User manual DIGITECH VOCALISTPERF

[. . . ] Version 1. 1 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. POWER SOURCES: The appliance should be connected to a power supply only of the type described in the operating instructions or as marked on the appliance. [. . . ] Use one or two mono 1/4" cables to connect to your mixer or amplifier. The stereo output consists of: Your voice in the center Stereo reverb with independent left/right decay processing Two harmony voices panned to the left and right when two voices are enabled One harmony voice appearing in the center when only one voice is enabled Inserting a cable into the left output jack only will sum the stereo harmony voices and reverb to mono. When an additional jack is connected to the right output, you will hear the stereo image. If you wanted mono and you accidentally plugged your output cable into the right output, you will hear only the one harmony voice that is panned to that side and not the other. 4) Line input jack If you have connected your microphone to an external mixer, or you will be running a pre-recorded vocal track through Performer, you would insert the cable from the external line-level source here. Inserting a plug into the Line Input jack will override the microphone input. 5) Microphone input jack Connect a balanced XLR-equipped cable from your microphone to this input. ··· 5 ··· Connections Live performance The graphic below shows the typical connection scheme. Your voice is fed through the microphone directly into Performer where it is harmonized and sent to your mixer/power amp. The output from Performer can be either mono (one cable) or stereo (two cables). Studio or alternate live setup The graphic below shows how you can drive Performer with an effects send from your mixer. This is useful if you want to add equalization to your voice before it is sent to Performer. If your mixer has multiple effects sends, you could have different effects on your voice and the harmony voices. This setup also allows you to add harmonies to a recorded vocal track. A vocal track recorded on a ministudio, reel to reel or digital multitrack can be harmonized as if it was being sung live. ··· 6 ··· Operation Setting the input level Adjust the input level control until only the loudest notes you sing cause the Signal LED to turn orange briefly. The LED shows green when it hears a signal, orange at 3 dB below clipping (distortion) and red when the input signal has clipped. Setting the harmony level You can adjust the Harmony control to find the blend you like when at least one harmony voice is activated. Unlike standard mix controls, Performer's Harmony control has a "smart" volume curve. As you adjust the volume of the harmonies with this control, your voice does not reduce in volume as it would with a standard mix control. Past 1 o'clock of the Harmony control's travel, the volume of your voice is reduced quickly until it becomes zero at the fully right position. This allows you to produce only harmony voices for special effects and alternate mixing arrangements. Note: With the control at full right position, you will not hear your unharmonized voice when you press the Mute button. The Reverb effect Reverberation is an important effect that makes sounds appear bigger by adding the simulation of an acoustic space. The three reverb effects in Performer have been chosen to allow you a broad range of acoustic spaces. The "Room" reverb type is a medium-size, highly reflective room that adds richness with a very short duration "tail". [. . . ] Rather than give you a technical explanation of the scales, let's express the differences as chord changes you could generally use as accompaniment. Major 1- E major / B major Major 2- E major / B suspended Major 3- E major / B minor Minor 1- E minor / A minor / B minor Minor 2- E minor / A major / B minor Minor 3 - E minor / A minor / B major Experiment with all the scales in as many songs as you can. This should give you an intuitive sense about what will work for a particular song and what won't. If you're still having trouble with a particular song, you may also want to try entering a different key than the one you figure the song is in. [. . . ]