the output of the harmony effects block. Each effects block then returns its processed signal to an individual stereo return.

Quad: Selects mono in/quad out. Input from one auxiliary send is routed to the harmony processor. Four harmony voices are given discrete outputs to two stereo returns.

Control Mode

Manual: Any notes played on a MIDI keyboard become the harmony parts. These parts will stay on the note assigned by the keyboard even when your voice shifts to a new pitch. Using pitch bend and/or a modulation wheel, realistic expression is introduced.

SmartChord: Chords played from a MIDI

keyboard are interpreted by the Vocal Studio to create natural harmony parts that move in tandem with your voice.

SmartKey: Enter the key and scale once, at the beginning of a song, and the Vocal Studio automatically creates natural harmonies in real time. This mode produces the most common type of harmony in popular music.

Pitch Shift: Use this button to set a chromatic interval between the lead vocal and pitch-shifted voices to create true parallel melody lines. This is useful more for special effects than harmonies because our ear is tuned to the “moving third” interval that parallel (chromatic) harmonies don’t provide.

Edit–Harmony Ensemble

Interval: In SmartChord, SmartKey and Pitch Shift control modes, “Interval” determines how much higher or lower the harmony note is than the lead note. In SmartChord and Smart Key modes, the intervals are intelligent; that is, they will sharpen or flatten automatically to make the harmonies sound musically correct.

For Pitch Shift, the interval chosen is always in parallel with the lead, regardless of the key and scale.

Gender: The gender of each harmony voice can be changed to create mixed vocal ensembles without needing to see that special doctor in Sweden.

Detune: Who sings a perfect third? No one, really. “Detune” adjusts a harmony note’s pitch to be slightly above or below the exact note it is creating.

Volume: Controls the level for each harmony voice.

Pan: Controls the stereo placement of each harmony voice.

Styles: Styles are preset modifiers you can use to add realism to the harmony voices.

Timing: This allows you to control the entries of the harmony parts, from 10 millisecond to random delays.

Scoop: This controls how a harmony part slides into each note. Do they bend up to it? How much do they bend?

Vibrato: This controls the amount of vibrato in your harmony parts.

Envelope: This control is used with the “Manual” control mode. When in “Manual” control mode, a MIDI keyboard is used to trigger harmony notes. The “Envelope” control adjusts the attack and release timing of the harmony MIDI notes. This can add bite or smooth out the manual harmony sound.

Key/Scale: When the SmartKey control mode is used, the key and type of scale of the song must be selected for the intelligent harmony to choose musically correct harmonies.

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