Owner's manual

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Performance Tips
Play it simple
Your guitar playing style directly influences the
operation of HarmonyControl. You will find that the
harmonies are closely following every move you make
and this may not be what you want all of the time. For
best results, avoid walking bass lines and any extra
playing ornaments when you have the harmonies
turned on. Also, the minimum chord required to affect
harmony movement is two simultaneous notes.
Harmony product setup tips
On TC-Helicon products with Smoothing and
Portamento features, these can be used to soften the
movement of the harmony voices. Experimentation
with these parameters can result in better sounding
harmonies. Good values to start with are: Portamento
30-50 and Smoothing 50-80. Also, check the value of
any timing humanization added to your presets. This is
best kept very low or off as it can add to perceived
chord change time.
Song Mode on VoiceLive & VoiceWorks
Song mode was a good method for controlling
harmony processors when you had no other method
to update musical information when needed.VoiceLive’s
and VoiceWorks’ MIDI implementation do not allow
HarmonyControl to work in Song mode. Fortunately, as
Song mode is mainly intended as a method for setting
the musical changes during a song, the need for it is
reduced with HarmonyControl.
Use your
ears, not your harmony product display
Your harmony product may be capable of indicating
chords, keys and scales on its display. Disregard what
your product shows. Use your ears to check whether it
sounds correct. HarmonyControl is working within your
harmony products MIDI specification and therefore
uses alternate and relative chords, keys and scales to
provide the best real-time musical information.
Always connect Guitar Out
Proper grounding is achieved when a cable connects
the Guitar Out to a mixer or amplifier.