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The Edit Button
HARMONY Tab Overview
The Harmony block in VoiceLive Rack produces
up to 8 harmony voices and is the home of the
Choir effect.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The parameters available on
the HARMONY Tab and their organization differs
depending on the value of the NATURALPLAY
parameter at the bottom of the tab. This section
begins by describing the most common NATU-
RALPLAY harmony mode: AUTO INPUT SENSE.
Following the parameter descriptions for AUTO
INPUT SENSE, exceptions and differences for the
other NATURALPLAY modes are listed.
f STYLE
Use the soft knob assigned to this parameter to
choose a Harmony style you like. Styles configure
useful settings to pre-programmed values to al-
low you to make changes quickly. The selection of
styles will change depending on the setting of the
NATURALPLAY parameter.
f LEVEL
Sets the level for the overall Harmony effect in
the current preset.
f V1 to V4 VOICING
Here you set the pitch shift intervals of voices 1
through 4 relative to your input pitch. The names
of the intervals change depending on NATURAL-
PLAY mode. In the two MIDI NOTES modes,
the VOICING parameters disappear entirely. The
options start at the lowest harmony interval and
go the highest.
f V1 to V4 LEVEL
The four knobs control the relative volume of
each voice. This is also where voices are turned
on an off. The range of values goes from Off to
0 dB (Full). Typically all voices are set at the same
level unless you want to highlight or minimize a
particular voicing interval.
f V1 to V4 GENDER
Each voice has its own timbre adjustment in the
form of the GENDER control. Values below 0
lend each voice a more masculine and deeper ef-
fect and values above 0 lend a more feminine or
thinner effect.
f V1 to V4 PAN
Each voice may have a unique pan position. There
are 100 possible steps in each of the left and right
pan positions. Note that the Setup parameter:
OUTPUT must be set to STEREO in order to
hear the panning effect.
f DOUBLING and DOUBLE LEVEL
This can thicken the sound of your harmony voic-
es by engaging a doubled version of each voice.
The doubled voices are lightly humanized with
modifications of the current HUMANIZE STYLE
values in order to produce a doubled voice effect
rather than simply adding level. When the value
of either the HUMANIZE STYLE or AMOUNT
is Off or 0 respectively, the doubled harmony
voices are still slightly humanized. The level of the
doubling voice is dependent on the level of each
harmony voice, then by the overall doubling level
parameter; DBL LEVEL.
f CHOIR, CHOIR LEV and CHOIR
STYLE
The Choir effect strives to emulate the detuning,
timing and chorusing that occurs when human
voices sing together in choral performances and
recordings. The Choir effect is applied to the
Harmony voices and the Harmony Doubling and
Double voices if they are active. CHOIR ON/OFF