Three Part Harmony Stompbox

The HarmonyMan employs the same patented musIQ technology as the DigiTech Vocalist family of products. This technology accurately creates multi-part harmony by analyzing guitar chords. There is no tedious programming or knowledge of complicated music theory needed.

The HarmonyMan offers a number of enhanced, convenient and intuitive features. In addition to three-part guitar harmonies generated with no complex programming, the HarmonyMan’s feature set includes:

• Intelligent Pitch Shifting, based on a groundbreaking new signal processing technology, giving players ultra clean, low-latency harmonies based on one of four user-friendly shifting modes.
• Unique Key Display, showing the key that the HarmonyMan is currently using for harmonization. When musIQ is enabled, the display will update dynamically in response to the playing. A musically intelligent “Circle of Fifthsâ€� layout puts musically related keys (sharing the most notes) beside each other.
• Independently Selectable Voicings for each harmony, with a wide variety of options, including two intelligent shifting modes, unison/detune, octave up/down, straight chromatic shifts from -12 to +12 semitones, as well as 2 octaves down.
• Strum Key, allowing players to easily set the key of a song by simply strumming chords (perfect for songs that start with a solo).
• musIQ Sidechain Input/Thru, which lets a second guitar be the chord recognition source while the Clean Input Guitar signal is shifted to produce harmonies – perfect for bands with both a lead and rhythm guitar player.
• Voice Memory, allowing players to pre-configure and store up to four different harmony voicings and step through them with the memory advance footswitch.
• Pre-Harmony Distortion Loop, which lets players place a distortion stompbox before the harmony effect without affecting chord recognition of the Clean Input signal.
• Built-in Guitar Tuner
• Mix Control, programmable control of the mix between the lead and harmony signals.
• 1/4â€� guitar input with distortion send and return, 1/4â€� guitar optional Sidechain input and pass-through and guitar ground lift
• Balanced Stereo 1/4â€� outputs
• Rugged roadworthy all-metal chassis
• Power supply included

Pricing and Availability:
The HarmonyMan Intelligent Pitch Shifter will be available May 2008 for an MSRP of $449.95.

More information:

• www.digitech.com

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  madmax    Said...

  Pretty cool but $$$. I wonder if there will be a pared-down, single-pedal version like what BOSS has done with their looper pedal. Maybe they will come out with a new version of the Whammy pedal. They could have problably added an expression pedal input to achieve the same result here. Maybe in the "jr" verion.

  Since I haven't had music theory training, I don't understand how that chord-related harmonization stuff works. I think I would probably only use the semitone mode.

  01-May-08 10:19 AM

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