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TC-Helicon Quintet User Manual

Vocal harmony and effects processor
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Vocal Harmony + Reverb
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  • Page 1 Quintet Vocal Harmony + Reverb U U S S E E R R ’ ’ S S M M A A N N U U A A L L...

  • Page 3: Important Safety Instructions

    IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS The lightning flash with an arrowhead The exclamation point within an symbol within an equilateral triangle, is equilateral triangle is intended to alert intended to alert the user to the the user to the presence of important presence of uninsulated "dangerous voltage"...
  • Page 4 Quintet - Vocal Harmony + Reverb used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio - that is covered by this certificate and communications.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Table of Contents ....3 Parameters Accessible via MIDI ..21 Text Conventions ....3 MIDI Implementation Chart .

  • Page 7: Introduction

    Quintet is the affordable key to great live and recorded vocals. Drawing upon the TC-Helicon heritage, the Quintet is fast and easy to use. It supports simple editing and control of harmony and effect parameters either from the front panel or via MIDI. Quintet is a state-of- the-art product and creates the world's most natural sounding harmonies.

  • Page 8: Front Panel

    FRONT PANEL POWER KEY OUTPUT CLIP LED On/Off switch for the unit. Indicates an internal DSP overflow. Reduce the overall In order for altered SETUP and level of the harmony voices and current preset parameters to be vocal effects to correct this saved, the unit must be condition.
  • Page 9 FRONT PANEL LEVELS KEY voices are muted. Press to adjust overall RECALL KEY harmony, lead and reverb Press RECALL from any BYPASS levels. Press repeatedly to menu (edit or setup), or from Press to toggle (bypass / cycle through the various level the store mode to return to unbypass) all effects.

  • Page 10: Rear Panel

    Output Input Outputs MIDI Cable The 1/4” analog Input and Output DIN CONNECTOR 5POLE - MALE connectors on the Quintet are balanced 1/4” DIN CONNECTOR 45 degrees jacks. 5POLE - MALE max. 10m 45 degrees SHIELDED CABLE (3 or 5 wires + screen) Optimal connection to balanced equipment is achieved using balanced cables.

  • Page 11: Signal Flow

    SIGNAL FLOW...

  • Page 12: Applications

    Using the Quintet live is like bringing four professional backup singers to your gig! You’ve got several options when it comes to controlling the Quintet Live. For best results you can use (in various combinations) the Switch-3 footswitch, a MIDI keyboard, a MIDI CC controller, and of course the controls on the front panel.
  • Page 13 APPLICATIONS Computer Based Studio Setup The Quintet’s pristine -128dB EIN (Equivalent Input Noise) mic preamp and 24 bit A/D conversion alone justifies its place in your Studio rack. The ability to create high quality, solo-able harmony vocals makes the Quintet a must-have for anyone working with Vocals. We’ve put together an example below for a basic studio setup.

  • Page 14: Preset Handling

    MIDI System Exclusive Dumps. Simply connect MIDI Out from the device you RECALL are dumping from to the MIDI In on the Quintet Recalling a preset means loading/activating a and send the Sysex dump at any time. stored preset. The stored preset data is copied into the current preset.

  • Page 15: Voice Keys

    E. The voicing guide legend is printed above the VOICE options for chordal mode presets are shown KEYS on the front of the Quintet. below. Enables a harmony voice that is the Scale Mode Presets BASS root of the chord.

  • Page 16: Levels Key

    VOICE KEYS - LEVELS KEY- EDIT/ Hold for Setup UNISON Enables a voice that is in unison ARMONY with the input note. Select the harmony mode. Available parame- ters: Scale (Scalic presets), Chord (Chordal presets), Shift, Thicken and Notes (Shift, Enables a harmony voice that is a ABOVE Thicken and Notes presets).

  • Page 17: Setup Menu Parameters

    Quintet output. SETUP key gives access to the setup menu This allows using the Quintet as an effect on parameters. Once the setup menu is entered, an effects bus where you want a completely repeatedly pressing this key will cycle through wet output.

  • Page 18: Footswitch Control

    FOOTSWITCH CONTROL The Quintet has been designed to work with 6. Store the preset by pressing the STORE the Switch-3, three button footswitch. button twice. See the Preset Handling section for details on storing presets. **The Quintet must be powered up with the foot switch plugged in for proper operation.**...

  • Page 19: Harmony And Tuning

    ABOVE voice key selected. Notes Mode Root: C, Chord Type: Maj, ABOVE voice key In this Mode, you provide the Quintet with spe- cific MIDI note information to determine the pitch of the harmony voices. Quintet has two “Manual/Notes” harmony modes, single and 4 channel.

  • Page 20: Scale (Scalic) Mode

    Most popular songs use a single scale, so you major, 3rd above voicing) with each major usually only have to set the Quintet to that scale to hear the audible difference between same scale at the beginning of your song.

  • Page 21: Diatonic And Chromatic

    HARMONY AND TUNING Diatonic and Chromatic We've described scalic and chordal harmonies as diatonic, and shift harmonies as chromatic; but what do those words mean? Look at a piano keyboard. Between middle "C" and the next "C" there are twelve keys - 7 white keys and 5 black keys.

  • Page 22: Just Tuning

    “just rela- but by investigating different permutations and tive intonation”. The Quintet is able to do this in combinations you could discover some delight- both the Just and Barbershop tuning modes.

  • Page 23: Midi Implementation

    Parameters Accessible via MIDI We’ve made the Quintet as simple as possible to use from the front panel - providing you with the parameters that are necessary to get 95% of what you need as quickly as possible. If you need to dive in a little further, we’ve made additional parameters available through MIDI.
  • Page 24 MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Parameter Name Range / Description Voice 4 Level 0-127 Voice 4 Gender 0-127 Voice 4 Vibrato Style 0-11 Voice 4 Vibrato Amount 0-100 Voice 4 Pan 0-127 Harmony Mode Root 0-11 Harmony Level 0-127 Smooth 0-127 Humanization Style 0 = Scoop Down 1 = Scoop Up 2 = Scoop and Time Randomization...

  • Page 25: Technical Specifications

    TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Digital Output Connector: RCA Phono (S/PDIF) Formats: S/PDIF (24 bit), Sample Rates: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz Processing Delay: 0.1 ms Frequency Response DIO: DC to 22/23.9 kHz ± 0.01 dB @ 44.1/48 kHz Analog Inputs Connectors, balanced: Mic.: XLR, Line: ¼"phone jack Impedance: Balanced/Unbalanced Mic.: 3.6/1.8 kOhm, Line: 21/13 kOhm...

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