TC Helicon VoicePrism Vocal Pitch Processor

Manufacturer's Description for TC Helicon VoicePrism Vocal Pitch Processor

Are you serious about vocals? Then VoicePrism might be right up your alley. This vocal processor is one-a-kind with presets that can instantly take you from a 50's style, highly compressed, double-tracked, slap-back lead vocal to a lush, chorused vocal sextet in a large room setting. VoicePrism lets you hear your vocal ideas quickly, and will inspire you with a few of its own!

VoicePrism has a unique step-edit mode designed for studio users. You can quickly and intuitively advance through your song and edit your local track in realtime. Songs can also be saved for instant recall. Backing vocals can even be constructed in realtime by using a MIDI keyboard. Play vocal lines that can't be sung and add special effects to take your vocals to the limit.

Features
High-quality 48V phantom mic preamp with 24-bit digital converters

4 voice backing - vocal harmony with independent gender - and humanizing controls

Lead-voice double tracking: full vocal channel including Compression, EQ, Delay, Tape Delay, Chorus, Flange, Reverb with Pre-delay

Ultra-easy interface with context sensitive Help and Preset Browser

Stereo analog and digital Outputs

More to come: Including both hardware and software upgrades

Pre-Effects
Here you will find Compression and dual parametric Equalizers. You can assign these to the lead channel, the harmony channel, or even both.

The Lead Channel
The lead channel has a thickening algorithm to create double tracking effects. VoicePrism Upgrade Card will introduce additional Human Voice Modeling (HVM) and other effects.

The Harmony Channel
The harmony channel has 4 independent, formant corrected pitch shifters to create very natural harmony voices from your vocals. Each voice's humanizing parameters can be adjusted independently including: Gender, Vibrato, Timing, Randomizing, and Scooping.

Post-Effects
Two post effects blocks you can apply to your Lead and Harmony voices including Chorus, Flange, Delay, and Reverb with Pre-delay to create interesting and unusual spatial effects.

The Aux In
Everyone needs an extra effect unit from time to time - whether live or in recording. The Aux In allows you to integrate additional material into the final effects blocks and mix them there with the vocals.

Outputs
VoicePrism comes standard with stereo 1/4 in. unbalanced/TRS balanced Outputs plus S/PDIF stereo digital out. VoicePrism Upgrade Card also adds AES/EBU and S/PDIF I/O.

How It Works
VoicePrism is an entire vocal channel under preset control. It takes your vocal input, allows you to apply compression and EQ, splits the signal into lead-voice and harmony effect channels, then allows you to route the signals into two post-effects processors that include Delay, Chorus, Flange, and Reverb with Pre-delay. Saving your vocal effect as a preset lets you recall it instantly.

What You Need
VoicePrism's design was based on thousands of hours of consultation with live musicians and project studio owners. We took the time to understand their need for quality results.

The Front End
First, you will find a high quality microphone preamp with 48V phantom power with the same design and components as a number of very popular mic preamps. Its sonic qualities are impressive and get you on the right track.

Pre-Effects
Here you will find Compression and dual parametric Equalizers. You can assign these to the lead channel, the harmony channel or even both.

Remixing
Your entire vocal sample library just grew 100 fold. Each solo, dry vocal sample you have can now be processed hundreds of ways. Even new melodies can be constructed - all in real time. zZounds is an authorized dealer of TC Electronic and TC Helicon products.

Digital Inputs and Outputs
Connectors: RCA Phono (S/PDIF) Standard XLR (AES/EBU) Option Card

Formats: S/PDIF (24-bit), EIAJ CP-340, IEC 958, AES/EBU (24-bit) with Option Card

Sample Rates: 44.1 kHz Standard (48 kHz with Option Card)

Frequency Response DIO: 20 Hz-20 kHz

Analog Inputs
Connectors: 1/4 in. unbal. 1/4 in. TRS bal. XLR Mic

Impedance: 28 kOhm 14 kOhm 1.1 kOhm

Max Input Level: +21 dBu (balanced)

A to D Conversion: 24 bits, 44.1 kHz sampling rate

Dynamic Range: -95 dB

THD: -84 dB (0.0065%)

Frequency Response: 20 Hz to 20 kHz

Analog Outputs
Connectors: 1/4 in. unbal. 1/4 in. TRS bal.

Impedance 60 Ohm Display: 128 x 84 Graphics LCD

Max Output Level: +21 dBu

D to A Conversion: 24 bits, 44.1 kHz sampling rate

Dynamic Range: -95 dB

THD: -84 dB (0.0065%)

EMC complies with: EN 55103-1 and EN 55103-2 FCC part 1, Class B, CISPR 22, Class B

Safety
Certified to: IEC 65, EN 60065, UL 6500 and CSA E65

Environment
Maximum Operating Temperature: 50