PERFORM-VE Revolutionary Vocal Manipulator with MIDI-Pitch-Controlled Sampling, Vocal Synth and One-Button Drum Looper User Manual Rev. 1.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Table of Contents Important Safety Instructions....................................... 3 Legal Disclaimer.............................................................. 3 Limited warranty............................................................. 3 1. Introduction................................................................ 4 2. Update your Device!................................................... 4 3. Connection Diagram.................................................. 5 4.
PERFORM-VE 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-VE User Manual 1. Introduction 2. Update your Device! Thank you for purchasing Perform-VE! It is HIGHLY recommended that you update the firmware on your Perform-VE before first use. Your new mic stand-mounted vocal processor opens up a world of sound creation and performance opportunities. 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-VE User Manual 3. Connection Diagram Perform-VE has a lot of connectivity: • MIDI data is received via the mini-USB port or the 5-Pin MIDI socket. • MIDI data is transmitted via the mini-USB port. • The PEDAL input allows you to connect a Switch-3 or Switch-6 (sold separately) to change presets, toggle effects and control the LOOPER and SAMPLE features. • The AUX input lets you mix stereo audio tracks with Perform-VE’s output.
PERFORM-VE User Manual 4. Front Panel Now that your Perform-VE is set up and connected to the devices of your choosing, we’re going to take a quick tour of the front panel, explaining what each of the buttons do without getting too deep in any details just yet. Don’t worry – we’ll go feature diving soon enough! doubling. Alternatively, if you hold Style in the bottom right corner of the Double button, once that button pulses, you’ll be able to change the doubling style when you turn the Control Knob.
PERFORM-VE User Manual This LED is a VU Meter, with the following color codes: Green -23 dB … -13.5 dB Yellow -13.5 dB…-7.5 dB Good Level Hot level, but still okay. Orange -4 dB … 0 dB Red 0 dB Soft-clipping: Midas Tone. Hard-clipping! If you find the Auto-Gain procedure set the input trim too low or high for your liking, you can always run Auto-Gain again or you can set the gain manually. Manual Gain Press and Release the SET button to edit the Manual Gain with the Control Knob.
PERFORM-VE User Manual SET + Double: MIDI SYSEX Dump Current Preset SET + Preset 3: Mic Control Holding down the SET button and pressing Preset 3 repeatedly will cycle through Mic Control settings, with the VU meter LED showing which mode you’re in. Holding down the SET button and pressing the DOUBLE button outputs the sysex of the current active preset parameters. SET + Tap Holding down the SET button and pressing the Tap button toggles drum quantizing on and off.
PERFORM-VE User Manual 5. Effects Double Style 5.1 Double Applies to: LEAD Voice Double simulates the classic “double tracked” studio sound that’s common on recordings of all genres. Double Style selections can include Octave Up and Octave Down voices, for an even thicker effect. Hold style to edit. Double Level Double Level changes the amount of doubled voice, relative to your lead vocal. Hold level to edit.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Synth Vocoder Perform-VE has a dual oscillator synth vocoder hidden inside. When Synth Vocoder styles are chosen, the synthesizer will generate up to eight articulated synth voices to render the MIDI notes you play, and will also generate a ninth Lead synth voice that follows the pitch of your voice. The graphic above assumes a sample hasn’t been recorded. In this case, your Lead vocal gets a dedicated synth voice and also acts as the modulator (shaping signal) for the vocoder.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Morph Mode Morph Mode controls the Mono/Poly setting of the Notes, Vocoder and Sample MIDI voices. Hold mode to edit. Green LED selections set the MIDI voices to Poly mode, and adjust their release time (how long voices will take to fade out after you release their controlling key). Bear in mind you will need to keep singing (play a long enough sample) after the note release to hear the fade out.
PERFORM-VE User Manual 5.3 HardTune Applies to: LEAD Voice HardTune provides pitch correction that varies from subtle all the way up to T-Pain™ style tuning. Generally speaking, pitch correction alters your Lead vocal pitch to fit within a selected Key and Scale. If all you care about is keeping your voice within the defined black and white notes on the piano keyboard, select the Chromatic scale, which is the same for all keys.
PERFORM-VE User Manual 5.4 XFX XFX stands for ‘EXTREME EFFECTS’… it lives up to the name, as we’ll now explain. Applies to: Lead Vocal, MIDI Voices Looper Audio (Flange, SideChain Pumping & LPF/HPF only) Looper Drums (Flange & LPF/HPF only) XFX Style There are seven different XFX styles: Stutter effect, Chopper effect, Ring Modulation, Flanging and even a SideChain Pumping Compressor.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Recording a new Stutter Sample For even faster re-recording of the stutter sample, double-click the style corner button and this will instantly clear the sample and arm the Stutter effect to record a new sample. XFX Style: Chopper There are two Chopper styles: Mono Chopper and Stereo Chopper. At full depth, Mono will gate the level of the audio, while Stereo will alternate (ping-pong) the audio between Perform-VE’s left and right stereo outputs.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Ring Mod, Mod 1: Frequency Ring Mod, Mod 1 controls the frequency (pitch) of the modulating sine wave. Sweep it across its range to apply a vintage radio tuning sound on your fixed pitch signal, or keep the frequency fixed while singing a melody to hear that 1950’s UFO/Raygun sound. Hold mod1 to edit. Range: 30 to 1000 Hz Ring Mod, Mod 2: Level Ring Mod, Mod 2 controls the depth of the ring-modulated signal Hold mod2 to edit.
PERFORM-VE User Manual XFX Style: SideChain Pumping The SideChain Pumping Compressor is meant to be used with the LOOPER’s built in drum sequencer. When you are playing a beat, the SideChain Compressor will momentarily throttle back (compress) the volume of your Lead, MIDI and audio loop mix whenever the drums hit a certain threshold volume. This ensures your drums will always stand out in the mix. This effect is also called ‘SideChain Pumping’.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Echo Div Echo Division controls both the Delay’s rhythmic division and its type. Blue LED selections are Ping-Pong delays in which echoes ‘bounce’ between left and right in the stereo field, while green LED selections are delays in which echoes are heard on both sides of the stereo field. The red LED selection is a short single-repeat echo called a Slapback delay, useful for dialing in a retro 50’s pop song vibe. Hold div to edit.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Filter Mod (LPF/HPF) When the LPF/HPF Style is active, Filter Mod controls the cutoff frequency of either the LowPass or HighPass filter (LPF and HPF). Range: 0 to 100% Filter Style: Transducer Styles The remaining four Filter Styles are filter transducer effects that alter your signal to sound like it is coming through various-sized amps and enclosures. The LOOPER Drum sounds will not be affected. Try them out for yourself.
PERFORM-VE User Manual 6. Looper Erasing Loop Components The Looper acts as both a drum machine and an audio looper. Press the loop corner of the button to arm the looper. The button will now pulse to indicate that it is armed. You can lay down a drum pattern immediately or press loop again to record an audio loop. Hold the SET button while pressing kick, snare, HEADPHONE or loop to erase the kick, snare, hi-hat or audio loop respectively. You can then re-record the component.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Snare Drum Selection Press the snare corner button to trigger the snare sample. Just as with the kick, you can press snare at any time regardless of looper activity. Hold the snare corner button while turning the Control Knob to select one of four snare drum samples: A green LED indicates an acoustic snare, while red LED options indicate an electronic sound. NOTE: When you select a new snare sample, a matching hi-hat sample is also selected.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Backing Up Your Loops The best way to preserve a loop is to record it with a DAW software package where it can be added to your clip library and used to build really complex arrangements. The Looper Cookbook Now you know where all the kitchen utensils are, here are some simple recipes for cooking up loops on Perform-VE. How to make an initial drum loop: • Arm loop by tapping the loop corner.
PERFORM-VE User Manual 7. Sample The SAMPLE performance effect records a sample of your input audio signal and processes it with TC-Helicon’s VSS technology to create sample-based MIDI voices. VSS (Vocal SampleSynthesis) allows you to record anything from bel canto to beatboxing, then play it back on the keyboard instantly at any pitch, with the tonal nuance of your performance well intact. SAMPLE works closely with MORPH, in that Morph styles and modes interact directly with sample playback.
PERFORM-VE User Manual 8. Presets A preset is a “complete sound” created by a combination of effects. You’ll notice that the active effects change between Preset 1 and Preset 2 in the image above. Presets can be configured however you like. The state (on/off), style, level and other editable parameters for each effect in a preset can also be different from preset to preset. Saving Changes To save your current settings as one of the three presets, press and hold preset button 1, 2, or 3 for one second.
PERFORM-VE User Manual 9. I/O Section 9.2 Switch3/Switch6 (Pedal) In 9.1 AUX Input When a Switch3 or Switch6 is connected (using the TRS cable that came in the S3/S6 box) you can control various aspects of Perform-VE remotely. The default behavior for Switch3 is to change presets according to the numbers on Switch3.
PERFORM-VE User Manual 9.4 RoomSense Did you notice that little hole on the front of the unit? It’s a microphone! It’s there for two reasons: 1. If you don’t plug in a microphone and have headphones connected, you can sing into the onboard mic. It’s a great way to practice with virtually no other equipment. If you’re singing into the RoomSense mic, the Main Outputs will be muted to prevent feedback. 2.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Appendix A: Effect Quick Reference Chart Double Style 1. Unison 2. Octave Down 3. Octave Up 4. Octave Up/Down Morph Style 1. Natural Shift 2. Warp Shift Mode XFX Style 3. to 11. Analog Synth Modeled Vocoder Green: Poly + release time Red: Mono + Portamento time 1. Stutter 2. Mono Chopper 3. Stereo Chopper 4. Ring Mod 5. Stereo Flanger 6. Mono Flanger 7. Side Chain Pumping Filter Style 1. LPF/HPF 2. Radio 3. Megaphone 4. Guitar Amp 5. Distortion Sample Mode 1.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Appendix B: MIDI Implementation Perform-VE responds to Control Change (CC), Program Change (PC) and MIDI Tempo (not MIDI Clock) information.
PERFORM-VE User Manual Appendix C: General RPN/NRPN Implementation RPN 0: Pitch Bend Sensitivity. This is a standard way to change pitch bend range. MIDI Tempo Perform-VE responds to incoming MIDI tempo and will adjust system Tap Tempo accordingly. Split Point and Transpose When controlling Morph Voices via MIDI notes, it is sometimes desirable to have one section of the keyboard designated to sending that control information. It could be the area that your left hand is, to play chords of harmonies.
PERFORM-VE User Manual
PERFORM-VE User Manual
PERFORM-VE User Manual
