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Harmonizr Goes AU3 for GarageBand

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  • @Dawdles said:

    Anyone using this? How does it sound? Wouldn’t use it much for vocals but seems like might be interesting for samples/instruments/loops? Is it flexible in terms of automating param settings/recording midi changes for intervals etc? Using keyboard I guess from the photo?

    Will look for vids..

    I got it but haven’t used it much I think it was either free or on offer a few weeks back.

  • Just been using it as AU has some strange effects on Keys some good some not so good will need to get a better idea how to use it.

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  • I thought it always was AU?

  • @gusgranite said:
    I thought it always was AU?

    Oh, they’ve added another FX plugin so it can be used properly in GarageBand I think.

  • I'm interested in the pitch shifting quality compared to the other apps available.
    Playing Jacob Collier style is hardly possible with 3-voice polyphony :wink:

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    This app is really fun and a blast to use. You can hear it on the guitar solo for Lily Gets Upset from Doug, Colin & my album Lily's Gone Mad. Forward up to 1:44-ish for the solo:

    https://dougwoodsandcolinpowell.bandcamp.com/track/lily-gets-upset

  • I think it sounds very ‘non-chipmunk’, which is a good thing.

  • @rs2000 said:
    Playing Jacob Collier style is hardly possible with 3-voice polyphony :wink:

    It can "sing" any chords you can play with MIDI in chromatic mode. So, Jacob away with all your fingers.

    I think it does an excellent budget ($5) version of the Jacob Collier Harmonizer effect. You need to get MIDI and a Mic into the iPad.

    To have the harmony follow your keyboard chord choices you select the chromatic setting so you're non-scale jazz chord extensions come through if not it will build the basic chords from the scale selected and no C7+b9+#11's for you.

    It sounds more like a harmonizer than a vocoder (which is that robot like vocal). It also can auto-tune the singers melody as an option.

    For non-keyboardists you should select a root chord (Major, Minor, 7th) and you can select 2,3,4,5 parts of harmony to be added to a melody input. For a complex harmony you might have to select new root chords as the song progresses from say C minor to A minor. I think those chord changes can't be automated or controlled with MIDI. Just through the screen controls. I'd like to wrong about this.

    I have not compared it to the VirSyn Harmony Eight ($10).

  • Harmony Eight was one of the few apps that I purchased that I've deleted. I could never get it to sound good. It was pitchy, the output was low, the sound was meh - didn't jive with me at all. THis is one of very few apps that I just don't recommend.

  • @Daveypoo said:
    Harmony Eight was one of the few apps that I purchased that I've deleted. I could never get it to sound good. It was pitchy, the output was low, the sound was meh - didn't jive with me at all. THis is one of very few apps that I just don't recommend.

    Have you purchased Harmonizr? For people that want to add background vocals to a lead singer or turn a guitar solo into 2 or 3 part harmonic lines this one is really powerful as a studio tool.
    Throw in the autotune for the paying customer with pitch issues and you're way ahead for $5. The customer won't even notice the slight shifts that makes the music less cringeworthy. They'll "I sound really good when you record me." Of course, a studio would have bought an Autotune years ago. But for someone building a studio business on the cheap it's a no brainer.

  • If you want a fast overview of the Harmonizr App watch the developer give a tutorial on how to connect and use it. You can use the devices mic but I personally would find another way to add MIDI and a good MIC. I bought the original IK Multimedia iRig which allows guitars and MIC's to be added via the headphone jack. They have since replaced it with a Lightning Port device (which I have too) but I use that port for MIDI so the next option is an audio interface with MIDI IN support over Lightning. I happen to have a Presonus that will do that so my $5 was very well placed to let me do the Jacob Collier/Imogen Heap thing on an iPhone/iPad.

    Before it came out I was looking for a good hardware solution and they cost closer to $200. Even a VST plugin would be $50.

    Here's the tutorial link:

    https://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=HiAMTIYockE

    The developer participates here as well. See the original App announcement thread and watch Doug apply it to a guitar solo
    at @thesoundtestroom.

    I wonder what it does with sequencer MIDI input on a Synth? I'm sure it's useful for that use case as an AUv3 FX tool. Has anyone set that up and produced a track yet?

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  • @Daveypoo said:
    This app is really fun and a blast to use. You can hear it on the guitar solo for Lily Gets Upset from Doug, Colin & my album Lily's Gone Mad. Forward up to 1:44-ish for the solo:

    https://dougwoodsandcolinpowell.bandcamp.com/track/lily-gets-upset

    @McDtracy Already own it - check out my post above :wink:

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