User Manual

7 PERFORM-VE User Manual
5. 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!
One Knob To Rule Them All
By default, Perform-VE’s Control Knob edits the mix between the MIDI Voices and
your Lead Voice. It applies to all three presets and is not stored when Perform-VE
is turned o.
The graphic above shows equal levels of MIDI and LEAD as displayed on the
LED Ring. From here you can dial down the blue MIDI level by turning the knob
counter-clockwise, or dial down the green LEAD level by turning the knob
clockwise. Whichever level you turn down, the other one will stay at max volume.
Eects
Perform-VE makes some of the wildest and most complex sounds that TC-Helicon
has ever made possible. There’s a lot to discover by simply pushing buttons and
combining sounds, but we’ll give you an overview of the basics here, starting
with the six eects buttons, as shown below:
Toggling the Eects
Quickly pressing and releasing any one of the FX buttons will toggle the
associated eect on and o. The LED ring will switch to an alternate display mode
while the button is down. There’s a reason for this momentary ash, and we’ll
explain it now.
Tweaking the Eects
Don’t like the Double, Morph or Echo that you hear? No problem, you can tweak
several parameters of each eect.
Each eect button is labeled with light gray text in one or more corners of the
button. If you press and hold “Level” (for example) in the top left corner of the
Double button, then turn the Control Knob, you’ll adjust the amount of doubling.
Alternatively, if you press and hold the “Style” area in the bottom right corner
of the Double button, you’ll change the doubling style when you turn the
Control Knob.
Every corner parameter label can be held down to edit that particular parameter
with the Control Knob.
When a parameter edit is underway…
• The LED ring will display the currently selected parameter value,
• The Control Knob will edit this parameter, ranging (clockwise) from min to
max, and
• The pressed FX button will pulse on and o. At this point you won’t need to
keep holding it down to continue editing.
To exit a parameter edit simply tap the active FX button again, or tap a dierent
FX button. This will either return the Control Knob to MIDI-LEAD Mix editing,
or switch the Control Knob to editing the corner parameter closest to where you
actually pressed the new FX button.
Styles and Mods
In addition to parameters like Level, Shift, Gender, Mode, Key, Div, Delay and
Reverb, you’ll see that four of the eects have a Style parameter. Styles are
essentially mini-presets for the eect in question. Changing any style will
instantly update a number of deeper eect parameters that are not available
for direct Control Knob editing. Style selections appear on the LED Ring as single
color-coded LEDs.
Mods are related to the currently selected Style. They appear as levels on the LED
Ring, colored to match the Style. You can think of each mod as custom ‘Tweak’
parameter matched to the Style in question.
LEAD Voice: Your voice. Enhanced
and extremely altered, just how you
want it!
MIDI Voices: Up to 9 MIDI Note
controlled voices
generated by Perform-VE to
accompany your LEAD Voice.
MIDI Voices are Harmony, Vocoder or
VS Synthesis Sampler Voices.
The Headphone Button
Now that the basics are out of the way, let’s check out Perform-VE’s eects!
When held down, HEADPHONE Level adjusts the volume of the
headphone jack.
Range: -60 to 0 dB