Yamaha PSR-8000

Vocal Harmony

■Selecting a VOCAL HARMONY Type..................

The VOCAL HARMONY types are selected via the FULL

MIXING CONSOLE EFFECT TYPE display in the same way

as the other PSR-8000 effects — see page 42 for details.

■Producing the VOCAL HARMONY Effect...........................................................................................................

The vocal harmony effect will be added to your voice. Depending on the selected VOCAL HARMONY type, you

may also have to use the AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT feature and/or play the PSR-8000 keyboard to produce

appropriate harmony (see “The Vocal Harmony Modes”, page 85).

When using commercially available software which includes a Vocal HarmonyL track, press the [SONG

SELECT] button to go to the SONG SELECT display and use the VOCAL HARM. LCD dial to specify the

Vocal Harmony track. Then go to the FULL MIXING CONSOLE EFFECT TYPE display by pressing the

[VOCAL HARMONY (8)] button while holding the [DIRECT ACCESS] button, and select one of the

“Karaok****” VOCAL HARMONY types. (When using an XG song which includes a Vocal Harmony

track, the appropriate settings will be made automatically when the song is selected.)

The VOCAL HARMONY effect has a range of parameters

which can be edited to customize the sound to suit your

individual needs. The parameters are accessed via the FULL

MIXING CONSOLE EFFECT PARAMETER display as de-

scribed on page 42.

The effect USER SET function makes it possible to save up

to 3 effect setups for the VOCAL HARMONY feature — details

on page 43.

The Vocal Harmony Parameters

Type Determines how the harmony notes are applied. The Types are divided into four categories or “modes”:

Chordal, Vocoder, Detune, and Chromatic — see “The Vocal Harmony Modes”, below, for details. The

available values will depend on the mode to which the selected Type belongs.

Harmony Gender Can be set to “Off” or “Auto”. When “Auto”, the gender of the harmony sound is changed automatically.

Lead Gender Type Determines whether and how the gender of the lead vocal sound (i.e. the direct microphone sound) will

be changed. When “Off” no gender change occurs. When ”Unison”, “Male” or “Female” is selected the

corresponding gender change is applied to the lead vocal (in this case the number of harmony notes

which can be produced in addition to the lead vocal is reduced to one).

Type