User Manual

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Fixed Interval Mode
When Fixed Interval mode is selected, the
Interval popups in the individual harmony
voice channels are enabled and all of the other
controls in the Harmony
Control section (apart
form the Assign and
Delete buttons) are
disabled.
In this mode, each enabled harmony voice
tracks the original input at the interval defined
by the number of semi-tones up or down
selected in the voice’s Interval popup.
Since no allowance is made for diatonic scale
tones, using this mode in conventional diatonic
harmony with any intervals aside from octaves
will almost certainly result is dissonant, out-of-
scale notes. As a result, this mode is best for
drones, chants and other applications where
absolutely parallel harmony is desired.
NOTE: In Fixed Interval mode,
all of the input audio’s pitch
gestures are followed regardless
of the Naturalize setting. Increasing the
Naturalize setting above 0 will actually
expand the range of those gestures.
Scale Interval Mode
When Scale Interval mode is selected, the Key/
Root and Scale popups are enabled (along with
the Interval popups in the individual harmony
voice channels) and all of the other controls in
the Harmony Control section (apart form the
Assign and Delete buttons) are disabled.
In Scale Interval mode, each harmony voice
tracks the original input at the interval defined by
the scale degree selected in its Interval popup in
combination with the Key and Scale settings.
In contrast to the Fixed Interval mode, this
mode always chooses harmony notes that fall
in the selected key and scale. For example, If
you have selected C Major as the key and set a
harmony voice’s Interval popup to +3rd, when
the input is C, the harmony voice will sound at
E (a major 3rd). However, when the input is D,
the harmony voice will sound at F (a minor 3rd).
IMPORTANT NOTE: An exception
to the above is when Unison or any
Octave interval is selected. In that
case, the harmony voice will track the input
note-for-note, regardless of whether they are
scale notes or not.