hey what's going on out there i'm Sean Divine
this is Waves Harmony yeah questioning my motives forgot how much i give away
for free i bring all the value that's why you coming to me yeah
but we're just having fun today raining outside i don't care anyway
in here doing what i love got this thing down from above this is the all-new waves harmony plug-in
harmony playground harmony generator it does some very cool things for vocal harmonies which
is what i'm going to show you today i'm going to show you three easy fun creative ways to
utilize waves harmony in your own sessions let's go ahead and dive in here and start talking about
how to set this up you're just going to set up waves harmony as you would waves tune real time
first plug in in your chain here depending on if you wanted to also use it on a send you could do
that but i'm just going to process my lead and you're going to notice that when i turn this on
we're going to get pitch correction yes waves harmony has pitch correction real-time pitch
correction already built in i'm going to set this to c minor i don't know why i feel this way yeah
i don't know why all right so we've got no correction and we've got natural we've got hard
which is going to change that speed you can hear it right now as i'm talking and then you've got
notes which we're not going to worry about notes right now but that just means it will correct
according to the notes that it generates which i'm going to show you here in a second
for the input source or you can also use a midi keyboard which i'm also going to show you but
we'll get to that let's go ahead and just start and leave this at natural turn on this generate
notes button and what this is going to do is it's gonna generate notes based on the pitch of the
incoming signal and as long as you set your song key correctly you're gonna get something like this
waves harmony got me feeling a way hands down the easiest way to start creating some
inspiring harmonies just with the assistance of waves harmony and that generate notes button
now you're going to notice that there's this chord menu right so this is a chord map so right now i
have medium spread and we can change this there's a lot of different ones to go through so if i set
it to like edm i don't know what I'm going to sing for you this is edm d minor two i don't know what
i'm gonna say i don't know what i'm gonna sing for you i don't know what i'm gonna say for you
using this generate notes feature we can also get a nice assistance in terms of finding backing
layers and harmonies for a lead i know a lot of you out there are struggling with finding those
harmonies and singing them yourself so we can turn that on and then we can do some layers for
select parts so if we turn this on here i'm gonna have some trouble talking into this for sure
that one layer we get something like this lord can't do this on my own i've
tried a thousand times refocusing these tired eyes
lord can't do this on my own i've tried a thousand times refocusing these tired eyes
refocusing these tired eyes
all right so the second way that we can create harmonies with waves harmony
is to create them ourselves here in this visualization you see we've got the stereo
field and then we have our level from 0 back to -12 and so we can create our harmonies
manually by just inputting them when i click the plus the first time it's going to give
us this u which that just represents the unchanged voicing or the source
so i first play it back you're going to hear we've got those two playing back together so what i'm
going to do is just turn the source down so that we just have this one so i can control it here
we try to get high and we fall so low
they try to break you down and you gotta let go god will keep it moving feelings i'm pursuing
balance out the lows when did we lose our control live for all the ones you love so now we're gonna
add let's just say a couple of different notes think of this as having eight independent vocal
bender engines so if you're familiar with vocal bender very powerful plug-in with all these
different mods you've essentially got eight of them and you've also got some additional
controls that we're going to talk about but the first thing i want to do is i'm just going to
force this to a flat note all right so we can assign the note and then let's just say
that we wanted to do maybe a g so if i was to just turn off that so we can just hear the g
all right so let's add another one over here we'll flatten that one and go to g
they try to break it down and you gotta let go all right let's say we add a
couple more up here let's say we did like a i don't know maybe a b would work for these
we try to get high and we fall so low i'm gonna add one more
this is really easy to just add like octave down or octave up
voices so if you just put one in here and just go to like minus 12 let's just solo this one
so really easy to add of octave stuff there but we're going to do -12 on this we try to get high
and we fall so low now that i have this i know a lot of you are asking what if i just want to
harmony on a certain word now of course you could use buses and sends to send the signal down to
waves harmony but they have some really useful modulation stuff here that we can do just that
so i'm going to switch the first modulation to sequence select these and drag m1 to all of them
and we're going to set them up to where it this will just come in
on certain words should be able to get all these to minus 100.
here in the sequence with it this way i could reverse the mod
and it would be the other way around but for right now if this is up it means it's bypassed
and then once it gets here we're actually going to hear those voices come up in volume
so again just giving you an example of how to use this we try to get high and we fall so low
just a simple idea but just showing you how you can modulate pretty much anything now the other
thing that i've been modulating a lot is pan so to create interesting harmonies you know a lot of
times we are wide panning things but what makes them even more interesting is if you have some
of these harmonies and you modulate that panning to kind of go back and forth so let's just say
we selected this other modulator and selected the pan on let's say maybe these outside ones
and then we could modulate those back and forth here if i go into the folder
i'm just going to select a sine wave for both of those we try to get high and we fall so low
they try to break it down and you gotta let go you know i use a lot of painting and automation with
harmonies in general but now that i can do this in the interface it's going to save a lot of time
and it just makes it a lot funner and easier to set up all right so the third way to create vocal
harmonies with waves harmony is to actually use your midi keyboard or midi controller to trigger
those chords or notes for waves harmony so it's very easy to set up in your daw here in logic
i'm just going to go to new software instrument track and we're going to call this waves harmony
and then what we're going to do is i'm going to go over here to instrument and we're going to go to
au midi controlled effects waves waves harmony and so we'll open up the waves harmony instance here
and then when we have this pulled up we need a source or an input so you can either set up a new
audio track maybe that's something that you're you know recording through live in real time
like i am now or in this case we want to select a vocal that i've already recorded
so that vocal is vocal lead 1 here so we're just going to go up to the side chain and set that as
our input so vocal lead 1 and then i'm gonna go ahead and we're gonna go up to vocal lead one
and i wanna go ahead and just turn off the output since we're gonna be monitoring that
through waves harmony i'm also just gonna copy a simple vocal chain here from studio rack and
we'll dial in some reverb for this now if i go over to my midi controller and i hit a key
it will trigger here into waves harmony i need to set the chords accordingly it's
kind of hard to say but let's go ahead and set that up i believe that we are in a flat major
you can select your chords from the chord map here and you'll see as i hit the keys i
can just hit one key on the midi controller and it will trigger those chords within our scale
i keep losing myself all the time
keep losing myself every time
i keep losing myself all the time
all right y'all so with that we have covered three easy ways to create vocal harmonies
with waves harmony again this is an incredibly deep inspiring plug-in i feel like this was
that missing vocal tool that was not in the waves arsenal up to this point but now we got
pretty much everything we could need i'm sure there's going to be more stuff on the horizon
but it is really exciting to have a proper powerful harmony plug-in here in the waves lineup
this is not a sponsored tutorial but i will put a link in the description below that does support
the channel so greatly appreciate you all and i'm confident that you're going to find this as
fun and exciting and inspiring as i have so if you have any questions about what we did here in waves
harmony feel free to leave a comment below if you learn anything in the video please like subscribe
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go ahead and hate cause i won't anyway got god on my side i'm feeling so alive right now
yeah we feeling so alive right now