Nico Baran The Backups v1.0.0_WIN-R2R

和声器插件Nico Baran The Backups
VST插件格式：
VST3

Nico Baran The Backups是The Fixers出品的六声部和声插件，自带像素舞台可视化界面，12种复古和声引擎，可自动识别调式。支持人声、吉他、合成器，能生成合唱、双音，带有丰富人声模拟与饱和塑形。

翻译：
The Backups
一款六声部和声插件
由 Nico Baran 制作 ✦ 由精品插件公司 The Fixers 出品

六个声部，同一个舞台。
只需演唱一段旋律，The Backups 就会为你营造出六十年代歌舞秀般的伴唱阵容：六位歌手会捕捉你的音高，识别调性，并各自演绎相应的声部。插件界面即是舞台，所听即所见。

演出阵容
从高到低排列的六位歌手。每位歌手都负责一个完整的和声声部，并以可视化形象呈现在舞台上：亮起的歌手正在演唱，变暗的歌手则处于休息状态。

点击歌手以分配音符
点击舞台上的任意歌手，其余区域便会陷入黑暗。被选中的歌手会步入聚光灯下，手持专属乐谱——其他歌手也会转头注视着他。乐谱上包含了专业编曲师对伴唱歌手的所有要求：

音程 (Interval)
±24 个半音，在“调性与音阶 (Key & Scale)”模式下自动吸附至当前调性
音量与声像 (Level · Pan)
决定歌手的站位及演唱音量
失谐 (Detune)
±50 音分，用于营造无相位抵消效应的双重叠唱 (doubling) 效果
共振峰 (Formant)
±6 个半音的音色调节（模拟喉部特征），支持六个声部统一锁定
延迟 (Delay)
0–80 毫秒的独立延迟，让叠唱声部产生细微的时间差

演出剧目单
每个预设都是一场独特的演出，拥有专属的舞台布景、灯光效果、旋钮设置和分区布局。从下方选择一个预设，它便会呈现在舞台上——这是插件真正的像素艺术，并直接在你的浏览器中实时运行。

不只是和声，也不局限于人声。在十五个演出预设中，有四个完全不涉及和声，而是侧重于拓宽你的声音：02 Neon Rooftop（霓虹屋顶）是明亮的双重叠唱，两个“你”分别位于极左和极右；06 Live B&W Broadcast（黑白直播）是极宽、短促且紧凑的效果——两组声音在 15 毫秒内紧贴两侧；10 Winter Wonderland（冬日仙境）是六声部齐唱，在 43 毫秒的时长内展开；12 Aquarium Lounge（水族馆酒廊）则是柔和的四重叠唱，并带有闪烁的音色质感。将其中任何一种效果应用到吉他、合成器音轨或主唱人声上。

“Showbill”（演出列表）下拉菜单
点击插件中的预设名称即可打开“Showbill”界面：这里展示了各种效果场景的缩略图，并标有 DOUBLER（加倍）、CHOIR（合唱）、OCTAVES（八度）等标签。将鼠标悬停在卡片上，即可在主界面预览该效果。将其标记为“收藏”后，卡片上会出现金色签名，并归入“SIGNED”（已签名）类别；您自定义的预设则保存在“MINE”（我的）类别下。

点击“SAVE”（保存），您可以将该效果生成为一张票根样式的图片（1080 × 1350 PNG 格式，包含场景图和编号），方便分享到群聊中。

“Green Room”（后台休息室）
这里汇集了十二种和声引擎，按其发明年代顺序排列。每种引擎的音色都忠实于其所模拟的原始设备，因此切换引擎不仅改变了和声算法，更彻底改变了整个声部的音色特质。

1963 Ring Shift（频率偏移器）
将每个谐波分量（partial）移动相同的赫兹数，从而产生非谐波（inharmonic）效果。营造出类似钟声、幽灵般的氛围或科幻感。

1966 ADT Varispeed Tape（变速磁带模拟）
模拟第二台运行速度略有偏差的磁带机。音高变化源于磁带的抖动（wow）和漂移（drift），而非物理剪接——音色深沉、灵动，专为“加倍”（doubling）效果设计。

1975 Splice ’75（剪接式延迟线）
单次延迟信号在短缓冲区内循环，并在缓冲区末端进行硬切（hard-splice）。具有低保真（Lo-fi）特性，11-bit 精度，16kHz 高频衰减。这种“故障”感正是其魅力所在。

1977 Random Splice（随机剪接延迟线）
采用两个交叉淡入淡出的延迟信号，并配合随机抖动的窗口，确保剪接点永远不会落在波形的同一位置。长音符上会产生柔和的颤动感。

1979 Ensemble BBD（BBD 模拟合奏效果）
移调后的声音通过 BBD（斗链式）延迟电路，呈现出弦乐合成器（string machine）般的质感。让两名歌手听起来像是一个完整的声部。

1982 Studio Double（录音室级加倍延迟线）
在 11 毫秒和 23 毫秒的延迟时间上，分别进行 ±7 音分的音高偏移。音色明亮、宽广且极具高级感——重现了 80 年代经典主唱音色的标志性听感。

1984 Hall Shift（大厅音高偏移 + 混响耦合）
音高偏移发生在短混响回路中，因此每次重复都会产生微小的音高漂移。干声比例适中，确保在混音中位置恰当。

1990 Smart Scale（智能音阶 + 音高追踪）
追踪你的音符，识别调式，并根据你的演唱选择正确的音程。音色纤细且突出，带有早期智能和声器特有的质感。

1999 Throat Model（喉部建模 + PSOLA）
采用音高同步颗粒合成技术（PSOLA），保持共振峰位置不变。实现大跨度音程变化的同时，避免了“花栗鼠”般的变调失真。

1999 Spectral Choir（频谱合唱 + 相位声码器）
六个声部共用一个相位声码器。高频晶莹剔透，低频平滑细腻。

Ours Sequin Grains（闪光颗粒合成）
营造出一种闪烁且宽广的颗粒云效果。与其说是和声声部，不如说是环绕主唱的微光质感。

Ours Six Rooms（六重空间混合）
每位歌手拥有独立的引擎和空间。仿佛一场小型演出分散在整个建筑空间内。

控制台 (The Console)
位于舞台下方，仿照20世纪60年代调音台设计的八个旋钮。每场演出都会重新调整控制台设置——休息室风格（香槟色）、迪斯科风格（铬色）、节日特辑风格（磨砂银色）——但控制功能保持不变。

MIX（混合比例）
和声组相对于主唱的音量。推至最大时，输出限制器可确保完整混音不产生削波失真。
50%

SPREAD（声场宽度）
六个声部在立体声场中的分布宽度，范围从环绕一支麦克风的紧密聚拢到占据整个舞台的宽广分布。
62%

HUMANIZE（拟人化）
为每位歌手引入时间和音高的微小漂移，使听感上像是六个人在演唱，而非一个人重复录制六次。
25%

TONE（音色）
调节和声组的音色倾向，从暗色调的铝带麦克风质感过渡到明亮突出的质感，且不影响主唱音色。
0.0 dB

AIR（空气感）
围绕和声组的短促明亮空间感。呈现的是真实房间感，而非大面积的混响渲染。
40%

GLIDE（滑音）
歌手在音符间转换时的滑音特性。低值设置响应紧凑干脆；高值设置则呈现慵懒的“Doo-wop”风格滑音效果。
36 ms

DUCK（闪避）
当信号受到冲击时，堆叠的音轨会向外“弯曲”避让，随后回弹复位，确保歌词清晰保留。
20%

DRIVE（激励）
为该人声组添加饱和效果，提供五种模式：电子管、磁带、晶体管、法兹（Fuzz）或变压器。既可轻微粘合音色，也能营造浓郁的AM收音机质感。
+2.7 dB

Knob Shine（旋钮光效）
旋钮转过约四分之三行程时开始发光；接近顶部时边缘闪烁微光；达到100%时则光芒闪耀。一眼便知何时已调至最大。

Lock it（锁定）
右键点击任意旋钮即可锁定。锁定后的旋钮在切换演出（Show）时数值保持不变，确保混音电平在试听预设时不受影响。

MIDI Learn（MIDI学习）
同一菜单下：选择MIDI学习，移动CC控制器，即刻完成。取消映射同样快捷。锁定状态与映射设置将随工程文件一同保存。

The Strip（控制条）
插件底部排列着六个微型像素场景，看似仅为装饰，实则均为功能控制项。

Green Room（后台）
1963 → OURS
引擎选择器。点击切换十二种引擎（扩展包另含十种），后台等待的歌手也会随年代风格而变换。

The Crowd（人群）
6 → 36
拖动滑块即可增加现场人数。超过6人后，额外的人声将加入主唱组后方——最多可增加30人，营造出群体合唱的宏大效果。

Encore（安可）
CH 1 · 2 · 3 · OUTRO
编排情绪递进。Chorus 1（副歌1）由两位歌手演唱，Chorus 2增至四位，Chorus 3全员六位齐唱，Outro（尾奏）则加入人群合唱。可限制在4或6人，或叠加高八度（8VA）音层。

Soundcheck（试音）
64 S · LOOP · CUES
记录主唱最后64秒的音频并切分为小节。可跳转至音量最大、最平稳或最轻柔的小节并进行循环播放，以便精细调节人声组参数。

Wear & Tear（岁月磨损）
9 PM → 3 AM
拖动滑块，模拟从夜晚9点到凌晨3点的音色变化。到了凌晨3点，歌手们的音准可能会略微偏低，节奏稍显滞后，演唱也变得有些松懈。这种变化极具戏剧性。

Showstopper（压轴高潮）
HOLD（保持）
这是“明星时刻”（Star Turn）。按住此功能，整个合唱组就会加入进行宏大的收尾：原本静默的歌手会加入主声部，在上下八度位置叠加，并伴随音量推升（swell）效果。

Key Detective（调性侦测）
伴唱歌手需要知道当前的调性，而这款插件能自动帮他们识别。

设为 AUTO（自动）模式，它会监听主唱，识别调性并显示置信度。当歌曲转调时，它能察觉并指出具体小节，询问你是跟随转调还是保持原调；或者设为 MANUAL（手动）模式，由你亲自指定调性。

MAJOR（大调）
MINOR（小调）
DORIAN（多利亚调式）
MIXOLYDIAN（混合利底亚调式）
CHROMATIC（半音阶）

按下 LISTEN（监听）并播放几小节音频——无论是人声、钢琴循环、吉他还是采样。它能捕捉旋律与全频段频谱，准确识别调性，并在录音片段结束后自动停止。告知它正在监听的内容（人声/主唱或乐器），识别会更加精准。

想要精确的和弦？将和声源切换至 MIDI chord（MIDI 和弦），然后在键盘上弹奏和弦：按住音符，歌手们就会唱出相应的和声。

枯燥的细节，专业的处理
Under The Lid（内部机理）
Drive（激励/过载），五种模式
一个旋钮，五种音色特质。在设置中选择其一——每种模式都经过电平匹配，因此切换时只会改变音色氛围，而不会改变音量。

VALVE（电子管）
非对称特性，偶次谐波，柔和的压缩拐点（soft shoulders）。经典的标志性音色。

TAPE（磁带）
柔和的压缩拐点（soft knee），轻微的压缩感，随着激励增强，高频会自然衰减。

SOLID（晶体管）
晶体管特性：较硬的压缩拐点，奇次谐波，音色更具棱角感。

FUZZ（法兹/毛刺失真）
信号直接推至轨限（rails）并保持饱和状态。

IRON（铁芯变压器）
变压器特性：低频饱满丰润（bloom），高频保持清澈。

Tape print（磁带印记）
为整个插件效果添加微妙的磁带处理感：包含饱和度、低频提升、柔和的高频以及几乎听不见的底噪。可在设置中调节参数。

绝不削波
信号链末端设有输出限制器，确保包含全部六路人声及现场环境音的最终混音保持纯净无失真。

零延迟（现场模式）
“现场模式”会降低限制器的预读（look-ahead）时间，以适应录音监听及舞台演出需求。

立体声
支持宽、窄或“单声道安全（mono-safe）”模式，确保即使在夜店扩声系统将信号合并为单声道时，音效依然出色。

输入增益微调与自动增益
无论输入信号强弱，都能确保歌手获得适宜的电平；电平表可实时显示输入信号状态。

S-Guard（齿音控制）
针对编组设置的齿音控制功能，确保六位歌手叠加时不会产生过度的齿音。

“人性化”随机种子
利用随机种子生成细微的音高/时值偏差。您可以重新生成（re-roll）直到编组听感自然，且该设置会随工程文件精确保存。

窗口尺寸
支持 100% 至 150% 缩放，并提供大号及超大号字体选项，方便在舞台距离较远时查看。

胶片颗粒感
覆盖整个界面的 The Fixers 标志性颗粒质感。默认开启，一键即可关闭。
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原文：
The Backups
A Six-Voice Harmony Plugin
by Nico Baran✦presented by The Fixers, a boutique plugin company

Six Voices. One Stage.
Sing one line and The Backups puts a sixties revue behind it: six singers who read your pitch, find the key and take their parts. The stage is the plugin. Everything you hear, you can see.

The Cast
Six singers, top line to bottom. Each one is a full harmony voice with their own part, and each one is drawn on stage: the lit ones are singing, the dim ones are sitting this one out.

Click a singer to give them notes
Click anyone on the stage and the rest of the room drops into the dark. They step into a spotlight with their own part sheet — and the others turn their heads toward them. Everything a real arranger would ask a backup singer for is on it:

Interval
±24 semitones, snapped to your key in Key & Scale mode
Level · Pan
where they stand and how loud they sing
Detune
±50 cents, for doubles that don’t phase
Formant
±6 semitones of throat, with a lock for all six
Delay
0–80 ms of their own, so doublers land a hair late

The Showbill
Every preset is its own show with its own set, lighting, knobs and dividers. Pick one below and it goes up on the stage — this is the plugin’s real pixel art, running live in your browser.

Not just harmony — and not just vocals. Four of the fifteen shows sing no harmony at all, only you, wider: 02 Neon Rooftop is a bright double, two of you hard left and right; 06 Live B&W Broadcast is the ultra-wide, short, tight one — two pairs pinned to the sides inside fifteen milliseconds; 10 Winter Wonderland is a six-voice unison chorus spread across 43 ms; 12 Aquarium Lounge is a soft quad double with a shimmer on it. Put any of them on a guitar, a synth line or a lead vocal.

The Showbill dropdown
Click the preset name in the plugin and the showbill deals in: a still of every stage, tagged DOUBLER, CHOIR, OCTAVES and so on. Hover a card to preview its set on the main stage. Favourite one and it gets signed — a gold autograph across the still — and filed under SIGNED. Your own shows live under MINE.

Hit SAVE and you can print the show as a ticket stub, a 1080 × 1350 PNG of your stage, numbered, for the group chat.

The Green Room
Twelve harmony engines, hung in the order they were invented. Each one is voiced like the gear it studies, so switching engines changes the whole character of the group, not just the maths.

1963 Ring Shift Frequency shifter
Moves every partial by the same number of hertz, so harmony goes inharmonic. Bells, ghosts, sci-fi.

1966 ADT Varispeed Tape
A second tape machine running slightly off speed. The pitch comes from wow and drift, not splices — dark, alive, made for doubles.

1975 Splice ’75 Delay line
One tap racing through a short buffer and hard-splicing when it runs out. Lo-fi, 11-bit, rolled off at 16k. The glitch is the charm.

1977 Random Splice Delay line
Two crossfaded taps with a jittered window, so the seam never lands on the same bit of waveform twice. A soft warble on held notes.

1979 Ensemble BBD Bucket brigade
The shifted voices run through bucket-brigade lines, string-machine style. Two singers start to sound like a section.

1982 Studio Double Delay line
Opposed ±7 cent shifts on 11 and 23 ms delays. Bright, wide and expensive — every big eighties lead vocal.

1984 Hall Shift Reverb-coupled
The shift lives inside a short reverb loop, so each repeat drifts a little further. Kept dry enough to sit in a mix.

1990 Smart Scale Pitch tracking
Tracks your note, checks the key and picks the right interval as you sing. Thin and present, with that first-intelligent-harmonizer edge.

1999 Throat Model PSOLA
Pitch-synchronous grains that leave your formants where they were. Wide intervals without the chipmunk.

1999 Spectral Choir Phase vocoder
One shared phase vocoder for all six voices. Glassy on top, smooth underneath.

Ours Sequin Grains Granular
A granular cloud with sparkle and width. Less a harmony part, more a shimmer around one.

Ours Six Rooms Hybrid
Every singer gets their own engine and their own room. A small revue spread around the building.

The Console
Eight knobs on a 1960s desk under the stage. Each show re-trims the console — champagne for the lounge, chrome for the disco, frosted silver for the holiday special — but the controls stay put.

MIX
How loud the group sits against you. Push it all the way: an output limiter means full mix never clips.
50%

SPREAD
How far apart the six stand across the stereo field, from a huddle round one mic to the whole stage.
62%

HUMANIZE
Timing and pitch drift per singer, so it sounds like six people instead of one person six times.
25%

TONE
Tilts the group from dark ribbon-mic to bright presence without touching your lead.
0.0 dB

AIR
A short, bright space around the stack. Room, not a reverb wash.
40%

GLIDE
How the singers slide between notes. Low is tight and snappy, high is lazy doo-wop scoops.
36 ms

DUCK
The stack bows out under your attacks and swells back in after, so the words stay yours.
20%

DRIVE
Saturation on the group, five ways — valve, tape, transistor, fuzz or transformer. A little glue, or a lot of AM radio.
+2.7 dB

Knob shine
Past about three-quarters the knob starts to glow; near the top the rim catches a glint; at 100% it sparkles. You’ll know when you’ve maxed one.

Lock it
Right-click any knob to lock it. Locked knobs keep their value when you change shows, so your mix level survives a preset hunt.

MIDI learn
Same menu: MIDI learn, move a CC, done. Forget it just as fast. Locks and mappings are saved with your session.

The Strip
Six little pixel dioramas along the bottom of the plugin. They look like set dressing. They’re not — every one of them is a control.

Green Room
1963 → OURS
The engine selector. Click through the twelve engines — ten more arrive with the packs — and the singers waiting backstage change with the decade.

The Crowd
6 → 36
Drag across to fill the house. Past six, extra voices join in behind the group — up to thirty more for a gang-vocal chorus.

Encore
CH 1 · 2 · 3 · OUTRO
Arrange the build. Chorus 1 brings on two singers, chorus 2 four, chorus 3 all six, the outro adds the crowd. Cap it at 4 or 6, or add an 8VA layer on top.

Soundcheck
64 S · LOOP · CUES
Keeps the last 64 seconds of your lead, cut into bars. Jump to your loudest, flattest or quietest bar and loop it while you dial the group in.

Wear & Tear
9 PM → 3 AM
Drag through the night. By 3 AM the singers go a little flat, drift a little late and get sloppier. It’s dramatic.

Showstopper
HOLD
The Star Turn. Hold it and the whole group comes in for the big finish: every silent singer joins the full stack, octaves above and below, with a plate swell.

Key Detective
Backup singers need to know what key they’re in. So the plugin works it out for them.

Set it to AUTO and it listens to your lead, names the key and shows you how sure it is. When your song changes key, it notices, tells you which bar, and asks: follow it, or stay? Or set it to MANUAL and call the key yourself.

MAJOR
MINOR
DORIAN
MIXOLYDIAN
CHROMATIC

Press LISTEN and play it a few bars — a vocal, a piano loop, a guitar, a sample. It hears the melody and the whole spectrum, names the key with a confidence, and stops by itself when the take ends. Tell it what it’s hearing (voice / lead or instrument) and it’s sharper still.

Want exact chords instead? Switch the harmony source to MIDI chord and play the voicing on a keyboard: hold the notes and the singers take them.

The Boring Stuff, Done Properly
Under The Lid
Drive, five ways
One knob, five characters. Pick one in settings — each is level-matched, so switching changes the vibe, not the volume.

VALVE
Asymmetric, even harmonics, soft shoulders. The house sound.

TAPE
A soft knee, a little squash, the top rolling off as you push.

SOLID
Transistor: a harder knee, odd harmonics, edgier.

FUZZ
Straight into the rails, and it stays there.

IRON
Transformer: the bottom blooms, the top stays clean.

Tape print
A subtle tape pass over the whole plugin: saturation, a low bump, a soft top and a hiss you’ll never hear. Dial it in settings.

Never clips
An output limiter sits at the end of the chain, so full mix with all six and the crowd stays clean.

Zero latency (live)
A live mode drops the limiter’s look-ahead for tracking and stage use.

Stereo
Wide, narrow or mono-safe, so the stack still works when the club PA sums to one side.

Input trim + auto-gain
Hot or quiet source, the singers get a sensible level. The meter shows you what’s coming in.

S-Guard
Sibilance control on the group, so six singers don’t mean six times the esses.

Humanize seed
The drift is seeded. Re-roll it until the group feels right, and it recalls exactly with your session.

Window size
100% to 150%, plus large and extra-large text for when the stage is across the room.

Film grain
The Fixers’ own grain over the whole UI. On by default, one click off.

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