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<H1><A NAME="SECTION001400000000000000000"></A>
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Harmony
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> can generate harmony notes for you ...just like hitting two
or more keys on the piano! And you don't have to take lessons.
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Automatic harmonies are available for the following track types: Bass,
Walk, Arpeggio, Scale, Solo and Melody.
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Just in case you are thinking that
<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> is a wonderful musical
creator when it comes to harmonies, don't be fooled.
<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> 's ideas of
harmony are quite facile. It determines harmony notes by finding a
note lower or higher than the current note being sounded within the
current chord. And its notion of ``open'' is certainly not that of
traditional music theory. But, the sound isn't too bad.
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION001410000000000000000"></A> <A NAME="harmony"></A>
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Harmony
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To enable harmony notes, use a command like:
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<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
<tr><td>
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<B>Solo Harmony 2 </B>
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</td></tr>
</Table>
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You can set a different harmony method for each bar in your sequence.
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The following are valid harmony methods:
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<P><DL>
<DT><STRONG>2 or 2Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Two part harmony. The harmony note
selected is lower (on the scale).
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>2Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>The same as ``2'', but the harmony note is raised an
octave.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>3 or 3Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Three part harmony. The harmony notes
selected are lower.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>3Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>The same as ``3'', but both notes are raised an
octave.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>Open or OpenBelow</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Two part harmony, however the gap
between the two notes is larger than in ``2''.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>OpenAbove</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Same as ``Open'', but the added note is above the
original.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>8 or 8Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A note 1 octave lower is added.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>8Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A note 2 octave higher is added.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>16 or 16Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A single note two octaves below is
added.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>16Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A single note two octaves above are added.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>24 or 24Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A single note three octaves below is
added.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>24Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A single note three octaves above is added.
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</DD>
</DL>
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You can combine any of the above harmony modes by using a ``+''. For
example:
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<DT><STRONG>OPEN+8Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>will produce harmony notes with an ``Open''
harmony and a note an octave below the current note.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>3Above+16</STRONG></DT>
<DD>will generate 2 harmony notes above the current
note plus a note 2 octaves below.
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</DD>
<DT><STRONG>8Below+8Above+16Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>will generate 3 notes: one 2 octaves
below the current, one an octave below, and one an octave above.
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</DD>
</DL>
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There is no limit to the number of modes you can concatenate. Any
duplicate notes generated will be ignored.
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All harmonies are created using the current chord.
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To disable harmony use a ``0'', ``-'' or ``None''.
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Be careful in using harmonies. They can make your song sound heavy,
especially with B<SMALL>ASS</SMALL> notes (applying a different volume may
help).
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The command has no effect in D<SMALL>RUM</SMALL> or C<SMALL>HORD</SMALL> tracks.
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION001420000000000000000"></A> <A NAME="harmonyonly"></A>
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HarmonyOnly
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As a added feature to the automatic harmony generation discussed in
the previous section, it is possible to set a track so that it
<SPAN CLASS="textit">only</SPAN> plays the harmony notes. For example, you might want to
set up two arpeggio tracks with one playing quarter notes on a piano
and a harmony track playing half notes on a violin. The following
snippet is extracted from the song file ``Cry Me A River'' and sets up
2 different choir voices:
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<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
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<B>Begin Arpeggio
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sequence A4
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Voice ChoirAahs
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Invert 0 1 2 3
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;SeqRnd
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Octave 5
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;RSkip 40
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Volume p
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Articulate 99
<BR>
End
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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Begin Arpeggio-2
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sequence A4
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Voice VoiceOohs
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Octave 5
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;RSkip 40
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Volume p
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Articulate 99
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HarmonyOnly Open
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End </B>
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</Table>
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Just like the H<SMALL>ARMONY</SMALL> command, above, you can have different
settings for each bar in your sequence. Setting a bar (or the entire
sequence) to '`-'' or ``0'' disables both the H<SMALL>ARMONY</SMALL> and
H<SMALL>ARMONY</SMALL>O<SMALL>NLY</SMALL> settings.
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The command has no effect in D<SMALL>RUM</SMALL> or C<SMALL>HORD</SMALL> tracks.
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If you want to use this feature with S<SMALL>OLO</SMALL> or M<SMALL>ELODY</SMALL>
tracks you can duplicate the notes in your R<SMALL>IFF</SMALL> or in-line
notation <SPAN CLASS="textit">or</SPAN> with the <A HREF="node10.html#autosolotracks">A<SMALL>UTO</SMALL>H<SMALL>ARMONY</SMALL>T<SMALL>RACKS
COMMAND</SMALL></A>.
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION001430000000000000000"></A> <A NAME="harmonyvolumne"></A>
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HarmonyVolume
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By default,
<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> will use a volume (velocity) of 80% of that used by
the original note for all harmony notes it generates. You can change
this with the the H<SMALL>ARMONY</SMALL>V<SMALL>OLUME</SMALL> command. For example:
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<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
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<B>Begin Solo
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Voice JazzGuitar
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Harmony Open
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;HarmonyVolume 80
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End </B>
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You can specify different values for each bar in the sequence. The
values are percentages and must be greater than 0 (large values works
just fine if you want the harmony louder than the original). The
command has no effect in D<SMALL>RUM</SMALL> or C<SMALL>HORD</SMALL> tracks.
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