Mackie Digital 8 Bus Owner's Manual page 212

Styles
In "Styles," you can create that extra amount
of personality and realism for your harmony
voices. Each style is controlled by a spin dial.
Spin the dial up or down to change the param-
eter; all of the Style parameters are adjusted
globally for each harmony voice.
Timing adjusts the entrances of the har-
mony voices. With "Timing" turned off, the
harmony voices enter at the same time as the
lead voice. Each timing parameter delays the
harmony voices from the lead vocal. Just like
tuning, no group of singers sings the notes at
exactly the same time. The timing presets have
been created using individual delays for each
voice. Additionally, some time delay presets
use randomization. Randomization randomly
creates delay time for each voice from 0 delay
to the delay time specified. The timing presets
are listed below.
Number Name Delay
0 Off none
1 Tight Mix between 5 and 12ms
2 Medium Mix between 10 and 32ms
3 Loose Mix between 20 and 36ms
4 5ms + Rand. Max. Delay of 5ms
5 10ms +Rand. Max. Delay of 10ms
6 20ms +Rand. Max. Delay of 20ms
7 30ms +Rand. Max. Delay of 30ms
8 40ms +Rand. Max. Delay of 40ms
9 50ms +Rand. Max. Delay of 50ms
10 80ms +Rand. Max. Delay of 80ms
Scoop adjusts how a voice attacks a note.
Even professional singers never hit a note right
on pitch. They hit their note slightly lower than
the pitch they are aiming for and then "scoop"
up to the correct note. The scoop presets are
created using the amount of scoop (how far be-
low the note) and how long it takes for the
harmony voice to scoop to the actual note.
Number Name Description
0 Off no scooping
1 The Pros#1 low amount, fast rate scooping
2 The Pros#2 high amount, medium-fast rate scooping
3 Semi Pro#1 low amount, medium-slow rate scooping
4 Semi Pro#2 high amount, slow rate scooping
5 Swoopy low amount, very slow rate scooping
Vibrato adds another level of human quality
to the harmony voices. The majority of singers
use some amount of vibrato. Basically, Vibrato
is like the modulation wheel on a keyboard,
which modulates a harmony voice's pitch by a
small amount. The Vibrato presets are based
on the amount of modulation, the rate of the
modulation, and when the modulation starts.
Number Name
0 off
1 Light
2 Medium
3 Heavy
4 Light & Fast
5 Med & Fast
6 Heavy & Fast
7 Light & Slow
8 Med & Slow
9 Heavy & Slow high depth, slow rate with onset delay
10 Chorale
Portamento is used to limit the hard step-
ping between moving harmony notes.
Portamento can add realism to the movement
of harmonies. With Portamento, each harmony
note slides into the next at a selected rate. The
rates are selected with the Portamento spin
dial from 0 (fastest) to 10 (slowest).
PitchBend Range sets the pitch bend range
that can be applied to the harmony voices using
a MIDI device. The pitch bend range can be set
from 0 to 12 semitones.
Key/Scale is an edit mode used only in
"SmartKey" mode. The use of Key/Scale is
described farther on under the "SmartKey"
Randomization
section.
none
Envelope is used only in the "Manual"
none
none
control mode. The use of "Envelope" is
per voice
described in the "Manual" section on page E-6.
per voice
per voice
per voice
per voice
The Harmony Control Modes
per voice
per voice
Harmony Control Modes determine the way
in which harmonies are created. IVL Vocal
Studio has four control modes. Each of these
modes is tailored toward a different application.
They can be categorized by two items:
1. Requires MIDI input: Using the D8B's
MIDI input, a keyboard or sequencer sends
note information to the IVL Vocal Studio to
create harmonies.
Description
no vibrato
low depth, medium rate with onset delay
medium depth, medium rate with onset delay
high depth, medium rate with onset delay
low depth, fast rate with onset delay
medium depth, fast rate with onset delay
heavy depth, fast rate with onset delay
low depth, slow rate with onset delay
medium depth, slow rate with onset delay
low depth, very slow rate with no onset delay
IVL Vocal Studio
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