TC electronic SDN BHD Harmony4 user manual Humanize Tab

Note Source and Input Note (Only available in Scale Mode)

These parameters help you to create custom scales for times when the lead voice melody, the harmony voice(s) and the musical accompaniment don’t sound correct on certain notes. You can edit the individual harmony notes of all four voices (if they are all enabled) for each input note.

When Note Source is set to "Manual", you can select the Input Note with your mouse and then edit the resulting note or notes produced by the harmony voices. When Note Source is set to "Sung", the Input Note is determined by the pitch of the singer.

Output Note

Each of the 4 harmony voices can produce a different harmony note for every given input (sung note). Use these parameters to set the desired output note for each enabled voice.

The Humanize Tab

TC-Helicon’s Humanize settings make the harmony voices sound more natural or even wildly effected if you prefer. You can select a pre-programmed Humanize style or start with the “Off” style and experiment with each parameter.

Style

This parameter contains preset values for all the parameters in the Humanize block. It provides quick access to different qualities of performance.

Portamento

Portamento sets the time in milliseconds to reach a target note when a harmony voice changes pitch.

Smoothing

This setting determines how in-tune the harmony pitches are in relation to your sung pitch. It is most effective in Scale mode but it can also be useful in Notes and Chords modes to “naturalize” the fixed pitches coming from a MIDI keyboard. At Smoothing settings near zero, the harmony voices will be pitch- corrected which may make them sound too stepped without a little portamento. Settings near 100 allow the lead singer to float between pitches with the harmony voices following closely. This high value of Smoothing sounds the most real in Scale mode if the input voice is in tune but a value of 50 to 70 is best for the MIDI modes.

Detune

With the Detune Parameter, a tiny, fixed amount of pitch shift is applied uniquely to each of the harmony voices. This creates a thicker, chorus-like effect when applied to harmony voices set to similar pitches.

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