What is a harmonizer?


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06/10/2010 7:41 pm
Anyone care to shed some light on Harmonizers? I'm trying to watch some youtube vids, but they are not explaining what a harmonizer really is doing, rather demo's
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06/11/2010 6:15 am
The advent of digital processing made some amazing things possible. Like changing the pitch of a note fed into a harmonizer into another note a fixed interval away from the original. The new note is then mixed with the original, and sent out as a single signal.

That's a bit over simplified, but it catches the essence.
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06/11/2010 12:25 pm
Originally Posted by: LordathestringsThe advent of digital processing made some amazing things possible. Like changing the pitch of a note fed into a harmonizer into another note a fixed interval away from the original. The new note is then mixed with the original, and sent out as a single signal.

That's a bit over simplified, but it catches the essence.


That's pretty much it and it's selectable. You choose a key and the interval off the key to harmonize.
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06/11/2010 2:10 pm
So you're getting the mixture of two notes so to speak?
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06/11/2010 5:49 pm
So like an octaver, but instead of just octaves, it does different intervals that harmonize?
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06/11/2010 6:22 pm
Interesting sounds it makes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op-6mJpwSY4
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06/11/2010 10:27 pm
Originally Posted by: RickBlackerSo you're getting the mixture of two notes so to speak?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=hunter1801]So like an octaver, but instead of just octaves, it does different intervals that harmonize?


If you've heard any songs by Queen, you've heard a harmonizer.
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