4 Cheap Harmonizer Plugins for Music Production [Updated: December 2023]

We're currently living in the age of digital audio. Harmonizer is an incredibly powerful tool that is essential to any music producer.

But there are so many different Harmonizer plugins in the music production landscape, so we decided to create the ultimate list of the top Harmonizer plugins today that will help you find the perfect fit.

Harmonic Maximizer

Harmonizer by Audiority


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Description


Multi-band Exciter and Loudness Maximizer

Harmonic Maximizer is a multi-band exciter and loudness shaping plugin that will make your tracks powerful and more alive.



Features

  • Multi-band Exciter
  • Loudness Maximizer
  • Auto Gain + Auto Release
  • Saturation

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Mac (Intel)

  • OSX 10.8 or later
  • Intel i5 or higher
  • 2GB RAM
  • Screen resolution: 1024×768
  • VST2, VST3, AU 64-bit host
  • PT11 or higher, AAX 64-bit host

Mac (Silicon)

  • macOS 11.0 or later
  • Apple M1 or higher
  • 2GB RAM
  • Screen resolution: 1024×768
  • VST2, VST3, AU 64-bit host
  • PT11 or higher, AAX 64-bit host

PC:

  • Windows 7 64bit or later
  • Intel i5 or higher
  • 2GB RAM
  • Screen resolution: 1024×768
  • VST2, VST3 64-bit host
  • PT11 or higher, AAX 64-bit host

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Octavox

Harmonizer by Eventide


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Octavox

Instant Inspiration

Level up your composition skills with Octavox's unique time-based diatonic harmonizer technology. Octavox is an inspiring tool that takes any incoming tones—even drums—and outputs up to eight voices based on the chosen key and timing interval. Based on technology from our flagship H8000 hardware effects processor, Octavox will take your melodies and ideas to new heights. Stack harmonies, widen instruments and create innovative rhythmic sequences. Whether you are an electronic musician, singer/songwriter or guitarist, Octavox has got you covered with more than 70 presets to boost your creativity and productivity.

Taming the Octopus

Octavox controls have been designed in the most intuitive way, allowing you to quickly adjust parameters or type in values. Each of the eight voices can be independently manipulated by level, panning, delay time with feedback, and pitch, including the type of musical interval. The effect can even be sync’d to your DAW tempo for killer, melodic, rhythmic delays. Octavox has also been updated with expanded MIDI functionality. Each voice interval can be set via MIDI note, voice shift amount by MIDI Pitch Bend, and “Randomize” by MIDI Modulation Wheel.



Features

  • Is it Live?

  • Octavox has always allowed you set harmony intervals and reproduce voices in the key and scale you're singing in.  Now new MIDI functionality allows you to change these intervals on the fly allowing you to add moving harmonies to your performance or recording.

  • 8-voice diatonic pitch shifter based on technology from Eventide’s flagship H8000 effects processor with panning, delay, detune, and feedback to create beautiful harmonies and sequences.

  • Randomize function randomizes an amount of micro pitch shift resulting in simulation of natural character for each of the 8 voices.

  • 70+ Presets

  • Whether you are an electronic musician, singer / songwriter, or guitarist, Octavox has got you covered with more than 70 presets to boost your creativity with unheard melodies and rhythms. Great on monophonic synths, guitar, and vocals.

  • Diatonic Pitch Shifter

  • New pitch-tracking "off" mode allows it to shine on polyphonic and rhythmic sounds. MixLock keeps the wet/dry mix of the effect static as you scroll through presets or user-defined snapshots. Key Lock does the same for the Key and Scale.

  • Select Key and Scale

  • Unique Notation Grid presents pitches on a traditional music staff with a quantized grid for placing notes over time allowing for a more musical programming experience. Color and brightness indicate pan and level for each voice.

  • Countless Applications

  • Engineers / Producers

  • Thicken the sound of existing instruments in your mix. Create unique harmonies and chorus effects on vocals. Morph drums into exciting new patterns. Widen the stereo image or create ping pong delays.

  • Transpose instruments or add custom arpeggios. Add new rhythmic textures to guitars and other instruments. Create momentum and bring new life to drums and stringed instruments.

  • Save Snapshots to quickly load, save and even automate up to 32 of your favorite Octavox scenes.

  • Sound Designers

  • Create popular staircase pitch effects. Build trailing melodies that follow your scale of choice.

  • Use the function generator to create timed rhythmic delays that sync to tempo. Use extreme settings to exploit video game style sounds.

  • Morph existing melodies into newly pitched rhythmic sequences. Construct new chords from monophonic instruments.

  • Create new drum patterns using tempo sync’d delays. Play loops through Octavox and manipulate them in real time via MIDI by using Gated MIDI mode which only passes audio through when notes are played.

  • Singer / Songwriters

  • Input a monophonic instrument and with MixLock enabled, click through the presets to discover new approaches to your ideas.

  • Add depth to vocals and enhance your performance. Widen instruments to enhance your productions.

  • Artists Using UltraChannel

  • Andre Kelman

  • (Beastie Boys, Phoenix, Gogol Bordello, Cat Power)

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Windows

  • Windows 8 and later (64-bit only) (Windows 11 supported)
  • AAX, VST2, VST3 (64-bit only)

Mac

  • macOS 10.9 and later (64-bit only) (macOS 12 Monterey and M1 Apple Silicon supported)
  • AAX, AU, VST2, VST3 (64-bit only)
  • Please Note: AAX format is only compatible with Intel Macs (until Avid adds native M1 Apple Silicon support).

Important Notes:

  • Eventide tests their desktop plugins in Ableton Live, Cubase, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, and Studio One (However, our plugins should work with any compatible host.)
  • No iLok dongle is required to run this software - only a FREE iLok account/Manager is required for authorisation.

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H949 Harmonizer

Harmonizer by Eventide


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The World’s First Time Machine

Building on the legacy of the H910 pitch shifter, the H949 Harmonizer® was Eventide’s first de-glitched pitch-shifter. Produced from 1979-1984, it introduced the MicroPitch effect, which used a proprietary single-sideband modulation technique for precise control of small pitch shifts. The H949 also offered unique flange, reverse, and randomized pitching effects.

The same legendary effects processor used by Jimmy Page, and cherished by Suzanne Ciani, has been faithfully recreated as a full-featured plug-in. Designed to inspire a new world of sound—from the basic engineering and sound sculpting tasks to demonic space creations, robotic distortions, and more—the H949 is a comprehensive special effects tool. 



Features

  • MicroPitch: The H949 has a dedicated “MicroPitch” mode so that engineers could use it for authentic double-tracking emulation by making tiny pitch changes. The H949’s display added a fourth digit and 0.1% pitch resolution and became useful as an instrument—a precision tool for tuning and tempo control.
  • Reverse: Causes short signal segments to be played back in time-reverse order. Combined with the ability to feedback around the reversed, delayed, and pitch-changed segments, all sorts of new sounds become possible.
  • Repeat: The H949’s Repeat function broke new ground by having the ability to both time-reversed and pitch-change the ‘captured’ audio.
  • Flange: Flanging is the effect created by frequency cancellations when a signal with a varying delay is added to another constant signal. 
  • Random: Introduces random variable delay at a range of 0 to 25 milliseconds. This is useful for double-tracking emulation to make the doubled vocal sound more natural and less identical to the original.
  • H949 Dual: Comes bundled with the H949 Dual Harmonizer® plugin, which recreates two H949 units running in parallel, an application that was frequently used in the hardware version to create create doubling effects, stereo widening, and a wide variety of other interesting sounds.

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Value For Money

Sound Quality

General Ease of Use

Number of Presets


Windows

  • Windows 8 and later (64-bit only) (Windows 11 supported)
  • AAX, VST2, VST3 (64-bit only)

Mac

  • macOS 10.9 and later (64-bit only) (macOS 12 Monterey and M1 Apple Silicon supported)
  • AAX, AU, VST2, VST3 (64-bit only)
  • Please Note: AAX format is only compatible with Intel Macs (until Avid adds native M1 Apple Silicon support).

Important Notes:

  • Eventide tests their desktop plugins in Ableton Live, Cubase, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, and Studio One (However, our plugins should work with any compatible host.)
  • No iLok dongle is required to run this software - only a FREE iLok account/Manager is required for authorisation.

OS Compatibility




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H3000 Factory

Harmonizer by Eventide


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Description


Recreating a Legend

The H3000 Factory combines the pitch, delay, modulation, and filtering that made the original H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer a studio legend.



Features

  • Over 450 presets including over 100 new artist presets and over 100 original presets from the H3000.
  • Available effects blocks include delays, amplitude modulators, envelope followers, pitch shifters, filters, and low frequency oscillators.
  • The Function Generator features nineteen waveshapes, a white noise generator, MIDI control, and a sidechain input.
  • All delays and LFOs can be locked to system tempo. Each delay can be looped and offers a low pass filter.
  • The filters are selectable band pass, high pass, and low pass with variable Q, and can be swept and modulated without audible artifacts.

  • Artists Using H3000 Factory

  • Andre Kelman

  • (Beastie Boys, Phoenix, Gogol Bordello, Cat Power)

  • Erin Tonkon

  • (David Bowie, Holy Holy, Esperanza Spalding)

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Rating


Value For Money

Sound Quality

General Ease of Use

Number of Presets


Windows

  • Windows 8 and later (64-bit only) (Windows 11 supported)
  • AAX, VST2, VST3 (64-bit only)

Mac

  • macOS 10.9 and later (64-bit only) (macOS 12 Monterey and M1 Apple Silicon supported)
  • AAX, AU, VST2, VST3 (64-bit only)
  • Please Note: AAX format is only compatible with Intel Macs (until Avid adds native M1 Apple Silicon support).

Important Notes:

  • Eventide tests their desktop plugins in Ableton Live, Cubase, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, and Studio One (However, our plugins should work with any compatible host.)
  • No iLok dongle is required to run this software - only a FREE iLok account/Manager is required for authorisation.

OS Compatibility




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