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Harmony and Tuning with the Voice Processor
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Chord (Chordal) Mode
Chordal harmonies take your chord information to create intelli-
gent, diatonic harmonies based on your voice. To make Chordal
harmonies, you need to input in real time the chords of the song.
This may be done either by playing on the keyboard, via MIDI or
through a programmed sequence of chords included in the Har-
mony Track of a Song.
In Chordal mode the Voice Processor will only create harmony
voices that fall on the notes of the chord. Chordal harmonies are
“intelligent” because they decipher the chord you’re playing and
the note you’re singing to produce musically pleasing harmonies.
When one note above is defined as a harmony voice (Up1), the
next note from the chord above the input note is output for that
harmony voice.
The subsequent illustration shows the harmony notes for the C
major scale with a voicing selection of a C major chord and a
single “one above”.
Root: C, Chord Type: Maj, Voicing: Up1
Black = Lead & Grey = Harmony
You might have noticed that each harmony note can cover more
than one input note, or that each input note doesn’t necessarily
have a unique harmony note. For instance, C and D both have E
as the 3rd above, E and F share G, and so on. This gives a more
stepped sound to the harmony as the changes are both greater in
magnitude and less frequent than when using other harmony
methods (shift mode for example). The benefit of this method is
that it is very easy to integrate vocal harmonies into your songs if
you already know their chord progressions! The following lists
the chords available with respect to the root of “C”:
Major C E G
6 C E G A
Maj7 C E G B
M7sus4 C F G B
min C Eb G
min6 C Eb G A
min7 C Eb G Bb
min7b5 C Eb Gb Bb
dim C Eb Gb [Bbb (= A)]
7 C E G Bb
7b5 C E Gb Bb
aug C E G#
aug7 C E G# Bb
sus4 C F G
sus2 C D G
7sus4 C F G Bb
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