On stage, you’d feed the keyboard’s MIDI Out into the harmonizer’s MIDI In, then route one of the singer’s lines into the mic input.Ī few years ago, Digitech added the ability to diagnose guitar chords, which appealed to singer/guitarists doing bar and restaurant gigs. In my home studio, I’d run a line from my computer/sequencer, so I only had to play the chords in once, and I could do as many takes “empty-handed” as I wanted. Then they started accepting MIDI input, so you could tell it what chords to harmonize to by running a MIDI line from your keyboard. So sometimes they guessed wrong, but sometimes their missed guesses sounded great, so I didn’t mind. The earliest ones, like the IPS33b, let you program in the key of the song and the kind of scale (major, minor, modal, etc.), then it would guess where to put the harmony notes based on the note you were singing. The devices I’m discussing here are designed to add one, two, three, or – in some cases – four harmony parts to a single vocal line. So I thought I would add my experience with harmonizers, most of which occurred in my home studio. On the other forum there was a discussion on the subject of people wanting a fuller-sounding live performance. I just posted some of this content on another forum and realized that it might be useful to readers here.
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