TC-Helicon VoiceWorksPlus, User Manual

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How to change the levels and pan
position of the harmony voices
In the case where one or more of the voices in a
harmony preset stand out or are too quiet, or you
would like to change pan position of each voice, you
can do the following and then store your edited preset
to the user bank.This procedure also allows you to add
or remove harmony voices to the preset.
1. In a harmony preset, press EDIT and scroll to menu
V0 with the Data Wheel. Here you’ll see how many
voices are enabled and their relative levels.
2.Adjust the voice levels with the soft knobs while you
sing. To lower the overall harmony volume for your
preset, adjust each voice by the same amount.
3.To edit pan positions, scroll to the next menu,V1, and
adjust the positions with the soft knobs. If any voices
are Off in the previous menu screen, adjusting their
pans will have no effect.
4. If you raised the level of any voice that was set to
Off, you’ll need to set the new voice’s interval in menu
V2.
How to adjust Humanization and
vibrato settings in a preset
Humanization in VoiceWorksPlus is controlled by
several settings that impose time, pitch and level
variances upon the harmony voices or to the modeled
voice to mimic human singing.You can choose to add
more of these effects or reduce them with these
menus.
In a harmony or doubling preset:
1. Press the EDIT button and scroll to menu V4 to
speed up (lower number) or slow down (higher
number), or disable (value=0) the Portamento, or glide
time between notes.
2. Scroll to menu V5 to adjust the amount of
Smoothing, which, at lower numbers acts as pitch
correction for the harmony voices.A value of 0% is full
correction and 100% yields smooth transitions
between note changes.
3. Scroll to menu H0 to choose a different
Humanization style for each voice or disable it by
setting the value to Off/No Style. Menu H1 allows you
to adjust the amount of each Style.
4. Scroll to screens H2 and H3 to change vibrato styles
and adjust the amount on each voice.
5. In menu H4 you can adjust the overall amount of
detuning to all voices with a single Det (Detune)
amount parameter and trim the three effects set by the
current Humanization style. These include Pit (Pitch
modulation, Tim (Timing variation) and Lev (Level
modulation).
Note that these values are not reset when you change
Humanization styles and if you reduce any value to
zero and then change styles you will not get the full
effect until you turn it up again.
In a modeling preset:
1. Press the EDIT button and scroll to menu L0. Here
you can choose the Humanization style you prefer and
adjust the amount in the same screen. These are the
same styles as those available for the harmony voices.
2. In menu L1, you can adjust the individual amounts of
Pitch,Time and Level randomization (Rand) set by the
current Humanization style. The leftmost soft knob
allows selection of the Pitch,Time or Level parameter
for adjustment by the next two soft knobs.
3. Editing the amount (ScpAmt), duration (Dur) and
randomization over time (Rand) of the pitch event that
occurs at the start of each sung note is set in menu L2.
These values are changed each time you load a new
Humanization style. A ScpAmt value of 0.0st (zero
semitones) disables the effect.
How to change the pitch shift in a
modeling preset
Modeling presets allow chromatic or scale-based pitch
shifting. If you have no dry voice mixed-in in menu DV,
the modeled voice, with it’s shifted pitch replaces your
voice. If your dry voice is mixed in, the modeled voice
can be used as a harmony or duet voice.
1. Load a modeling preset, press EDIT and scroll to
menu S0.
2.With the left soft knob, select which type of shifting
you prefer: Chroma (chromatic) or one of the scale
shifts from Maj1 (major 1) to Cust (custom intervals).
3.You can either adjust the chromatic shift amount in
cents (hundredths of a semitone) or set a new key,
scale and voicing interval as you would with a Scale
harmony preset only with a single modeled voice.
EDITING OVERVIEW