Waves Harmony

Description

Introduce Harmony to Your Music—It’s That Simple

Create instant vocal harmonies—up to 8 voices generated from a single voice—and quickly craft your dream vocal production. Personalize the character of each voice with pitch, formant, panning & delay.

Create instant vocal harmonies—up to 8 voices generated from a single voice—and quickly craft your dream vocal production. Waves Harmony gives you three choices of workflow, so whether you’re a producer, songwriter, mix engineer or composer, it’s easily adaptable to your creative process.

Easily personalize the character and texture of each voice with built-in pitch, formant, panning, delay, filtering and drag-and-drop modulation, to back up your vocal leads with creative color. In seconds, audition Jacob Collier, Ty Dolla $ign and Imogen Heap-style sounds in your song. Better yet—perform them live in real-time.

Create Harmony Your Own Way

As a producer, you might just want an instant harmonizing effect for the hook. As a composer, you may want to noodle with choir ideas as you write an arrangement. As a mix engineer, you might need incredibly rich, lush doubling for the chorus. Whatever your workflow or genre—Waves Harmony has you covered.

Generate Harmonies Instantly with 450+ Creative Presets

Don’t know musical theory? Simply scroll through a versatile bank of quick-harmony chord presets, plus over 450 creative artist and factory presets, and pick what you like—the EASIEST way to generate harmonies if you’re not sure where to go.

Play Vocal Harmonies on Your Keys with MIDI

Performing live? Messing around in the studio? MIDI control lets you play backing vocals in real time. Connect a MIDI keyboard and play notes or chords as you sing to harmonize your voice—once you set the key and scale, everything you play will be in tune.

Draw Vocal Harmonies Visually for Total Control

Want total control over a full vocal arrangement? Click to draw in harmonies on the visual display—arrange, tune, shift formant, delay, filter and pan—then use the snapshots to adjust the arrangement as the song moves.

Powerful Vocal FX Palette

Beyond harmonies, Waves Harmony can work wonders for vocal FX in any production or mix. Efficiently layer thick vocal stacks and create exceptional doubling effects, as well as complex delay arrays, creative voicings, modulated melodies and sequencing.

Top Features

1. Generate up to 8 harmonized voices from a single vocal in real time

2. Three flexible workflows: Auto mode, MIDI control, and graphical editing

3. 450+ factory & artist presets for instant genre-spanning inspiration

4. MIDI input lets you play harmonies live using a keyboard or controller

5. Drag-and-drop graphic editing for pitch, formant, delay, pan, filter, and more

6. Individual voice modulation and delay ideal for creative sound design

7. Powerful FX engine for doubling, vocoder-style effects, and voice morphing

8. Snapshot system allows different arrangements across song sections

9. Perfect for vocals, choirs, voiceovers, and even instruments

10. Works in real time for both live performance and studio production

Additional Features

Real-time vocal harmonies immediately in your tracks

Automatic mode: Generate instant harmonies with chord presets

Graphic mode: Draw harmonies graphically and tweak each voice

450+ creative artist and factory presets to get you started

Easy-to-use interface: No music theory knowledge needed

Instant generation of up to 8 voices from a single vocal

MIDI mode: Play harmonies live on your keyboard as you sing, Adjust pitch, formant, panning, delay, filtering, modulation

Perfect for the studio and performing on stage

Powerful vocal FX toolkit for harmonization, layering, mod FX

Why You Need Waves Harmony

Waves Harmony was developed to revolutionize vocal layering by enabling users to create rich, multi-voice harmonies instantly from a single vocal track. Whether for studio recording, live performance, or creative sound design, it was designed to eliminate the time-consuming and technically demanding process of manual vocal stacking. By offering real-time harmony generation with up to eight editable voices, Waves Harmony provides an intuitive, powerful tool for anyone—from beginners with no music theory knowledge to professional producers—looking to expand their vocal arrangements effortlessly. The goal was to create a harmonizer that could adapt to any workflow, offer deep customization, and inspire creativity across genres.

Who This is For

Waves Harmony targets a wide spectrum of music creators and audio professionals. This includes music producers seeking fast, high-quality vocal stacks, live performers who want to control harmonies in real time via MIDI, and composers crafting vocal textures for films or games. Songwriters and electronic artists looking to experiment with harmonized effects and sound design also benefit from its creative flexibility. Additionally, mix engineers needing tools for vocal doubling, stereo spread, and ambient vocal layering will find Waves Harmony to be an indispensable addition to their toolkit. Essentially, it appeals to anyone who works with vocals and wants to enhance them quickly and creatively.

What This Package Competes With

Waves Harmony competes with products like Antares Harmony Engine, iZotope Nectar 4, Eventide Octavox, and Soundtoys Little AlterBoy. While these alternatives offer various harmony and vocal effects, Waves Harmony stands out by combining real-time performance, flexible workflow options, and advanced voice-by-voice customization. Unlike Antares or iZotope, Waves Harmony offers a dedicated harmony engine with drag-and-drop pitch and formant editing, real-time MIDI input, and more than 450 presets. Eventide Octavox, though strong in FX-based processing, lacks formant control and isn’t tailored for vocals, while Little AlterBoy is limited in voice count and functionality. Waves Harmony merges the best features of these tools into a single, versatile plugin optimized for both precision editing and live spontaneity.

Waves Harmony System Requirements

Mac

Cpu: Intel or Silicon Architecture
Ram: 8
Disk: 0
Version: macOS Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14
Internet_required: No
Support: 64_bit
Plugins: VST-3, AU, AAX

Windows

Cpu: X64 compatible Intel or AMD CPU
Ram: 8
Disk: 0
Version: Windows 10 64 bit Windows 11
Internet_required: No
Support: 64_bit
Plugins: VST-3, AAX

Waves Harmony Demo Video