User Manual

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Solo
Engaging a channel’s Solo Mode
causes that channel’s signal
to appear at the output and
simultaneously mutes any other
channels (Harmony Voice and/or Input Voice)
that are not also soloed.
When a channel’s Solo button is yellow, Solo
Mode in engaged on that channel. Click a
button to toggle its state.
NOTE: If both a channel’s Solo and
Mute buttons are pressed, Solo takes
precedence.
Mute
Engaging a Harmony Voice channel’s
Mute Mode causes that channel’s
signal to be muted from the output.
When a Mute button is blue, that
channel’s Mute Mode in engaged. Click a Mute
button to toggle its state.
NOTE: If both a channel’s Solo and
Mute buttons are pressed, Solo takes
precedence. However, if Solo is then
disengaged, the channel will then be muted.
ANOTHER NOTE: Moving a channel’s
Gain slider to its minimum setting
also results in completely muting its
output.
Throat Length
This control is used to
define the unique vocal
quality of a Harmony
Voice by actually
varying the geometry
of the channel’s model
vocal tract. It is used in
combination with the
Model Glottal control and
the various forms of pitch
shifting to define gender
and/or vocal quality.
The Throat Length control
allows you to lengthen or
shorten its Harmony Voice
channel’s modeled throat.
The range of this control
is .75 to 1.50. Values above 1.00 represent a
lengthening of the throat while values below
1.00 represent a shortening of the throat.
The actual values represent the percentage
change in the throat length. For example, a
value of 1.20 represents a 20% increase in
throat length, while a value of 0.80 represents a
20% decrease in throat length.
In addition to simply changing vocal timbre,
increasing throat length is useful when the
original input is female and you want the
Harmony Voices that are being shifted down
to sound male. Conversely, decreasing throat
length is useful when the original input is male
and you want the Harmony Voices that are
being shifted up to sound female or childlike.
NOTE: While this control gives you the
ability to radically change the throat
length, keep in mind that the variation
in the length of human vocal tracts is rarely
more than about 20% in either direction. If you
are looking for a “realistic” vocal characteristic,
start with modest settings of this control. More
extreme settings can produce dramatic results,
but probably not what anyone would call
“realistic.”
Command (Mac)/Control (PC) click the control
to reset it to its default value of 1.00.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This function is
specifically for changing the existing
quality of a voice, not for manual
formant compensation for pitch shifting.
Harmony Engine Evo automatically applies
appropriate formant correction when it shifts a
channel’s pitch.
Interval
The Interval popup
sets a Harmony Voice’s
pitch interval relative
to the original input
in Fixed Interval and
Smart Interval modes.
In both modes, the range is plus-or-minus two
octaves. In Fixed Interval mode, the popup
displays half-steps in the range -24 to +24. In
Smart Interval mode, the popup displays scale
degrees in the range 16va to 16vb.