DigiTech Vocalist Live Pro Vocal Harmony Processor

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Smarter than the average harmonizer, the DigiTech Vocalist Live Pro Processor is packed with 99 presets and keyboard and guitar MIDI compatibility.

Generate live multi-part vocal harmonies accompanied by your keyboard or guitar.
Any song that has the same note sung over two different chords confound conventional harmonizers. The Vocalist Live Pro is smarter than that.

The Vocalist Live Pro is a rack processor based on the Vocalist Live 4 that includes a MIDI interface that works with keyboards as well as guitars. Utilizing the patent-pending musIQ - technology combining Note Detection algorithms with state-of-the-art Harmony Generation - and the raw power of AudioDNA2, the Vocalist Live Pro can create real-time harmonies with your live voice that are in key and perfectly on pitch.

With all that processing power, Digitech was able to pack the Vocalist Live Pro full of other features as well, including world-class Lexicon Reverbs, Soundcraft low-noise studio-grade mic preamp, real-time pitch correction for each voice, individual persona and gender selection per voice, configurable outputs, tuner, 99 user factory presets and more. Plus, it's available with a fully assignable optional foot switch and expression pedal so you get real time control and kick in the harmonies at just the right moment.

Features:

- 3 or 4 part vocal harmony using the musIQ technology with MIDI that analyzes the guitar and keyboard signal according to chord recognition.
- Selectable unison, 3rd, 5th or octave above or below of lead vocal. Pitch correction for each individual voice with 4 adjustable parameters
- Lead vocal and harmony effects; read more Compressor, Lexicon-Licensed Reverbs and EQ, Persona models Edit, store and recall 99 user or 99 factory presets
- On board guitar tuner
- XLR mic /line w/ level adjustment, Soundcraft studio grade preamp and 48V phantom power
- L/R Stereo 1/4 in. aux outputs, L/R XLR main outputs, S/PDIF out, ground lift, selectable output routings
- MIDI in/thru
- USB for preset Librarian and exchange
- Footswitch and expression pedal jacks for remote control of presets and effects
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For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 801-566-8800

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars. (21 ratings)
Submitted April 2, 2010 by a customer from juno.com

"Digitech Vocalist Live Pro-Studio Grade Quality at an affordable price!"

Overall: 5 out of 5 stars
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I expect to have this unit a long, long time. It has so many features and even after a year of use, I haven't done a lot of things that it can do. I think Digitech has a leg up on competing products because its easier to use and not as expensive as some of the other brands. If it were lost or stolen I would buy another one and just load up the patches I saved to my PC and carry on. Although if I caught the dude that stole it he would be very sorry.

Sound
The Vocalist Live Pro sounds great. There are so many ways to tweak the vocals in this unit that its pretty amazing, especially considering the low price for what you get. You can use it for doubling and then add different vocal enhancements to your voice, just the harmony part(s) or both. It has Lexicon licensed effects, a Sound Craft Preamp, so you're working with well known quality. I bought this for live gigs, and with the color display its easy to see the features that are set up on each vocal patch while on stage. I use my Motif ES8 workstation and send a Midi track to the Vocalist so it gets the correct chord information, it works perfectly. Stunning vocal quality, and very flexible. People, including other musicians have commented on how realistic it sounds. Tips-keep the pitch correction down to a minimum, especially if you don't have a great voice. If you're way off, ANY pitch correction in any harmonizer will correct your pitch and if you're way off, it won't be pretty. Don't over due read more the high frequencies on your mic or the harmonies, it sounds better when set to a faily flat EQ.

Features
I bought this unit to replace my Digitech Vocalist that I bought in 1992. I was pleasantly surprised with how many features this unit has. It can be set up to do up to 4 part harmony and you can select exactly what notes you want it to sing. Voice doubling is cool when you want more power and now harmony. You can combine digital delay along with a bit of reverb in parallel or series and you can save different settings to every individual user patch. There are 100 Presets and 100 User patches. The unit saves your patches when you turn it off and it has a USB port to connect to a PC to back it up. There is free software to not only back it up, but once on your PC, you can rearrange the order each vocal patch is in so you can step through them with a footswitch. One of the biggest improvements in this unit is it outputs an instrument level signal, unlike earlier models. So I'm sending a hot signal to my mixer and the unit is very quiet, even when I have the Vocals cracked up at gigs. Great for live or studio work.

Ease of Use
This unit is fairly deep, but after reviewing the manual block diagram, I plugged the unit in and gave it a try. I started paging through the programs to see how they were set up and started to sing. I don't use MusicIQ for chord recognition, I use Midi so it tracks my vocals 100% accurately. I did play around with MusicIQ a few times and I'd say that anyone that uses it with a guitar should keep your playing straight forward and you will still get good results. I have to comment on the first review from 12/09. That gentleman said the unit was jumping all over the place and he was unable to get it to work. You have to provide simple chords on a KB and have a good mic signal so the Vocalist gets the information it needs to generate the correct harmonizes. I've heard a number of demos on youtube that sounded fine so this guy was doing something wrong. You have to work with these harmonizers awhile until you get the drift on how to best operate them. Its not plug and play.

Quality
The Vocalist Live Pro build quality is excellent. I play weekend gigs and have been using it for over a year moving it around every time I play with no trouble. I keep it in a rack case and handle it myself so I suspect I will get years of service out of this like I got out of my original Vocalist.

Value
Digitech is an excellent value for the money. Great sounding without paying over priced alternatives. Its not the cheapest you can find, but I don't want bottom of the barrel products either.

Manufacturer Support
I only contacted Digitech once, it took a couple of days until someone got back to me but he answered my question prompty and knew what he was talking about.

The Wow Factor
I don't care about cosmetics so much, I want a good sound, ease of use, and a reliable product. It does look cool though.I like the feel of the front panel controls, very solid and easy to page through menus when setting up a vocal patch to save. I couldn't do my act without it.

Musical Background:
Active Musician

Musical Style:
Classic Rock Show, One Man Band
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