Vielklang Instant Harmony 2 is an instrument for easy generation of harmonies from an audio or MIDI melody. The utilization of voice leading and harmony progression models allows vielklang to create harmony parts in a more musical way than traditional harmony processors and makes it a versatile and creative tool for musicians, songwriters and producers.
Instant Harmony V2.0 & Advanced Pitch Editing
Harmonize your melody with one single click - loading a single-voiced audio file - and create natural-sounding background choirs and brass arrangements.
vielklang Instant Harmony generates harmonies with 2-4 voices. It is packed with musical intelligence and music theory: it detects the best fitting harmonies for each individual input melody, and automatically synthesizes up to four voices with the voices not merely running in parallel but with their voicings selected to sound most natural (voice leading).
Its all about Music
vielklang "thinks musically" and prepares intelligent voicings. vielklang by zplane is packed with musical intelligence and music theory: it automatically detects the best fitting harmonies for each individual input melody, and automatically synthesizes up to four voices with the voices not merely running in parallel but with their voicings automatically selected to sound most natural (voice leading). vielklang gives you a natural-sounding result immediately and allows you to concentrate on tweaking the results rather than edit them from scratch as with traditional harmonizers.
Creativity First
Directly interact with the music rather than with the technology. Dont waste time with tedious configuration of obvious parameters like root note, scale, tuning frequency etc.; let vielklang take care of this with its automatic recognition engines and concentrate on making music! Have complete control over your voicings and musical parameters like harmonies, pitch range and scale.
Discover the Potential
The vielklang audio harmonization instrument is not a harmonizer, but much more! With the vielklang plugin, you can easily generate and trial natural sounding background vocals and brass sections, modify melodies and single-voiced loops in terms of pitch and scale, and experiment with different harmonizations or chords triggered by different MIDI inputs. It allows you to generate up to four voices, edit their harmonies and single pitches, control the playback speed, and convert the audio to MIDI.
Fazit:
Mit seinen hochwertigen Pitch-Shifting- und Time-Stretching-Algorithmen, musikalischen Bearbeitungsfunktionen und seiner intuitiven Bedienbarkeit setzt vielklang Instant Harmony in puncto Sound und Leistungsfhigkeit Mastbe.
Working with vocals brings its own set of logistical problems. What if your singer has gone home when you decide the track needs harmonies, or they just aren't adept at laying them down? Or perhaps you're working with pre-recorded samples, and you'd like to add a harmony to a single-line melody.
It's for just such situations that zplane developed their vielklang Instant Harmony plugin (VST/AU/RTAS). Now at version 2, its interface has been overhauled since we looked at v1, and a number of key new features have been added.
Version 1 offered up to four channels of intelligent harmonisation, and at the simplest level, it only required you to drop your audio file into the plugin, whereupon it made an eerily accurate guess as to the key.
Version 2 goes further, though, permitting the import of multiple files at once. Now, a verse, chorus, bridge - anything you like - can be laid out in the arrange window. You then enter the tempo, hit the Harmonize button and enjoy some incredibly convincing harmonies.
These can be viewed and edited in a piano roll editor - you can delete, move, draw and add new notes, as well as apply vibrato and tremolo to individual notes. Its this piano roll functionality that makes vielklang Instant Harmony 2 more powerful than many of its competitors.
When you have a harmony performance you're happy with, you can export each part as a separate audio file, or even as a MIDI file. Version 2 also introduces MIDI file import, enabling you to turn something like a simple lead synth line into a huge harmonic monster that can then be exported as a complete MIDI file.
We find this plugin at its most usefully suggestive when applied to a vocal before any backing music has been added. It then doubles as a compositional tool because many of the suggested harmonies will also make good starting points for backing tracks. It's often less useful when your track is up and running, though, as the results can need serious editing.
Another ingenious feature is the ability to take snapshots of specific harmonies, assign them to MIDI keys and then trigger them, letting you perform harmonic progressions live via MIDI. Then there's the formant control, chord menu, MIDI harmony control and numerous other powerful features.
In terms of sound quality, we pitched vielklang against some of the leading harmony- generating plugins on the market, and it was at least as good, if not better. When used constantly, the results of harmony plugins - understandably - sound a little robotic, but with careful mixing and sporadic use, the sound is very convincing, particularly when used in electronic productions.
vielklang 2 is an insanely clever bit of kit and a big step forward from version 1 (we haven't even had time to mention the additional scales or new harmonisation types). Whatever your skill level, it can be genuinely inspirational, especially with the new MIDI harmonisation. However, if experimentation and/or music theory give you the fear, you may not find vielklang 2 quite so welcoming or intuitive.
vielklang is a plug-in instrument for instant audio harmonization. vielklang generates up to four voices from a single-voiced audio input. The progression of each individual voice is controlled by sophisticated harmony progression and voice leading models, resulting in musically meaningful harmonization without any configuration effort.
With vielklang musicians can easily generate and prototype natural-sounding background vocals and brass sections, modify melodies and single-voiced loops in terms of pitch and scale, and experiment with various harmonizations or chords triggered by different MIDI-inputs. It allows the user to synthesize up to four voices, edit harmonies and single pitches, and convert audio to MIDI.
The four voices don't simply move in parallel, their individual progression is controlled by a complete set of voice leading rules and sophisticated harmony progression models. This musical intelligence and knowledge lets the user focus entirely on musical issues, rather than technical or theoretical ones. vielklang helps to achieve musically meaningful results without having to bother about root note, scale, tuning frequency, harmony progression and voice leading.
While vielklang provides instant and meaningful results, experienced users also have the option of changing harmonization parameters like the range (ambitus) or distribution of the voices, modifying root note and scale, editing single harmonies and changing individual pitches in each of the voices.
Vielklang has changed my song writing process forever! I bought it hoping it would help me create an occasional harmony or two. Wow! I got so much more than a simple harmonizer. This plugin instrument is like having your very own musical harmony/theory genius buddy at your side, who is never too busy! I don't know how it works, but it seems to carefully analyze whatever melody you feed it and then quickly revealing several harmony options to choose from. I have many tunes in my head and like to get them out as quickly as possible. I'm not a musical theorist, and before using Vielklang I struggled with the harmony part of my productions. Figuring out the scale, root note, progression, etc would bog down my creativity and often the original inspiration would be lost. With Vielklang I can now focus on finishing songs, and they sound much better.
I have also used Vielklang in the classroom as a teaching tool for ESL students, learning disabled, and young adults with speech difficulties. I have found that creating and reciting harmonies is an effective tool in smoothening out vocal/speech patterns and helps with intonation and elocution. .. and it's fun to use. It breathes life into my lessons.
Creating harmonies used to be like jogging in bad shoes, and now it's like playing my favorite sport on steroids! I should mention that the interface is a pleasure to work with. .. so clean and clear. I'm a visual person and seeing the notes is pleasure. Hey, the price is good too. I have paid ten times as much bribing music theory gurus to help me create a harmony or two. zPlane has developed a fantastic plugin instrument that can provide creative options and enhance anything that has notes. I will keep it and update it as long as I have a melody in my noodle and someone nearby with at least one ear! Thank you zPlane.
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