User Guide

• Chromatic These two Harmony types are for more

specific uses. Chromatic doesn't require

any special musical control. Used in Unison

presets to thicken the sound of the Lead vocal.

• Pitch Correct Pitch Correct can take input from a pitch bend

wheel, front panel keyboard or a MIDI note.

Chordal

You can tell a program is based on Chordal harmony when the upper right

hand character of the display shows “:C”. You will also see first letter of

the harmony style name shown in lower case letters (e.g. maj, min, maj7).

To use a Chordal harmony program, you must input each chord in your

song as it occurs. Chord input can come from chords you play on a MIDI

keyboard or from the front panel harmony controls. The Studio Vocalist

EX has intelligent MIDI chord recognition to interpret the chord inversions

you play to produce correct harmonies.

A chord has two parts: the root note and the type. An example of this

would be an A major 7th chord which has “A” as its root and “major 7th”

as its type.

Uses: provides a constant chordal harmony “bed” that stays on the current-

ly selected chord. Chordal harmonies automatically move harmony inter-

vals so that they sound correct over your lead voice melody.

For examples of Chordal harmony, choose any of the Programs 21

through 30. Choose a root note on the front panel keyboard and sing. As

you sing, use the softkeys to switch between major, minor and the other

chord types, and listen to how the harmony voices change.

Style naming conventions: The first 3 to 4 characters of the name show

the chord type such as maj, min, dom7 etc. The 2 to 7 characters following

the chord type show the arrangement of the harmony voices above and

below your voice. The number with an arrow beside it shows how many

scale intervals away from the input note the harmony will be and whether

it is above or below. The B character shows that a bass voice is present that

will move less than the other voices. Fixed means that the harmony voices

will move less too.

Scalic

You can tell a program is based on Scalic harmonies when the upper right

hand character of the display shows “:S”. The first letter of the harmony

style name is capitalized (e.g. Maj1 and Min1). Scalic harmony programs

require that you to enter the key and scale which usually needs to be done

only once at the beginning of your song. In western popular music, the

chords often revolve around a single scale such as A major where “A” is

the key and “major” is the scale around which all the chords of the song are

centered.