KVR Audio

grooveslap · Post by **grooveslap** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 12:09 pm

The Harmonic Animator is an innovative MIDI VST/AU/AAX plugin designed for music producers and sound designers seeking to unleash their creativity through dynamic chord transformation.

It can give you a funky guitar type of vibe, but with your soft synths.

By facilitating real-time modulation of rhythm, voicing, inversion, velocity, modwheel swing, and duration (and more), the plugin elevates your music, introducing a rich tapestry of sound seamlessly integrated with your track’s harmony. Its advanced polyrhythmic sequencer, individual LFO control per row for deep customization, and over 60 unique presets make it a powerful tool for creating distinctive musical textures. The Harmonic Animator is compatible with macOS and Windows and works in all major DAWs. This plugin breathes new life into synths, enriching your musical elements with unparalleled control over rhythm, harmony, and texture.

Here is a demo of the upcoming scene-chaining feature in version 2, soon to be released which will be a free upgrade for version 1 users.

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/harmon ... grooveslap

kraster · Post by **kraster** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 3:39 pm

Very cool.

One thing that should be brought to your attention is that on the KVR product page it says "No license required" when in fact it needs an ilok account.

I didn't know this when I bought it.

Personally I don't mind ilok but a lot of people hate it with the passion of a thousand suns.

grooveslap · Post by **grooveslap** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 5:10 pm

Thanks for pointing that out, I'll see if I can find how to get that notification correct.

grooveslap · Post by **grooveslap** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 5:14 pm

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/harmon ... grooveslap

Actually it does say copy protection: ILok on the listing, can you confirm you don't see that?

kraster · Post by **kraster** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 7:51 pm

It says it now but it didn't earlier on today.

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grooveslap · Post by **grooveslap** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 11:15 pm

That is weird. Maybe a KVR admin was being helpful.

kraster · Post by **kraster** » Thu Jul 04, 2024 1:44 pm

grooveslap wrote: Wed Jul 03, 2024 11:15 pm That is weird. Maybe a KVR admin was being helpful.

Anyway fixed now!

Having a lot of fun with the plugin. It's a really cool and quick way to get some variety from chords.

One thing I'd love to see (maybe it's there and I've missed it) would be the ability to disable a lane.

Like for example being able to disable the mod wheel output entirely.

Also a simple transpose function (a scale aware transpose would be great)

grooveslap · Post by **grooveslap** » Wed Jul 10, 2024 7:40 pm

The closest thing it has to transpose is the inversion offset setting, as seen here:

I don't plan to have a way specify scales (other than the via input notes)

But I really like the idea of optionally disabling modwheel and other rows.
I will implement that in a future version.

misc007 · Post by **misc007** » Wed Jul 10, 2024 11:09 pm

Man not a fan of ilok
Unless I can generate more licenses to ilok when I run out of activations because I purchased a New computer this has lock many other Vsts because support is slow/bad

grooveslap · Post by **grooveslap** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 5:45 pm

We do our best to respond to those requests as quickly as possible.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 6:06 pm

grooveslap wrote: Tue Jul 16, 2024 5:45 pm We do our best to respond to those requests as quickly as possible.

Better to be proactive and not select an intrusive copy protection scheme than be reactive to the problems that scheme can cause.

iLok= i don't buy.

(cue the lamentations and indignations of the iLok fanbois in 3....2....1....)

grooveslap · Post by **grooveslap** » Tue Jul 16, 2024 9:52 pm

Ok sure, thanks for the advice and have a nice life.

Grooveslap presents Harmonic Animator (vst3/au/aax MIDI chord step sequencer)