VoicePrism is a one-a-kind vocal processor for the serious vocal enthusiast. Presets can instantly take you from a 50’s style, highly compressed, double-tracked, slap-back lead vocal to a lush, chorused vocal sextet in a large room setting. VoicePrism lets you hear your vocal ideas quickly, and will inspire you with a few of its own! Sing live? VoicePrism is designed to be a delight in live applications. Full MIDI implementation, footswitch control (optional), direct access user interface, rugged design, and built-in MIDI chord recognition algorithms – all these features work together to make VoicePrism your reliable gig partner. Sing in the studio? Wondering what your favorite song would sound like with backing vocals on the chorus section? Dial up a wide range of possibilities and demo them in seconds. Want to construct your own? Along with all of the quick editing, MIDI and automation features described above, VoicePrism has a unique step-edit mode designed for studio users. You can quickly and intuitively advance through your song and edit your local track in realtime. Songs can also be saved for instant recall. More than you can believe! Backing vocals can even be constructed in realtime by using a MIDI keyboard. Play vocal lines that can’t be sung and add special effects to take your vocals to the limit. MAIN FEATURES High-quality 48V phantom mic preamp with 24 bit digital converters 4 voice backing -vocal harmony with independent gender- and humanizing controls Lead-voice double tracking: full vocal channel incl. Compression, EQ, Delay, Tape Delay, Chorus, Flange, Reverb with Pre-delay Ultra-easy interface with context sensitive Help and Preset Browser Stereo analog and digital Outputs More to come: Including both hardware and software upgrades
How it works VoicePrism is an entire vocal channel under preset control. It takes your vocal input, allows you to apply compression and EQ, splits the signal into lead-voice and harmony effect channels, then allows you to route the signals into two post-effects processors that include Delay, Chorus, Flange, and Reverb with Pre-delay. Saving your vocal effect as a preset lets you recall it instantly. What you need VoicePrism’s design was based on thousands of hours of consultation with live musicians and project studio owners. We took the time to understand their need for quality results. The front end First, you will find a high quality microphone preamp with 48V phantom power with the same design and components as a number of very popular mic preamps. Its sonic qualities are impressive and get you on the right track. Pre-effects Here you will find Compression and dual parametric Equalizers. You can assign these to the lead channel, the harmony channel or even both. Remixing? Your entire vocal sample library just grew one-hundred fold. Each solo, dry vocal sample you have can now be processed hundreds of ways. Even new melodies can be constructed – all in realtime.
FEATURE DETAILS Pre Effects Here you will find Compression and dual parametric Equalizers. You can assign these to the lead channel, the harmony channel or even both. The lead channel The lead channel has a thickening algorithm to create double tracking effects. VoicePrism Upgrade Card (planned for 2001) will introduce additional Human Voice Modeling (HVM TM ) and other effects. The harmony channel The harmony channel has four independent, formant corrected pitch shifters to create very natural harmony voices from your vocals. Each voice’s humanizing parameters can be adjusted independently including: Gender, Vibrato, Timing, Randomizing and Scooping. Post-effects Two post effects blocks you can apply to your Lead and Harmony voices including Chorus, Flange, Delay and Reverb with Pre-delay to create interesting and unusual spatial effects. The aux in Everyone needs an extra effect unit from time to time – whether live or in recording. The Aux In allows you to integrate additional material into the final effects blocks and mix them there with the vocals. Outputs VoicePrism comes standard with stereo 1/4” unbalanced/TRS balanced Outputs plus S/PDIF stereo digital out. VoicePrism Upgrade Card (planned for 2001) also adds AES/EBU and S/PDIF I/O.
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