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PERFORM-VE User Manual

4.  Front Panel

Now that your Perform-VE is set up and connected to the devices of your 

choosing, we’re going to take a quick tour of the front panel, explaining 

what each of the buttons do without getting too deep in any details just yet. 

Don’t worry – we’ll go feature diving soon enough!

One Knob To Rule Them All

By default, Perform-VE’s Control Knob edits the mix between the MIDI Voices and 

your Lead Voice. It applies to all three presets and is not stored when Perform-VE 

is turned off.

The graphic above shows equal levels of MIDI and LEAD as displayed on the 

LED Ring. From here you can dial down the blue MIDI level by turning the knob 

counter-clockwise, or dial down the green LEAD level by turning the knob 

clockwise. Whichever level you turn down, the other one will stay at max volume.

Effects

Perform-VE makes some of the wildest and most complex sounds that TC-Helicon 

has ever made possible. There’s a lot to discover by simply pushing buttons and 

combining sounds, but we’ll give you an overview of the basics here, starting 

with the six effects buttons, as shown below:

Toggling the Effects

Quickly pressing and releasing any one of the FX buttons will toggle the 

associated effect on and off. The LED ring will switch to an alternate display mode 

while the button is down. There’s a reason for this momentary flash, and we’ll 

explain it now.

Real-time Control of Effect Parameters

Perform-VE was designed to allow instant access to 21 different effect 

parameters without navigating through menus.
Each effect button is labeled with light gray text in one or more corners of the 

button. For example, if you press “Level” in the top left corner of the Double 

button, and turn the Control Knob while it’s pressed, you’ll adjust the amount of 

doubling. Alternatively, if you hold Style in the bottom right corner of the Double 

button, once that button pulses, you’ll be able to change the doubling style when 

you turn the Control Knob. 
When a parameter edit is underway…

• 

The LED ring will display the currently selected parameter value, 

• 

The Control Knob will edit this parameter, ranging (clockwise) from min to 

max, and 

• 

The pressed FX button will pulse on and off. At this point you won’t need to 

keep holding it down to continue editing.

Pressing any button (including the button that is pulsing) will quit the edit mode. 

Styles and Mods

In addition to parameters like Level, Shift, Gender, Mode, Key, Div, Delay and 

Reverb, you’ll see that four of the effects have a Style parameter. Styles are 

essentially mini-presets for the effect in question. Changing any style will 

instantly update a number of deeper effect parameters that are not available 

for direct Control Knob editing. Style selections appear on the LED Ring as single 

color-coded LEDs.
Mods are related to the currently selected Style. They appear as levels on the LED 

Ring, colored to match the Style. You can think of each mod as custom ‘Tweak’ 

parameter matched to the Style in question.

4.1  The Set Button

Once a microphone and a MIDI keyboard are connected to your Perform-VE, 

it’s time to ensure that the audio and MIDI settings are correct. You achieve this 

with the 

SET 

button.

The SET button performs many functions in your Perform-VE. By itself, the SET 

button configures the mic input level and sets the MIDI channel and split-point 

used to control the notes, vocoder and sample features of your unit. 

Mic Gain Setting

The actual signal level coming from your microphone can vary depending on 

what type of microphone you have connected and how loudly you vocalize 

(speak/sing/shout/shriek) into it. The 

Auto-Gain

 procedure is the easiest way 

to ensure the microphone preamplifier level set within your Perform-VE is 

calibrated to match your mic and vocal technique, but you have the freedom to 

set the Mic Gain level manually if you prefer. 

Auto-Gain
Press and Hold

 the SET button to activate the Auto-Gain procedure and vocalize 

into the microphone at your typical loudest volume. After several seconds the SET 

button will flash red, indicating that the procedure is complete. 
You will see that the LED to the right of the SET button changes color when you 

vocalize into the microphone. 

LEAD Voice: Your voice. Enhanced 

and extremely altered, just how you 

want it!

MIDI Voices: Up to 8 MIDI Note 

controlled voices

generated by Perform-VE to 

accompany your LEAD Voice.

MIDI Voices are Harmony, Vocoder or 

VS Synthesis Voices.

Configures: Microphone Input Level,

MIDI Channel Select,

MIDI Split Point Select, 

& More…

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Страница 2: ...4 1 The Set Button 6 4 2 The Headphone Button 8 5 Effects 9 5 1 Double 9 5 2 Morph 9 5 3 HardTune 12 5 4 XFX 13 5 5 Echo 16 5 6 Filter 17 5 7 Tap Tempo 18 6 Looper 19 7 Sample 22 8 Presets 23 9 I O S...

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Страница 4: ...nds that will take your music to new levels But wait there s more Perform VE also includes a Drum and Audio Looper With several different kick snare and hi hat sounds available you can easily build a...

Страница 5: ...e preamplifier equipped providing the much loved MIDAS soft clipping characteristic sound when pushed hard For learning purposes we recommend that you connect a MIDI keyboard to your Perform VE while...

Страница 6: ...The pressed FX button will pulse on and off At this point you won t need to keep holding it down to continue editing Pressing any button including the button that is pulsing will quit the edit mode St...

Страница 7: ...I channel SET Preset 1 Adaptive Tone Tone automatically adds EQ equalization Compression De Ess and Gate to your overall vocal sound Tone is enabled by default and we highly recommend leaving it on EQ...

Страница 8: ...e headphone button plays the hi hat The loop needs to be erased to be able to adjust the headphone level Now that the basics are out of the way let s check out Perform VE s effects Holding down the SE...

Страница 9: ...ing the Mode and Style parameters Morph Style Morph Style sets the MIDI Voices to be either Notes harmony voices or Synth Vocoder voices There are two styles of Notes harmony natural or warp and eight...

Страница 10: ...recorded In this case your Lead vocal gets a dedicated synth voice and also acts as the modulator shaping signal for the vocoder Enabling the SAMPLE button changes the way the vocoder operates We ll c...

Страница 11: ...ed LED selections set the MIDI Voices to Mono mode and adjust the portamento time from 0 to long Portamento time is how long it takes to glide from one note s pitch to the next Morph Shift Morph Shift...

Страница 12: ...all 12 keys or Chromatic scale Hold key to edit HardTune Amount HardTune Amount changes the amount of pitch correction applied to your lead vocal Higher amounts mean more T Pain for you Hold amt to ed...

Страница 13: ...largest time divisions you ll hear the audio as rhythmic repeats while at the smallest time divisions the audio cycles so quickly that it produces a different pitched tone or buzz for each division St...

Страница 14: ...ivision in real time Hold mod1 to edit Chopper Mod 2 Depth Chopper Mod 2 changes the depth of the volume modulation gating relative to your Lead vocal Hold mod2 to edit On the ring Level is indicated...

Страница 15: ...erted made negative producing a striking alternative to the classic sound of Flange 2 Stereo Flange which uses positive feedback Flange Mod 1 Speed Flange Mod 2 Depth Flanging is an audio effect produ...

Страница 16: ...ur drums will always stand out in the mix This effect is also called SideChain Pumping The SideChain Compressor reduces the level of the non drums audio signal if the kick drum mix level exceeds a cer...

Страница 17: ...sound like you re on an old radio or distort your voice for an edgy attack Be careful with Megaphone effects when you ve got a loud PA We need to adjust EQ a lot to create these sounds so they re a b...

Страница 18: ...ee beats When pressed this light flashes in time with the Looper Chopper Stutter and Echo effects Provided you have not previously recorded a loop you can re tap the tempo at any time to sync up with...

Страница 19: ...sing kick snare HEADPHONE or loop to erase the kick snare hi hat or audio loop respectively You can then re record the component Stopping Loop Playback Press the TAP button or double tap loop Start Lo...

Страница 20: ...ve been recorded as quantized disabling quantize will not restore their original timing If you find that the drum patterns you wish to record do not play back as intended try erasing and re recording...

Страница 21: ...rner again on the beat to set loop point and immediately begin playback How to add drums or audio to an existing loop Press the loop corner to begin overdub recording while the drum loop plays and eit...

Страница 22: ...s recorded Sample Mode The four sample modes control how the sample is played back in response to MIDI notes The four sample modes are combinations of staccato legato normal and looped playback charac...

Страница 23: ...o save your current settings as one of the three presets press and hold preset button 1 2 or 3 for one second The preset button will flash briefly when storage is complete You can now turn off your Pe...

Страница 24: ...buttons to be activated by a footswitch with the exception of TRIM 48V Headphone Level and Lock Mute TALK is assignable Press and hold the desired footswitch then press the button on Perform VE that y...

Страница 25: ...ou re singing into the RoomSense mic the Main Outputs will be muted to prevent feedback 2 If you activate HardTune effects with the NP Natural Play key set and you re not using MIDI keyboard audio or...

Страница 26: ...ed Mono Portamento time XFX Style 1 Stutter 2 Mono Chopper 3 Stereo Chopper 4 Ring Mod 5 Stereo Flanger 6 Mono Flanger 7 Side Chain Pumping Mod1 Rate Mod2 Level Mod1 Rate Mod2 Depth Mod1 Rate Mod2 Dep...

Страница 27: ...Div List 28 ECHO Reverb Style 0 3 See Style List 41 Top Mix LEAD Level 0 127 Lead is set independent of MIDI via CC 42 Top Mix MIDI Level 0 127 MIDI is set independent of LEAD via CC 43 MORPH Shift 0...

Страница 28: ...ed above This may seem a bit confusing but does allow you to make both a split above below point AND transpose either up or down Here s a chart and some explanation In the chart above X is the split n...

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