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TC-Helicon VOICEPRISM PLUS User's Manual Supplement

TC-Helicon VOICEPRISM PLUS User's Manual Supplement

Vocal formant pitch processor featuring voicecraft human voice modeling card
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VOICEPRISM PLUS
VOCAL FORMANT PITCH PROCESSOR
FEATURING
VOICECRAFT
HUMAN VOICE
MODELING
CARD
USER'S MANUAL
SUPPLEMENT

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  • Page 1 VOICEPRISM PLUS VOCAL FORMANT PITCH PROCESSOR FEATURING VOICECRAFT HUMAN VOICE MODELING CARD USER’S MANUAL SUPPLEMENT...

  • Page 2: Important Safety Instructions

    LET DURING LIGHTNING STORMS OR WHEN USER MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS. ALL LEFT UNUSED FOR A LONG PERIODS OF TIME. OTHER SERVICING SHOULD BE REFERRED TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL. FOR PRODUCT SAFETY AND CONFORMITY, REFER TO VOICEPRISM PLUS USER MANUAL, APPENDIX F. IVL PART # SUP0129 R1.1...

  • Page 3: Introduction

    Introduction VoicePrism Plus User Manual INTRODUCTION Thank you for choosing the VoicePrism Plus! This remark- able tool contains these exciting features: · TC-Helicon Voice Modeling dedicated to the Lead voice, with parameters such as Vibrato, Scooping, Warp, Spectral Effects, Breath, Rasp and Growl.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents VoicePrism Plus User Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TABLE OF CONTENTS USER INTERFACE WHAT'S NEW FRONT PANEL REAR PANEL PRESET SCREEN VOCALS BUTTON LEAD VOICE MODELING EFFECT CATEGORIES VM SPECTRAL VM WARP VM GLOTTAL VM INFLECT VM PITCH...

  • Page 5: User Interface

    User Interface VoicePrism Plus User Manual USER INTERFACE WHAT'S NEW FRONT PANEL Whether you are upgrading your original VoicePrism with the new VoiceCraft card, or you have purchased a VoicePrism Plus, the front panel controls are the same. All improvements...

  • Page 6: Rear Panel

    VoicePrism Plus User Manual REAR PANEL Behind the four-screw plate lies the new VoiceCraft Human Voice Modeling Card, which provides the VoicePrism Plus two additional connections for Digital I/O, S/PDIF and AES/EBU. Digital signal configuration and routing are modi- fied by pressing the button on the front panel.

  • Page 7: Preset Screen

    Thickening effect on the lead voice, a block would appear in the signal path diagram after the marked lead voice block. With VoicePrism Plus, when you incorpo- rate Voice Modeling (VM) in your preset, this block appears , as Voice Modeling is used to create a Thickening effect.
  • Page 8 For further details, refer to the sec- COMP EFFECTS tions of the VoicePrism and VoicePrism Plus User Manuals. % 8 %...

  • Page 9: Vocals Button

    Vocals Button VoicePrism Plus User Manual VOCALS BUTTON This accesses the new VoicePrism Plus Voice Modeling (VM) features, enabling you to manipulate the Lead voice using our Voice Modeling effects. You access the following menus by pressing the button and paging left and right with VOCALS buttons, just like on the original VoicePrism.

  • Page 10: Voice Modeling Effect Categories

    Any combinations of these styles may be stored in a preset, along with the other effects available in the VoicePrism Plus, as described in the original VoicePrism User Manual. % 10 %...

  • Page 11: Vm Spectral

    Voice Modeling Effect Categories VoicePrism Plus User Manual VM SPECTRAL The Spectral control is a set of equalizer response curves intended to complement the selections. This equal- VM WARP ization is different than those controlled via COMP applied to the output signal. The...
  • Page 12 Voice Modeling Effect Categories VoicePrism Plus User Manual VM WARP Warping is how we model different vocal tract dimensions, and apply them to incoming vocals. Your favorite vocalists all have unique pitch and glottal characteristics. Warp changes the tonal makeup of the sound by moving vocal formants, so that the Voice Modeled (VM) Lead voice sounds quite differ- ent than the original.

  • Page 13: Vm Glottal

    Voice Modeling Effect Categories VoicePrism Plus User Manual VM GLOTTAL Glottal refers to the combination of complex sounds the human voice can make to change non-pitched aspects of the vocal sound. Consider these examples: the cool breathy sound of a Jazz or Folk singer, the legendary warm grumble of Blues from the Mississippi Delta, the brazen sizzle of Rock and Alternative Rock or the growl of 60's Soul.
  • Page 14 Soul, R&B, and Blues music. Some of the styles are sensitive to the dynamics of the lead voice, meaning that when you raise the volume of a syllable, the VoicePrism Plus 'growls' on that syllable. As with the other Voice Modeling effects, the knob AMOUNT controls the level of effect incorporated into the signal.

  • Page 15: Vm Inflect

    Voice Modeling Effect Categories VoicePrism Plus User Manual VM INFLECT styles allow the singer to adjust the character- VM INFLECT istics of 'scooping' to the sung note. This is a stylistic effect in singing where a singer sweeps up a variable range of pitch to rest on the intended note.

  • Page 16: Vm Pitch

    Voice Modeling Effect Categories VoicePrism Plus User Manual VM PITCH Vibrato is a pitch effect that singers often use in their delivery of a piece of music. This effect is achieved by repeatedly altering the size of the mouth and vocal tract in a pattern that varies above and below a central pitch in an oscillating fash- ion.

  • Page 17: Effects Button

    Effects Button VoicePrism Plus User Manual EFFECTS BUTTON The layouts of the button menus are the same as in EFFECTS the original VoicePrism. TC Electronic of Denmark has spe- cially designed the effects in the VoicePrism Plus. % 17 %...

  • Page 18: Compressor/Eq Button

    Like the original VoicePrism, the Lead and Harmony voices can be assigned to a Compressor and/or Noise Gate. The dif- ference in the VoicePrism Plus is that you can independently modify parameters for the Lead and Harmony voices. With VoicePrism...

  • Page 19: Mix Button

    Mix/Step/Browser Buttons VoicePrism Plus User Manual MIX BUTTON button and its menu controls remain consistent with VoicePrism. STEP BUTTON functions and its menu controls also remain consis- STEP tent with VoicePrism. BROWSER BUTTONS See your original VoicePrism User Manual for a description of the browser buttons and their functions.

  • Page 20: Utility Button

    Utility Button VoicePrism Plus User Manual UTILITY BUTTON MIDI CONFIGURATION parameter, under the menu, has been MIDI FILTER MIDI updated so that you can filter out incoming System Exclusive messages and MIDI Program Change messages. This param- eter can be set to an '...

  • Page 21: Routing

    LEAD INPUT : whenever Voice Modeling is activated, a cer- PROCESS DELAY tain amount of time is required to analyze and modify the output signal. The VoicePrism Plus requires 20 ms of time for optimal performance. Increasing enables the PROCESS DELAY VoicePrism Plus to do a more concentrated signal analysis for greater accuracy.

  • Page 22: Version

    Utility Button VoicePrism Plus User Manual VERSION The version window will display the current version of VoicePrism Plus software, including the current version of VoiceCraft Human Voice Modeling Card software. % 22 %...

  • Page 23: Appendix A: Midi

    VoicePrism, you can dump one or all of the pre- sets as a System Exclusive message to another VoicePrism Plus, or to a sequencer or editor that stores System Exclusive files. Please refer to the following VoicePrism Plus MIDI Specification and MIDI Implementation tables. % 23 %...
  • Page 24 Appendix A: MIDI VoicePrism Plus User Manual % 24 %...
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  • Page 30: Appendix B: Glossary

    Glottal: In the VoicePrism Plus, glottal effects are the non- pitched part of the sound produced by forma- tions of the epiglottis and air turbulence in the facial and mouth regions: they include...
  • Page 31 Appendix B: Glossary VoicePrism Plus User Manual Rasp: a sound produced by the vocal tract that gives a gruff, gritty edge to the vocal delivery. Rasp is a form of hard breathiness. Resonance: a Voice model that analyzes vocal formant har-...

  • Page 32: Appendix C: Index

    Appendix C: Index VoicePrism Plus User Manual APPENDIX C: INDEX 44.1K 5, 20 5, 20 LCMP/NG LEAD 7, 9 LEAD INPUT AES/EBU 6, 30, 33 LEQ1 LIB AMOUNT 10, 11 LEQ2 LIB ASSIGN LIBRARIES AUX INPUT M2F (MALE-TO-FEMALE) BREATHINESS 13, 30...
  • Page 33 Appendix C: Index VoicePrism Plus User Manual VERSION VIBRATO VM DETUNE VM GLOTTAL VM PAN VM PITCH VM SPECTRAL VM WARP 11, 12 VOCALS VOICE MODELING 7, 9, 31 WARP % 33 %...

  • Page 34: Appendix D: About Digital I/O

    Appendix D: About Digital I/O VoicePrism Plus User Manual APPENDIX D: ABOUT DIGITAL I/O ABOUT S/PDIF S/PDIF (Sony/Phillips Digital Interface) A digital audio format generally recognized as the consumer standard for digital audio transfer ABOUT AES/EBU AES/EBU (Audio Engineering Society / European Broadcast Union standard) is accepted as the professional standard in digital audio transfer.
  • Page 35 Appendix D: About Digital I/O VoicePrism Plus User Manual Dithering is relevant only on digital outputs and it is always the receiving device that determines the number of bits you must dither to. A DAT or CDR recorder should normally be dithered to 16 bit.
  • Page 36 Chapter Information VoicePrism Plus User Manual % 36 %...

  • Page 37: Appendix E: Technical Specifications

    Appendix E: Technical Specifications VoicePrism Plus User Manual APPENDIX E: TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Note: This is an update to the original VoicePrism document. Digital I/O Connectors: XLR (AES/EBU) RCA Phono (S/PDIF) Input Format: 24 Bit Output Format: 24 bit processed audio on VoiceCraft Card...
  • Page 38 Appendix E: Technical Specifications VoicePrism Plus User Manual Analog Through Dynamic Range: -97dB typical (A-weighted) THD: 0.008% @ 1kHz typical Frequency Response: 10Hz - 12kHz ±0.8dB, -2dB @ 20kHz EMC Complies with: EN 55103 1/2, ENS 5022 Class B, EN61000-4-2/3/4/5/6/11...

  • Page 39: Appendix F: Product Safety And Conformity

    Appendix F: Product Safety and Conformity VoicePrism Plus User Manual APPENDIX F: PRODUCT SAFETY AND CONFORMITY IMPORTANT: THIS EQUIPMENT GENERATES, USES AND CAN RADIATE RADIO FREQUENCY ENERGY AND, IF NOT INSTALLED AND USED IN ACCORDANCE FOR CUSTOMERS IN THE UK WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS, MAY CAUSE HARMFUL INTERFERENCE TO RADIO COMMUNICATIONS.

  • Page 40: Declaration Of Conformity

    TC-HELICON (TC-IVL VENTURES INC.), A JOINT AUDIO, VIDEO, AUDIO-VISUAL AND ENTERTAIN- VENTURE BETWEEN IVL TECHNOLOGIES LTD MENT LIGHTNING. AND TC ELECTRONIC., HEREBY DECLARES ON • EN 55022: CLASS B RADIATED AND CONDUCTED THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITY THAT THE FOLLOW- EMISSIONS ING PRODUCT: •...
  • Page 41 TC Electronic A/S | Sindalsvej 34 | 8240 Risskov | Denmark | Phone: +45 8742 7000 | Fax: +45 8742 7010 | Info@tcelectronic.com TC Electronic Inc. | 742-A Hampshire road | Westlake Village | CA 91361 USA | Phone: (805) 373 1828 | Fax: (805) 379 2648...

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