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HREF="node12.html#SECTION001210000000000000000">Harmony</A>
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HREF="node12.html#SECTION001220000000000000000">HarmonyOnly</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION001200000000000000000"></A>
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<A NAME="sec-harmony"></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
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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,
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Walk, Arpeggio, Scale, Solo and Melody.
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Just in case you are thinking that
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> is a wonderful musical
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creator when it comes to harmonies, don't be fooled.
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> 's ideas of
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harmony are quite facile. It determines harmony notes by finding a
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note lower or higher than the current note being sounded within the
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current chord. And its notion of ``open'' is certainly not that of
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traditional music theory. But, the sound isn't too bad.
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION001210000000000000000"></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 ALIGN="CENTER" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=5 BGCOLOR="OldLace" BORDER=3>
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<TR> <TD>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><B>Solo Harmony 2 </B></BLOCKQUOTE>
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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>
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<DT><STRONG>2 or 2Below</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Two part harmony. The harmony note
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selected is lower (on the scale).
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>2Above</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>The same as ``2'', but the harmony note is raised an
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octave.
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>3 or 3Below</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Three part harmony. The harmony notes
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selected are lower.
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>3Above</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>The same as ``3'', but both notes are raised an
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octave.
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>Open or OpenBelow</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Two part harmony, however the gap
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between the two notes is larger than in ``2''.
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>OpenAbove</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Same as ``Open'', but the added note is above the
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original.
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>8 or 8Below</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>A note 1 octave lower is added.
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>8Above</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>A note 2 octave higher is added.
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>16 or 16Below</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>A single note two octaves below is
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added.
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<DT><STRONG>16Above</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>A single note two octaves above are added.
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>24 or 24Below</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>A single note three octaves below is
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added.
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>24Above</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>A single note three octaves above is added.
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</DD>
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</DL>
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You can combine any of the above harmony modes by using a ``+''. For
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example:
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<DT><STRONG>OPEN+8Below</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>will produce harmony notes with an ``Open''
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harmony and a note an octave below the current note.
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>3Above+16</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>will generate 2 harmony notes above the current
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note plus a note 2 octaves below.
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</DD>
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<DT><STRONG>8Below+8Above+16Below</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>will generate 3 notes: one 2 octaves
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below the current, one an octave below, and one an octave above.
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</DD>
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There is no limit to the number of modes you can concatenate. Any
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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,
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especially with B<SMALL>ASS</SMALL> notes (applying a different volume may
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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="SECTION001220000000000000000"></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
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the previous section, it is possible to set a track so that it
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<B>only</B> plays the harmony notes. For example, you might want to
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set up two arpeggio tracks with one playing quarter notes on a piano
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and a harmony track playing half notes on a violin. The following
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snippet is extracted from the song file ``Cry Me A River'' and sets up
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2 different choir voices:
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<TABLE ALIGN="CENTER" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=5 BGCOLOR="OldLace" BORDER=3>
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<TR> <TD>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><B>Begin Arpeggio
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<BR> Sequence A4
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<BR> Voice ChoirAahs
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<BR> Invert 0 1 2 3
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<BR> SeqRnd
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<BR> Octave 5
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<BR> RSkip 40
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<BR> Volume p
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<BR> Articulate 99
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End
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Begin Arpeggio-2
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<BR> Sequence A4
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<BR> Voice VoiceOohs
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<BR> Octave 5
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<BR> RSkip 40
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<BR> Volume p
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<BR> Articulate 99
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<BR> HarmonyOnly Open
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End </B></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Just like the H<SMALL>ARMONY</SMALL> command, above, you can have different
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settings for each bar in your sequence. Setting a bar (or the entire
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sequence) to '`-'' or ``0'' disables both the H<SMALL>ARMONY</SMALL> and
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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>
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tracks you can duplicate the notes in your R<SMALL>IFF</SMALL> or in-line
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notation <B>or</B> with the <A HREF="node10.html#autosolotracks">A<SMALL>UTO</SMALL>H<SMALL>ARMONY</SMALL>T<SMALL>RACKS
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COMMAND</SMALL></A>.
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION001230000000000000000"></A> <A NAME="harmonyvolumne"></A>
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HarmonyVolume
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By default,
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> will use a volume (velocity) of 80% of that used by
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the original note for all harmony notes it generates. You can change
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this with the the H<SMALL>ARMONY</SMALL>V<SMALL>OLUME</SMALL> command. For example:
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<TABLE ALIGN="CENTER" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=5 BGCOLOR="OldLace" BORDER=3>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><B>Begin Solo
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<BR> Voice JazzGuitar
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<BR> Harmony Open
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<BR> HarmonyVolume 80
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End </B></BLOCKQUOTE>
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</TD></TR></TABLE>
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You can specify different values for each bar in the sequence. The
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values are percentages and must be greater than 0 (large values works
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just fine if you want the harmony louder than the original). The
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command has no effect in D<SMALL>RUM</SMALL> or C<SMALL>HORD</SMALL> tracks.
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