Editing the Keyboard & Vocal Harmonizer parts
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■ Gender: Allows you to change the timbre of the
part. Negative values produce a “masculine” effect,
positive values add “feminine” qualities.
■ PanPot: Allows you to set the placement of the
corresponding part in the stereo sound image. This is
only meaningful if you connect the DisCover 5 to a
stereo amplifier. “64” corresponds to the center, the
values 0~63 to the left side (“0” being far left), and
65~127 to the right side (“127” being far right).
■ Volume: Allows you to set the level of the corre-
sponding part. Be aware that even the highest value
produces no audible effect if the [HARMONY] knob is
set all the way to “MIN”.
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Press the
[Common]
field to jump to the fol-
lowing page.
• Use the [PREV] and [NEXT] buttons to select the
parameter you wish to edit, and set the desired
value with the [VALUE] dial.
Parameter fields can also be selected by press-
ing them.
• Press the [Portamento] field to switch this effect
on. “Portamento” means that the pitch doesn’t
change in clearly defined steps: it produces
glides from one note to the next.
■ Portamento Time: Use this parameter to specify
the speed at which the glides are carried out. The
higher the value, the slower the transitions.
■ Random Tuning: This parameter allows you to
introduce subtle (or not-so-subtle) pitch inaccuracies
usually associated with analog synthesizers. Irrespec-
tive of the choice you make here (Low, Middle, High),
the effect will be noticeable, but never overly dra-
matic. Select “Off” if you do not need this effect.
■ Chord Intell: The Vocal Harmonizer usually orga-
nizes the added voices in a musically logical way
(making them suitable for jazz, ballads, etc.). Switch
this parameter on if you wish to obtain natural voic-
ings for the harmony parts added to your voice.
• Press [EXIT] or [Back≈to≈Small] to leave this page,
or [Part≈1–2] for even more control over the
Small effect.
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If you press the
[Equalizer]
field…
…the display looks as follows:
This page contains a simple equalizer for either
SMALL part, as well as an EQ band that applies
to both voices simultaneously for additional
flexibility.
• Use the [PREV] and [NEXT] buttons to select the
parameter you wish to edit, and set the desired
value with the [VALUE] dial.
Parameter fields can also be selected by press-
ing them.
[Equalizer] Press this field to switch all equalizers on
this page on or off. The equalizer can be used for two
things: (a) emphasizing a specific frequency range to
create a special effect or make the part more distin-
guishable; (b) to reduce the level of frequencies that
mask other sounds or produce a “boomy” sound.
■ Frequency Hz: Use this parameter to select the
frequency whose level you wish to change with the
Gain parameter. The smaller the value, the lower the
frequency that will be boosted or cut.
■ Gain: This parameter sets the level of the selected
frequency. “0” means that the frequency’s level does
not change (no difference between equalizer on and
off).
• Press [EXIT] (or [Back≈to≈VocalH]) to leave this
page.
Note: When one of the Vocal Equalizers is on (page 62),
the Vocoder, Small and Ensemble parts lose one voice
(so that 3 voices are available for Vocoder and Ensem-
ble, and 1 for Small).