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Once you do this, play a chord with your left hand and then play sounds with your right. You will notice that as you
play, the SD9 PRO will generate harmony notes to supplement the notes you play, based on the chords played by
your left hand. The harmony type used can be selected by pressing and holding down the HARMONY button for 2
seconds to display the various harmony types which you can scroll through by turning the data wheel and selecting
by touching the harmony type on the screen.
The most efficient way to utilize this feature is to be in SPLIT/ARRANGER MODE (
STYLE button should be ON,
PIANIST button OFF
). When you play lead voices to the RIGHT of the split point, harmonies are instantly added to
these voices based on the chords to play to the LEFT of the split point of the keyboard.
SELECTING HARMONY TYPES:-
By pressing and holding down the
HARMONY
button (
as mentioned
above
), the screen will display the various harmony types to choose from.
Fig. 31. Adding Harmony notes to lead voices
Touch the harmony type you want (
or turn the data wheel to reveal even more
). Now play a chord to the left and a
lead voice to the right and listen to how the SD9 PRO instantly adds harmony to your lead voice.
2.L - ASSIGNING HARMONY TYPES TO YOUR VOICES
You can assign which harmony types are used automatically with your voices or if you choose to layer voices,
which voices the automatic harmonies will be added to and which will be ignored, or further still … set which
harmony type to apply to which of your layered voices once this voice is recalled (USER VOICE). This has already
been described above in Fig 16 (Screen Page 4/6) on page
19
.
Please note that these harmonies referred to above, are for the voices you play on the keyboard and not what you
sing through the microphone (VOCAL HARMONIES). VOCAL HARMONIES are covered below (
6.B
VOICETRON – Page
121
).
2.M - INSTANTLY DOUBLE A LEAD VOICE (DOUBLE) – ADD A NOTE ABOVE/BELOW YOURS
Ever play a brass instrument on a regular keyboard and notice how ‘thin’ it sounds compared to the real thing? To
do so properly, you would have to play with both hands where one hand would play an octave higher than the other
so as to create the same sound as a live band would. On an arranger keyboard (
such as the SD9 PRO
), this becomes
a little tricky especially since your left hand is usually focused on playing chords. To accomplish this, the
DOUBLE
