Ski's Live Harmonizer Generator Thing

I've been having a great time playing with this lil' scheme, maybe you will too!

This is an harmonizing environment where you can play the keyboard and generate harmonies from audio playing on track 1 (and possibly live input -- see below).

HOW IT WORKS

This scheme uses Vocal Transformers ("VT") to create the harmonies, so monophonic material will work best. There are 24 VT's, each one tuned to an interval above or below middle C. Each VT is hosted in its own Aux, but they're all muted. When you play a note relative to middle C it will unmute the relevant aux. Releasing the note mutes the aux again.

This setup is 24-note polyphonic, not including the source note. This means you can generate simple single note harmonies, or, lay a 2x4 against the keyboard and see what kind of cacophony you can get from hearing the source harmonized with all 12 semitones below and 12 semitones above middle C sounding at once!

Example 1: the source that you're harmonizing is singing/playing a C3. If you play G2 and E3, you'll be generating two harmonies at those pitches and you'll have a three-note chord. If you continue to hold down those notes and the source note moves it will generate harmonies in parallel with the source. This means that if the source changes to a D3 and you're still holding those two notes, the new chord will sound A2, D3, F#3.

Example 2: if the source sustains a note for a long time, you can play moving harmonies against that note.

OPERATION

1) Put a vocal (or other monophonic source) on track 1 (an Apple Loop vocal snippet is already in place for demo purposes). This might also work for live performance, but I haven't tested it out. In other words, it might work nicely for generating live harmonies processing live input on the audio track. Try it out, lemme know if it works.

2) Play instrument 1 from your keyboard along with the source material. Again, the range is one octave above and below middle C (C3). Middle C itself is inactive.

3) TIP: delay compensation should be set to "ALL"

Enjoy!

Ski Harmonizer V1.0.logic.zip

AWESOME!

Fooled around with it a little bit and I'm pretty sure I'll end up using this to both beef up some vox worx and maybe to go a little crazy with it with something else, too. Don't know yet for sure, but fun it is!

A great example of a few very useful techniques put together in a practical form. It really helps to understand how and why it works when you can mess around and play with it rather than just reading about it in a book.

Thanks.

this is really cool... could be a good patch in mainstage.

We can all be imogen heap (or jason derulo) impressionists.