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VoiceWorks

Harmony | Correction | Effects

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Summary of Contents for VoiceWorks

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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: ...mits 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 gu...

Page 5: ...19 Mic Sensitivity 19 Output Level Mode 19 Sample Rate Selection 19 Analog Digital Input Selection 19 Global Effects 19 Tuning 19 MIDI Parameters 20 Footswitch 20 Midi Dump 20 Erase Song 20 Restore Factory Preset 21 Viewing Angle 21 SONG MODE Song Mode 21 HARMONY AND TUNING Harmony 22 Harmony Hold 22 Harmony Modes 22 Notes Mode 22 Shift Mode 22 Chord Chordal Mode 22 Scale Scalic Mode 23 Diatonic a...

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Page 7: ...tinct harmony Modes Scalic Chordal Shift and MIDI Notes Humanization of harmony voices utilizing FlexTime TM Vibrato Inflection scoop Pitch randomization Portamento Equal temperament and Just tuning for harmonies Harmony Hold TM like a vocal sustain pedal Scale Based Pitch Correction Fully adjustable voicing and gender per voice Lead Voice Thickening one voice above and one voice below HIgh Qualit...

Page 8: ... information edit menus system configuration setup menu song data song mode and any important status messages or user alerts VOICES AND EFFECT KEYS GENERAL INFORMATION A VoiceWorks preset is made up of eight audio processing components represented by the eight VOICES EFFECTS keys Each key has an LED that is lit when its component is enabled in the current preset A single click will toggle enable o...

Page 9: ...s and hold to quickly navigate through menus In recall mode pressing up or down will instantly recall the next or previous preset DATA WHEEL Edits the value of the current parameter from any menu or mode In recall mode turning the wheel previews presets top level preset information is flashed on the display but preset data is not loaded until RECALL is pressed again ENTER Can be used to recall the...

Page 10: ... unbalanced microphones or instruments or signal processors balanced or unbalanced into the mic input if 48V phantom power is on The 1 4 analog Input and Output connectors on the VoiceWorks are balanced 1 4 jacks Optimal connection to balanced equipment is achieved using balanced cables However if your equipment is NOT balanced you will generally have no problems using standard mono to mono cables...

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Page 12: ...VoiceWorks stereo outputs to a stereo channel or two mono channels on your mixer For mono operation use the either of the VoiceWorks outputs and set the unit to mono operation with the OUTPUT parameter under the setup menu Live Setup with Guitar Connect a microphone to the XLR mic input on the VoiceWorks and enable MIC input from the front panel Plug the Switch 3 footpedal into the VoiceWorks Peda...

Page 13: ...puts MIDI when parameters are being changed so that during a recording session it is possible to record parameter changes that you make from the VoiceWorks into your sequences The parameter changes can then be adjusted to perfection in your sequencer program Connect the right and left outputs of the VoiceWorks to your mixer and monitor in real time what the VoiceWorks is doing without dealing with...

Page 14: ...5 it will seem as if nothing has changed The preset you are looking at is still the current preset Press RECALL to copy the new data from the stored preset 5 to the current preset It is possible to directly receive and dump from the current preset Refer to the SYSEX MIDI documentation available on our website When presets are recalled or previewed the first line of the LCD display shows the preset...

Page 15: ...eady press STORE again to store the preset to the chosen location and name Presets Backup via MIDI The VoiceWorks allows MIDI dumping of all or individual presets all or individual songs and the VoiceWorks setup parameters Connect the VoiceWorks MIDI Out to MIDI In on either another VoiceWorks or an external MIDI device Enter the setup menu by pressing the SETUP key and scroll to the MIDIDump para...

Page 16: ...ext note above the input voice in the chord For instance if the Chord was C Major and the input note was an E an Up1 setting would pro duce a G harmony voice just above the input E The range of values goes from Dn5 Down 5 to U unison to Up6 Additional values are Rt1 and Rt2 which give the root as the harmo ny voice and Bs1 and Bs2 bass voicing which give the lowest MIDI note received Rt2 and Bs2 a...

Page 17: ...ces only STYL Humanization style This is a list of humaniza tion style types each made up of a combina tion of FlextimeTM based time randomization pitch randomization and pitch inflection scoop STYL AMT The amount that the humanization style is applied to the harmony voices BEND Pitch Bend Wheel assignment Allows assign ment of the pitch bend wheel to Pitch applica ble in Notes and Chord harmony m...

Page 18: ...gh the parameters FX LEVEL Sets the overall volume of the combined Reverb and Delay effects REV DLY Reverb Delay mix LE REV SND Lead to Reverb effects send HA REV SND Harmony to Reverb effects send AU REV SND Auxiliary to Reverb effects send LE DLY SND Lead to Delay effects send HA DLY SND Harmony to Delay effects send AU DLY SND Auxiliary to Delay effects send DLY2REV SND Delay output to Reverb e...

Page 19: ...e left effect end only PingPong2 sends the lead voice to the sends depending on the lead pan setting Left Delay Send Right Delay Send HF Damping Delay HF Damping Delay Feedback Amount Left Delay Out Right Delay Out Dual Mono Delay PingPong1 and PingPong2 Delay DLY ms Using the DATA WHEEL you can fine adjust the current delay time DELAY TEMPO SOURCE TAP the DLY time comes from the last tapped tempo...

Page 20: ...nsparent pitch correction High settings can give you a robotic sounding effect AM Pitch Correction Amount Scales the amount of automatic correction applied to the input voice The range is 0 to 100 However 0 does not mean that the correction is turned off The amount of applied correction depends on how far out of tune the input note is This allows for a very musical way of correcting pitch It corre...

Page 21: ... 1 GATE Gate Threshold Range Off 70dB to 0dB EQ The VoiceWorks has an extremely flexible 3 band EQ with frequency adjustable high and low shelving bands as well as a fully paramet ric band with Q frequency and Gain controls EQ EQ assignment The options are Off Lead Harmony Harmony or Lead L Low Shelving Frequency Cut boost H High Shelving Frequency Cut boost M Mid band Frequency Cut boost Q Resona...

Page 22: ... the pedal is pressed HarL Harmony toggle mute HarM Harmonies toggle mute momentary harmonies are on only when the pedal is pressed Hsus Harmony Hold GLOBAL EFF Global Effects This makes the effect parameters of the chosen preset global for all recalled presets TUNING Sets the tuning reference based on A 440 MIDI Parameters MIDI CHANNEL Sets the base MIDI Send and Receive channel MIDI FILTER With ...

Page 23: ...re automatically saved as you make them Use MIDI SYSEX to back up your songs Once a series of song steps have been creat ed you can then use your footswitch or an external MIDI controller to step through them during a live performance MIDI DUMP Allows SYSEX MIDI dumping of all or individual presets all or individual songs and the VoiceWorks setup Select what you would like to backup using the DATA...

Page 24: ...d a single one above Root C Chord Type Maj Voicing Up1 Black Lead Grey Harmony Harmony Here s where we can go into a little more depth about harmonies We ve tried to keep it practical focusing on what VoiceWorks can do for you Harmony Hold Truly an innovation the Harmony Hold feature lets you on a whim sustain the backing har mony voices while you continue to sing through them On activation press ...

Page 25: ...itch correction on the harmonies VoiceWorks has five preprogrammed harmony scales three major three minor and one custom per preset To create a custom scale or pitch map see the MAP parameter description under the Individual Voice Key description in the manual It is also tricky to pick out the key in some songs An example is Sweet Home Alabama Listening you might think this song is in the key of D...

Page 26: ...lead note where the chromatic harmony would stay exactly 4 semitones a major 3rd above each note To recap we have three different harmony modes that use chromatic or diatonic scales Shifting which uses the chromatic 12 semi tone scale changes the input pitch by a fixed number of semitones Chordal which uses the root third fifth and sometimes seventh of the many diatonic scales pitches the harmony ...

Page 27: ...Barbershop tun ing uses the input notes as the tuning refer ence For this reason it is better to use Barbershop in an a cappella situation and Just when playing with other instruments because Just tuning sounds more in tune with the other instruments that most likely have equal tem perament tuning Our best advice is to experiment and use your ears Just Tuning Why just tuning Although probably no o...

Page 28: ...es Voice 3 Vibrato Amount 15 0 100 Voice 3 Pan 24 0 127 Voice 3 Active 108 0 63 Off 64 127 On Voice 4 Level 25 0 127 Voice 4 Voicing 26 Harmony Mode Dependent Voice 4 Gender 27 0 127 Voice 4 Vibrato Style 3 0 Number of Styles Voice 4 Vibrato Amount 105 0 100 Voice 4 Pan 28 0 127 Voice 4 Active 109 0 63 Off 64 127 On Harmony Mode 29 0 3 Harmony Root 30 0 11 Harmony Type 31 Harmony Mode Dependent Ha...

Page 29: ... 0 127 Effects Delay Source 116 0 22 Effects Bypass 112 0 63 Off 64 127 On Correction Scale Root 67 0 11 Correction Scale Type 68 0 5 Correction Window 69 0 127 Correction Attack 70 0 127 Correction Amount 71 0 127 Correction Scale LSB 117 Special Correction Scale MSB 118 Special Correction Bypass 113 0 63 Off 64 127 On Setup Dry Level 72 0 127 Setup Lead Pan 73 0 127 Setup Low Cut 74 0 3 Setup Dy...

Page 30: ...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 Example Custom Scale Message Intended scale C E G B based on a C root This scale may be transposed by changing the scale root Message CC 118 00010001 converts to 17 decimal CC 117 00010001 17 decimal MIDI Program Change messages result in a Song Number change while in song mode In a...

Page 31: ...4 bit EIAJ CP 340 IEC 958 44 1 kHz 48 kHz DC to 22 23 9 kHz 0 01 dB 44 1 48 kHz Mic XLR Line phone jack Mic 3 6 1 8 kOhm Line 21 13 kOhm 24 dBu to 0 dBu 12 dBu to 12 dBu 14 dBu 6 dBu to 51 dBu 31 dBu 26 dBu 6 dBu to 63 dBu 43 dBu 92 dB 20 Hz 20 kHz 2 dB 127 4 dBu 100 dB 0 001 1 kHz 0 0 1 dB 20 Hz to 20 kHz 1 5 dB 40 Hz 0 0 1 dB 200 Hz to 20 kHz 85 dB 20 Hz to 20 kHz 24 bit 128 x oversampling bitst...

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