User Manual

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MIDI Omni Mode
When MIDI Omni mode is selected, all other
section controls (apart form the Assign and
Delete buttons) and the Interval popups in the
individual harmony voice channels are disabled.
In MIDI Omni mode, you are in fact directly
“playing” the harmony channels (again, either
live from a controller or via a pre-recoded MIDI
track).
A TIP: Keep in mind that there are
only four available harmony voices,
so limit your MIDI input to no more
than four notes at a time. That’s easy to do
when creating a MIDI track, but if you’re playing
a controller live, watch out for sloppy fingering,
as having five or more notes playing at once will
result in voice stealing that may or may not be
objectionable.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In MIDI Omni
mode, there is no way to guarantee
that a particular note will be assigned
to a particular harmony voice channel. While
Harmony EFX does its best to assign the
lowest note to the highest numbered active
channel, depending on your fingering, that
may not always be possible. Setting different
harmony voices to different Gain, Pan, and/
or Throat Length settings will almost certainly
result in harmony lines jumping from timbre to
timbre, which may or may not be acceptable.
As a result, this mode is most useful (or, at
least, most predictable) when all active harmony
voices are set to the same settings.
MIDI Channels Mode
When MIDI Channels mode is selected, all
other section controls (apart form the Assign
and Delete buttons) and the Interval popups
in the individual harmony voice channels are
disabled.
This is the mode to use when you want to
have absolute control over every note of your
harmony arrangement.
In MIDI Channels mode, channels 1-4 of the
MIDI bus assigned to Harmony EFX are routed
to the matching numbered harmony voice
channels. While it’s conceivable that you could
split a controller into four zones and use it live
in this mode, its main purpose is for executing
harmony arrangements where you can be
assured that individual harmony lines will always
be realized by the desired harmony voice.