User manual YAMAHA PLG100-VH

[. . . ] Precautions q Do not expose the plug-in board to direct sunlight, excessive humidity, high temperatures, excessive dust or strong vibrations. q Before handling the plug-in board, be sure to touch a metal surface to discharge any static electricity which may be in your body. q When holding the plug-in board, do not touch the inside area of the circuit board or apply excessive pressure to the board, and be sure to protect the board from contact with water or other liquids. q Before installing the plug-in board onto a tone generator/sound card, unplug the power connector of your computer. [. . . ] For example, if your vocal is at a pitch of C3, playing an E note anywhere on the connected MIDI keyboard results in a harmony note of E3. · -3oct trns -- +3oct trns Octave transposition. This fixes the octave transposition of the harmony notes, selectable in octaves from 3 octaves below (-) to 3 octaves above (+). · When using the "auto trans" setting, some of the harmony notes may play in unexpected registers. To avoid this, change the mode to a setting other than "auto trans. " 2. Harmony Gender Type (H. GendrTyp) Settings: off, Auto This automatically determines the gender of the harmony notes (relative to the actual gender of the singer). · off This turns off the gender change effect for the harmony notes. · Auto For this setting, the PLG100-VH "listens" to the pitch of your voice to determine your gender, and automatically selects the opposite gender for the harmony notes. Keep in mind that the gender change effect may vary according to the quality, character and pitch of the actual voice. When "Auto" is set, the following parameters affect the operation of the gender change effect: Auto Upper Gender Threshold, Auto Lower Gender Threshold, Upper Gender Depth, and Lower Gender Depth. 14 Harmony Parameters 3. Lead Gender Type (L. GendrTyp) Settings: off, unis (unison), male, fem. (female) The PLG100-VH also produces a "lead" voice sound that can be mixed with harmony notes. These settings determine whether the gender of the lead voice can be changed or not. When this is set to "off, " the gender of the lead voice cannot be changed. When this is set to "unis" (unison), the lead voice is reproduced at the same pitch as the voice; however, the gender can be changed by using the Lead Gender Depth parameter below. The "male" and "fem. " (female) settings reproduce the voice with the respective male or female vocal qualities. (To finely adjust the quality of the lead voice, use the Lead Gender Depth parameter below. ) · When Lead Gender Type is set to "unis, " "male, " or "fem. , " the amount of harmony notes is reduced from three to two. About the Lead and Harmony Voices The PLG100-VH also produces a "lead" voice sound that can be mixed with the automatically produced harmony voices. The PLG100-VH in effect "copies" your actual voice to create the lead voice. The lead voice then can be altered both in pitch and gender, just as with the harmony voices. To properly use the lead voice, make sure to set the following parameters: Lead Gender Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "unis, " "male, " or "fem. " Lead Gender Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (For values at or near the maximum of "L<H63, " lead may not sound. ) You can control the pitch of the lead voice separately from the harmonies. One useful application would be to have melody and harmony data on different tracks/MIDI channels of sequencer song data -- the melody track would control the pitch of the lead voice, while the harmony track would control the harmonies. [. . . ] For random panning with Vocoder harmony, the pan position will change at each key-on. For random panning with Chordal harmony, the pan position will change whenever the chord changes. For Detune and Chromatic harmony, random pan will not function, and the panning will be centered. Harmony 1 Pan O X mm : 00, 01 - 64 - 127 (random, Lch. . . center. . . Rch) Harmony 2 Pan mm : 00, 01 - 64 - 127 (random, Lch. . . center. . . Rch) Harmony 3 Pan mm : 00, 01 - 64 - 127 (random, Lch. . . center. . . Rch) O O X X 02 02 02 48 49 50 mm mm mm The following NRPN numbers independently control the detune amount for each harmony sound. [. . . ]