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MODE

The

MODE

Menu tab allows you to change the harmony modes in a particular preset.

Harmony and harmony modes are described in greater and more educational detail

in Appendix A: Harmony. In this menu you can scroll through your possible harmo-

ny modes by turning any of the softknobs or the data wheel. Your harmony mode

selections are:

No Vocals

Just what it says.

COMP

MIX

and

controls are valid, but you have no harmo-

ny voices.

Smooth Shift

Shifts chromatic harmonies in semitones relative to the lead voice. This mode does-

n’t make use of VoicePrism’s intelligent harmony features. Presets using Shift harmo-

ny contain unison and fixed semitone interval harmonies: they do not require key or

scale information.

SMOOTH SHIFT

is so named because it allows harmony notes to follow

the lead voice smoothly between semitones.

Great for thickening up a vocal (live, recorded, group or solo) by adding slightly

detuned unison for a richer lead and octave above and below for stronger octave

doubling.

Stepped Shift

Identical to

SMOOTH SHIFT

, except that the harmony notes snap to the next semitone

instead of smoothly graduating between semitones. Thus your harmonies will be in

pitch, even when your lead voice is not.

Provides pitch corrected shifted (fixed interval) harmonies.

Chordal

Chordal harmonies follow your voice to stay in tune with the chord currently being

played on your keyboard. To create harmonies you must input your song’s chords

as they occur via a MIDI keyboard or other controller. Each chord consists of a

chord root and type; for example an A major 7th chord has “A” as the root and

“major 7th” as the type.

CHORDAL

mode is handy when you want to play a keyboard

and sing without worrying too much about which harmony note goes where, as

VoicePrism does all of the theoretical work for you.

Furnishes continuous harmony support on the input chord and intelligently shifts the

harmony intervals to stay within range of the lead voice melody.

VoicePrism User Manual

Vocals: Smooth Shift, Stepped Shift, Chordal