PERFORM-VK Ultimate Mic Stand-Mount Vocal Processor for Studio-Quality Sound with Expandable Effects and Keyboard I/O
PERFORM-VK User Manual Table of Contents Important Safety Instructions................................................. 3 Legal Disclaimer........................................................................ 3 Limited warranty....................................................................... 3 Introduction.......................................................................................4 Read the Quick Start!........................................................................
PERFORM-VK User Manual Important Safety Instructions Terminals marked with this symbol carry electrical current of sufficient magnitude to constitute risk of electric shock. Use only high-quality professional speaker cables with ¼" TS or twist-locking plugs pre-installed. All other installation or modification should be performed only by qualified personnel.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Introduction Thank you for purchasing PERFORM-VK! haven’t made it that far, please read the Quick Start Guide now and come back to this manual when you’re set up. Don’t worry, we’ll wait. Your new mic stand-mounted vocal processor opens up a world of new performance opportunities. Update Your Device! Starting with our Adaptive Tone (automatic EQ, De-Essing, Gating and Compression), your voice will punch through the mix and sound great in any environment.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Effects There are three effects available to you in PERFORM-VK and up to four more which are accessed via beamed presets. Harmony (onboard) Echo (onboard) Otherwise known as “Delay”, echo effects repeat your voice back to you in various ways and amounts, simulating the effect shouting into a mountain range or very large space. Some Echoes can have effects applied to the “taps” or repeats of the echo, like Megaphone or Radio.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Turning Effects On and Off To activate or deactivate an effect, simply tap the Reverb, Harmony or Echo button. The button will glow GREEN when active and WHITE when inactive. Each effect has four different styles to choose from. Three of the styles are available “out of the box” and one is reserved for a Beamed preset Style (described next).
PERFORM-VK User Manual Importing (Beaming) a preset PERFORM-VK also has the ability to “beam” or import a preset sound to each of the 1, 2, 3 buttons. Here’s a little chart to show you what you can control, depending on which effects are contained in the preset: Harmony The imported sound can contain up to 7 effects: 1 • Harmony 2 • HardTune (pitch correction) • Megaphone 5 • Modulation (chorus, flange etc.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Tone Tone automatically adds EQ (equalization), Compression, De-Ess and Gate to your overall vocal sound. To activate Tone, press the button. White is OFF, Green is ON. You’ll see the LED light blue when it’s working to get rid of offending frequencies. If the LED is flashing constantly, it’s done all it can do and you’ll have to look at the rest of your audio setup to reduce things further. Here’s a Craig’s Corner video about feedback: youtube.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Pitch Guide +48V (Phantom Power) Sometimes it’s nice to get some about your singing. With the Pitch Guide, you can see how close to the “true” note you are when you sing. It’s great to know that you typically sing sharp or flat, or simply struggle with a particular note or two. If you have a condenser mic, it’ll need power to function. You’ll need to press and hold the 48V button for two seconds to turn phantom power on.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Talk RoomSense During a performance, especially between songs, you might want to speak with the audience. It’s unlikely that you’ll want all the effects on your voice while doing so. That’s where the TALK button comes in. When active, Talk bypasses all of the effects in the box (except Tone) so that you can speak with the crowd and be heard clearly.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Audio from the AUX input is slightly delayed from input to output so that we can better detect chords. This won’t have any effect on music you’re singing or playing along with, but it does mean this input isn’t intended to support instruments that you’d play live. They’d feel strangely “laggy”. Use the INST IN for live instruments. If you do have a keyboard connected to the MIDI or INST IN jacks, they will be used for the key detection, and the AUX jack will not be delayed.
PERFORM-VK User Manual USB OUT MIDI Implementation CH 1 L processed vocal, Keyboard/ Aux in (same as what is on main outputs, less the audio received on USB in PERFORM-VK responds to Control Change (CC), Program Change (PC) and MIDI Tempo (not MIDI Clock) information. CH 2 R processed vocal, Keyboard/ Aux in (same as what is on main outputs, less the audio received on USB in 2 For convenience, we have mapped many PERFORM-VK CC’s to the Behringer UMA25s controller keyboard.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Function Controlled CC# MIDI Standard Values UMA25s Mapping Notes Bug Notes Transducer Filter 86 undefined — — preset — Double HumanAmount 87 undefined — — volatile — Mixer OverallOutputAnalog 102 undefined — — volatile — bank select MSB 0 bank select MSB — bank select LSB 32 — data entry MSB — data entry LSB — data increment — data decrement Special CCs — — — — programs use bank 0 only bank select LSB — — — — 6 data entry M
PERFORM-VK User Manual Factory Reset To reset the unit back to factory settings, press and hold the Echo and Harmony buttons while powering up. Support If you’ve read through this manual and still need a little help, you can contact us via our support portal and forums http://support.tc-helicon.
