User manual DIGITECH STUDIOVOCALISTEX

[. . . ] EX Version 1. 10 WARNING FOR YOUR PROTECTION, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Water and Moisture: Appliance should not be used near water (e. g. near a bathtub, washbowl, kitchen sink, laundry tub, in a wet basement, or near a swimming pool, etc). Care should be taken so that objects do not fall and liquids are not spilled into the enclosure through openings. The symbols shown above are internationally accepted symbols that warn of potential hazards with electrical products. The lightning flash with arrowpoint in an equilateral triangle means that there are dangerous voltages present within the unit. [. . . ] Smooth harmonies sound more natural and allow you to perform "Blue" notes but you must be accurate with your pitch for the harmonies to sound acceptable. Harmony Motion (Chordal mode only) Harmony motion gives you control over the number of "break points" in each octave. A break point is the note at which the harmony interval changes up or down depending on the voicing and the number of voices in your harmony. Normal harmony motion has more break points, creating a more active harmony part. The other option, "fixed", reduces the number of break points to only two regardless of voicing and the number of harmony voices. Pitch Bend This is where you set the amount of pitch bend that can be introduced through MIDI. Each of the 8 styles can have a different range with the range being 0 to 12 semitones. Portamento Rate Portamento is a feature available to all harmony types that reduces the "stepping" that can occur between successive harmony notes. Each note slides its pitch into the next at a specific rate that you determine. A small amount of portamento has been built into many of the factory programs. The values range from 0 to 10 with 10 being the slowest rate or the maximum amount of portamento. Vocoder Mode Select (Vocoder Mode only) There are 7 different Vocoder modes to choose from. In order for the Studio Vocalist EX's intelligent Vocoder panning to work correctly, it is often necessary to limit the number of voices available to those required by your harmony part. The 4 MIDI Channel mode allows individual control of each of the four harmony voices for complete pan position stability and independent pitch bend. Transpose (Vocoder and Pitch Correct only) In Vocoder mode, this feature allows you to transpose your harmonies +/­ 3 octaves. You could use this when you are triggering your Vocoder harmonies from the bottom or top of your keyboard and the untransposed harmonies would be in the wrong octaves. The auto option allows the Studio Vocalist EX to trigger notes in the octave closest to your input note. In Pitch Correct mode, transposing works in conjunction with MIDI or front panel keyboard input. When you sing and press a key, the resulting pitch can be transposed up to 3 octaves up or down for special effects. The auto option works as described above. 28 To edit the harmony style parameters: 1. Use the Data Wheel to select the program you want to edit and press the Edit button. The LCD shows the the current softkey selected by an arrow, its harmony style in quotation marks, and the other softkey assignments. 4. Your choice here affects the order and selection of editing screens because each different harmony type has its own set of parameters. Rather than explaining the location of editing screens in text, what follows is a table showing the screens in the order in which they appear. The Arrow buttons guide you to the next or previous screen, the softkeys select the different editing fields and the Data Wheel is used to change the values. Edit screen layout by harmony type: CHROMATIC: Harmony Type : Voicing : Bending : Pitch Bend : Portamento Rate : Customize : Style Name SCALIC: Voicing : Bending : Pitch Bend : Portamento Rate : Customize : Style Name CHORDAL: Voicing : Harmony Motion : Pitch Bend : Portamento Rate : Customize : Style Name VOCODER: Vocoder Mode : Transpose : Pitch Bend : Portamento Rate : Style Name PITCH CORRECT: Transpose : Pitch Bend : Portamento Rate : Style Name When you are satisfied, press Store once or Exit twice to save your changes. See "Storing Your Edits" at the end of this chapter for more details on saving. Level 3: Customizing A Harmony Customizing allows you to determine exactly which notes are produced for any given input note. It is the deepest harmony editing level and it is only available with Chordal, Scalic and Chromatic harmony types. 29 Custom harmony variations are used in the Everlys program and many of the other Scalic harmony programs. [. . . ] The following graphic shows where the harmony notes would fall in a simple 1 voice above Scalic and Chordal harmony. Notice that in the Chordal example, the harmony notes jump over larger distances and are made of only the root, third and fifth of the scale. The reason for using these different harmony types is that they create a more interesting musical experience. Depending on the chord changes in the accompaniment, the tight and always moving Scalic harmonies might be better for a catchy chorus where the more stationary and open Chordal harmonies would leave "breathing space" to highlight a lead vocal. [. . . ]