You can get chords to the VW and VW+ simply by sending MIDI notes from a track in your sequencer over a MIDI channel to the harmonizers. If you are just wanting to send chords, one way to get them into the track is to use the feature in BIAB that puts chords on one track when you make a MIDI file for export. Take that MIDI track, put it into your sequencer, set your harmonizer to chords (or even better have your sequencer select one of the patches the useses chords) and the harmonizer will follow along with the chords in the song.

If you use the harmony mode that exactly follows the notes in a track you can set up four consecutive midi channels on 4 tracks to send the exact notes to the harmonizer for it to use in up to a four part harmony.

Myself, I use the midi controller and set them in the sequencer to send the chord changes, telling the harmonizer what I want rather than have it figure it out on its own from the chords. That works better for me. Using controller messages in the sequencer, you can control everything: number of voices, volume, effects, and on and on.

The vst plug that is available for the harmonizers is little more than an interface to put up on the computer that duplicates some of the knobs on the VW. All it really does for you is it lets you make setting on the computer that you would make on the front of the harmonizer. It isn't going to do anything in the way of automation for you. To do that, you will have to set controllers in your sequencer. I usually do most of this in the Piano Roll View of Sonar.


Keith
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