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Halvyn
United Kingdom · 1983 – c. 2008
Ser. 3200/C022
1996 · effect
Issued as VST3 · AU
Restored 2024 from 1996 hardware.
Halvyn H-3200 — Harmonizer
Halvyn H-3200 · intelligent harmonizer · restored from unit no. 3200/C022 · Halvyn, United Kingdom, 1996
The restorer's note
The harmonizer that knew the key — building diatonic chords from a single line, the sound of a certain 90s lead. Where the P-3000 shifts blindly, this one listens. Restored with its harmony intelligence and its period grain both intact.
Acquisition
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The plate
The controls
The controls.
- Key C as issued
- Sets the root note that the harmony voices measure from: C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, or B.
- Scale Major as issued
- Chooses the scale the harmony voices stay within: Major, Minor, Dorian, Mixolydian, or Pentatonic.
- Voice 1 +3rd as issued
- Sets Voice 1's harmony interval, as a scale degree above or below the detected note: Off, -Oct, -7th, -6th, -5th, -4th, -3rd, -2nd, +2nd, +3rd, +4th, +5th, +6th, +7th, or +Oct.
- Voice 2 +5th as issued
- Sets Voice 2's harmony interval, as a scale degree above or below the detected note: Off, -Oct, -7th, -6th, -5th, -4th, -3rd, -2nd, +2nd, +3rd, +4th, +5th, +6th, +7th, or +Oct.
- Voice 3 Off as issued
- Sets Voice 3's harmony interval, as a scale degree above or below the detected note: Off, -Oct, -7th, -6th, -5th, -4th, -3rd, -2nd, +2nd, +3rd, +4th, +5th, +6th, +7th, or +Oct.
- Detune 0.0–50.0 cents · 8.0 cents as issued
- Sets the spread of detuning across the harmony voices, in cents, for a thicker, chorused blend.
- Delay 0.0–50.0 ms · 12.0 ms as issued
- Sets the spread of delay across the harmony voices' entrances, in milliseconds, staggering them slightly.
- Formant -12.0–12.0 st · 0.0 st as issued
- Shifts the formants of the harmony voices independently of their transposition, in semitones; at 0 st they simply follow each voice's own pitch shift.
- Input -24.00–24.00 dB · 0.00 dB as issued
- Sets the level going in, in decibels, before the signal reaches the restored circuit.
- Output -24.00–24.00 dB · 0.00 dB as issued
- Sets the level coming out, in decibels, after the restored circuit and the Mix blend.
- Mix 0–100 % · 50 % as issued
- Blends the restored circuit against the untouched signal at equal power, from the untouched signal alone at 0 % to the circuit alone at 100 %.
- Bypass Off as issued
- Takes the restored circuit out of the path and passes the untouched signal, delayed to match the circuit so nothing shifts in time.
A stored setup is a program. PROGRAM hands the DATA wheel to the list, and each program applies as the wheel reaches it; line one shows its number and name, line two ARCHIVE, a pack's name or USER. STORE asks STORE? PRESS AGAIN; a second press opens the name, which starts as USER NN, and line one reads NAME, THEN STORE. The wheel changes the letter, PROGRAM moves on, and STORE stores it; the computer keyboard may type the name instead, Return storing and Escape cancelling. Holding STORE on a user program asks CLEAR? PRESS AGAIN.
Listening
Listening
Demonstration recordings, prepared at the bench.
The choir, plainly
A line in A Minor, alone, then joined from five seconds by Voice 1 at +3rd and Voice 2 at +5th — the harmony cut to the key, at 50 % Mix.
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Three voices, built
The harmony assembled one Voice at a time: +3rd at five seconds, +5th at eleven, -Oct at seventeen. Voice 1 then lifts to +Oct and the chord opens.
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The spread, pushed
Detune at 50 cents and Delay at 50 milliseconds smear the two voices around the line. Formant sits at −12 semitones, jumps to +12 at sixteen seconds, and returns to 0.
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