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TCHelicon 'Play Acoustic' harmony integration with BIAB question #619850 10/21/20 12:01 AM Recording, Mixing, Performance and Production
Joined: Oct 2020 Posts: 2 Northern Ireland Howard B OP Newbie
OP Howard B Newbie Joined: Oct 2020 Posts: 2 Northern Ireland	Hi All - First post from Northern Ireland! I have ordered BIAB 2020 from Thomann and I'm doing a little bit of prep. I have had a Helicon 'Play Acoustic' for a few years I want to use the pedal with BIAB but have never managed to get it to work with my previous recordings except live with my guitar as the reference. The unit never seems to pick up the trigger signal cross-reference with the vocal and therefore produce a proper harmony. Has anyone successfully managed to use a feed from their BIAB into the Play Acoustic to produce an acceptable harmony? If so, can anyone share? Thanks

Re: TCHelicon 'Play Acoustic' harmony integration with BIAB question Howard B #619869 10/21/20 03:22 AM Recording, Mixing, Performance and Production
Joined: Dec 2017 Posts: 263 Derry VintageGibson Apprentice
VintageGibson Apprentice Joined: Dec 2017 Posts: 263 Derry	Welcome aboard, I'm from Stroke City on the North West Frontier. I've been using BIAB since the previous millennium, but no nothing of TCHelicon 'Play Acoustic' sorry can't help, but I'm sure some of the resident "Gurus" will be able to. Good luck, Vintage

Re: TCHelicon 'Play Acoustic' harmony integration with BIAB question VintageGibson #619945 10/21/20 11:01 AM Recording, Mixing, Performance and Production
Joined: Oct 2020 Posts: 2 Northern Ireland Howard B OP Newbie
OP Howard B Newbie Joined: Oct 2020 Posts: 2 Northern Ireland	Cheers mate stay away from the Covid going around up there!

Re: TCHelicon 'Play Acoustic' harmony integration with BIAB question Howard B #619951 10/21/20 11:31 AM Recording, Mixing, Performance and Production
Joined: May 2020 Posts: 1,629 Victoria, BC Simon - PG Music PG Music Staff
Simon - PG Music PG Music Staff Joined: May 2020 Posts: 1,629 Victoria, BC	Hi Howard, how do you have your pedal connected into your computer? Using an audio interface, or USB, or something else? Is the pedal able to provide clean vocals to the computer without effects, and without mixing it with the guitar sound? I work here

Re: TCHelicon 'Play Acoustic' harmony integration with BIAB question Howard B #620071 10/22/20 02:19 AM Recording, Mixing, Performance and Production
Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 1,996 Essex England Bob Calver Expert
Bob Calver Expert Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 1,996 Essex England	why use the pedal? if you record a vocal track you can use the PG Music supplied Helicon software to harmonize. and whereas the pedal output will be fixed - recorded as the pedal outputs - with the software you can experiment, go back and change and even apply separate fx to each harmony

Re: TCHelicon 'Play Acoustic' harmony integration with BIAB question Howard B #620537 10/25/20 07:32 AM Recording, Mixing, Performance and Production
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Jim Fogle Veteran Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 10,140 Winston-Salem, NC USA	Hello Howard B, Welcome to the forum and (soon) to Band-in-a-Box or BiaB for short. Did you order the Mac or Windows version of Band-in-a-Box? There are differences between the two programs so the information is useful when we are answering questions. Also, make sure to create an account with PG Music and register your product. Registration provides you with the security of online access to installation files and makes you eligible for reduced pricing during PG Music sale events. Both versions of BiaB offer an Output Chords to External Device setting that enables BiaB to reserve a midi channel that will output root chords to an external device however the steps to access the setting differs between the two programs. Jim Fogle - 2024 BiaB (1111) RB (5) Ultra+ PAK DAWs: Cakewalk by BandLab (CbB) - Standalone: Zoom MRS-8 Laptop: i3 Win 10, 8GB ram 500GB HDD Desktop: i7 Win 11, 12GB ram 256GB SSD, 4 TB HDD Music at: https://fogle622.wix.com/fogle622-audio-home

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