boss harmonizer guitar effect

[adetheheat]

on the me50 effects I have the harmonizer effect. I can set it to whatever I'm playing in and it should create the harmonies.
So my question is does my guitar need to be tuned in to the same tuning boss effects - therefore it knows what harmonies to do - although i can't work out how it can do the right harmonies without looking at my signal from the guitar
OR
Does it get my signal and create harmonies around that regardless of my tuning.

It's a subtle difference.

[Emperor Fabulous]

Are you asking this :

e.g. If you set the Boss ME50 harmoniser to the key of E major, and you tune your guitar to Eb, will it play the correct harmonies still, or would you need to set the ME50 to Eb as well ?


Either way, I have no idea, but I thought I'd at least try to understand what you were asking !

[Peter_J]

i don't really know but i would think it would be the second one

[Sporky_McGuffin]

It guesses the pitch of the incoming signal and harmonises to that. It neither knows nor cares what tuning your guitar is in.

[RolandG]

It listens to the incoming signal, and produces a note, or notes, that harmonise with it. Typical harmonies for the note E in the key of E will be G# and B. If your tuning is a little off there's not a problem.

If you tell it to harmonise in E, and then play in Eb, it will sound wierd. For the note Eb in the scale of E it will probably try to harmonise with an F# and/or A. When you move up to F and then G it will have problems because they are not notes in the scale of E. When you play a G# it will happliy harmonise with a B, which will sound strange because it's not a note in the key of Eb.

This is from theory. I've not got a harmoniser with me today to try it out. Later this morning someone in the UK will wake up and try it on their harmoniser, and doubtless prove me wrong.

[frek89]

i have the same pedal, the harmonizer just works regardless of the tuning but the harmonies will be withing the scale of whatever it is set in so there maybe some notes that sound slightly surreal but its still a perfectly usable sound, i mean accidentals happen allot in music