Harmony Improvisator VST
Improvisator ManualThank you for purchasing Harmony Improvisator. This VST plugin is intended to compose music based on the rules of classical harmonic theory. The program lets you explore, by clicking the mouse, the manyfold worlds of harmonic theory without having to consider rules of part-writing or keys and scales. Embedding Harmony Improvisator has to be inserted into your host software as a VSTi plugin. Per default it routes the chords you trigger to a built-in synthesizer. You can optionally load a separate sampler or synthesizer in your host application and route the midi output of Improvisator to it instead of using the built-in synthesizer.
May 20, 2011 - Download Harmony Improvisator 1.0.1 here. Whether pop-music or choral - correct harmonic progression is now accessible in your VST host. I use the Harmony Improvisator VST instrument, but only occasionally, so I only just noticed this issue: I'm using HI to send midi to other VST.
For that, choose Midi out in Improvsators output option menu and connect both Improvisator and your sound generator via a midi track which has Improvisator as the input and the sampler / synthesizer as the output. After setup you should hear harmonies when clicking and holding the mouse on any of Improvisators chord buttons. First steps The main key is chosen in the Circle of Fifths on the top right.
The two rows of buttons top left are the most important buttons. These are the scale degrees of the chosen key. The upper row corresponds to the current major key and the lower one to the corresponding minor key. Below that you find more complex derivatives of these functions: Various inversions, i.e. The same chord with different bass note, one gender inversion, Suspensions, which are chords that tend to be solved to a simple harmony, various characteristic derivatives of subdominants, various characteristic derivatives of dominants.If you prefer the harmonic functions to be named as chords (like A7) or as scale degrees (like I-IV-V-I) you can change the display style in the 'Show harmonic function' dropdown. Suggestions On the middle of the plugin you find suggestions of harmonies that could well follow the one you actually triggered. These are computed anew after each choice of harmony.
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The first suggestion usually is a rather common sound, for example the standard resolution of a suspension or of a dominant. To try more than one suggestion without loosing the others, you can right click them to avoid that new suggestions are generated after each click.Recently triggered Above the ten suggestion buttons Improvisator registers the four most recent harmonic functions that have been triggered.The harmonic timeline Any harmonies that you play you can drag with the mouse into the harmonic progression area. Individual harmonies can be deleted, replaced or moved via drag and drop. With that timeline you can not only visualize the actual sheet music of the chords you are interested in but also you can compose up to seven different chord patterns for assembling a piece of music. (See chapter 'Patterns') To switch between the patterns you can use the dropdown menu 'Active Pattern'. Individual patterns can be played back in a loop with the play button beneath the harmonic timeline. The Zoom slider on the right below the timeline allows to zoom in and out to the desired time resolution to create your style of music.
Some other means of manipulation of the timeline are available via right-click into the timeline whereby a drop-down menu is opened. Use this to reset the whole pattern or to insert pauses. Sheet music editing The timeline not only shows the harmonic functions but also the corresponding notes of the functions in a sheet music view. With the mouse you can manipulate these notes: Once you have set up a little harmonic progression it is possible to change any note or to remove some notes as well.
You can also freely put melody notes into the sheet music view between the actual harmonies by clicking into an empty time frame. By pressing c/n/b you can force a #/nothing/b to the active note.
To make writing of melodies and manipualtion of chord notes in the sheet music view easier, you can make a certain scale or the notes of the underlaying chords magnetic with the dropdown menu 'Magnetic'. This means that when moving a note vertically it will always flip to the next magnetic step of the chosen scale / chord. Per default, only notes that are contained in the underlying harmonic function are magnetic unless you choose a different 'Magnetic' option.
Patterns and harmonic sequencing When it comes to assembling a whole piece of music based on the harmonic functions you have picked, Harmony Impovisator makes it very easy for you. Just fill some patterns with harmonic functions for the different parts of the piece and make sure the 'Input' dropdown is set on 'trigger patterns'. Now use your midi keyboard to trigger the individual patterns which are looped and synchronized to the host project automatically. Any C on the keyboard triggers pattern #1, any D triggers pattern #2 and so forth. The triggering notes (C, D etc.) you can record and tweak around in your host sequencer to generate long and more complex arrangements. You can alternatively export the actual notes of the active pattern by clicking 'Save' and then choosing 'Save Midi'. The MIDI file being generated you should be able to load in any sequencer software.