User Manual

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Harmony Presets
The Harmony Preset system allows you
to assign combinations of harmony control
settings to each of 15 buttons for instant
recall, either manually or via automation. It
is a powerful tool, both for ease of creating
vocal arrangements and as a creative tool
for quickly and easily experimenting with a
variety of harmonic approaches. Particularly
in Chord Degrees or Chord Names
modes, assign a variety of chords to the
preset buttons and, with just a few clicks,
audition your vocal with an almost limitless
combination of harmonic structures.
Here’s how it works:
Harmony Presets store the value of the
following controls:
Harmony Source Inversion
Key/Root Register
Scale Spread
Chord
MIDI Velocity Sensitivity
Harmony Channel Intervals
Note that not all of the above controls are
available in every mode. When assigning
a Harmony Preset to a button, only those
controls that are active in the selected
Harmony Mode are remembered.
In normal operation, a button with a preset
assigned to it is blue and displays the first
five or six characters of the preset’s name. A
button with no preset assigned to it is gray and
displays no text.
NOTE: If you assign a preset to a
button without entering a name for it
in the Name field, you’ll end up with
a blue button (indicating that it has an assigned
preset) that displays no text (since it has no
name). In general, unless you have a really
good memory, this is a bad idea. Don’t do it.
When you click a button with a preset
assigned, the preset’s full name will
appear in the Harmony Preset Name
field and the various harmony controls
will be set to their preset values.
To assign a new preset to a button:
1. Set the controls listed above as desired.
2. Click in the Name field below the Harmony
Preset buttons and type a name for
the preset. Remember, the first 5 or
6 characters will be displayed on the
button, so try to pick something that will
remind you what each preset is about.
3. Click the Preset Assign button. The
button will flash red and all of the
Harmony Preset buttons will turn blue.
4. Click on the Harmony Preset button to
which you want to assign the preset.
The Assign button will stop flashing
and all unassigned Preset buttons will
once again turn gray. The selected
button will remain blue and its preset
name text will be displayed.
If you assign the new preset to a button that
already has a preset assigned to it, the new
preset will overwrite the old one.