VOICEPRISM PLUS VOCAL FORMANT PITCH PROCESSOR FEATURING VOICECRAFT HUMAN VOICE MODELING CARD USER’S MANUAL SUPPLEMENT
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Introduction VoicePrism Plus User Manual INTRODUCTION Thank you for choosing the VoicePrism Plus! This remarkable 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. · World Class Digital Effects and Signal Processing from TC-Electronic of Denmark. · Two Dynamics Banks, Four EQ Banks assignable to either the Lead or Harmony voices.
Table of Contents VoicePrism Plus User Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TABLE OF CONTENTS USER INTERFACE WHAT'S NEW 3 4 5 5 FRONT PANEL REAR PANEL PRESET SCREEN VOCALS BUTTON LEAD VOICE MODELING EFFECT CATEGORIES VM SPECTRAL VM WARP VM GLOTTAL VM INFLECT VM PITCH EFFECTS BUTTON COMPRESSOR/EQ BUTTON 7 9 9 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 ASSIGN EQ1/EQ2, COMPRESSOR, NOISE GATE 18 18 MIDI CONFIGURATION DIGITAL I/O ROUTING VERSION 20 20 21 22 MIX BUTTON STEP BUTTON BROWSER BUTTONS UTILITY BUTTON APPEN
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 and new features are neatly contained within the internal software, so you can avoid the hassle of learning new controls. The LED’s of 44.1K and 48K illuminate to indicate Digital Signal status as follows: Solid 41.
User Interface 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 modified by pressing the UTILITY button on the front panel. You can scroll to either the DIGITAL I/O page or the ROUTING page to edit these parameters, using the MENU TAB buttons.
Preset Screen VoicePrism Plus User Manual PRESET SCREEN You will notice a slight change in the preset screen from the original VoicePrism. On the original VoicePrism, if you incorporated the Thickening effect on the lead voice, a block marked TH would appear in the signal path diagram after the lead voice block. With VoicePrism Plus, when you incorporate Voice Modeling (VM) in your preset, this block appears as VM, as Voice Modeling is used to create a Thickening effect.
Preset Screen VoicePrism Plus User Manual LEQ1 LIB, LEQ2 LIB, HEQ1 LIB, HEQ2 LIB, LCMP/NG, HCMP/NG: In each of these acronyms, L stands for Lead, H stands for Harmony, EQ stands for Equalizer, CMP stands for Compressor, NG stands for Noise Gate, and LIB stands for Library. There are now separate Lead and Harmony library settings, in addition to two banks of EQ for the Lead voice, and two banks for the Harmony voices. These libraries recall standard settings for quick preset construction.
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 VOCALS button and paging left and right with the MENU TAB buttons, just like on the original VoicePrism.
Voice Modeling Effect Categories VoicePrism Plus User Manual VOICE MODELING EFFECT CATEGORIES There are two basic parameters in each of the Voice Modeling (VM) menus: AMOUNT and STYLE. The AMOUNT softknob controls whether the VM effect is subtle or intense. When initially dialing in a sound we recommend an AMOUNT setting of 50%. STYLES are created for each voice modeling effect to provide a diverse range of vocal possibilities to incorporate into your presets -- feel free to scroll and explore.
Voice Modeling Effect Categories VoicePrism Plus User Manual VM SPECTRAL The Spectral control is a set of equalizer response curves intended to complement the VM WARP selections. This equalization is different than those controlled via COMP/EQ and applied to the output signal. The VM SPECTRAL styles reflect the natural equalization equivalent to the native control a singer has over his or her own voice, and apply this equalization to the Voice Modeling (VM) voice.
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 different than the original. Formants are the harmonic combinations that help make our voices unique.
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.
Voice Modeling Effect Categories VoicePrism Plus User Manual rough delivery, sending a clean voice into an overdriven frenzy. In many forms of heavy rock music, this is an expressive and elusive performance component. describes another way that we can achieve Blues, Rock, or Rhythm & Blues sounds with our normal voice. GROWL refers to a type of grind or friction of the larynx and epiglottis, usually heard in Soul, R&B, and Blues music.
Voice Modeling Effect Categories VoicePrism Plus User Manual VM INFLECT The VM INFLECT styles allow the singer to adjust the characteristics 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. The VM INFLECT STYLE settings use the following nomenclature: UP-FAST-OFTEN is the direction of Inflection - UP to a note, or DOWN to a note.
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 fashion. The Vibrato STYLES are based on real vocalist's vibratos. We have analyzed a large set of parameters from a voice database and created various vibrato models.
Effects Button VoicePrism Plus User Manual EFFECTS BUTTON The layouts of the EFFECTS button menus are the same as in the original VoicePrism. TC Electronic of Denmark has specially designed the effects in the VoicePrism Plus.
Compressor/EQ Button VoicePrism Plus User Manual COMPRESSOR/EQ BUTTON ASSIGN Like the original VoicePrism, the Lead and Harmony voices can be assigned to a Compressor and/or Noise Gate. The difference in the VoicePrism Plus is that you can independently modify parameters for the Lead and Harmony voices. With VoicePrism Plus, you are now able to assign two Equalizers to the Lead and two separate EQ's to the Harmony voices.
Mix/Step/Browser Buttons VoicePrism Plus User Manual MIX BUTTON The MIX button and its menu controls remain consistent with VoicePrism. STEP BUTTON The STEP functions and its menu controls also remain consistent with VoicePrism. BROWSER BUTTONS See your original VoicePrism User Manual for a description of the browser buttons and their functions.
Utility Button VoicePrism Plus User Manual UTILITY BUTTON MIDI CONFIGURATION The MIDI FILTER parameter, under the MIDI menu, has been updated so that you can filter out incoming System Exclusive messages and MIDI Program Change messages. This parameter can be set to an 'OFF' position, where no filtering takes place, or you can have both filters 'ON' at the same time.
Utility Button VoicePrism Plus User Manual ROUTING ROUTING is a new menu, with four parameters to control audio processing and path.. DIGITAL SOURCE: may be set to SPDIF, for a digital signal on the S/PDIF jacks, or AES/EBU to select input from the AES/EBU jacks on the back of the expansion card. LEAD INPUT: to use your analog line in on the back panel, or the Mic preamp on the front of your VoicePrism Plus, set the LEAD INPUT to ANALOG.
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.
Appendix A: MIDI VoicePrism Plus User Manual APPENDIX A: MIDI Your Voicecraft modeling card style settings can be saved in presets with your other effects and dynamics settings. Like the original VoicePrism, you can dump one or all of the presets 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.
% 24 % PARAMETER SETTING OFF VIBRATO RATE SCALE MODE SET KEY CC# 21 CC# 20 CC#17 CC#18 CC#19 CC#12 CC#13 CC#14 CC#15 CC#16 CC# 23 CC# 24 CC# 25 NONE NONE PARAMETER SETTING SONG STEP FORWARD SONG STEP BACKWARD THICKENER DEPTH NONE NONE NONE PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING HARMONY VOICE LEVEL LEAD VOICE LEVEL EFFECT 1 LEVEL EFFECT 2 LEVEL SCALE SELECT CC#3 AUTO-TRANSPOSE SPLIT POINT SPLIT NOTE PARAMETER SETTING DETUNE CC#1 CC# 22 PARA
CURRENT STATE CURRENT STATE RESERVED RESERVED PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING RESERVED PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING RESERVED PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED RESERVED PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING HARMONY MUTE BYPASS RESERVED RESERVED VOICE 1 LEVEL VOICE 2 LEVEL RESERVED VOICE 3 LEVEL VOICE 4 LEVEL VOICE 1 PAN VOICE 2 PAN VOICE 3 PAN
% 26 % PARAMETER SETTING NONE NONE NONE PROGRAM CHANGE MIDI CHANNEL DUMP PROGRAM DUMP SONG DUMP ALL NONE NONE NONE NONE PITCH BENDER 0 PITCH BEND CC# 51 CC# 52 CC# 53 CC# 54 CC# 55 CC# 56 CC# 57 CC# 58 CC# 59 CC# 60 CC# 61 CC# 62 CC# 63 CC# 64 NOTE NUMBERS PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING PARAMETER SETTING RESERVED RESERVED OFF HARMONYKEY/SCALESELECT/NO
NONE NONE NONE NONE LOAD PROGRAM LOAD SONG LOAD ALL LOAD OS NONE NONE NONE NONE * ALL CC#'S ARE CONFIGURABLE THROUGH THE SYSEX PARM EDIT FEATURE LOADS PROGRAM INTO SELECTED PRESET BUT DOES NOT WRITE IT IN UNTIL THE USER SAVES THE PRESET. LOADS SONG INTO SELECTED SONG BUT DOES NOT WRITE IT UNTIL THE USER SAVES THE SONG.
% 28 % MIDI MESSAGE X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X CONTROL CHANGE X X X X 1 1-16 X X ******** X PITCH BENDER AFTER TOUCH 1 3 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 64 NOTE ON NOTE OFF POLYPHONIC (KEY'S) MONOPHONIC (CHANNEL) VELOCITY NOTE NUMBER MODE DEFAULT CHANGED DEFAULT MESSAGES ALTERED TRUE VOICE DEFAULT VALUE BASIC CHANNEL NAME O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O 24-96 X X X X 0-127 1 1-16 MODE 3 X UP TO +/- 12 SEMITONES (CONFIGURABLE) VIBRATO DEPTH DETUNE HARMONY LEVEL LEAD LEVEL EFFECT 1 LEV
AUX MESSAGES SYSTEM REAL TIME SYSTEM COMMON PROGRAM CHANGE SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE PARAMETER EDIT GROUP EDIT PRESET SAVE SONG SAVE SONG POSITION SONG SELECT TUNE REQUEST CLOCK COMMANDS LOCAL ON/OFF ALL NOTES OFF ACTIVE SENSING SYSTEM RESET X X O O O X X X X X X X X X 0-127 O O O O X X X X X X O X X PRESETS ALL PARAMETERS ACCESSIBLE ALL OR PART OF A PRESET VoicePrism Plus User Manual Appendix A: MIDI % 29 %
Appendix B: Glossary VoicePrism Plus User Manual APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY Note: many terms will be found in your original VoicePrism User Manual. We have provided an update to those terms in this edition. AES/EBU: (Audio Engineering Society / European Broadcast Union standard) accepted as the professional standard in digital audio transfer. Breathiness: the amount of 'apparent' moving air sounds incorporated into the vocal.
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 harmonics and changes their position in the audio spectrum, resulting in a sound with a different overall character that can be subtle or extreme.
Appendix C: Index VoicePrism Plus User Manual APPENDIX C: INDEX 44.
Appendix C: Index VoicePrism Plus User Manual V VERSION VIBRATO VM DETUNE VM GLOTTAL VM PAN VM PITCH VM SPECTRAL VM WARP VOCALS VOICE MODELING 22 16 9 13 9 16 11 11, 12 9 7, 9, 31 W WARP 12 % 33 %
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. AES/EBU requires the use of a balanced XLR cable with an impedance of 110 W. The AES/EBU format is 24-bit.
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.
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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: Input Format: Output Format: Digital Output Output Dither: Sample Rates: Frequency Response DIO: XLR (AES/EBU) RCA Phono (S/PDIF) 24 Bit 24 bit processed audio on VoiceCraft Card AES/EBU and S/PDIF 24 bit unprocessed ADC output on VoicePrism Plus S/PDIF HPF/TPDF dither 24/20/16/8 bit (VoiceCraft Card outputs only) 44.
Appendix E: Technical Specifications VoicePrism Plus User Manual Analog Through Dynamic Range: THD: Frequency Response: EMC Complies with: Safety Certified to: -97dB typical (A-weighted) 0.008% @ 1kHz typical 10Hz - 12kHz ±0.8dB, -2dB @ 20kHz EN 55103 1/2, ENS 5022 Class B, EN61000-4-2/3/4/5/6/11 EN 60065, CAN/CSA E60065-00, UL 6500 Environment Max. Operating Temperature: 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) Min.
Appendix F: Product Safety and Conformity VoicePrism Plus User Manual APPENDIX F: PRODUCT SAFETY AND CONFORMITY IMPORTANT: FOR CUSTOMERS IN THE UK THE WIRES IN THIS MAINS LEAD ARE COLOURED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING CODE: BLUE: NEUTRAL BROWN: LIVE AS THE COLOURS OF THE WIRES IN THE MAINS LEAD OF THIS APPARATUS MAY NOT CORRESPOND WITH THE COLOURED MARKINGS IDENTIFYING THE TERMINALS IN YOUR PLUG, PROCEED AS FOLLOWS.
Appendix F: Product Safety and Conformity VoicePrism Plus User Manual DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY EMC DIRECTIVE, 89/336/EEC TC-HELICON (TC-IVL VENTURES INC.), A JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN IVL TECHNOLOGIES LTD AND TC ELECTRONIC., HEREBY DECLARES ON THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITY THAT THE FOLLOWING PRODUCT: • EN 55103 1/2: PRODUCT FAMILY STANDARD FOR AUDIO, VIDEO, AUDIO-VISUAL AND ENTERTAINMENT LIGHTNING.
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