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Using the Arrow buttons

Use the two small Arrow buttons located be-
neath the Control knob to move through Presets
and edit pages.

– While on the Home screen, use the Arrow but-

tons to move through Presets.
– To select the next Preset, press the right Ar-

row button.

– To select the previous Preset, press the left

Arrow button.

– On an Edit or System screen, the Arrow but-

tons allow you to move left and right through
the “tabs” in that menu.

For example, the Vocal edit screen has a sep-

arate tab or “page” for each vocal effect. The
Arrow buttons move from left to right through
these tabs.

What is a Preset?

VoiceLive 3 and many other TC-Helicon devices
are based on the concept of “Presets”. Essen-
tially, a Preset is a record of all the settings for a
group of effects that you can recall quickly and
easily.

The Preset concept is extremely flexible. A Pre-
set can be general purpose – like a simple Re-
verb or Harmony sound. But a Preset can also
represent a specific song or portion of a song via
multiple effects and settings.

A good modern analogy for a Preset is a user ac-
count on a computer. Even though each user has
access to the same hardware (CPU, RAM etc.)
each user can change their desktop wallpaper,
icons on the desktop, program behaviors and
much more. When each user logs in, the com-
puter recalls all of their custom settings.

Depending on how you like you to work with ef-
fects, you may find that you like to use a few gen-
eral purpose Presets and turn effects on and off
manually during your performance. Or you might
be the kind of guy or girl who likes to spend a
bit more time in advance of the performance to
create Presets for all sorts of things. Or you may
be somewhere in between. Any amount of edit-
ing or Preset manipulation is fine! You can get as
“programmer” or “seat of the pants” as you like.

Using Steps

A Step is, at its core, a Preset within a Preset.
Here’s how it works…

Let’s use a typical song pop song structure as
an example.

–  Verse
–  Chorus
–  Verse
–  Chorus
–  Bridge
–  Chorus

Now, let’s assume that you want a complete-
ly different sound for your Verse, Chorus and
Bridge sections. The HIT function is great if you
need two variations within a song – but here,
you’ll obviously need more.

Now the easiest way to accomplish this is to
make a separate Preset for each song section.
This means that on stage, you now have to re-
member where those presets are and move be-
tween them for each part of the song. It’s totally
doable – but a bit more work that necessary.

Enter the STEP.

If you treat the Verse Preset as your starting
point (perhaps name it simply with your song
name), you can add Steps to that initial preset to
cover the other sections of your song, in the or-
der that they are needed.

So, let’s assume that you have created the three
different presets that represent your three song