 Hey, it's Ellie from TC Helicon and in this video we are going to dive into the harmonies on the Perform VK. So editing the harmony is very simple, it's very similar in fact to how we edited the reverb and the delay. All you're going to do is you hold down the harmony button and it brings you into the harmony menus. So if we think that basically this top LED, what's that, 12 o'clock, that's your lead voice and these LEDs that light up are the corresponding kind of harmony placements to your lead voice. So the first one that it shows you is one above or high we call it, so I'll demo it for you. It's a fifth above, the next one, so the third above, higher we call it, that one's called low in the manual and it's a third below. And then the next one we have, which is the third below, then we can start doing two part harmonies after that. So here's one low and one high. So those are all of our natural play harmony modes, essentially those harmonies only work when we're giving it audio chord information. So I have the audio from this keyboard going into the Perform VK and it's telling it which harmonies to sing. If I just sing with nothing going to it, it's doing a pretty good job of guessing but it doesn't know. So it needs that chord information for natural play to work. So let's say I want, we'll do one below or two below rather and that's based on the walk down of the chord progression that I played. If you want the harmonies to be louder, you notice that it timed out really quickly and the screen that it defaults to is this one, it sees white LEDs and that level is only the harmony level, so the volume of the harmonies in relation to your voice. From a previous video you would have seen that I set my vocal level here. This is just always going to be adjusting the harmony volume to my voice. So if I have a song where I want the harmonies to be really loud, I'm going to turn that up. I want to turn them down. It's really hard to hear them there, so it's nice to find a little sweet spot. Another quick tip, if you are using a piano and you're using a sustain pedal, make sure that you're lifting the sustain while you're changing to each chord. If you hold the sustain throughout the chord progression and the harmony voices are changing, they're going to lock on to that initial chord that you used for the first sustain. Make sure that you're lifting your foot between chord changes to make those harmonies sound great. That's natural play. We're going to go into notes mode, which is the next option. Again, hold down your harmony and the first one is you'll see there's these eight LEDs and they're all spaced out. So this is notes mode and it's controlled by MIDI, so you need a MIDI signal to be going to this, which I've got my MIDI plug going from my keyboard to the Perform VK. When they're spaced out like this, there's two settings. There's spaced out and then there's tight, and that's essentially loose harmonies versus tight harmonies. So you can play around with that. One good example, if you're familiar with the song by Imogen Heap, Hide and Seek, this is how she did that, I'm pretty sure. But what you can do is you can turn the volume all the way off on your keyboard and you can play in notes mode here. Okay, so I'm going to play the chords of the song with my hand that I want the harmonies to be and I'm going to sing and because I've turned the keyboard off, you won't be able to hear the keyboard voices that I'm doing. You can also do this through a DAW with your computer and have it set up ahead of time and we'll talk about that in a moment, but I'm just going to demo this for you really quickly here. I'm going to turn the harmonies way up because she's kind of got it so that it's not like a lead vocal, it's a very choral sounding harmony arrangement. So you can hear that here and I've got my vocal really dry but obviously like throwing on some really nice reverb on there. Really making sure I'm trying to lift my foot with every chord change with a sustain so that I get those chord changes happening, but still keeping some sustain so that the harmonies ring out nicely. When I'm in this mode, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm not getting any volume out of my mic because I need, it's telling me, hey, hey, when the harmonies are put up all the way, it needs that harmony information. But if I back off the harmony volume, the lead voice comes through again and we don't have to be necessarily triggering the piano. Okay, so that's chordal notes mode. The very next one after that is this rainbow color and you'll see they're all either spaced out or tight together. Same thing, spaced out harmonies or tight harmonies. Okay, so that one, you have to use a DAW. It's like nothing is going to work with the harmonies on my keyboard. So if you have a DAW, it's 8-channel MIDI. So you can set up 8 channels within your digital audio workspace. Channel 1 goes to the first one, channel 2 goes to the next one and you can trigger your harmonies that way. So I think at some point we'll try and do another video that really goes into that in depth to show you how to set that all up. If you're already thinking about doing something like that then you probably have a pretty good idea of how to do that. But if you think that's something you'd like to know for sure throw that in the comments and we'll get the video team together and we'll put together a video for that. But there you have it. That's harmony before a VK. There's lots of fun stuff you can do. I hope you found that helpful and I hope I was able to demonstrate enough of the sounds that you have a good idea of what it sounds like. Any questions, throw them in the comments below. Please like the video and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel.