TC Electronic Harmony4 TDM - Manual (Page 10)

Note Source and Input Note (Only available in Scale Mode)
These parameters help you to create custom scales for times when the lead
voice melody, the harmony voice(s) and the musical accompaniment don’t
sound correct on certain notes. You can edit the individual harmony notes of all
four voices (if they are all enabled) for each input note.
When Note Source is set to "Manual", you can select the Input Note with your
mouse and then edit the resulting note or notes produced by the harmony
voices. When Note Source is set to "Sung", the Input Note is determined by the
pitch of the singer.
Output Note
Each of the 4 harmony voices can produce a different harmony note for every
given input (sung note). Use these parameters to set the desired output note for
each enabled voice.
The Humanize Tab
TC-Helicon’s Humanize settings make the harmony voices sound more natural
or even wildly effected if you prefer. You can select a pre-programmed
Humanize style or start with the “Off” style and experiment with each parameter.
Style
This parameter contains preset values for all the parameters in the Humanize
block. It provides quick access to different qualities of performance.
Portamento
Portamento sets the time in milliseconds to reach a target note when a harmony
voice changes pitch.
Smoothing
This setting determines how in-tune the harmony pitches are in relation to your
sung pitch. It is most effective in Scale mode but it can also be useful in Notes
and Chords modes to “naturalize” the fixed pitches coming from a MIDI
keyboard. At Smoothing settings near zero, the harmony voices will be pitch-
corrected which may make them sound too stepped without a little portamento.
Settings near 100 allow the lead singer to float between pitches with the
harmony voices following closely. This high value of Smoothing sounds the
most real in Scale mode if the input voice is in tune but a value of 50 to 70 is
best for the MIDI modes.
Detune
With the Detune Parameter, a tiny, fixed amount of pitch shift is applied uniquely
to each of the harmony voices. This creates a thicker, chorus-like effect when
applied to harmony voices set to similar pitches.
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