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When you have programmed all of the chords
and any alternative voicings, you’re ready to
play your song and simply select the various
Harmony Presets at the appropriate times,
either manually (by clicking the buttons) or,
better yet, via automation.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In Chord Degrees
mode, the harmony notes are
generated independently of the actual
pitch of the original track. The original can be out
of tune (or even a monotone, for that matter),
but the harmony notes will still be perfectly
in tune with the A=440 pitch reference.
Chord Names Mode
When Chord Names mode is selected, the
Key/Root, Chord, Inversion, Register, and
Spread controls are enabled, while the Scale
popup and the Interval popups in the individual
harmony voice channels are disabled.
Chord Names mode is almost identical to
Chord Degrees mode, with the exception that
instead of setting a key and scale and then
defining the chords by scale degree, you define
each chord by its explicit name, independent of
the scale or key.
In Chord Names mode, the Key/Root popup
is used to define the root note of the chord.
(And yes, this is where the discussion
using Harmony Engine that depend on the
old functionality, you may have to modify your
button presets and/or any host automation of
the Key/Root and Scale popups.
NOTE: As mentioned in the
Register and Spread section, the
harmony notes will be assigned
to the various harmony channels such that
the lowest pitched note will be assigned to
the highest numbered active channel and
the progressively higher pitched notes will
be assigned in order to the progressively
lowered numbered active channels.
Once you get everything the way you want it,
assign the settings to a Harmony Preset button
as described below.
Repeat the process for each of the chords in
your song. If your song modulates, you can
either create a new host preset in the new
key or use automation to change the Key and/
or Scale setting to the new key (which, as
mentioned above, will automatically transpose
all of the chords to the new key).
A TIP: Keep in mind that you can, for
example, assign the same chord, but
with different Register and Spread
settings, to multiple Harmony Preset buttons so
that you can have different harmony voicings for
the same chord depending on where it appears
in your song.