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TC-Helicon VoiceLive User Manual

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  • Page 1 VoiceLive Harmony | Correction | Effects U U S S E E R R ’ ’ S S M M A A N N U U A A L L...
  • Page 3 IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS The lightning flash with an arrowhead The exclamation point within an symbol within an equilateral triangle, is equilateral triangle is intended to alert intended to alert the user to the the user to the presence of important presence of uninsulated "dangerous volt- operating and maintenance (servicing) age"...
  • Page 4 This responsibility that following products: equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and VoiceLive - Harmony, Correction and used in accordance with the instructions, may Effects Processor cause harmful interference to radio communications.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Song Edit Mode LCD Screen ..45 Song Edit Functions ... . .46 Getting Sound From the VoiceLive . .10 Step Through Orientation ..10 HARMONY AND TUNING Preset Mode .

  • Page 7: Introduction

    INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing VoiceLive, TC-Helicon's harmony, correction and effects processor built for the road. A lot of effort went into this product. TC-Helicon engineers and product specialists met with performing musicians to make sure VoiceLive enhances your vocals on stage. The analog and digital signal path is designed to the same standards as our studio processors.

  • Page 8: Front Panel

    FRONT PANEL VOICE LIVE Out Clip VOICE 1 PROGRAM DISPLAY Input Clip VOICE 2 HARMONY | CORRECTION | EFFECTS VOICE 3 P r 3 7 0 PPM dB VOICE 4 Flying Eagle HARMONY THICKEN 37: Scale F#maj1 EFFECTS PITCH CORR. GLOBAL FX EDITED MIC IN...
  • Page 9 BYPASS HOLD FOR EDIT KEY FOOTSWITCH BUTTONS Enters and exits edit modes. These allow control of VoiceLive in performance. These buttons are multifunctional depending on the operating mode STORE KEY of the unit. Press STORE to begin the store process. Presets, Songs and...

  • Page 10: Rear Panel

    This connects directly to the microphone input and is used to connect directly to a • Mixer mixing board. If VoiceLive loses power for • Guitar pedal or preamp • Active pickups (guitar with batteries) any reason, the signal from the •...

  • Page 11: Signal Flow

    SIGNAL FLOW...

  • Page 12: Quickstart

    QUICKSTART Getting Sound From VoiceLive VoiceLive Performance Features What you Need: VoiceLive is designed to be the ultimate vocal • VoiceLive performance product. Foot control of vocal • Power cable effects and harmonies can be achieved at vari- • microphone ous levels.
  • Page 13 LED text Preset Mode. display is a “*”. V: This indicates that VoiceLive is in Voice • Press and hold one of the top 4 buttons, Mode. until the second character on the LED text 23: This indicates the current preset number.

  • Page 14: Song Mode

    Song Direct mode is a powerful way to use • The Song Mode LCD screen looks like this: VoiceLive. You can use it in a number of 3: AMAZING GRACE different ways. 2. Sequence the chords of the intro, Verse,...

  • Page 15: User Button

    UT2. Most factory presets in Step 2 to this button. Please note that when VoiceLive have the USER button set to default new songs are created all direct buttons are unless the USER button is integral to the pre- assigned to Step 1.

  • Page 16: Making Scale Harmony Presets

    • If one of the Key/Scale type combinations VoiceLive. You need to know a few things to you tried above sounded close but not quite make this work: right, go back and set the Key and Scale to 1.

  • Page 17: Basic Editing Concepts

    We have designed the factory presets in up to 4 parameters that may be edited VoiceLive to be useful in many musical situa- using the 4 EDIT knobs. The IO and tions, but we know you will want to make your...

  • Page 18: Live Setup With Guitar

    VoiceLive produces acceptable results. The output of the stomp box will be compatible with the instrument input of VoiceLive. Make sure that the stomp box does not have a passive bypass. You can check this by removing the stomp box’s battery- when you do you...

  • Page 19: Parameter Types

    Simply connect MIDI Out from the device you presets. The current preset remains are dumping from to the MIDI In on VoiceLive untouched. and send the SysEx dump at any time. MIDI Backup and Restore...

  • Page 20: Store Operation

    STORE OPERATION Pressing the STORE key on VoiceLive allows storing the current Preset or Song, or IO and Util Global System Parameters. VOICE LIVE Out Clip VOICE 1 PROGRAM DISPLAY Input Clip VOICE 2 HARMONY | CORRECTION | EFFECTS VOICE 3...

  • Page 21: Preset Mode

    PRESET MODE Preset mode is VoiceLive’s basic performance mode. Here you can select presets by turning the DATA WHEEL or by pressing the PREVIOUS/NEXT buttons. Direct and Voice modes give additional control. To enter Preset Mode, hold the PRESET button (1) until the LED text display flashes PRE.

  • Page 22: Preset Direct Mode

    Holding the DIRECT buttons (1-4) will either program the current preset to that Direct Button (when the second LED character is a “*”) or change the mode of operation of VoiceLive. PREVIOUS/NEXT buttons (5, 6) changes the preset. When this happens the second character on the LED display changes to a “*”, indicating that a DIRECT button may be programmed.

  • Page 23: Preset Edit Screens

    Each edit screen has up to four parameters that may be adjusted with the EDIT knobs. This section of the manual goes screen by screen to describe the parameters in VoiceLive. To leave the edit screens press the EDIT key. Configuration Screens The parameters in this section are used to enable/disable the harmony and effect components of a preset.

  • Page 24: Voice Edit Screens

    PRESET EDIT SCREENS Voice Edit Screens VoiceLive can create up to 4 harmony voices. The parameters in this section allow adjustment of the individual voices. VOICE LIVE Out Clip VOICE 1 PROGRAM DISPLAY Input Clip VOICE 2 HARMONY | CORRECTION | EFFECTS...
  • Page 25 PRESET EDIT SCREENS Voicing in Scale Mode Presets In this mode the V parameter specifies the interval of the harmony note with respect to the OICING input note in the scale. The range of values goes from --8, which is 2 octaves below the input note, to ++8 which is two octaves above the input note.
  • Page 26 PRESET EDIT SCREENS VOICE LIVE Out Clip VOICE 1 PROGRAM DISPLAY Input Clip VOICE 2 HARMONY | CORRECTION | EFFECTS VOICE 3 V o 5 0 PPM dB VOICE 4 VibStyle Ballad HARMONY THICKEN EFFECTS PITCH CORR. GLOBAL FX EDITED MIC IN LIMIT PRESET#...
  • Page 27 OICE APPING each input note in a scale you can define a resulting harmony note. VoiceLive has 3 major and 3 minor scale pitch maps for all scale roots, and intervals. The Custom voicing feature allows you to create your own pitch maps. For example, you could define a pitch map so that a C input produces an E output and a D input produces an A output.

  • Page 28: Harmony Edit Screens

    PRESET EDIT SCREENS Harmony Edit Screens The parameters in this section are used to set up basic harmony functions and adjust the overall sound of the harmonies. VOICE LIVE Out Clip VOICE 1 PROGRAM DISPLAY Input Clip VOICE 2 HARMONY | CORRECTION | EFFECTS VOICE 3 H A 1 0 PPM dB...
  • Page 29 PRESET EDIT SCREENS VOICE LIVE Out Clip VOICE 1 PROGRAM DISPLAY Input Clip VOICE 2 HARMONY | CORRECTION | EFFECTS VOICE 3 H A 3 0 PPM dB VOICE 4 Lead Tune Latch HARMONY THICKEN Just EFFECTS PITCH CORR. GLOBAL FX EDITED MIC IN LIMIT...

  • Page 30: Thicken Edit Screen

    PRESET EDIT SCREENS Thickening Edit Screen A good portion of hit vocals use an effect similar to VoiceLive’s thickening to add a stereo “shim- mer” to the lead voice. The parameters in this section are used to set the thickening parameters.
  • Page 31 PRESET EDIT SCREENS Effects Edit Screens VoiceLive has a maximum of 1800 milliseconds of stereo delay time with filtering and 12 Reverb models. The parameters in this section provide control of these effects. Effects Block Diagram Lead (pitch corrected with thickening)

  • Page 32: Effects Edit Screens

    PRESET EDIT SCREENS VOICE LIVE Out Clip VOICE 1 PROGRAM DISPLAY Input Clip VOICE 2 HARMONY | CORRECTION | EFFECTS VOICE 3 F X 3 0 PPM dB VOICE 4 Reverb Type HARMONY THICKEN Classic Hall EFFECTS PITCH CORR. GLOBAL FX EDITED MIC IN LIMIT...
  • Page 33 PRESET EDIT SCREENS VOICE LIVE Out Clip VOICE 1 PROGRAM DISPLAY Input Clip VOICE 2 HARMONY | CORRECTION | EFFECTS VOICE 3 F X 6 0 PPM dB VOICE 4 DlyType FB Damp HARMONY THICKEN DualMono 46% 1k0 EFFECTS PITCH CORR. GLOBAL FX EDITED MIC IN...
  • Page 34 PRESET EDIT SCREENS VOICE LIVE Out Clip VOICE 1 PROGRAM DISPLAY Input Clip VOICE 2 HARMONY | CORRECTION | EFFECTS VOICE 3 F X 7 0 PPM dB VOICE 4 Time Src BeatDiv HARMONY THICKEN 1120 Tap EFFECTS PITCH CORR. GLOBAL FX EDITED MIC IN...

  • Page 35: Pitch Correct Edit Screens

    PRESET EDIT SCREENS Pitch Correction Edit Screens VoiceLive will listen to the pitch of your voice, compare it to the selected correction scale, and then apply pitch correction in real-time. The amount of correction applied is governed by the various amount and timing settings.
  • Page 36 C-Major, as 200 cents is the largest inter- val between any two notes. EDIT 2 knob: . Once the target correction pitch has been identified by VoiceLive, it begins TTACK to shift the pitch of your vocal at a rate determined by this parameter. A setting of 99 gives the fastest setting which instantaneously pulls your vocal in-tune, an effect that can be useful for some types of music.

  • Page 37: Special Edit Screens

    PRESET EDIT SCREENS Special Edit Screens The USER button and EXPRESSION pedal functions in VoiceLive give the performer foot control of their sound. They allow you to be your own sound man while you are performing. These special screens allow you to setup the USER button and EXPRESSION pedal in the preset.
  • Page 38 TAP (see edit screen FX7). Tap tempo will be maintained in VoiceLive through preset changes. If multiple presets are used in a song with a given tempo, the delay time only needs to be tapped in once.

  • Page 39: Global Edit Screens

    100% wet output. EDIT 2 knob: . Setting this to off removes the dry instrument audio from NSTRUMENT the signal path. This allows VoiceLive to have an effects send from a mixing board feed the instrument input. VOICE LIVE Out Clip...
  • Page 40 MIDI IN UTILITIES Compressor / Gate settings. The compressor in VoiceLive has auto makeup gain to a maximum of +20dB. This means that the volume level of the signal will be increased for most volume levels of input with the compressor enabled.
  • Page 41 Please note that some mixers will produce a distorted signal with a +20dB signal. If you experience distortion and neither the input nor output clip lights are flashing on VoiceLive, try adjusting this parameter to a lower setting.

  • Page 42: Utility Edit Screens

    GLOBAL EDIT SCREENS Utility Edit Screens Utility screens provide parameters that relate to the general setup of VoiceLive. All Utility parame- ters are “global” in that they are not stored with the preset and are applicable to all presets. VOICE LIVE...
  • Page 43 TAP (see edit screen FX7). Tap tempo will be maintained in VoiceLive through preset changes. If multiple presets are used in a song with a given tempo, the delay time only needs to be tapped in once.
  • Page 44 MIDI C . Sets the base MIDI Send and Receive channel. HANNEL EDIT 2 knob: ID. This parameter sets the MIDI system exclusive ID for YSTEM XCLUSIVE VoiceLive. VOICE LIVE Out Clip VOICE 1 PROGRAM DISPLAY Input Clip VOICE 2...
  • Page 45 SCALE/CHORD MIDI IN UTILITIES EDIT 1 knob: MIDI F . With this parameter you can cause VoiceLive to ignore certain MIDI ILTER commands and data. • P - ignore program changes. • SX - ignore system exclusive messages. • P+SX -ignore program changes and system exclusive messages.
  • Page 46 To calibrate the expression pedal follow instructions on the VoiceLive LCD display: With the expression pedal plugged into the Pedal Input on the back of VoiceLive press the DATA wheel for ENTER. • Move the pedal to its MAXIMUM position.

  • Page 47: Song Mode

    SONG MODE SONG MODE Song mode is VoiceLive’s advanced performance mode. You can pre-program a sequence of presets, scale, root, or chord changes, and step forwards and backwards through them as needed as well as jump directly to song steps in Direct mode - all with foot control. There is a maximum of 50 songs in VoiceLive with 30 steps each.

  • Page 48: Song Edit Functions

    SONG MODE Song Edit Functions Turn the data wheel to select between the following two Song Edit Functions: inserts a copy of the current step. <STEP INS> deletes the current step. <STEP DEL> Press ENTER to execute the function. Once you have created a Song, remember to press the STORE key to save your work. Song Mode LED Displays SG31 Above is an example of a Song Select LED text display.
  • Page 49 Holding the DIRECT buttons (1-4) will either program the current step to that Direct Button (when the second LED character is a *) or change the mode of operation of VoiceLive. PREVIOUS/NEXT buttons (5, 6) changes the Song step. When this happens the second char- acter on the LED display changes to a *, indicating that a DIRECT button may be programmed.

  • Page 50: Harmony And Tuning

    Song mode. Chord infor- mation consists of the chord root and type, which define the 3 or 4 notes in a given chord. In Chordal mode the Voicelive will only create harmony voices that fall on the notes of the Notes Mode chord.

  • Page 51: Scale (Scalic) Mode

    Min7b5 key of “D”, as that’s the first chord, but the har- monies actually work best in the key of “G” -- Dim7 try running the song through VoiceLive to hear (equiv. to A) for yourself. Dom7 Setting the scale can also take a bit of practice:...

  • Page 52: Diatonic And Chromatic

    HARMONY AND TUNING Diatonic and Chromatic We've described scalic and chordal harmonies as diatonic, and shift harmonies as chromatic; but what do those words mean? Look at a piano keyboard. Between middle "C" and the next "C" there are twelve keys - 7 white keys and 5 black keys.

  • Page 53: Just Tuning

    “just rela- combinations you could discover some delight- tive intonation”. VoiceLive is able to do this in ful sounds you might otherwise have missed. both the Just and Barbershop tuning modes.

  • Page 54: Footswitch Function Tables

    FOOTSWITCH FUNCTION TABLES...

  • Page 55: Song Mode Footswitch Functions

    FOOTSWITCH FUNCTION TABLES...

  • Page 56: Midi Implementation

    MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Parameter Name Range / Description Voice 1 Level 0-127 Voice 1 Voicing Harmony Mode Dependent Voice 1 Gender 0-127 Voice 1 Vibrato Style 0-Number of Styles Voice 1 Vibrato Amount 0-100 Voice 1 Pan 0-127 Voice 1 Active 0-63 Off, 64-127 On Voice 2 Level 0-127...
  • Page 57 MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Parameter Name Range / Description Fx Level 0-127 Fx Rev:Delay Mix 0-127 Fx Lead2Reverb Send 0-127 Fx Harmony2Reverb Send 0-127 Fx Lead2Delay Send 0-127 Fx Harmony2Delay Send 0-127 Fx Delay2Reverb Send 0-127 Fx Reverb Type 0-13 Fx Delay Type Fx Delay Feedback 0-127 Fx Bypass...
  • Page 58 MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Parameter Name Range / Description Instrument Pan 0-127 Instrument Level 0-127 Bypass All 0-63 Off, 64-127 On Harmony Hold CC Control 0-63 Off, 64-127 On Global Vibrato 0-127 Song Step Forward >63, Song Steps Forward” Song Step Backward >63, Song Steps Backward”...

  • Page 59: Technical Specifications

    TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Digital Inputs and Outputs Connectors: RCA Phono (S/PDIF) Formats: S/PDIF (24 bit), EIAJ CP-340, IEC 958 Sample Rates: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz Frequency Response DIO: DC to 22/23.9 kHz ± 0.01 dB @ 44.1/48 kHz Analog Inputs Connectors, balanced: Mic.: XLR, Line: ¼"phone jack Impedance: Balanced/Unbalanced...

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