TC-Helicon VoiceOne User Manual Download

Page: 1 / 43

VoiceOne

Voice Pitch and Modeling Tool

R’’S

S M

Summary of Contents for VoiceOne

Page 1: ...VoiceOne Voice Pitch and Modeling Tool U US SE ER R S S M MA AN NU UA AL L ...

Page 2: ......

Page 3: ...es not operate normally or has been dropped This equipment should be installed near the socket outlet and disconnection of the device should be easily accessible Do not install in a confined space Do not open the unit risk of electric shock inside Caution You are cautioned that any change or modifications not expressly approved in this manual could void your authority to operate this equipment Ser...

Page 4: ...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 can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarant...

Page 5: ...ter Lock 24 Bulk Dump 24 Foot switch Control 24 Sysex ID 24 Program Bank 24 Tuning Reference 24 Viewing Angle 24 MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Pitch Correction 25 Pitch Shifting 26 Voice Modeling 27 Other Parameters 28 Non Registered Parameter Numbers 29 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Technical Specifications 30 Preset Style Applications Guide Preset List 31 Voice Modeling Styles 34 Pitch Correction Scale Definitio...

Page 6: ...ual VoiceOne Preset Style and Application Pamphlet TC Electronic Catalog Warranty Card 2 Observe basic safety precautions Operate from a regulated power receptacle Do not open the unit There are no user serviceable parts inside Turn amplifiers and speakers down or off when patching in this equipment WHAT DOES VOICEONE DO VoiceOne is a special product for the human voice With this tool you now have...

Page 7: ...the S PDIF Out DO to your S PDIF digital equipment 4 Connect your MIDI devices a Connect the MIDI Out from your controller or sequencer to the MIDI In in VoiceOne b Connect the MIDI Thru to your other MIDI devices if you choose c Connect the MIDI Out to your MIDI recorder or sound module 5 Footswitch You may connect a footswitch to control the bypass features See the I O SETUP section for details ...

Page 8: ... edit menu of the effect algorithm A lit key LED indicates that the effect block is active FUNCTION KEYS I O and MIDI UTIL A single click will enter the parame ters for editing RECALL KEY Use the DATA wheel to scroll through the presets then press RECALL to load the preset STORE Press STORE once to save a preset Select a location using the DATA wheel Press ENTER to confirm this operation To edit t...

Page 9: ... is the key to finding a style setting that best suits your application You might begin incorporating Vibrato into your sound by setting the VIB Amt control to 50 This setting matches the depth level that we analyzed in our modeling subjects You can then vary the effect from this middle range up or down to suit your taste SPECTRAL EFFECTS The Spectral styles reflect the natural equalization equiva...

Page 10: ...s Chromatic You can then apply a static shift to the vocal by changing the SHI Amount This value is in cents 100 cents one semitone Experiment with upshifts and downshifts When finished press the SHIFT key to return to the top level screen Press the CORRECT button to disable the Pitch Correction Now let s do an intelligent shift We re going to use a major scale as our basis Remember to hear the ef...

Page 11: ...along with world class pitch correction and pitch shifting VoiceOne is a tool that makes the voice elastic and pliable With VoiceOne the best characteristics of a voice can be brought out and new characteristics can be added Features Voice Modeling TM Effects Inflection including FlexTime TM Vibrato Resonance Warp Growl Breath Spectral Static Pitch Shift MIDI Based Pitch Shifting Scale Based Pitch...

Page 12: ...ink DI LED Indicates that external digital clock input is selected CURRENT NOTE INDICATOR Indicates the current note being sung CURRENT SCALE TONIC INDICATOR Displays the tonic note of the current scale CURRENT SCALE TYPE INDICATOR Shows the scale type currently selected in the preset SCALE NOTE KEYBOARD INDICATOR A piano style representation of the notes in the currently selected scale A lit circ...

Page 13: ...is where all Input and Output related parameters are controlled MIDI UTIL Press to access all MIDI and other general parameters RECALL Press RECALL to initiate a recall operation Use the wheel to select preset Then press ENTER or RECALL to confirm operation STORE Press STORE once to save a preset Select location using the DATA wheel in the Control section Now press STORE to confirm operation The n...

Page 14: ... DIN CONNECTOR 5POLE MALE 45 degrees DIN CONNECTOR 5POLE MALE 45 degrees max 10m SHIELDED CABLE 3 or 5 wires screen Note The analog Input and Output connectors on the VoiceOne are balanced XLR jacks Optimal performance with balanced equipment is achieved using balanced cables Balanced XLR to Balanced 1 4 Cable Balanced XLR Cable 3 Pin Type ...

Page 15: ...opposite output from the one you choose for the VM signal will be a dry output You may now place these outputs anywhere in the stereo field Effects such as reverb delays and chorusing may be added in the chain after VoiceOne if desired Adjust the input level on the front panel of VoiceOne to prevent audio clipping Digital Audio Setup Connect the S PDIF Digital Out from your sound source to the Dig...

Page 16: ...ler or sequencer is transmitting on the same MIDI channel that VoiceOne is set to receive on Voice One defaults to Channel 1 Connect the VoiceOne MIDI Out to a sequencer or sound source input if you wish to use the MIDI Pitch Output of VoiceOne The MIDI channel of this output may be selected in the MIDI UTIL menu Changing parameters on the front panel sends the coresponding MIDI data to the MIDI o...

Page 17: ...me tempo or slower than the tempo that the sequence was recorded at You will need to press the RECALL key to load a preset from a bank dumped into the unit Preset types Factory presets The VoiceOne holds 100 factory presets Factory presets can be edited and stored in any User location You cannot store presets into a factory location User presets User presets can be edited and stored in any User lo...

Page 18: ...our At a value of 100 the maximum randomization will be 50 cents This parameter is used to give human like enhancements to the pitch just like we hear in real vocals This is useful for creating natural sounding doubling harmony voices and MIDI pitch shifted melodies You can try it on heavily pitch corrected vocals as well INF TimRnd INF TimeDly These two parameters control our proprietary FlexTime...

Page 19: ... types each with unique characteristics VIB OnsTim Vibrato Onset Time Sets the delay before the onset of the Vibrato effect VIB OnsRnd Vibrato Onset Randomization A parameter that randomizes the delay parameter of the vibrato The randomized values fall between the VIB OnsTim setting and the percentage of this set in VIB OndRnd For instance if your Delay is set to 2000ms and your Randomization is s...

Page 20: ...tween the larynx and epiglottis regions of the vocal tract This is a character phenomenon used in high energy rock blues or old soul music for example The Growl effect also models the changes in the vocal tract shape that growling requires altering the vocal resonance characteristics Some styles are sensitive to the dynamics of the incoming vocal meaning that the effect can be controlled by the vo...

Page 21: ... are in the scale or how out of tune the singer is COR Attack Sets the responsiveness of the correction 0 is slow and 100 is fast correction COR Amt Correction Amount The Amount control scales the amount of automatic correction applied to the input voice The range is from 0 to 100 However 0 does not mean that the correction is turned off The amount of correction that is applied depends on how far ...

Page 22: ...ay custom scales are In custom scale mode you cannot change the shift amount as it is already directly specified by the shift map In chromatic mode PITCH SHIFT PARAMETERS SHI Amnt SHI Mode Shift Amount Mode To understand how the shift amount is applied in the various modes it is a good idea to be familiar with how VoiceOne shows the shift offsets At any time you can check the status of shifted not...

Page 23: ...g mode When this mode is set to on only the pitch shifting effects Pitch Correct Inflection and Vibrato are available By bypassing the non pitch oriented VoiceModeling TM blocks we allocate more processing power to the pitch shifting function and thus achieve even higher quality and lower latency shifting Two parameters become available in this mode Please see SHI Formnt and SHI Hybrid above Notes...

Page 24: ... the sensitivity of the Voice One Input Default setting is Pro which will match most preamps Output Range Range 2dBu 20dBu Sets the maximum gain range of the analog output stage I O Setup In the I O menu you will find input output settings analog digital Status Bit and Dither For any successful operation of the VoiceOne these parameters must be correctly set All parameters in the I O menu are glob...

Page 25: ...MIDI notes About the Adaptive Low Cut Filter Unwanted rumble in the low frequency area can occur even on recorded instruments whose main frequency area is situated considerably higher This could be a vocal track where the singer is breathing close to the microphone It could also simply 50 or 60 cycle hum from poorly shielded cables Situations like this will disturb the tightness of the low frequen...

Page 26: ...ade to the VM parameters other than style and amount are replaced by the style s defaults when the style is changed If VM Parm Lock is On the user controllable VM parameters are not changed when the style changes Bulk Dump Press ENTER to perform a total Bulk dump of all presets to an external MIDI device such as a MIDI sequencer The VoiceOne is always ready to receive MIDI Bulk dump information Se...

Page 27: ...w Correction Amount 23 0 127 0 less correction 127 most correction PureShift Mode 30 0 127 0 63 off 64 127 on Custom Scale Notes 18 MSB 0nnopqrsB Binary Pattern nn reserved o 1 C note on p 1 C Db note on q 1 D note on r 1 D Eb note on s 1 E note on 50 LSB 0tuvwxyzB t 1 F note on u 1 F Gb note on v 1 G note on w 1 G Ab note on x 1 A note on y 1 A Bb note on z 1 B note on o z 0 notes off use 0 value...

Page 28: ...Fh MSB LSB 00 00h 2400 cents 40 00h 0 cents 7F 7Fh 2400 cents Use the full range of NRPN 0 to control the shift amount between 2400 and 2400 cents Amount cents MSB LSB Combined Value 2400 00h 00h 0 0 40h 00h 8192 2400 7Fh 7Fh 16383 Where combined value MSB 128 LSB Shift Mode 63 0 8 0 Chromatic 1 Major 1 2 Major 2 3 Major 3 4 Minor 1 5 Minor 2 6 Minor 3 7 Cor Scale 8 Custom Formant Shift 25 0 127 6...

Page 29: ... never go below the current setting and cannot go above 100 If the user sets the vibrato amount to 0 the mod wheel will have a rang of 0 to 100 Increasing the preset vibrato amount will simply raise the low point of the mod wheel s accessible range This extra amount remains while the box is turned on or until a preset is recalled or until the user changes the vibrato amount parameter either from t...

Page 30: ...9 The MSB sets an offset range between 0 100 and 127 99 cents 64 equating to 0 cents The LSB tacks on a fine amount setting between 0 0 00 and 127 0 99 cents To convert from a cents offset to an equivalent Hz as indicated by Tuner Ref under the Utility menu use the following formula Hz 440 2 cents 1200 For software that only allows you to specify RPN data as one combined value between 0 and 16383 ...

Page 31: ...RPN gate CC 6 Value 1 CC 38 Value 0 MSB sets to Delay LSB is ignored in this case CC 101 Value 127 CC 100 Value 127 sending 127s closes the open NRPN gate The following table lists all of the available NRPN controllable parameters The NRPN MSB CC 99 is always 0 and the NRPN LSB CC 98 is the number from the table 0 10 NRPN Data Range 0 Shift Amount MSB LSB Range 00 00h 2400 cents 40 00h 0 cents 7F ...

Page 32: ...LR balanced 21 kOhm 13 kOhm 24 dBu 0 dBu 12 dB headroom 12 dBu to 12 dBu 24 bit 128 x oversampling bitstream 0 65 ms 0 70 ms 48 kHz 44 1 kHz 100 dB typ 20 Hz 20 kHz typ 92 dB 0 0025 1 kHz 0 0 1 dB 48 kHz 20 Hz to 20 kHz 95 dB 20 Hz to 20 kHz XLR balanced 40 Ohm 20 dBu balanced Balanced 20 14 8 2 dBu Unbalanced 14 8 2 dBu 24 bit 128 x oversampling bitstream 0 63 ms 0 68 ms 48 kHz 44 1 kHz 104 dB ty...

Page 33: ...mized delay voice are close together in time 12 Scoop Double Doubling with a scoop effect separating the styes of the dry and modeled voice for contrast 13 Loose Double Doubling with heavy delay and randomization settings a very big sound 14 Shift 5th 15 Shift 8veInflect With Inflection parameters 16 Shift 8ve 17 Shift 8ve Frap Down so low the ground rumbles The Frap name describes the sound in in...

Page 34: ...nt correction parameters 42 Corr Hard Iwato Strong pitch correction to the exotic Iwato scale See the supported Pitch Correction scale table to view the semitone structure 43 Corr Hard MIDI Very stringent correction to input MIDI notes 44 Corr Bangkok Another exotic correction scale See the supported Pitch Correction scale table to view the semitone structure 45 VM Fast Vibrato Voice Modeled Vibra...

Page 35: ...ie For Intimate close mic sound with vibrato lots of presence 74 VM Fou Fou Girl For the girl who has everything but a hit pop record 75 VM Rich and Full A nice VM combination PRESET STYLE APPLICATIONS GUIDE 76 VM Big Booty How low can you go Another big izer 77 VM Kimmy A female combo 78 VM Danke Schoen A show tune special combo 79 VM Stretch Neck Changing the vocal tract for a bigger sound 80 VM...

Page 36: ... scoop that begins below the sung pitch travels above the pitch then r returning down to the sung pitch 6 ScpDwnOvr A scoop that begins above the sung pitch travels below the pitch then returning up to the sung pitch 7 AllOver Random length scoops at the depth amount you select 8 PickaKey Pitch distortions using scoops 9 TapeStart Simulation of an analog tape machine starting up slurring the audio...

Page 37: ... of the jungle man 28 Landing The sound of a close encounter with a spaceship landing 29 Motorbike A motorcycle like sound 30 Nervous Special effect An agitated uneasy sound 31 Sheep Special effect The likeness of sheep bleating in the field 32 Siren Special Effect The sound of a North American emergency vehicle 33 Slicer Special effect A choppy alternative to a standard vibrato 34 Surprise Specia...

Page 38: ...ustains 2 LightAir A light airy breath sound 3 Intimate A simulation of the breath sound of a singer who is very close to a condenser microphone 4 QuietAir A subtle airy breath effect 5 SoftAir A smooth breath sound 6 FadeInNat The natural breath style but with the breath fading in as the sung note progresses 7 HighEnd A breath sound with a lot of high frequency content 8 Softened A softer breath ...

Page 39: ...ation on the Blues Growl 7 ChaChow A sharp abrasive growl Cha Chow comes from a vocal line that was sung while testing VoiceOne 8 Grainy Growl with graininess or a gruff sound 9 Grainy2 Growl with graininess This one is a bit tighter than the Grainy style 10 Growl A standard growl sound 11 Growl2 A variation on the standard growl sound 12 HeavyAdap Growl that is vry sensitive to aplitude for its t...

Page 40: ...d 4 Sumo A very big style to simulate a very big person 5 Long A model of a long vocal cavity 6 WideMouth A model of a singer with a large vocal cavity 7 R B Resonance used to get a fuller darker voice for American R B styles 8 Phattener Another character resonance for a bigger fatter sound 9 Smooth A subtle warp to change the generall character of the vocal 10 Trans1 The transmute styles were cre...

Page 41: ... 7 9 11 0 2 3 5 7 8 10 0 2 3 5 7 8 11 0 2 3 5 7 9 11 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 0 2 4 5 7 9 11 0 2 3 5 7 9 10 0 1 3 5 7 8 10 0 2 4 6 7 9 11 0 2 4 5 7 9 10 0 2 3 5 7 8 10 0 1 3 5 6 8 10 0 1 3 4 6 7 9 10 0 2 3 5 6 8 9 11 0 1 3 4 6 8 10 0 1 3 5 7 8 11 0 1 3 5 7 9 11 0 1 4 6 8 10 11 0 2 4 6 8 10 0 2 4 6 8 10 11 0 2 4 6 7 9 10 0 3 4 7 8 11 0 2 4 7 9 0 3 5 7 10 0 2 4 7 10 0 3 5 6 7 10 0 2 4 5 7 8 9 11 0 ...

Page 42: ...ntity by de correlating it from the lead voice In some cases slightly slipping the dry track back in time e g delaying it so the harmony voice can sometimes be ahead of the lead voice will improve the result Setup Tip Inputs MIDI UTIL You can connect two separate sources to feed VoiceOne and select between them in the MIDI UTIL menu You can have the output from a preamp or compressor connected to ...

Page 43: ...will be pitch corrrected as well Thanks for exploring VoiceOne s unique technology with us We invite you to watch our website for updates user stories news support and other activities involving TC Helicon and Voice Processing technology Join us at http www tc helicon com The TC Helicon Team VOICEONE TIPS ...

Search results

Summary of Contents for VoiceOne

Reviews:

Related manuals for VoiceOne

Brands by name

Popular brands

TC-Helicon VoiceOne, User Manual

Search results

Summary of Contents for VoiceOne

Reviews:

Related manuals for VoiceOne

Brands by name

Popular brands