HoRNet Harmonics Pro 1.0.1 is available, this update is free for owners of our Audio Exciter and includes:
- Fixed crash with Pro Tools on windows
- Fixed crackling noise when moving harmonics sliders
Control up to 10 harmonics of excitement
HoRNet Harmonics Pro is a cutting-edge audio plugin designed to provide users with an advanced harmonic shaping experience. Based on the popular free version, Harmonics, this enhanced edition gives music producers, audio engineers, and sound designers a suite of powerful tools for adding depth, warmth, and character to any sound. Whether you are refining a mix or crafting a completely new tone, HoRNet Harmonics Pro ensures full control over your harmonic enhancement process.
A High-Precision Audio Exciter
At its core, HoRNet Harmonics Pro acts as a sophisticated audio exciter, introducing harmonics to the incoming signal in a way that emulates analog hardware. Users can add up to 10 independent harmonics, each of which can be tweaked individually in terms of amplitude and phase. This level of control makes the plugin a versatile tool for shaping tone and enhancing the presence of any audio track.
Each harmonic can be adjusted not only in volume but also in its phase alignment, offering precise tonal sculpting. This allows for either subtle enhancement or bold, transformative effects that make a track stand out in a mix. Whether applied to vocals, drums, bass, or synthesizers, the harmonics can bring out the hidden richness in any element of your production.
More Than Just Harmonics: A Complete Saturation Engine
Beyond its primary function as an audio exciter, HoRNet Harmonics Pro integrates several saturation and clipping modules, each inspired by classic analog circuits. The saturation stage offers dynamic harmonic distortion, giving users the ability to simulate tube warmth or transformer thickness. The clipper section ensures that audio levels stay under control while still maintaining a musical edge.
Another highlight is the hysteresis module, which emulates the memory effect found in vintage hardware like magnetic tape and vacuum tubes. This module adds realistic nonlinear behavior to the signal, delivering movement and organic quality that is often missing from digital audio processing. The result is a sound that feels alive, evolving with every note.
Pre-Emphasis and De-Emphasis Filters for Tone Sculpting
One of the most powerful features in the plugin is the inclusion of pre-emphasis and de-emphasis EQ filters. These filters allow users to emphasize certain frequency ranges before the harmonic generation process and then compensate after saturation. This provides surgical control over which parts of the spectrum are affected most by harmonic processing.
With this feature, producers can target specific frequency ranges—such as enhancing high-end presence or thickening the midrange—without introducing unwanted artifacts. The result is a cleaner, more controlled harmonic profile, tailored precisely to the needs of each mix. This filtering capability also gives users greater flexibility in achieving genre-specific tonal balance.
Input, Output, and Master Control
HoRNet Harmonics Pro is designed with ease of use in mind. The input and output gain knobs are linked by a gain compensation feature, making level matching straightforward and helping users avoid gain staging issues. This is particularly useful when integrating the plugin into complex production chains or mastering setups.
The master harmonic level fader offers global control over the amount of harmonic processing, allowing users to dial in the exact intensity of the effect. Combined with individual harmonic controls, this global parameter makes the plugin adaptable to a wide range of applications, from subtle mix sweetening to aggressive sound design. You can use this flexibility to craft signature sound profiles or adapt the plugin to different instruments or voices.
Intelligent Oversampling for Audio Integrity
To maintain high audio fidelity, HoRNet Harmonics Pro includes an intelligent oversampling system. The plugin automatically selects the most appropriate oversampling rate based on the project’s sample rate. This minimizes aliasing and ensures that all harmonic processing is smooth and transparent, even at extreme settings.
Unlike plugins that require manual oversampling adjustments, this automatic system saves time and guarantees top-tier sound quality with minimal CPU impact. Whether working at 44.1 kHz or 192 kHz, users can trust that HoRNet Harmonics Pro delivers consistent and professional results. It’s optimized for both modern digital workflows and classic production techniques.
Modern, Resizable GUI
The graphical interface of HoRNet Harmonics Pro is both visually appealing and functionally efficient. Built with vector graphics and supporting hardware acceleration via OpenGL and Metal, the GUI is fully resizable to fit any screen size or workflow. Its responsive performance ensures a smooth user experience, even when automating parameters in real-time.
The clean layout organizes all controls into clearly defined sections, making it easy to navigate through harmonic settings, filter controls, and output parameters. Whether you’re working on a laptop or a high-resolution studio monitor, the plugin adapts seamlessly to your setup, supporting a fast and intuitive creative process.
A Tool for Every Audio Professional
HoRNet Harmonics Pro stands out as a multi-functional tool for professionals across the audio spectrum. Its ability to blend saturation, harmonic enhancement, and dynamic tone control makes it invaluable in music production, mixing, mastering, and sound design.
From adding subtle analog-style warmth to pushing the boundaries of creative sound processing, HoRNet Harmonics Pro gives users everything needed to enhance and elevate their audio. With its intelligent processing engine, intuitive controls, and robust features, this plugin represents the next level in harmonic processing.
If you’re looking to breathe new life into your recordings, add depth to sterile digital tracks, or sculpt a signature tone, HoRNet Harmonics Pro is the tool to reach for. It combines technical precision with artistic flexibility, empowering users to achieve professional-grade sound with every session.
Demo
The demo is fully functional except for the fact that every now and then it will silence out, you cannot save parameter values with your session and the plugin will not respond to automation coming from the host.
Features
- Up to 10 different harmonics can be added to original signal
- Master control for harmonics level
- Soft clipper
- Pre emphasis and de emphasis eq with up to 4 different filters
- Hysteresis simulation (transformer, tube and magnetic tape behavior)
- Input and output level can be linked to keep level constant
- Separate dry and wet controls
- Intelligent oversampling that allows the plugin to always work internally at 192Khz
- Vector user interface which is sharp on every resolution
- Freely resizable user interface
- Apple Silicon native support (except for AAX)
- macOS (10.11 and later) and Windows (Vista and later) support.
- 64-bit on Mac and Windows.
- Audio Units, VST, VST3 and AAX format.
Copy protection
The HoRNet Harmonics Pro has no copy protection, we don’t believe in copy protection, they are always cracked and they are annoying for the users, we all know you are not going to give away the plugin on the internet…
So simply download the plugin and enjoy your recordings!
I wish I had met him before, it would save me a lot to be able to decipher what I need from an audio because with it I can create body and excite without so much goatee… it's excellent and it doesn't come out of my daily work template… it goes from first in the chain!
Used Harmonics Pro on a fretless bass track… OMG, how easily it transformed the track into a richer, more gorgeous sounding track.. Have to try it next on fretted bass tracks, but this plugin will be a staple on my bass tracks, it is so good..
Amazing six star assesment!!! It can add from a little bit warmth to total overdriven, that a bass synth begins to cry hard,
So maybe the description is a little bit confusing in product description but at the point from manual.. `"HoRNet Harmonics Pro is an exciter, saturation and clipper processor" …a.bit transient shaper (resonance filter)
So i played with it for drum shaping, in a chain of HA2A, XTRESSOR NUKE, Harmonics Pro, Hornet Tape US30 and it transforms the sound, that I got this mother…ing bass in my face, what i really liked at the turn of the millennium
I quiet used expensive harware for colouring what will give you a little more precise balance maybe, but HarmonicsPro has this input and wet dial what can compensate this in most terms for tracking.
At all try pre emphasis and demphasis EQ in opposite directions and you can switch the kick from original DJ Rush overdriven, to tight sounding Dj Hell kicks. So maybe this explanation is difficult to understand for more instrumental based musiciancs, but i want demonstrate its potential in sound mangeling.
I can only compare it with discontinued FXpansions Etch Red in Propellerhead Reason, what is still awfull complicated in comparison with HarmonicsPro. If you drive the several band controls by a cv generator, or only add a single lfo to control the M dial and you will get this oscilating background brizzl sound of Ellen Aliens Dataromance TokTok remix.
Nice work, a absolute must have for experimental drum shaping and extreme saturation/crunch.. Just now I still have written, please give us a multiband resonance filter, but similar has already been programmed for a long time 🙂
This is a very handy plugin, You can get a lot of warmth and tone from it. For the price its a no brainer.. Good sound manipulation.