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HARMONY BACKGROUND AND TIPS

Chapter overview

By now you’ve likely browsed through the harmony

presets in VoiceWorksPlus and are relatively familiar

with the harmony modes and features. This chapter

gives some background and tips to help you produce

the best harmony performances possible using

VoiceWorksPlus. Editing your settings is discussed in

the following chapter.

Why are there different harmony

modes?

For every note you sing, there are many notes that

could qualify as good sounding harmony notes. In order

to have VoiceWorksPlus “sing the right notes” you

need to feed it some information and this is done

through creating several harmony “modes”. Each

harmony mode requires different input from you and is

capable of producing unique harmonies from the same

vocal performance. We will use a little allegory to

explain.

When you and a fellow musician get together to play

and sing, typically some musical information is passed

from one to the other before commencing the song.

You do this in order to make sure the music sounds

pleasant and not discordant.The information can be as

simple as the name of a song you both know, a musical

key or even pointing out the chords on your

instrument. In this respect, VoiceWorksPlus is similar.

You will need to share some musical information in

order for it to do its job properly.The different ways in

which you can communicate this information to

VoiceWorksPlus are through the “harmony modes”.

Like your friend in our analogy, VoiceWorksPlus has

intelligence that can contribute to making good music.

You can choose to use this intelligence or not

depending on the chord structure of your song and the

harmony lines you have in mind.You make this choice

when choosing presets to produce harmony in your

song.

The factory presets are organized on the basis of the

five harmony modes:

 Chords

 Notes

 Scale

 Shift

 Combi

The “intelligent” harmony modes, Scale, Chords, and

Combi calculate an input note to output note

harmony “map” with the following inputs from you:

1. The note you’re singing at any given moment;

2. In Scale mode, the key and scale you’ve set at

the beginning of your song

3. In Chords mode, the chord root and type

interpreted by VoiceWorksPlus from your

incoming MIDI

4. In Combi mode, the key and scale you’ve set at

the beginning of your song plus any additional

MIDI chords you play to momentarily replace the

scale.

This map has an output note associated with every

input note.This creates a harmony melody that moves

with your lead melody while generally sounding

harmonically correct with your accompaniment.

The non-intelligent modes, Notes and Shift, each

have unique requirements so we will deal with them

individually:

The Notes harmony mode requires a MIDI keyboard

or other MIDI source to dictate to VoiceWorksPlus

what harmony notes you’d like to hear during your

lead melody. Once a harmony note or notes are held

down on your MIDI keyboard or MIDI track, this is

where they will stay regardless of your changing vocal

melody.

Shift mode follows the pitch of the lead melody a fixed

interval away. This is most useful for unison doubling,

octaves, special effects or Gothic-sounding 5ths. As

such, it’s not as useful for creating what we call

harmony which is usually made up of diatonic intervals

or those that vary their distance away from the sung

note depending on which note you are singing in a

scale.

See the following page for a comparison chart of the

harmony modes.

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