. The new Klevgränd one you mentioned should have a demo at least. Perhaps some of the others do as well.

[ANAYV]

Melda has a good one. Two actually. I think Harmonizer and Ensemble are the names. I also had good results with Zplane Vielkling 2.

Thanks.
I will check these out.

[ANAYV]

Some degree of "artificial-ness" is always present with these indeed. Maybe you like that, in which any of the ones mentioned should be fine. Or Izotope Vocalsynth, whatever the Antares one is called again, etc etc...

If you want to minimize that Imogen Heap sound in favor of something more acoustic sounding, nothing beats actually tracking all the harmony parts for real. Absent that possibility, I guess try things and see what you like. The new Klevgränd one you mentioned should have a demo at least. Perhaps some of the others do as well.

Not in favor of the artifacts.
Also not going for any Auto Tune type of dound.
Actually I dont use any pitch correction on purpose.

Some Vocal plug ins I have use has some form of it.

Rather leave the slight imperfections in.

If I could hear proper Harmonies for the lead parts I record, then I would just sing those on other tracks.

I can only do octave..but thats not real harmony:(

Thanks

[kerfuffle]

If I could hear proper Harmonies for the lead parts I record, then I would just sing those on other tracks.

It's pretty straightforward: Figure out what the chords are, then sing the other notes from these chords at the same time as the main melody.

[osiris]

The Zplane one is a Pitch Editor, but there's an option to layer harmonies on top of it. I've used it, works pretty well (as long as you leave the audio alone). It's very easy to knock audio out of alignment.
I wish we'd had this back in the day. I had the studio acapella of DM - World In My Eyes, that was just Gahan solo, and I wouldn't remix it because it didn't sound right without those harmonies and I think an (very expensive) Antares plugin was the ONLY pluggy that could do half decent harmony. I ended up tossing the acapella I really regret that.