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!.............................................................................. 4 Update Your Device! .....
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 With 3 available presets, you might want to set up something like: 1. Fast songs 2. Slow songs 3. Death Metal Engelbert Humperdinck Covers Try shorter reverb for fast songs. Choose longer reverb and add a bit of echo for slower songs and/or ballads. Crank up the levels and choose the craziest styles for a special effect preset. 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.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Editing HIT HIT is controlled dynamically, which means you can make changes to each HIT “state” whenever you choose. Taking the previous example as a starting point, if you have Reverb on while HIT is off: At this point, you can let the gain setting window time out after a few seconds, which will enable the "nudge" function. If you happen to sing louder during the performance than you did while setting the gain, the nudge function will reduce the gain slightly to avoid clipping.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Anti-Feedback Pitch Guide Everyone loves that amazing squealing sound coming out of the speakers, right? Yeah, not so much. 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. Anti-Feedback automatically adapts to your environment and removes frequencies that can cause feedback.
PERFORM-VK User Manual +48V (Phantom Power) Talk 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. 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.
PERFORM-VK User Manual RoomSense Did you notice that little hole on the front of the unit? It’s a microphone! 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.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Switch3/Switch6 (Pedal) In USB OUT When a Switch3 or Switch6 is connected prior to powering on (using the TRS cable that came in the S3/S6 box) you can control various aspects of PERFORM-VK remotely. CH 1 L processed vocal, Keyboard/ Aux in (same as what is on main outputs, less the audio received on USB in The default behavior for Switch3 is to change presets according to the numbers on Switch3.
PERFORM-VK User Manual Function Controlled CC# MIDI Standard Values UMA25s Mapping Notes Bug Notes UI Harmony button Buttons Harmony HitControl 21 undefined 0-63 off; 64-127 on e1 preset Delay HitControl 22 undefined 0-63 off; 64-127 on e2 preset UI Echo button Reverb HitControl 23 undefined 0-63 off; 64-127 on e3 preset UI Reverb button Double HitControl 24 undefined 0-63 off; 64-127 on e4 preset — Hardtune HitControl 25 undefined 0-63 off; 64-127 on e5 pres
PERFORM-VK User Manual Factory Reset RPN/NRPN Implementation RPN 0: Pitch Bend Sensitivity. This is a standard way to change pitch bend range. MIDI Tempo Perform-VK responds to incoming MIDI tempo and will adjust system Tap Tempo accordingly. Split Point and Transpose When controlling harmony via MIDI, in either Notes mode or NaturalPlay, it is sometimes desirable to have one section of the keyboard designated to sending that control information.
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