TC-Helicon VoiceLive Rack Full User's Manual - Manual (Page 68)

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The Edit Button
boards are designed to produce. This tuning
mode allows you to play and sing in any key
without completely retuning your instrument for
every chord. When your harmonies are set to this
mode, the harmony notes produced by VoiceLive
Rack will sound exactly in tune with the Equal-
tuned instruments you use for accompaniment.
Just tuning is what is known as “perfect” into-
nation between your lead voice and harmony
intervals. This is the tuning that occurs when sing-
ers sing a cappella, or without instruments. The
pitches of major and minor thirds, fifth intervals
and others are brought into exact mathematical
symmetry with your lead voice by introducing
very small pitch shifts to the harmonies which
overcomes the slight “beating” of harmonics that
occurs with Equal tuning mode. Because of this,
however, the harmony intervals may sound infini-
tesimally out of tune with your instrument.
Barbershop has the same tuning offsets as Just
tuning mode with one difference. Barbershop
tuning uses your singing voice as the pitch refer-
ence where Just intonation uses the root of the
current chord played via MIDI.
f HARMONY EQ
The Harmony EQ settings are separate from the
Global TONE control. This allows customizing of
the EQ of the Harmony and Double voices sepa-
rately from your lead voice. For a description of
the controls, see EQ Tab With ADAPTIVE Off.
f LEAD LEVEL
Controls the lead (dry + Tone) voice level when
the individual effect is turned on with its respec-
tive footswitch. This allows a unique wet/dry mix
for individual effects. When multiple effects are
active, the lowest LEAD LEVEL value will deter-
mine the value.
Note that the LEAD EFFECT SENDS parameter
on the PRESET tab must be set to PRE in order
required to help soften note to note transitions
unless a robot-like effect is desired. Higher values
offer progressively less correction. Like Portamen-
to, setting each voice with a unique value of the
Smoothing parameter helps the harmonies sound
more natural. When NATURALPLAY is set to
MIDI NOTES, high values of smoothing will sound
out of tune.
f GUITAR CHORDS
This parameter changes the harmony note
response to DOM7 guitar chords only. At the
default setting; ACCEPT DOM7, whenever you
play a dominant 7th chord and the combination
of your singing note and harmony voicing is set to
produce a 7th harmony, you’ll hear the 7th.
In a song composed largely of DOM7 chords, it’s
not that easy to sing a melody composed of all of
the 7ths and thus, many harmony singers move
to the chord root instead. Broadly speaking, this
is also a difference between a “Pop” sounding har-
mony and a more “Bluesy” harmony sound. This is
what the IGNORE DOM7 setting does.
f HOLD RELEASE
This varies the amount of time it takes for any
notes sustained with the Harmony Hold feature
(only available with the Switch3 footswitch or
MP-75 mic with Mic-Control) to decay after the
switch is released. This makes for a more natural
sounding release. Note that no new harmony
notes will sound until the time you set with this
parameter has elapsed.
f TUNING
The Tuning parameter allows you to affect tiny
pitch adjustments to your harmony intervals to
achieve Equal, Just or Barbershop tuning. Each
preset can have a different value for TUNING.
Equal tuning is the “compromised” tuning stan-
dard that instruments such as guitar and key-