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Chapter 4: Factory Presets
This chapter provides brief descriptions of the factory presets that ship with
Harmony Engine Evo.
Since it is extremely unlikely that any factory preset will be immediately useful
for any of your personal projects, we have designed the presets to demonstrate
various ways of using Harmony Engine Evo. Simply start with a vocal track whose key and chord
progression you know and run through the presets while reading their descriptions below.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Unlike synth
presets, which will always sound
the same for all users, the Harmony
Engine Evo presets are heavily dependent
on the vocal tracks that you use them on.
Consequently, they serve primarily as starting
points for various general usages, with the
expectation that you will tweak them to work
best with your particular track.
Specifically, they all contain the default
settings for the Tracking and Vocal Range
controls. After calling up a preset, you
must set each of those controls to reflect
your actual track.
Also, although the presets were designed with
vocal tracks in mind, feel free to experiment
with any preset on any source track. There are
no rules.
The Presets
In experimenting with the presets below, it is
important to keep the following points in mind:
•
The presets that use Scale Interval or
Chord Degrees mode are programmed
with the Harmony Preset buttons’ Key
and Scale parameters set to C Major.
Unless your composition is actually in C
Major, you must first change the various
preset buttons’ Key and Scale to the
correct settings for your composition.
•
Due to the differences in the way various
hosts deal with routing MIDI to plug-ins, we
have not included any presets that use the
various MIDI modes. To experiment with
the MIDI modes, use the Tutorial Sessions
described in Chapter 5.