Products from TC-Helicon, Digitech®, your harmony par ts. That’s why we created and Korg® fall into this category. Additionally, some HarmonyControl, to add value to your investment in of these products offer “Scale” or “Scalic” harmony vocal harmony. With HarmonyControl you can sing...
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Introduction About TC-Helicon BC, Canada, who spend every waking moment of their working lives listening, talking, singing, and interacting At TC-Helicon we truly believe that the voice is the with singers and those who have passion for the singing world's most beautiful instrument. We don't mean to voice.
Connect a cable from your guitar to the Guitar In jack system as you would normally. If this is the first setup on HarmonyControl. Then connect a cable from the with the harmony processor, consult its manual for Guitar Out jack on HarmonyControl to your amplifier proper setup.
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Connect the included MIDI cable or any standard cable Connect HarmonyControl’s power adapter to your from the MIDI Out jack on HarmonyControl to the wall power socket and then to the Power input jack on MIDI input on your harmony processor.
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The 0 processor that are based on either Chord mode or Cents LED on HarmonyControl should light with each Scale mode harmony and sing while you play your chord change but not every strum.
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If this is the case, correct hookup and operation in HarmonyControl’s Manual mode is confirmed. If your Manual-only harmony processor has Scale features e.g.
Front & Back Panel Descriptions 1. Auto/Manual LEDs Displays the communication between HarmonyControl and your harmony processor. On power up, the unit will search for Auto-compatible units. If your unit is Auto- compatible, the Auto LED will light after a moment.
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The MIDI Out jack supplies the musical information 6. On Switch that drives your harmony processor.The MIDI In jack is When the On LED is lit, HarmonyControl will send a used to provide the return communication link from changing stream of chords or scale information as you your compatible harmony processor which enables play.When it’s turned off, no musical information will be...
Using the Tuner function TIP: HarmonyControl has a fast and accurate tuner function to help you keep your guitar in tune. It is a A guitar will stay in tune better when you tune up to “chromatic” type, meaning that you can use it with notes instead of tuning down.When a string is sharp,...
Compatibility Chart Auto Detect Chords Fast Chords Adaptive Sc. Scale Select Product TC-H H elicon VoiceLive VoiceWorksPlus VoiceWorks Quintet VoicePro VoicePrism Digitech® Access Vocalist Workstation (incl. EX) Studio Vocalist (incl. EX) MIDI Vocalist Vocalist VHM-5 Korg® Korg iH...
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Compatibility Chart Compatibility explanations: Adaptive Scale There are various degrees of compatibility with This feature deciphers musical information from your HarmonyControl. The terms in the preceding table are recent playing in order to make appropriate harmony clarified below. decisions. Scale Select...
Auto Mode Plug ‘n’ Go HarmonyControl turned on and forget about it while you run your harmony processor as you always have by If you own a TC-Helicon product shown as Auto- changing presets and turning its Harmony Mute on and compatible in the Compatibility Chart, and you’ve...
Key turn HarmonyControl off to “freeze” these values. For footswitch to cycle through the three scale variations to you VoiceLive users accustomed to tapping in key and find one that works with your song.
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With compatible processors, HarmonyControl allows you to select among these variations through MIDI.
Manual mode you’ll need to set the Product ID HarmonyControl. You will see the first two letter number (listed in the following chart) of your harmony abbreviation, CH for MIDI Channel. You can press the processor to attain the listed enhancements.
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VoicePrism indicate current harmony mode. Digitech HarmonyControl should have detected your processor or the Product ID must be set to number of a Access and Vocalist VR processor with Scale Select capability in order for this Vocalist Workstation 7, EX=8 to work.
Song Mode on VoiceLive & VoiceWorks Your guitar playing style directly influences the Song mode was a good method for controlling operation of HarmonyControl. You will find that the harmony processors when you had no other method harmonies are closely following every move you make to update musical information when needed.VoiceLive’s...
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Performance Tips Saving presets on your harmony device Great harmony: less is more HarmonyControl can be changing chords, key, scale, and It can be amazing to hear someone use a vocal voicing via MIDI when connected to your harmony harmony processor in a live performance. The best processor.
HarmonyControl has less support for recognizing and usually shown in its display. There are other harmony acting upon the chord extensions you play on your methods in these products, but they are beyond the guitar.
Digitech® Products: VoicePro: 1. If HarmonyControl has previously detected a different The CC Assign map in the Utility section needs to be processor, it will need to be reset (hold On button during adjusted. before Scale harmony will work. Start with the power up) to detect your current processor.The product...
Technical Specifications Analog Inputs EMC & Safety 1/4” Phone Jack, Input Impedance: 1MOhm Complies with EN 55103-1 and EN 55103-2 FCC part 15, Class B, CISPR 22, Class B Max Input Level 16 dBu @ 12V supply Certified to IEC 65, EN 60065, UL6500 and CSA E60065 CSA FILE #LR108093 Analog Outputs 1/4”...
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