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Page 2: ... cautioned that any change or modifications not expressly approved in this manual could void your warranty EMC EMI This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B Digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in residential installations This equipment generates uses and c...

Page 3: ...support and select your specific product 2 Download VoiceSupport Get the latest firmware for your product tips and tricks and videos Download and install VoiceSupport from www tc helicon com voicesupport 3 RegisterYour Product in VoiceSupport Click on the ACCOUNT button TC Helicon Vocal Technologies Ltd www tc helicon com User Manual 1 2 VoiceLive Touch English Version ...

Page 4: ... 42 Mounting to a Mic Stand 6 The VoiceSupport Application 7 Connections 8 Front Panel 9 Basic Operations 10 Using the Slider 10 Using the Vocal Effects 10 Musical Control of Harmony HardTune 11 Basic Looping 11 Editing Procedure 12 Effect Editing Parameters 12 Using the Guitar Features 14 Finding Presets with the Preset Wizard 15 Setup Phantom Power Mono Output MIDI Channel and more 15 Performing...

Page 5: ...so the serrated slot fully captures the micstand shaft Figure 2 You ll feel initial resistance then the shaft should snap in and seat tightly Removal is the reverse lift the front of the product so it snaps free of the micstand shaft then slide right to remove Note that micstand diameter should not exceed 16 5 mm CABLING The horizontal mounting slot on VoiceLive Touch is also used to collect your ...

Page 6: ... returned to factory settings inVoiceSupport This is done by deleting them in the Presets tab and then pressing the Apply Changes button USING VOICESUPPORT VoiceSupport is your way of getting the most from your TC Helicon product as well as letting your product grow with firmware updates that include new features VoiceSupport includes Drag drop preset management and backup Access to firmware updat...

Page 7: ...computer for version updates and MIDI communication Note that the USB connection does not provide power for the unit 1 10 0 F Fo oo ot ts sw wiit tc ch h I In np pu ut t Allows connection of a TC Helicon Switch 3 footswitch This footswitch can be set to control several useful functions in the Setup menu Requires a 3 conductor TRS cable 1 11 1 H He ea ad dp ph ho on ne e O Ou ut tp pu ut t a an nd ...

Page 8: ...oice arrangements Hold any lit Voicing button to edit 5 5 D DI IS SP PL LA AY Y Shows current Favorite bank and number FAV1 5 B1 5 C1 5 etc or preset e g 105 Also shows edit parameters and values 4 4 M MI IX X B BU UT TT TO ON N Tap to enter mix menu then use arrows to select and Slider to adjust Tap Mix again to exit Hold Mix to enter S Se et tu up p m me en nu u and set phantom power Tone MIDI c...

Page 9: ...n banks labeled A through E To access the banks hold the Slider and immediately tap one of the 5 Favorites buttons The factory programmed Favorite banks are organized as follows Bank A Showcase variety Bank B Harmony and Doubling effects Bank C Effects useful for making interesting loops Bank D Transducer effects Bank E Extreme sounds Loading a Preset There are over 200 presets to sing through Sli...

Page 10: ...ng and b have a pitch reference to sing along with such as an instrument or mixed music Choose a preset such as 3 Tuned Up Down to hear the effects To enter the Harmony key and scale of your song 1 Hold the Harmony button to enter its edit menu 2 Press the arrow buttons until you locate the Key menu 3 Slide along the Slider to choose the key 4 Tap the right arrow to enter the Scale menu 5 Slide to...

Page 11: ...n Voicing button or the Mix button to enter its edit menu 2 Tap an Arrow button to browse up or down through the parameters in the menu The parameter name and value will scroll across the display This prompt can be recalled by tapping the Slider 3 When you have found the parameter you want to change swipe quickly or drag along the Slider To store edits to a Favorite hold any Favorite button To fin...

Page 12: ...er is inserted on the Lead voice only Harmonies Doubling and effect sends are unaffected Harm Dbl Transducer is inserted on the Harmony and Doubling paths only Voices Transducer is inserted on the Lead Harmony and Doubling voices and their effect sends Lead FX Transducer is inserted on the Lead send to the μMod Delay and Reverb effect sends The Lead voice will be clean and the effects will be affe...

Page 13: ...l intervals generally a drone note Scale customization is not possible in VoiceLive Touch Harmony Voicing Buttons These each have the same editable parameters Note that the voicing must be on before it can be edited 1 Level Reduces the volume of the current voice relative to the others 2 Pan Sets where the voice sits in the stereo field Note this only applies when the output is configured for ster...

Page 14: ...ediately and stored until changed again 4 To view the name of a selected parameter and value while in Setup menu tap the Slider 5 To exit the Setup menu double tap the Slider The Setup parameters are listed below 1 Phantom Turn this on to provide 48V phantom power if you are using a condenser microphone 2Tone Applies adaptive Shape EQ compression de ess and gate functions Off 5 Normal No Gate 1 No...

Page 15: ...cale Gbl This parameter determines whether a key and scale you have entered in the Harmony edit menu will apply to all presets On or each preset may have a different key and scale Off 9 Nat Play Gbl Naturalplay Global Control Determines global device for harmony control Off Favorites can be stored with a unique Naturalplay control device setting in their Harmony edit menu Thus one Favorite could b...

Page 16: ...button USING THE LOCKOUT MODES VoiceLive Touch has three special modes where the functionality of the product is limited for specific situations These modes are accessible from the Home screen Sleep Mode In this mode all features and audio from the product are turned off This is very similar to turning off the power To enter the mode press and hold Favorite 1 and 5 To exit the mode double click th...

Page 17: ...ch Touch can receive continuous controller CC messages such as volume CC7 By default this is set to channel 1 but it can be changed to other values including 0ff which will ignore all CC messages on all channels 4Transpose This transposes the harmony voices in MIDI Notes presets to allow it to be controlled by upper or lower sections of a MIDI keyboard if required The value corresponds to octaves ...

Page 18: ...gaphone effects will be layered onto the dry external voice where normally dry lead is muted in the preset Lead Delay Can be used to compensate for the slight processing latency of the harmony and doubling voices by delaying the dry lead voice When set to NONE default the lead voice is sent through VoiceLive Touch with the shortest possible latency inherent to the system When set to VOICE SYNC the...

Page 19: ...5 seconds to load Once the demo is loaded a repeating prompt invites you to hold the Play button and play the demo vocal While the demo vocal plays it is possible to audition the different Favorites presets and features Holding play will stop the demo vocal Note that this mode consumes looping memory so looping time is shortened VoiceLive Touch will remain in Demo mode over power cycles until this...

Page 20: ...p ps s mode display and controls 1 1 L LO OO OP P N NU UM MB BE ER R D DI IS SP PL LA AY Y The number on the left is the current loop The number on the right shows the number of available loops given the length of your starting loop 2 2 L LO OO OP P B BE EA AT T C CO OU UN NT TE ER R Shows the length of your loop divided by four If your loop is one bar long this can be used as a beat reference whe...

Page 21: ...nue until all loop slots are full An apostrophe will show beside the loop number during copy actions If the next slot already contains a loop tapping the right arrow will cue the loop for playback Holding the right arrow will copy the current loop into a temporary holding slot This allows you to paste over another non consecutive loop selected with the left or right arrow buttons Note that the pas...

Page 22: ...ing the S Sh ho ot ts s mode display and controls 1 1 L LO OO OP P N NU UM MB BE ER R B BA AN NK K D DI IS SP PL LA AY Y Displays the same information as in Loops mode except briefly after either of the arrows is pressed Pressing either of the arrow buttons will temporarily show the next available bank of loops shown as 1 5 6 10 20 25 2 2 L LO OO OP P B BE EA AT T C CO OU UN NT TE ER R Same as in ...

Page 23: ...with the difference that you can jump directly to the target destination instead of cycling forward sequentially as in Loops mode 7 7 F FA AV VO OR RI IT TE ES S B BU UT TT TO ON NS S In Shots mode these become playback triggers for the individual loops Tapping them will immediately play back the loop When you lift your finger off the button playback will stop unless the Play button is lit The num...

Page 24: ...lan to use harmony To useVoiceLiveTouch as an effects insert set the Setup menu parameter as such 6 USB INSERT Configure an aux send in your DAW to send the vocal track via USB to VoiceLive Touch s left input and the guitar track to the right To record a 100 wet track that will be mixed with the dry lead vocal track set the LEAD MUTE parameter to ON in the Advanced Setup menu If a guitar track is ...

Page 25: ...n or the computer OS automatically downsamples toVoiceLiveTouch s USB audio requirement USB Audio And ASIO Applications PC based ASIO apps such as Cubase may require you to install a WDM to ASIO wrapper such as ASIO4ALL which is available at www asio4all com in order for VoiceLive Touch to be recognized as an audio device Selecting The Audio Device In the Mac and Windows operating systems you can ...

Page 26: ...Only for NaturalPlay Scale and Shift modes N A for Notes Notes 4Chan Level 12 0 127 Harmony Key 30 0 11 0 C 1 C 2 D 3 Eb 4 E 5 F 6 F 7 G 8 G 9 A 10 Bb 11 B Harmony Scale 31 0 6 0 Maj1 1 Maj2 2 Maj3 3 Min1 4 Min2 5 Min3 6 Custom Scale Note 1 Harmony Key Scale also controls HardTune Key Scale Note 2 NaturalPlay must be set to Scale in preset or globally Voicing Voice1 89 0 to the of voicings in mode...

Page 27: ...to 127 0 off S Sy ys st te em m Lead Mute 13 0 63 off 64 127 on Talk 114 0 1 1 on No tuner mode available Sustain 64 Active in MIDI Naturalplay and MIDI Notes MIDI Notes 4 Chan modes All Notes Off 123 N No on n C CC C m me es ss sa ag ge es s Pitch Bend Bank select 0 2 0 presets 1 127 1 presets 128 256 2 Favorites Preset select 0 127 0 preset 1 1 preset 2 etc MIDI Note on off L Lo oo op piin ng g ...

Page 28: ...SE 2 STOP 8 PASTE 14 BANK 4 20 SHOTS TRIGGER 5 26 ERASE 3 NEXT 9 AUTO COPY 15 BANK 5 21 SHOTS 1 RELEASE 4 PREV 10 CLEAR 16 SHOTS TRIGGER 1 22 SHOTS 2 RELEASE 5 UNDO 11 BANK 1 17 SHOTS TRIGGER 2 23 SHOTS 3 RELEASE MIDI Implementation 29 L Lo oo op piin ng g C CC C4 44 4 c co on nt tr ro oll v va allu ue e t ta ab blle e ...

Page 29: ...D UP LADIES 86 4TH DOWN CHOIR 12 POWER CHORDS 2 37 2UP 1DOWN 62 LOWER GUYS 87 6TH DOWN CHOIR 13 HIGHER CHOIR 38 1UP 2DOWN 63 FAR GENDRGROUP 88 YOU RE NOT ALON 14 HARMONY CHOIR 39 2UP 1DOWN OCT 64 1UP 2DOWN OCT 89 U R ALTO 15 RADIOHARMNY DLY 40 SHIFT 4 SEMI 65 DOMINUS REQUIEM 90 U R SOPRANO 16 BASS 3RD UP 41 SHIFT 5 SEMI 66 FADEOUT 3RD UP 91 TUNED HARMONY 17 ELVIS RADIO 42 ONE UP ROOM 67 STEVE MCQU...

Page 30: ...SEWERS 193 NOTES 8V WIDE 113 DOUBLE BALLAD 140 SPACE CHOIR 167 POLTERGEIST 194 NOTES 8V MALES 114 OVERDUB SLAP 141 MONO SPRING 168 CHURCH TUNE 195 NOTES 8V FEMALE 115 100 WET UNISON 142 SMOOTHED VERB 169 AUTO PANNER 196 NOTES SLOW ATK 116 LAGER ALE 143 GORGEOUS HALL 170 I AM A WALRUS 197 NOTES HEAVEN 117 MIXED OCTAVES 144 PRACTICE ROOM 171 POWER CORD ECHO 198 NOTES HEAVEN 2 118 OCT UP DOUBLE 145 J...

Page 31: ...LTITAP ECHO B2 TUNED UP DOWN 216 TAP TEMPO 1 4 B3 CHORALE THREE 217 1 2N TUNED ECHO B4 MAMBAZO 218 SLAP N ECHO B5 LOOSE DOUBLE 219 TRIPLET PONG C1 1 8N FILTERED 220 DRONE ECHO C2 DRONE ECHO 221 1 8N FILTERED C3 BASSDRUM FUZZ 222 BASSDRUM FUZZ C4 ANGELS LEFT 223 ANGELS LEFT C5 SOLOIST RIGHT 224 SOLOIST RIGHT D1 ELVIS RADIO 225 MAMBAZO D2 NOW HEAR THIS D3 ANGELS RADIO D4 SING WITH RADIO D5 BANDPASS ...

Page 32: ...re playing guitar chords made up of at least a root note and a major or minor third Check that the Naturalplay Global parameter in the Setup menu is off or the Naturalplay setting in the Harmony edit menu is set to either Auto or Guitar My guitar is connected to my amp but I can t hear it What s wrong Tap the Talk button to exit Tuner mode Can I Use Alternate Tunings On My Guitar Alternate tunings...

Page 33: ...econds in mono mode Note making any changes to these modes will erase the current loop because the system needs to reconfigure the way it uses internal memory Beatboxing Using your voice box lips tongue and other parts of your body in creative ways for the purpose of mimicking rhythmic instruments drums cymbals shakers etc Bar of Music Western music usually relies on a repeating 4 beat rhythm For ...

Page 34: ...fun hopefully so who cares if you don t get it right the first time Move on to step 3 Step 3 When you re ready you re going to hit the record button and start singing your vocal loop at exactly the same time For your first experiment the moment you hit the record button start chanting something like one two three four Now this is the tricky part After you chant four keep a very even rhythm and pre...

Page 35: ...ges This means simply that the next time you press play you ll start playback of your stored loop and additive recording at the same time If you really want to create new loop points you ll have to hold the erase button to erase everything and start fresh Going Big Often you ll find yourself with a great sounding loop but one that s too short to record a melody on top of Solution Expansion We ve a...

Page 36: ...u should see LOOPS on the display Next record a loop in exactly the same way as you did in step 3 of Getting Started Step 4 You should see 1 N with an animated progress bar at the far right of the display The N will be the number of available loops based on the size of the recorded loop The shorter the original loop the larger N will be up to a maximum of 25 The progress bar indicates the progress...

Page 37: ...rdub Step 4 Try additively recording to loop 2 and then pressing the right arrow to move to loop 3 Notice whatever you had in loop 2 will now also be in loop 3 Got the idea Try switching back to loop 1 and swipe right to clear it Clearing loop 1 will leave the other loops unaffected Step 5 One last trick go to loop 1 and make sure something is recorded there Now at the beginning of a pass around t...

Page 38: ...ights blinking Favorites 1 through 5 correspond to loops 1 through 5 from Loops Mode Step 5 Try stopping the loop The display should switch to show SHOTS Hitting play again will bring back the 1 N display Try double clicking the slider to go back to Presets Mode home You should momentarily see HOME then the display will let you chose a preset with the slider Now get back into Shots Mode with the m...

Page 39: ...ng between loops The additive recording will be applied to whichever loop you have selected How to Easily Record Vocal Samples in Momentary Shots Mode Using Momentary Shots Mode is a bit like using a vocal sampler Here s a walk through of how you might choose to record a set of samples to trigger at will Step 1 Start from a clean slate and double click the slider to return home Record your first v...

Page 40: ...irst switch and listen to the offending loop which would interrupt your flow Copy Paste Another way to copy from one loop to another is by holding the left portion of the touch slider to copy the display will flash COPY then moving to another loop then holding the right portion of the touch slider to paste the display will flash PASTE This is different from AutoCopy in that you have to move to the...

Page 41: ...20 Hz to 20 kHz Headphone Out 1 8 Mini stereo jack 32 Ohm 17 dBu max 180mW max D to A Conversion 24 bit 128 x oversampling bitstream 115dB SNR A weighted C Co on nt tr ro oll USB USB B control MIDI and audio I O MIDI In 5 Pin DIN Pedal 1 4 TRS phone jack P Po ow we er r External Power Supply Mains Voltage 100 to 240 VAC 50 to 60 Hz auto select Power Consumption 14 W S Sa af fe et ty y EMC Complies...

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