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VoiceTone Synth Is Available Now
US
TC-Helicon announce that their vocal effects pedal is now shipping 11/09/09
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TC-Helicon has announced that its VoiceTone Synth is now shipping. Here's what they have to say in their press release...
VoiceTone Synth is a vocal effects pedal that specialises in recreating the kinds of effects heard on a lot of today's chart topping tracks and it's the first time that such a cutting edge collection of vocal effects has been made available in a pedal. The collection includes extreme, exotic and contemporary sounds like jagged HardTuneTM effects, classic vocoder effects, a voice-controlled synthesizer and vocal distortion and megaphone effects. Now vocalists or anyone looking to add a modern edge to their live performances and studio productions can dial-in these effects instantly with the press of a footswitch. Those effects in more detail
HardTune: The jagged, stair-stepped vocal sound of key-based hard tuning is everywhere in contemporary R&B, Hip Hop and Electronica. This feature has eluded the majority of performing musicians until VoiceTone Synth came along. Now musicians can produce this effect live by simply recalling a preset and hitting the 'On' button. Easy key input methods include auto-instrument sensing or pushbuttons with a clear display of the current key. Other features of the HardTune effect include dry voice mixing, octave shift and character modification.
Vocoder: The vocoder in VoiceTone Synth is called 'Massive-Band' for a reason. It effectively scales resolution from ultra-clearly-enunciated Robot voices to the sound of the classic, analog low-band-count vocoders. The benefit is that, while typical vocoders require a lot of pre-processing, like distortion and EQ to hear the effect properly, with the VoiceTone Synth vocoder effect players can input signals such as clean acoustic guitar and vocode perfectly for sounds that until now have been impossible to achieve.
Voice-controlled Synth: The vocoder also features a voice-controlled synth mode – considered by many as the Holy Grail for vocoding. Prior to VoiceTone Synth, vocoding required a voice (the exciter), and an instrument input (the carrier) to make cool vocoded sounds. Of course VoiceTone Synth supports the dual input method, but for artists who don't have another instrument or don't play one, VoiceTone Synth can generate a synth part directly from the vocal and vocode that. The result? Generated vocoder parts with one input: the voice.
VoiceTone Synth - key features
HardTune effect with user-selectable key or instrument-sensing
Vocoder carrier can be driven by internal voice-controlled synth or instrument input (such as guitar)
Transducer effects, such as megaphones, distortion and radio voices
All effects can run simultaneously
Includes Tone feature for adaptive live engineer sound processing
Presets that can be edited and stored
Instrument Thru allows normal instrument amplification and vocoding
Pricing and Availability:
TC-Helicon's VoiceTone Synth will retail for €275 plus tax
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