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Harmonizr Goes AU3 for GarageBand
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I got it but haven’t used it much I think it was either free or on offer a few weeks back.
Just been using it as AU has some strange effects on Keys some good some not so good will need to get a better idea how to use it.
I thought it always was AU?
Oh, they’ve added another FX plugin so it can be used properly in GarageBand I think.
I'm interested in the pitch shifting quality compared to the other apps available.
Playing Jacob Collier style is hardly possible with 3-voice polyphony
This app is really fun and a blast to use. You can hear it on the guitar solo for Lily Gets Upset from Doug, Colin & my album Lily's Gone Mad. Forward up to 1:44-ish for the solo:
https://dougwoodsandcolinpowell.bandcamp.com/track/lily-gets-upset
I think it sounds very ‘non-chipmunk’, which is a good thing.
It can "sing" any chords you can play with MIDI in chromatic mode. So, Jacob away with all your fingers.
I think it does an excellent budget ($5) version of the Jacob Collier Harmonizer effect. You need to get MIDI and a Mic into the iPad.
To have the harmony follow your keyboard chord choices you select the chromatic setting so you're non-scale jazz chord extensions come through if not it will build the basic chords from the scale selected and no C7+b9+#11's for you.
It sounds more like a harmonizer than a vocoder (which is that robot like vocal). It also can auto-tune the singers melody as an option.
For non-keyboardists you should select a root chord (Major, Minor, 7th) and you can select 2,3,4,5 parts of harmony to be added to a melody input. For a complex harmony you might have to select new root chords as the song progresses from say C minor to A minor. I think those chord changes can't be automated or controlled with MIDI. Just through the screen controls. I'd like to wrong about this.
I have not compared it to the VirSyn Harmony Eight ($10).
Harmony Eight was one of the few apps that I purchased that I've deleted. I could never get it to sound good. It was pitchy, the output was low, the sound was meh - didn't jive with me at all. THis is one of very few apps that I just don't recommend.
Have you purchased Harmonizr? For people that want to add background vocals to a lead singer or turn a guitar solo into 2 or 3 part harmonic lines this one is really powerful as a studio tool.
Throw in the autotune for the paying customer with pitch issues and you're way ahead for $5. The customer won't even notice the slight shifts that makes the music less cringeworthy. They'll "I sound really good when you record me." Of course, a studio would have bought an Autotune years ago. But for someone building a studio business on the cheap it's a no brainer.
If you want a fast overview of the Harmonizr App watch the developer give a tutorial on how to connect and use it. You can use the devices mic but I personally would find another way to add MIDI and a good MIC. I bought the original IK Multimedia iRig which allows guitars and MIC's to be added via the headphone jack. They have since replaced it with a Lightning Port device (which I have too) but I use that port for MIDI so the next option is an audio interface with MIDI IN support over Lightning. I happen to have a Presonus that will do that so my $5 was very well placed to let me do the Jacob Collier/Imogen Heap thing on an iPhone/iPad.
Before it came out I was looking for a good hardware solution and they cost closer to $200. Even a VST plugin would be $50.
Here's the tutorial link:
https://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=HiAMTIYockE
The developer participates here as well. See the original App announcement thread and watch Doug apply it to a guitar solo
at @thesoundtestroom.
I wonder what it does with sequencer MIDI input on a Synth? I'm sure it's useful for that use case as an AUv3 FX tool. Has anyone set that up and produced a track yet?
@McDtracy Already own it - check out my post above