It could do some amazing things, but is was fairly complex too. The machine I used was called the TC-Helicon VoiceLive. If you didn't have band members who could sing harmony, that was the only way to go. In the 90s I discovered hardware harmonizers, machines that would split your vocal into parts for you. But for solo live performance, not so much. Using Technology To Generate The Harmonies From One Voice And each one is clean with no additive hiss like in the old days. But nowadays, you just open a track in some multi-track recording software like Audacity or Reaper, and you can have as many tracks - one for each vocal part - as you want. In the early days I had to use cassette tapes and bounce them from one machine to another (truly old-school like Les Paul and Mary Ford!). These days it is easy to do and have it sound awesome. Then I rinse and repeat to get as many harmonies as possible recorded.
Then play that recording back while singing one harmony part along with it. The way I always have done it (singing harmony with myself) has been to sing one part - say, the melody - and record it. My first article for Home Brew Audio was, in fact, Sing Harmony With Yourself – Learn How to Record Your Voice on Your PC and Sing Along With It! Check out a bunch of audio of how it sounds here: Vocal Harmony Experiments Recording All The Harmonies With Actual Voices (Even All Your Own) And ultimately I discovered how to do just that. If my friends couldn't sing those other parts, maybe I could sing them with myself somehow. My search for a way to 3-part harmony with my friends when I was in high-school and failing - (not all my friends were in choir) due to the fact that a lot of people who CAN sing, still cannot sing harmony, is arguably the reason that I discovered multi-track recording in the first place!
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