It's been a while since I last played around with the BIAB harmonizer. Because of that, I needed to refresh my memory, so I've just had a play around with the harmonizer's tutorial file called "Listen.MGU" (to refresh my memory). This file is found under...\bb\Documentation\Tutorials\Tutorial - Audio Harmonies and it includes vocal audio.

One thing I noticed with the audio file included with this tutorial is that the audio volumes are extremely loud, I had to decrease the original audio and the two generated tracks to 35 (orig. audio) and 30 (generated harmony).

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Another consideration was that because the vocals of for this file are male, the pitch is actually one octave lower than the melody notation. This means that since the notated melody sits around middle C, the vocal is in the region one octave lower than middle C. If harmony is generated lower/beneath this vocal, it will sound very muddy. It would be like playing chords on a bass guitar. For this reason, when I generated the harmony, I chose two voices to sound above the melody.

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I also tried the the transcription functions and they worked fine. These transcriptions could be saved in MIDI format and then imported into Synth V. In Synth V, the octave could also be adjusted appropriately for female voices. This makes it very easy to create background harmonies.

For those who are curious about how my harmonies sounded, below is a link to the wav file of the harmonization I created.

"Listen" - wav file

Last edited by Noel96; 01/13/25 01:32 AM.
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