Yamaha PLG100-VH

Harmony Parameters

3. Lead Gender Type (L.GendrTyp)

Settings: off, unis (unison), male, fem. (female)

The PLG100-VH also produces a “lead” voice sound that can be mixed with har-

mony notes. These settings determine whether the gender of the lead voice can be

changed or not. It also lets you set the gender. When this is set to “off,” the gender of

the lead voice cannot be changed. When this is set to “unis” (unison), the lead voice

is reproduced at the same pitch as the voice; however, the gender can be changed by

using the Lead Gender Depth parameter below. The “male” and “fem.” (female)

settings reproduce the voice with the respective male or female vocal qualities. (To

finely adjust the quality of the lead voice, use the Lead Gender Depth parameter

below.)

• When Lead Gender Type is set to “unis,” “male,” or “fem.,” the amount of harmony notes is

reduced from three to two.

About the Lead and Harmony Voices

The PLG100-VH also produces a “lead” voice sound that can be mixed with the automatically pro-

duced harmony voices.

The PLG100-VH in effect “copies” your actual voice to create the lead voice. The lead voice then can

be altered both in pitch and gender, just as with the harmony voices.

To properly use the lead voice, make sure to set the following parameters:

Lead Gender Type.................. “unis,” “male,” or “fem.”

Lead Gender Depth ................ Set to desired/appropriate value.

Lead/Harmony Balance .......... Set to desired/appropriate value.

(For values at or near the maximum of “L<H63,” lead may not

sound.)

You can control the pitch of the lead voice separately from the harmonies. One useful application

would be to have melody and harmony data on different tracks/MIDI channels of sequencer song data

— the melody track would control the pitch of the lead voice, while the harmony track would control the

harmonies. This would ensure that all vocal parts stay in tune with each other and with the song —

even if your actual singing is slightly off pitch!

To control the pitch of the lead voice from a connected MIDI keyboard or sequencer (separate from the

harmonies), make the following settings:

Pitch Correction ..................... “on”

Melody Channel (page 24) ..... Set to same channel as the MIDI device. (Match this to the melody

track of the song data.)

Harmony Channel (page 24).. Set to different value from Melody Channel.

(Match this to the harmony track of the song data.)