Hello all, anyone know of any pc software that allows you to play a lead and creates the harmony notes on screen? or anything similar.Thanks in advance
I don't know if they exist exactly as you describe, but I bet that they do. Two things to understand though... you need to know in which key you are playing for anything like this to extrapolate the notes correctly; and parallel harmonies are dull as dirt, except in limted quantities. Also, in order to get any of the hardware units that I have tried to work well, I had to take all the expression out of the playing.... it just sounds stupid when the harmonies are tracking all the little touches of an emotional performance. So I had to play the parts in a dull and boring fashion to get the harmonies to come out right, after I tracked the part the way that I wanted it. By the time I have done all that, I might as well have just played or sang the harmonies.
You might look at Band In A Box, and I know that you can create harmonies from the Freeze tool in Samplitude. No doubt this is avaliable in other packages, too. It's just not a tool that I use, so I'm not up on who might have the best option. There was a package a few years ago, with one male and two female voices for singing artifical harmonies, but I haven't seen them mentioned in a while so my guess would be that they were not as cool as the could have been.
Bill
Edited by Bill@Welcome Home Studios (04/15/08 05:39 AM)
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