Short answer: RysUpHarmony is $29.99, gives you the same eight voices, and costs the same next week. Waves Harmony lists at $199. It was $39.99 on 3 September 2026 because a sale happened to be running. That is the whole problem with pricing your plugin at $199 and discounting it 80% most weeks: nobody knows what it is worth, including the people selling it.
What Waves Harmony does
It generates up to 8 voices from one vocal, with three ways to drive them — Automatic using chord presets, MIDI so you can play harmonies as you sing, and Graphic so you can draw each voice. There are 450+ presets, and per-voice pitch, formant, panning, delay, filtering and modulation. It is a capable plugin, and Waves built it well.
It also lists at $199, needs a Waves account and Waves' licence manager, and the price you pay depends entirely on which week you shop.
The rest of the category
iZotope Nectar 4 — $199, and you cannot buy the harmony on its own
Harmony in Nectar is the Voices module, and Voices only ships inside Nectar 4 Standard ($199) or Advanced ($299). If you want harmony you buy a whole vocal suite to get it. The module itself is preset-driven: find a preset near the sound you want, then tweak.
Antares Harmony Engine — $150, or $17.50 every month forever
Four independent voices, thickened by Choir into as many as 16. Listed at $150 on 3 September 2026, down from $250 — another moving target — or $17.50/month if you would rather never stop paying. Four independent voices is half what Waves and RysUpHarmony give you.
Stacking your DAW's pitch shifter
Free and bad. A pitch shifter does not know your key, so a fixed third goes wrong the moment the melody moves. Fine for one held note, unusable for a song.
RysUpHarmony — $29.99
Eight voices. Twenty-nine ninety-nine. Every week, not just sale week.
Every other harmoniser in this category asks somewhere between five and ten times that, or asks for a monthly payment that never ends. RysUpHarmony is one price, paid once, and it does the thing they all do — with the one control none of them give you.
You see what every voice sings on every note
The others hand you a preset browser and a chord mode. RysUpHarmony puts the whole map on screen: one row per voice, one column per note you might sing, and the cell where they meet is the interval that voice takes. A third on the verse root, a fifth where the melody turns, unison where you want thickness instead of harmony. Click a cell and change it. That is the whole workflow, and nothing else in the category exposes it.
Everything the expensive ones have
- 8 independent voices — matching the most expensive plugin in the category, double what Antares gives you
- Chord following — each voice takes a role in the chord it hears from a sidechain, MIDI, or its own song map
- 125 factory stacks — tight pop thirds, gospel walls, indie fifths, choir pads, doubler beds, jazz sevenths
- Per-voice level, pan, formant, tone, timing drift and pitch drift — so eight voices sound like eight singers, not one voice copied eight times
- Unison voices double you instead of retuning you, so a doubler thickens the lead rather than fighting it
- macOS and Windows, AU / VST3 / AAX, no iLok, no dongle, no subscription
It is also included with the Rys Up Suite, along with every paid plugin we release while your access is active.
The bottom line
Every plugin on this page makes vocal harmonies. Only one of them costs $29.99 every day of the year, gives you eight voices, and lets you decide what each voice sings on each note instead of hunting for a preset that nearly fits.
Competitor prices were read from each vendor's own product page on 3 September 2026. Waves and Antares were both discounting that day, and their sale prices move constantly — ours does not.