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/
EQ
, MIX and FX 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.
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VoicePrism User Manual Vocals: Smooth Shift, Stepped Shift, Chordal
