Max for live based ABLETON LIVE plugin. Add up to four harmonies to your live performance.
Designed by Michael J. Keplinger, add. work by Elisa Breitenbrunner, Georg Schiffer & András Woltron

Note: A new update (»harmonizer6«) is now available!
Thanks to anyone who reached out to make this update possible!

MJK-Design

ableton live 11 plugin

The Plugin
The Harmonizer allows you to add up to four harmonies to your live vocals or any other monophonic input. It is 100% Max for Live-based, allowing for an easy import and low file size. Also, a software-independent standalone version is available (if interested please send a short request via email and you will receive a download link as soon as possible).
Either version is completely free, so feel free to experiment and give feedback!

Presets
The Harmonizer provides two presets: automatic and manual. The former adds harmonies above the sung note according to the selected scale. With only the first harmony turned on, the Harmonizer accompanies you much like a second singer would. The latter preset adds notes of the selected chord within one octave of the sung note for a dense choir or vocoder type of effect. You can select the root via a MIDI controller through a separate MIDI track.

Non-diatonic chords
Since it is not uncommon for a piece of music to step outside of a single scale, either for a full key change or to make use of other modes, this was at least to some extent accounted for: For any input notes outside of the selected scale, the harmonies are practically “rounded off”: I.e. with the harmonizer set to the key of A major, selecting F would still give you the harmonies of E major (the next chord below, practically), resulting in F diminished, which could be used as a substitute for D#⁷.
The option to input all harmonies individually via a MIDI controller is currently planned for inclusion in the next update.

Example
See what the Harmonizer can do in the example video below:

Like the Harmonizer?
The Harmonizer plugin is available completely free of charge.
However… I wouldn’t say no to a cup of coffee! ;^)