TC HELICON VOICELIVE
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Making Scale Harmony Presets Work with Your Song
When you're not using MIDI, Scale Presets are the best way to produce harmonies in VoiceLive. You need to know a few things to make this work: 1. In what key is the song (A,B C.. etc.)? 2. Is the song in a major or minor key? Another thing you need is an instrument to sing with so that you know that you are singing in the right key. � Hold the PRESET button (1) to put VoiceLive into preset mode. � While singing �ahhh� into VoiceLive, find a preset with the word �Scale� in the second line having only one or two VOCAL LEDs lit. Choose one that has a general sound to the harmonies that you would like for the song. � Press the KEY button (2) followed by the NEXT button to set the key of the Song. � Press the SCALE button (3) followed by the NEXT button (6) to set the scale type of the song to either �M1� if the song is in a major key or �m1� if the song is in a minor key. � Play a chord or a starting note on your instrument to ensure that you are going to sing in the right key, and try singing the song into VoiceLive. � If the harmonies don�t sound right try a different Scale type number (1, 2 or 3) by pressing the PREVIOUS/NEXT buttons (5,6). Remember to stick with �M� if your song is in a major key and �m� if your song is in a minor key. � If they still don�t sound right, press the KEY button (2) followed by the PREVIOUS button (5) five times to set the key to a 5th above the key of the song. � If they still don�t sound right press the SCALE button (3) followed by the PREVIOUS/NEXT buttons (5,6) to select a different scale type. � Finally, if they still don�t sound right press the KEY button (2) followed by the PREVIOUS button (5) two times to set the key to a 4th above the key of the song then try changing the scale. � If one of the Key/Scale type combinations you tried above sounded close but not quite right, go back and set the Key and Scale to the best setting you achieved. Up to this point we have been trying to find a key and scale type with a scale preset to work with the song. If there are only one or two notes in the song that don�t sound right with the current setting, it may be possible to �adjust� the harmonies for those notes using a custom pitch map. � Sing the song into VoiceLive and stop on the note that has the wrong harmonies. � Figure out what note it is using your ears and your instrument or look at sheet music of the song. � Press the EDIT key and turn the DATA WHEEL to edit screen VO7. � Press ENTER (the DATA WHEEL) and turn the DATA WHEEL until the In: note is the note with the wrong sounding harmonies. � Adjust the voices to the correct notes using the 4 EDIT knobs. (you only have to adjust the voices that are shown lit on the LEDs) � Try singing the song again to see if you need to adjust any more harmony voices and correct them using the procedure above. � Press ENTER to allow normal operation of the DATA WHEEL. If this still does not result in acceptable harmonies it may be because in the song you need to have different harmonies for the same note, depending on what the chord is. You then need to use chord presets in Song mode to step though the changing chord information in the song.

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