25-Harmony; The Harmony Source; The Harmony Module - Roland VS-2000 Owner's Manual

25—Harmony
The VS-2000's built-in Harmony feature can generate up to six harmony voices from a
single recorded vocal performance. This chapter describes how to create vocal
harmonies using the Harmony feature.
While the Harmony feature can be used on any recorded sound, it's optimized for use
on a single human voice.
Harmony Basics

The Harmony Source

Harmony is applied to a single recorded hard disk recorder track at a time. In the
following sections, we refer to this track as the Harmony source. Once you've created
the desired harmonies, you can let Harmony continue to play them, or record them on
their own hard disk recorder tracks.
Once you've recorded harmonies for a track, you can use the Harmony feature again on
one or more additional tracks if you wish.

The Harmony Module

The Harmony module is a set of controls that determine the vocal and performance
qualities of the voices in the Harmony group you're creating.
The Harmony module's settings don't set the actual pitch of your harmonies—they
simply determine the "personality" of the voices that Harmony creates. You arrange the
actual harmonization yourself, as we'll explain later in this chapter.
There are two groups of Harmony module settings:
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"Common parameters" in the Harmony module set the behavior of the Harmony
group as a whole.
In addition, each Harmony voice is called a "part" and has its own individual
settings, called "part parameters." This allows the voices in your harmonies to
sound as distinctive as they would if you were hearing a group of real-world
human singers.
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