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<H1><A NAME="SECTION001500000000000000000"></A>
<A NAME="sec-harmony"></A>
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Harmony
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<P>
<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.
<P>
Automatic harmonies are available for the following track types: Bass,
Walk, Arpeggio, Scale, Solo and Melody.
<P>
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.
<P>
<H1><A NAME="SECTION001510000000000000000"></A> <A NAME="harmony"></A>
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Harmony
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<P>
To enable harmony notes, use a command like:
<P>
<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
<tr><td>
<B>Solo Harmony 2 </B>
</td></tr>
</Table>
<P>
You can set a different harmony method for each bar in your sequence.
<P>
The following are valid harmony methods:
<P><DL>
<DT><STRONG>2 or 2Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Two part harmony. The harmony note
selected is lower (on the scale).
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>28Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Two part harmony, the harmony note is lowered by an
additional octave.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>2Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>The same as “2”, but the harmony note is raised an
octave.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>28Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>The same as “2Above”, but the harmony note is raised by
two octaves.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>3 or 3Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Three part harmony. The harmony notes
selected are lower.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>3Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>The same as “3”, but both notes are raised an
octave.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>38Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Same as “3”, but the two harmony notes are raised
by two octaves.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>38Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Same as “3”, but the two harmomy notes are lowered
by two octaves.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>Open or OpenBelow</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Two part harmony, however the gap
between the two notes is larger than in “2”.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>Open8Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Same as “OpenBelow”, but the harmony note is lowered by
an additional octave.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>OpenAbove</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Same as “Open”, but the added note is above the
original.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>Open8Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Same as “OpenAbove”, but the added note is
raised by an additional octave.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>8 or 8Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A note 1 octave lower is added.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>8Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A note 2 octave higher is added.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>16 or 16Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A single note two octaves below is
added.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>16Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A single note two octaves above are added.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>24 or 24Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A single note three octaves below is
added.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>24Above</STRONG></DT>
<DD>A single note three octaves above is added.
<P>
</DD>
</DL>
<P>
You can combine any of the above harmony modes by using a “+”. For
example:
<P><DL>
<DT><STRONG>OPEN+8Below</STRONG></DT>
<DD>will produce harmony notes with an “Open”
harmony and a note an octave below the current note.
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>3Above+16</STRONG></DT>
<DD>will generate 2 harmony notes above the current
note plus a note 2 octaves below.
<P>
</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.
<P>
</DD>
</DL>
<P>
There is no limit to the number of modes you can concatenate. Any
duplicate notes generated will be ignored.
<P>
All harmonies are created using the current chord.
<P>
To disable harmony use a “0”, “-” or “None”.
<P>
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).
<P>
The command has no effect in D<SMALL>RUM</SMALL> or C<SMALL>HORD</SMALL> tracks.
<P>
<H1><A NAME="SECTION001520000000000000000"></A> <A NAME="harmonyonly"></A>
<BR>
HarmonyOnly
</H1>
<P>
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:
<P>
<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
<tr><td>
<B>Begin Arpeggio
<BR> Sequence A4
<BR> Voice ChoirAahs
<BR> Invert 0 1 2 3
<BR> SeqRnd
<BR> Octave 5
<BR> RSkip 40
<BR> Volume p
<BR> Articulate 99
<BR>
End
<BR>
<BR>
Begin Arpeggio-2
<BR> Sequence A4
<BR> Voice VoiceOohs
<BR> Octave 5
<BR> RSkip 40
<BR> Volume p
<BR> Articulate 99
<BR> HarmonyOnly Open
<BR>
End </B>
</td></tr>
</Table>
<P>
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.
<P>
The command has no effect in D<SMALL>RUM</SMALL> or C<SMALL>HORD</SMALL> tracks.
<P>
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>.
<P>
<H1><A NAME="SECTION001530000000000000000"></A> <A NAME="harmonyvolumne"></A>
<BR>
HarmonyVolume
</H1>
<P>
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:
<P>
<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
<tr><td>
<B>Begin Solo
<BR> Voice JazzGuitar
<BR> Harmony Open
<BR> HarmonyVolume 80
<BR>
End </B>
</td></tr>
</Table>
<P>
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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