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- Page 2 EMC: EN 55022 (1987): Brian Gibson, Vice President of Engineering CISPR 22 (1993) Class B EN 50082-1 (1992) European Contact: Your local DigiTech Sales and Service Office or International Sales Office Safety: EN 60065 (1997) 3 Overlook Drive Unit #4...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
AC Power & Safety Warnings..................inside cover Introduction.............................2 Jump Start............................3 Program List............................3 Setup Front Panel................4 Back Panel................5 Set-Up Examples..............6 Factory Reset................7 Performance Setting Levels, Getting a good signal........8 Loading Presets................8 Storing Presets................8 Setting Harmony, Reverb, and Lead Levels......9 Harmony Control Modes............10 Scale..................10 Chord..................10 Notes..................11... - Page 4 You might be interested in knowing that the engineers who designed the Vocalist ACCESS share a lot in common with you. The engineers behind ACCESS believe the voice is a special instru- ment and they want it to sound even better. Employing vocal harmony technology and reverb effects, ACCESS was designed with easy operation in mind.
- Page 5 Signal LED is lighting orange with some quick peaks of red on your loudest notes. Take ACCESS out of Bypass. Use the knob closest to the LCD display to select a pre- set. Enjoy and listen. Keep in mind that presets that say “notes” in the LCD display require a keyboard to produce harmonies.
- Page 6 Data Entry Knob/Switch - is it a knob or a switch? It’s both. Turn the knob to select pre- sets. Push the knob to access the edit screen in the LCD display. This control is used for editing, and preset selection. For more details see page 8 or 13.
- Page 7 Left and Right Outputs are the main mix outputs. The outputs have a selectable output level using the level switch beside the outputs - +4dBu or -10dBu. Use the switch to match the output of ACCESS to your mixer. For mono output use the left output on its own.
- Page 8 Connect as follows: connect microphone to front panel MIC input of ACCESS connect stereo outputs of ACCESS to a stereo input or two mono inputs on your mixer (headphones or amplifier and speakers are needed to monitor audio). connect keyboard MIDI out to ACCESS’ MIDI in if using the Chord or Notes harmony control modes.
- Page 9 MIDI out from intelligent/arranger keyboard to MIDI in of ACCESS. Connect ACCESS’ audio output to the line inputs on your keyboard ACCESS will interface with any studio console. The hook up diagram would be the same as the Acoustic Performance setup on the previous page.
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Page 10: Back Panel
With a microphone or line level source connected to ACCESS, sing or play back a track. Bring up the input level until the level LED lights orange. Too much input level, and the LED will be red. Too little input level, and the LED will only light green, never lighting orange. If there are momentary flickers of red, your signal level will remain clean. - Page 11 press the button - the Store button will begin flashing. If you wish to store your preset to a different preset number than you currently have selected, use the Data Entry Knob to select the preset number which you want to store your modified preset to.
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Page 12: Harmony Control Modes
‘Chord’. To produce harmonies using a Chord preset, you need to play each chord in your song using a MIDI device (keyboard, sequencer, Standard MIDIfile player, etc.). ACCESS uses an intelligent chord recognition algorithm to interpret the chord inversions you play to create correct... -
Page 13: Notes
A chord has two parts: the chord root and the chord type. An example of this would be an “A Major 7th” chord which has “A” as its root and “Major 7th” as its type. Chord harmony pro- grams can interpret the following chords: Major augmented 7 Major 7... -
Page 14: Aux Input To Reverb
First of all, the amount of signal level you send to the Aux Input to Reverb is controlled by your mixer. The Input level knob on Access is used only to set the input level of your microphone or line input to the harmony processor. The Clip LED on Access is used to monitor when the com- bination of the Aux Send to Reverb and the mic/line signals is near clipping. -
Page 15: Preset Specific Parameters
ACCESS has the easiest editing system* you are ever likely to see. Here are the guidelines to be aware of for editing: Press the Data Entry Knob/Switch to enter the edit mode. The EDIT LED will light and you will jump to the first editable parameter on the LCD display. -
Page 16: Appendix 1 - Reverb Types
“ON” harmonies will always be heard when you sing regardless of whether you have key- board notes held or not. Note: when Harmony Hold is set to “ON”, it is the same as all Digitech Vocalist products in Chordal mode. Harmony Hold “off” is new and unique to ACCESS. - Page 17 This parameter allows you to select the MIDI channel which ACCESS will look at to generate harmony information on Chords or Notes presets, as well as Control Change information. MIDI Channels 1 through 16 can be selected. This parameter allows you to set ACCESS to ignore or accept MIDI Program Change messages.
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Page 18: Harmony Voicing
This parameter is much like Global Rev - it allows you to select whether level settings are per preset, or global for all presets. Since ACCESS allows you to have a different mix of lead, har- mony and reverb levels per preset, you can have completely different mixes per preset. However, you may also prefer to have mix levels the same across all presets to keep levels consistent;... - Page 19 below your voice. Note that when the ScaleSmooth parameter is off and the other har- mony voices are pitch corrected, the Bass voice remains non-pitch-corrected. If you want to be the Bass singer in your group but you just can’t sing that low, try selecting a Scale preset with only the Bass voice turned on.
- Page 20 ‘main’ and ‘alt’ keys’. press the middle switch to mute the reverb effect press the right hand switch to mute the harmonies in ACCESS. Alternate key selection is only available with the FS-300 footswitch. Songs sometimes change to another key or use a different scale somewhere in the song.
- Page 21 MIDI is an easy way to get added control over the Vocalist ACCESS. Using a sequencer or MIDI keyboard that can transmit control change messages ( ‘CC’ messages), you can automate changes you make in the harmony/lead mix, reverb levels and more. Note that changes made by MIDI CC message are temporary only and the default values will return when you change programs.
- Page 22 Enables chord recognition of key and scale in Scale programs via MIDI. This allows you to change key and scale from a sequencer. Chord recognition is normally turned off because Scale mode does not require the changing chords used to control harmonies in Notes and Chord pro- grams.
- Page 23 But harmonies can be somewhat difficult to understand, so in this chapter, we will try and demystify this process. Discussed will be the concept of “musically correct” harmonies and the difference between the two essential harmony types utilized by the Vocalist ACCESS: Scale and Chord Harmony Control Modes.
- Page 24 Probably the toughest part of understanding harmony is pinpointing the difference between the Scale and Chord Harmony Control Modes. There are many of each type in ACCESS that, by trial and error, you have found useful yet not fully understood why. Let’s try to clear that up.
- Page 25 These fall within the notes of designated chords and are mostly made up of the root note, third, fifth and, optionally, the seventh of a chord. These are the choices that ACCESS has from which to produce a Chord harmony. The following graphic shows where the harmony notes would fall in a simple 1 voice above Scale and Chord harmony.
- Page 26 Simulates a smaller room which accentuates the higher frequencies. Not only can this preset give your vocals some added depth, but it can increase the clarity in live spaces where the upper frequencies are not reproduced well. Simulates a smaller room where higher frequencies roll off. Great for adding depth to your vocal sound in a live space where higher frequencies are already accentuated.
- Page 27 Microphone Input Balanced XLR, 2 KOhm Line Input Unbalanced 1/4 TS, -10 dBV level, 10 KOhm Auxiliary Input Unbalanced 1/4 TS, -10 dBV level, 10 KOhm Microphone Input Range -32 dBV minimum to -9 dBV maximum Line Input Range -20 dBV minimum to +6dBu maximum Line Outputs Unbalanced 1/4”...
- Page 28 MIDI Implementation Chart IVL Technologies Ltd. Date: Aug 19, 1998 Vocalist Access Function Transmitted Recognised Remarks Basic Channel Default Changed 1 - 16 memorized Mode Default Mode 3 Messages Altered ******** Note Number True Voice 0-127 Chord Root and type,...
- Page 29 The Key and scale in a Scale preset may be selected by MIDI. After sending a controller 21 message of 64 or greater, a single chord may be used to set both key and scale. The following graphics show the required intervals in the key of C to load the various scale types.