It's best to actually sing the parts. My nit with digitally created harmonies is that they are exact clones of the source lead track. It's workable and lots of folks do it but it can easily sound fake... or digitally perfect. Singing the part, even if you're the same person, will render slight variations in timing and pitch that allows it to sound a bit more realistic and natural.

Here's one way to blend the technology with live voice to create a nice harmony with a little bit of effort and time. Work in a DAW with multitrack capability.

Sing the lead and then use your digital toys to give you the multiple harmony parts. Place each harmony in it's own tracks and add a track for each harmony.

Solo the harmony track you are working with and something else like a piano or guitar part for a reference.

Learn the harmony part and record it while singing along to it. Mute the digital version and use something like melodyne to tweek the tuning if it's off a bit.

Waa Laa... you have some really nice harmony tracks and they were sung.

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