TC-Helicon VOICELIVE 3 EXTREME, Reference Manual

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Editing the Vocal layer
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To further expand, try adjusting the Smoothing
and Humanization parameters for each of the
four voices, so that each voice ends up a bit dif-
ferent from the other.
– On the Buttonmap tab of the Setup menu,
you can remap the Step footswitch to various
controls. Try remapping the Step footswitch
to Harmony Hold. When the Harmony effect
is active, press the Step footswitch (now as-
signed to Harmony Hold) to “fix” the current
harmony note and hold it. You can then sing
other notes as the Harmonies continue to sing
the note you held.
– We suggest to also changing the Step But-
ton Mode to Momentary to avoid accidentally
turning Harmony Hold on and letting it hold a
note indefinitely. You will find that brief use of
the effect is typically the best approach.
Changing Step Button Mode to Momentary
NaturalPlay, Scale, Fixed
& Pedal Modes
VoiceLive 3 offers a completely new way of com-
bining harmony voice modes that allows you to
make some really great sounds.
In previous products, all harmony voices were
defined by a single “type” – i.e., they were guid-
ed by an instrument (NaturalPlay) or defined by a
fixed key and scale. In VoiceLive 3, you can de-
fine a different method of harmony note output
for each voice!
The new “Mixed Mode” harmonies allow you to,
for example,
– set one voice to follow your guitar (Natural-
Play),
– the second voice to follow a key/scale,
– a third voice to only sing a single “Fixed” note
and
– a fourth voice to only sing the “root” note
of any chords you are playing on your guitar
(Pedal).
This flexibility allows you to create some very so-
phisticated setups and vocal arrangements.
You can mix and match any of the available
modes for the four harmony voices. You could
have three NaturalPlay voices and a fixed voice,
or two scale-based voices, one fixed and one
NaturalPlay voice. It’s completely up to you!
Mixing NaturalPlay, Fixed, Pedal and Scale
modes in one Preset
! Keep in mind that when you are using mixed
mode harmony, you will need to define the
correct key/scale (Scale) or note (Fixed)
and
play your instrument (NaturalPlay/Pedal) in
order for the combination of voices to sound
good together. Otherwise, a Fixed voice could
be singing a completely inappropriate note for
your song.
! Harmony can suffer from “warbles” when
sound other than your voice is picked up via
your microphone. Check out this Craig’s Cor-
ner video for a bit of TC-Helicon Harmony his-
tory and some advice on reducing warble:
youtube.com/watch?v=pT-CCTmv2ZM