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Chapter 10: Audio Recording and Rendering
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In this dialog, there are 3 types of harmony that we can choose from:
1. Melody Pitch Tracking only (this would change the pitch of our singing to the correct pitches found on the
MIDI Melody track).
2. Harmonize to the MIDI Melody. This applies a 1-4 part audio harmony – turning your singing track into a
harmony singing quartet.
3. Harmonize to the chords of the song. If your song doesn’t have a MIDI melody, you can still create a vocal
harmony, based only on the chords of the song.
Let’s harmonize to the MIDI melody, so choose the radio button with that title.
Then select Harmony type “131 Four Freshmen 4 part
Vocal Harmony.”
This is a 4 part harmony that includes the melody, and one of the voices is above the melody.
Since we want to harmonize the entire song, choose “Whole Song.” The output can be mono or
stereo. Since we’re making a 4-part harmony, and we want to hear the voices panned across
our stereo speakers, we choose STEREO here.
We want Band-in-a-Box to play our files directly, and since Band-in-a-
Box plays only one WAV file at a time, we won’t be exporting the 4
voices as separate WAV files, and we don’t select the “Output (Export) as separate WAV file” option.
Press OK, and this launches the TC-Helicon Vocal Harmony dialog, which lets you control the
sound of your harmonies.
Let’s examine the various sliders on this dialog, as they apply to our “Listen 4 part Harmony” File.
The “Dry Voice Level” slider is the level of our original voice. We can make the harmony to include more of our
original voice by raising this slider. Set it half way up (to 12dB).