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G-70 Music Workstation
Adding harmonies to your singing
Now that your microphone is up and running, let’s look
at the Harmonist effect proper.
The G-70 provides two harmony types: “Small” (1 or 2
additional voices) and “Ensemble” (3 or 4 additional
voices).
(1) Connect your microphone, press the [SINGER] but-
ton, set the desired [VOICE] level, and…
(2) …press the [SMALL] button (its indicator must
light).
(3) Sing a few notes and listen to the harmonies pro-
duced.
(4) If the harmonies are too soft, turn the [HARMONY]
knob towards the right (towards “MAX”).
(5) To try out different harmonizations, press and hold
the [SMALL] button.
(6) Press the [MALE], [FEMALE] or [MIX] field to change
the “GENDER” (voice type) of the harmonies pro-
duced.
[MIX] adds both a male and a female voice. This also
changes the available preset options in the center of
the display. If, on the above page, you press GENDER
[FEMALE] for example, the display changes to:
(7) Press one of the preset fields ([BAHIA¥GIRLS], for
example) to select a different harmony type.
(8) Now press and hold the [ENSEMBLE] button (or
press the [ENSEMBLE] field in the display) and sing
again.
This sounds more like a choir, don’t you agree?
You already know what the [MALE], [FEMALE], and
[MIX] fields are for. The 10 preset fields in the middle
allow you to select different “voicings” and voice
characters for your choir.
(9) To sing again without automatic harmonies, press
the [SMALL] or [ENSEMBLE] button again (so that
neither of them lights).
Note: Obviously, you do not have to use a song as backing:
you can also play the accompaniment yourself, or use the
Arranger. See page 28 and below.
Who specifies the harmonies?
Now that you know what the Vocal Harmonist does, let
us briefly look at how it does that. You may have
noticed the [HARMONY≈ASSIGN] field in the lower left
corner of the above display pages.
Its current (default) setting is “AUTO”. This means
that, during song or Arranger playback, the note
information contained in the song data (or played in
the chord recognition area of the keyboard) will be
used for specifying the pitches of the harmony notes
(“Auto Harmony”).
Note: If the song you are playing back contains a “Harmony
track”, the harmonies will be based on those notes. In all other
cases, the harmonies are generated in realtime.
If you stop song playback and play chords on the
keyboard, the note information thus generated is
used for the harmony pitches.
Use the [DATA÷ENTRY] dial to select another setting.
The possibilities are:
Not convinced so far?
Just in case you are a little bit disappointed by the Vocal
Harmonist function, here are some tips (and a bonus):
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Use it with song backing
The Harmonist sounds most convincing when used
during song playback. Please bear in mind that trans-
forming your voice in realtime requires quite a few
calculations and that the human voice is one of the
most difficult “signal sources” to recreate with vary-
SMALL
Auto The G-70 uses one of the following systems
(depending on what note information is avail-
able).
Keyboard
(all)
Only notes played on the keyboard will be
used for specifying harmony pitches.
Keyboard
Left
Only notes played to the left of the split point
(page 57) will be used for specifying harmony
pitches.
Keyboard
Right
Only notes played to the right of the split
point (page 57) will be used for specifying
harmony pitches.
Song The note information contained in the song
you are playing back is used.