“CHORDAL”
(CHORD)
HARMONY
MODE
Chordal harmonies take your chord information to create intelligent, diatonic har-
monies based on your voice. To make “Chordal” harmonies, VoicePrism requires
you to input different chord information via MIDI for every chord in the song. Chord
information consists of the chord root, which determines the octave setting, and the
chord type, which sets the 3rd, 5th and sometimes 7th above voices (or the 4th, 6th
and sometimes 8th below voices). Chordal harmonies are “intelligent” because they
decipher the chord you’re playing and the note you’re singing to produce musically
pleasing harmony.
The subsequent illustration shows the harmony notes for the C major scale with a
voicing selection of a C major chord and a single “third above” harmony voice.
Root: C 3rd: E 5th: G
You might have noticed that the harmony notes cover more than one input note, or
that each input note didn't have a unique harmony note. For instance, C and D both
have E as the 3rd above, E and F share G, and so on. This gives a more stepped
sound to the harmony as the changes are both greater in magnitude and less fre-
quent than the previously discussed shift type harmonies, for instance.
The following lists the chords for an input note of “C”:
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Appendix A: HarmonyVoicePrism User Manual
The C Major scale, showing third
above diatonic chordal harmony,
as used in VoicePrism’s
CHORDS
harmony mode.
Black = lead
Gray = harmony
Maj C E G
Maj6 C E G A
Maj7 C E G B
Maj7sus4 C F G B
Min C Eb G
Min6 C Eb G A
Min7 C Eb G Bb
Min7b5 C Eb Gb Bb
Dim C Eb Gb
Dim7 C Eb Gb Bbb (equivalent to A)
Dom7, C E G Bb
Dom7b5, C E Gb Bb
Aug C E G#
Aug7 C E G# Bb
Sus C F G
Sus2 C D G
Sus7 C F G Bb
