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Connection Guide

Out to P A  

or DAW

Power In

Mic In

Aux In

Switch3 In

Phones

USB

Power In - Connect the included power supply

 (ALWAYS USE A TC-HELICON POWER SUPPLY. USING 

ANY OTHER POWER SUPPLY MAY DAMAGE THE UNIT AND WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY.)

USB - Connect to your computer with the included cable. Use VoiceSupport to manage presets and up-

date Firmware. www.tc-helicon.com/products/voicesupport

Phones - Headphone output.

Left+Right - Main XLR outputs connect to your P.A. system or audio interface. Always use balanced  

cables to avoid HUMMMMMMM.

Switch3 In - Use a TRS cable to connect a Switch 3, which can control looping. If you use the S3, you 

have access to looping without pressing the Up and Down footswitches.

Aux In - Use a 1/8” cable to connect any music source you like, espcially the 8-Track from your 1974 

Comet. When an input is detected here, Play will use the music to figure out Key/Scale info.

MIDI In - Connect a MIDI cable to your keyboard or computer to send Notes information for Harmo-

ny/Hardtune. Some CC’s are also available. (see Setup - MIDI for more info)

Inst IN/THRU - Connect a guitar or keyboard (audio not MIDI) to IN. To pass guitar signals to an 

amplifier and bypass internal guitar processing, connect a 1/4” cable to your guitar rig from the THRU 

jack.

Mic In - This is where the magic happens. Plug your dynamic, condenser or MP-75 Mic in here. Re-

member to set the mic type and level, as described in the QuickStart Guide.

Inst In/Thru

MIDI In

Summary of Contents for Voicelive play GTX

Page 1: ...USER S MANUAL v2 1 ...

Page 2: ... SETUP INPUT 9 SETUP OUTPUT 12 SETUP SYSTEM 14 SETUP LOOP 16 SETUP MIDI 17 EFFECTS 19 EFFECTS UMOD MICRO MOD 20 EFFECTS DELAY 21 EFFECTS REVERB 23 EFFECTS HARMONY 24 EFFECTS DOUBLE 26 EFFECTS HARDTUNE 27 EFFECTS TRANSDUCER 28 EFFECTS GUITAR 29 MIX 33 PRACTICE 34 TROUBLESHOOTING 35 ...

Page 3: ...se the S3 you have access to looping without pressing the Up and Down footswitches Aux In Use a 1 8 cable to connect any music source you like espcially the 8 Track from your 1974 Comet When an input is detected here Play will use the music to figure out Key Scale info MIDI In Connect a MIDI cable to your keyboard or computer to send Notes information for Harmo ny Hardtune Some CC s are also avail...

Page 4: ...set the input level for your microphone As you increase the level pay close attention to the LED on the top of theVoiceLive Play GTX You want the input to light the LED Green It s OK if the LED sometimes lightsYellow but it should never turn Red If it does turn Red reduce the level Red means the input is overloading You ve got powerful lungs ...

Page 5: ...re is set to ALL What is NaturalPlay NaturalPlay is the voodoo we do inside theVoiceLive Play GTX to figure out which key your music is in If you plug in a Guitar or Keyboard to the INST In NaturalPlay will look there first for key scale info Next it will look at the MIDI input Finally it will look at the Aux input and RoomSense mics Once the GTX hears Key Scale information from one of the inputs ...

Page 6: ...tswitch controls REC PLAY OVERDUB functions the UP footswitch controls the STOP CLEAR functions and the HIT button exits LOOP mode You may exit loop mode while a loop is still playing That means you can choose a new vocal sound and then re enter LOOP mode to add a new overdub to the loop Press and hold the DOWN footswitch after performing an OVERDUB to UNDO LOOP mode is the default action when pre...

Page 7: ... Pressing STORE again will save the preset along with its new name or location To change the NAME of a preset press the STORE button once then press the Left Blue Soft Button to modify the letters numbers Press STORE again to complete the process To save the current preset in a different LOCATION press the STORE button once then press the Right Blue Soft Button and use the control knob to select t...

Page 8: ...to effect type When in the GENRE menu use the Control Knob to navigate through the available options Press BACK to return to the main window where you will see just the presets contained within the GENRE that you have selected Presets can be associated with multiple genres Favorite The Favorite button toggles the current preset as a FAV When on FAV will be seen in the top right corner of the LCD a...

Page 9: ...re 3 settings 1 AMBIENT RoomSense uses the onboard mics and passes that signal via the headphone out put Control for RoomSense level can be found in the MIX section To avoid feedback the RoomSense output is only passed to the headphone output and not the XLR output Try using the AMBIENT setting alongside a vocal mic to pick up an instrument like an acoustic guitar or piano and mix it in with your ...

Page 10: ...s moving forward through the menu 4 LOOP Activates or De Activates RECORD PLAY O DUB for Looping For Looping Tone Style Applies varying amounts of Adaptive EQ Compression and Gate There are 9 styles to choose from 1 OFF No Tone Style is applied 2 NORMAL Some bottom mid and air EQ light compression and minor gating when the input level gets low enough the input is muted is applied to the signal 3 L...

Page 11: ...o Tuned sound on all of your vocals experiment with amounts closer to 100 If you re new to Auto Chromatic Pitch Correction you may find that the sound you hear with Cor rection engaged sounds doubled This is due to you hearing both the corrected signal from theVoice Live Play GTX and your own voice via bone conduction in your noggin The two sounds have small variances which can be interpreted as d...

Page 12: ...a the RIGHT output Loops are passed in Stereo Vocal Cancel Attempts to remove the vocals from a piece of music There are two settings 1 OFF No processing is performed on the aux input 2 ON Processing occurs to attempt to remove lead vocals from a piece of music This pro cess can create Karaoke style music for you to sing along to including key information for harmony generation The processing capa...

Page 13: ...turning this setting down Headphone Lim There is a built in headphone limiter to provide protection from large volume increases spikes dropped mics screaming fans etc 0dB is the default but you can set it lower if you want more protection Ear damage can occur quickly at high volumes so be cautious when using headphones or in ear monitors ...

Page 14: ...FF No delay compensation is used 2 VOICE SYNC The lead vocal is delayed an amount equal to the maximum latency of the sys tem with all effects turned ON 3 AUTO The lead vocal will be delayed by an amount equal to the latency of the currently enabled effect blocks Using more effect blocks will increase the latency compensation amount Tune Reference Default is 440Hz and can be changed in 0 5Hz incre...

Page 15: ...the way guitar effects are applied to presets There are two settings 1 OFF Guitar effects are set per preset 2 ON Guitar effects set within a preset will maintain that setting when the preset is changed This setting is especially useful to acoustic guitar players who may want to find a sound that works for their guitar and then stick with it for all songs Guitar Gate Sets the gate threshold for gu...

Page 16: ... additional looping Loop record time is dou bled to 30 seconds Loop Feedback Controls the amount of loop record feedback When recording a loop with multiple passes or parts the signal from the first loop pass is added to the next and so on If all of these passes were put together at 100 volume the loop you re working on would get louder and louder and LOUDER until it was distorting the output of t...

Page 17: ...127 for toggle Split Dir Looks at the defined region of the keyboard for Notes information There are two settings 1 Above Notes played above the Splitnote are registered for Notes information 2 Below Notes played below the Splitnote are registered for Notes information Filter Ingores specific information based on the setting There are four settings 1 None All relevant MIDI data is processed 2 Prgc...

Page 18: ...ange Sets the Pitch Bend Range in semi tones Max is 12 Octave MIDI Control Sets the unit to respond to MIDI control messages There are 3 settings 1 Merge Listens for control messages on both MIDI and USB 2 MIDI Listens for control messages on just the MIDI port 3 USB Accepts control messages on the USB port If you are trying to connect toVoiceSupoort Merge or USB must be selected to en able commun...

Page 19: ...N The effect block is active and will process the signal according to the selected style 3 HIT The effect is assigned to theVoiceLive Play GTX HIT button or the button on an MP 75 microphone and will become active when the HIT button is lit See Section 1 SETUP for instructions on how to activate Mic Control HIT does not apply to guitar effects If you would like to have the guitar effects change du...

Page 20: ...imum volume for the effect Style Select the style menu by pressing the lower left soft button and use the control knob to change styles There are 24 styles to choose from 1 MICROMOD CLONE 2 MICROMOD WIDER 3 THICKEN 4 LIGHT CHORUS 5 MEDIUM CHORUS 6 WIDE CHORUS 7 MONO CHORUS 8 FAST ROTOR 9 FLANGER 10 FLANGE FEEDBACK 11 FLANGE NEGATIVE 12 MONO FLANGE 13 SOFT FLANGE 14 PANNER 15 TUBE 16 UP TUBE 17 DOW...

Page 21: ...e only one lit on the left side of the LCD screen There are 18 styles to choose from 1 QUARTER 2 EIGHTH 3 TRIPLET 4 DOTTED 5 LONGDOT 6 LONGTRIP 7 SIXTEENTH 8 PINGPONG 1 9 PINGPONG 2 10 PINGPONG 3 11 MULTITAP 1 12 MULTITAP 2 13 MULTITAP 3 14 MULTITAP 4 15 MULTITAP 5 16 MULTITAP 6 17 CLASSICSLAP 18 SINGLESLAP Effects Delay Advanced To enter the advanced menu press and hold any of the lit BLUE LED so...

Page 22: ...ted like Megaphone and all sub sequent Delay taps sound the same Some are cumulative like Analog where processing is applied throughout the feedback loop which changes the sound of the Delay over time Experiment with the styles to find what works for your particular sound Tempo You can set the Delay tempo manually here Settings are saved per preset but are overrid den but not overwritten if Global...

Page 23: ...large spaces while shorter times sound like small spaces Each preset has its own decay time but you can change it Style Determines the size of the simulated space and also the type of material being used to cre ate the simulation There are 28 styles to choose from 1 SMOOTH PLATE 2 REFLECTION PLATE 3 THIN PLATE 4 BRIGHT PLATE 5 REAL PLATE 6 REAL PLATE LONG 7 JAZZ PLATE 8 QUICK PLATE 9 SOFT HALL 10 ...

Page 24: ...into the INST In and tracks playing via the Aux in the system will read Key Scale from the guitar 2 Key Allows you to choose any of the 12 keys C through A in western music Style Determines the number of harmony voices and the way those voices relate to your lead vo cal There are 28 styles to choose from 1 HIGH 2 HIGHER 3 LOW 4 LOWER 5 OCATVE UP 6 OCTAVE DOWN 7 HIGH LOW 8 HIGH HIGHER 9 HIGH LOWER ...

Page 25: ... of the lit BLUE LED soft buttons To exit the advanced menu press BACK Scale If the Key is set manually not AUTO the advanced menu will allow you set the Scale as sociated with the Key There are 6 settings to choose from 1 MAJOR 1 2 MAJOR 2 3 MAJOR 3 4 MINOR 1 5 MINOR 2 6 MINOR 3 ...

Page 26: ...s parameter and use the control knob to adjust the level 0dB is the maximum volume for the effect Style Determines the number of voices and the timing of the Double There are 10 styles to choose from 1 1VOICE TIGHT 2 1VOICE LOOSE 3 2VOICES TIGHT 4 2VOICES LOOSE 5 SHOUT 6 1VOICE OCT UP 7 1VOICE OCT DOWN 8 2VOICES OCT UP 9 2VOICES OCT DOWN 10 OCT UP OCT DOWN Effects Double Tight and Loose refers to ...

Page 27: ...emi tone You can shift up or down 12 semi tones which is equal to an octave in each direction Gender Manipulates the timbre of your voice to sound more male or more female in nature Extreme settings for this parameter will sound very un natural but that may be just the effect you re looking for Style Determines the accuracy speed and aggressiveness of the tuning effect There are 7 styles to choose...

Page 28: ...UZZ CUT 6 STACK 7 TWEED 8 COMBO Effects Transducer Advanced To enter the advanced menu press and hold any of the lit BLUE LED soft buttons Routing Applies the Transducer sound to the selected audio There are 2 settings 1 OUTPUT Applies the effect to the lead voice and any voices derived from it like Harmony or Doubling 2 FX Applies the effect only to voices within an effect For example if you are ...

Page 29: ...s and want to retain those settings Factory guitar styles cannot be overwritten by the user When you have a particular modified guitar style that you would like to apply to several presets we suggest copying that preset to a new location and then modifying the vocal effects to suit There are four parameters available for guitar effects Amp Selects the Amp style There are 11 Amps to choose from 1 A...

Page 30: ...ay There are 41 styles to choose from Styles preceeded by AC are designed for ACoustic guitar 1 MED CRUNCH 2 WIDE FLANGE DRI 3 MOD DELAY 4 AC ROOM THICK 5 TEXAS HONK 6 CLEAN SPRING 7 LONG AMBIENCE 8 CLEAN AMP 9 CLEAN LONGVERB 10 CLEAN ROOM 11 CLEAN FLANGER 12 CLEAN ROTOR 13 CRUNCHVERB 14 TOUCH DRIVE 15 DARK DRIVE 16 12 STRING 17 FLANGE DRIVE 18 80 s GLAM 19 MOD DLY PANNER 20 COMP TREMOLO 21 EDGE D...

Page 31: ...s are f f Page 1 µMod Style Includes effects like Chorus Flange Rotor etc The styles available are the same as those listed in the Effects µMod section µMod Level Controls the overall level of the effect OFF 0dB Delay Style Includes effects that repeat the guitar input in various ways The styles available are the same as those listed in the Effects Delay section Delay Level Controls the overall le...

Page 32: ...on ratios will affect the sound more noticeably which may be just what you want CompThresh Sets the level at which the compressor begins to attenuate the signal The combination of ratio and threshold create the compressed sound so experiment with different values on each control until you find something you like f f Page 3 µMod Speed Sets the speed in Hz or Hertz of any modulation effects Delay Fe...

Page 33: ...cts like Harmony and Double Guitar Level Adjusts the output level of the guitar This control is also dependent on the Guitar Input level set in the Setup screen Out Level Controls the overall output level of theVoiceLive Play GTX Delay Reverb Changes the level of any Delay and Reverb effects simultaneously Headphone Level Adjusts the volume of the headphone output USB Level Adjusts the level of th...

Page 34: ...yed in a percentage form 67 this indicates how often you are accurately hitting a note Using theVoiceLive Play GTX for longer periods of time without resetting the stats will give a more accurate representation of your accuracy Average Shows in cents 1 100th of a semi tone how sharp or flat you are singing on average If your average is several cents sharp or flat you re likely singing a large numb...

Page 35: ... allows you to add numerous parts which can all be removed with a single UNDO action they can also be brought back by repeating the UNDO action Using a Switch3 will give you permanent access to looping without pressing the Up and Down foot switches It frees up those switches to be assigned for Key Scale selection plus you don t have to go in and out of loop mode to change presets It times out auto...

Page 36: ...f you re using an mp3 player to sing along with tracks set the AUX IN TYPE to Tracks in the SETUP menu Some tracks will work better for NaturalPlay than others based on the mix and instrumentation of the recording If you re using Guitar or MIDI to control Harmony make sure you ve got the Key set to AUTO on the Harmony effect page None of the effects seem to be making any changes to the sound Is th...

Page 37: ... products voicesupport support I ve been using this thing for a while now but I m not famous You will become famous for your singing tomorrow For any other issues check our FAQ at http tcsupport custhelp com If you still haven t found what you re looking for http www tc helicon com products voicelive play gtx support ...

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