Voice Processor Preset: Harmony - Korg PA1X User Manual

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Voice Processor Preset: Harmony

Inflection
The Inflection styles allow the singer to adjust the characteristics
of 'scooping' to the sung note. This is a stylistic effect in singing
where a singer sweeps up a variable range of pitch to rest on the
intended note. The Inflection settings use the following nomen-
clature: Up/Down, Fast, Often.
Up/Down is the direction of Inflection – Up to a note, or Down
to a note.
Fast is the speed at which the inflection 'scoops' , either Slow,
Medium or Fast.
Often is how regularly the Inflection occurs. The Voice Processor
listens for an Onset period before applying Inflection to the
beginning of the next phrase.
Vibrato
Vibrato is a pitch effect that singers often use in their delivery of
a piece of music. This effect is achieved by repeatedly altering the
size of the mouth and vocal tract in a pattern that varies above
and below a central pitch in an oscillating fashion.
The Vibrato styles are based on real vocalist's vibratos. We have
analyzed a large set of parameters from a voice database and cre-
ated various vibrato models. The Vibrato setting names reflect
the style of the vocals from which they were extracted. However,
a vibrato modeled from a style or gender different from yours
can sound very good when applied to your voice. Experimenta-
tion is the key to finding a style setting that best suits your appli-
cation. You might begin incorporating Vibrato into your sound
by setting the Amt (Amount) control to 50%. This setting
matches the depth level that we analyzed in our modeling sub-
jects. You can then vary the effect from this middle range up or
down to suit your taste.
Level
Use this knob to set the level of the modelled voices.
Pan
Use this knob to set the position in the stereo field of the mod-
elled voices.
Voice Processor Preset: Harmony
In this page you can define general parameters for the Harmony
module.
Harmony
VPp
Harmony On/Off
This checkbox allows enabling/disabling of the Harmony mod-
ule. It is the same control found on the "Preset" page.
Latch On/Off
When enabled in Chord mode, the last chord played remains
active after the notes have been released from the keyboard.
When enabled in Notes mode, the harmony voices will only
respond to note input when the number of notes being played
equals the harmony voices enabled. This ensures logical voice
assignment when voices change. When Latch is On, the envelope
parameters Attack and Release are not applicable.
VPp
Harmony Mode
Change the current harmony mode. Available parameters: Scalic
(Scalic presets), Chord (Chordal presets), Shift, and Notes (Shift
and Notes presets).
See "Harmony and Tuning with the Voice Processor" on
page 253 for a full description of each harmony mode.
Root
In Scalic presets this sets the scale root.
Type
In Scalic presets this sets the scale type.
Human. (Humanization) Style
This is a list of humanization style types, each made up of a
combination of Flextime™ based time randomization, pitch
VPp randomization and pitch inflection (scoop).
Amount
The amount that the humanization style is applied to the har-
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mony voices.
Tuning
This gives the option of either Equal temperament, Just intona-
tion, or Barbershop tuning modes. See "Harmony and Tuning
with the Voice Processor" on page 253 for a full description of
each tuning mode.
Portamento
This is defined in milliseconds as the time to reach a target note
when a harmony voice needs to change pitch.
PB Assign
Pitch Bend control assignment. Allows assignment of the pitch
bend to Pitch (applicable in Notes and Chord harmony modes)
or Gender.
Note: For this to work, a value different than zero must be assigned
to the "Pitch Bend Range" in the "Voice Processor Setup: Setup"
page (see page 242).
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