Operation Manual

Editing the Vocal Layer
VoiceLive 3 – Reference manual (updated 2015-10-20) 83
Harmony effect block / tab
Harmony is TC-Helicon’s most popular effect –
and some might argue the most impressive one,
too.
The Harmony effect creates harmony vocals
from your lead voice. This harmony can contain
up to four voices, each with different intervals,
key/scale sources, pan, humanization and other
settings.
Harmony can be used to add a single voice of
harmony, up to a larger “group” sound depend-
ing on your application.
Harmony effect block parameters
The Harmony effect block has the following pa-
rameters that allow you to adjust the effect:
► Harmony Style
► Lead Level
► Level
► Hit Control
► Humanization Style
► Humanization Amount
► Vibrato Style
► Vibrato Amount
► NaturalPlay Source
► Tuning
► Mode (for each voice)
► Voicing (for each voice)
► Level (for each voice)
► Gender (for each voice)
► Pan (for each voice)
► Portamento (for each voice)
► Portamento Smoothing (for each voice)
► Attack
► Release
► Hold Release
► Low Gain
► Low Frequency
► High Gain
► High Frequency
► Mid Gain
► Mid Frequency
► Mid Bandwidth
► Global
Tips and tricks for working
with the Harmony effect
► “Subtle” is often better when using any Har-
mony effect. Typically, when we hear com-
plaints about the created voices sounding
“robotic” or “fake”, it can be attributed partial-
ly to the Harmony voices being overly loud in
the vocal mix.
► Level settings of -6 or dB lower can often yield
great results, even if the voices aren’t imme-
diately obvious.
► “High” and “Low” styles are the most com-
monly used harmonies in popular music. If you
are a male or have a lower voice, try “High”.
If you are female or have a higher voice, try
“Low”.
► When using a multi-voice Harmony style like
“High & Low” or “High & Higher”, try adjust-
ing the Pan and Level parameters in the Vocal
Edit screen to adjust the location and volume
of each voice.
► To expand on the above, try turning on Voice
3 and Voice 4. Set each to copy the settings
of the existing two voices. Pan them oppo-
site to the existing voices and reduce their
level slightly. This puts one “High & Low” pair
on the Left and Right of the stereo field with
“High” being slightly dominant on one side
and “Low” on the other.