Digitech Vocalist Live 2
Getting vocal harmonies from an FX unit has always been something solo & duo artists have wanted to do. However, singers have got enough on your plate at a gig, without having to tap dance through song lists & key changes all through the set! Well those clever people at Digitech have come up with a Vocalist Harmoniser that not only gives great sounding harmonies, but it also works out the key changes by just tracking what chords you're playing - it's that simple. No programming, just an on/off button. We saw the Digitech Voclist Live in the flesh at the NAMM 2007 trade show in January & we were more excited about this product than anything else we saw at the show.
Here's what Digitech say about the new Vocalist Live 2
A surprising number of songs fool other harmonizers because these songs just don't work with a single key/scale setting. In fact, any song that has the same note sung over two different chords (for example, a C sung in the melody over a C maj / F maj chord sequence) is going to confound conventional harmonizers.
Vocalist Live uses breakthrough musIQ technology to directly analyze the output of any electric or pre-amplified acoustic guitar (no special MIDI guitars or hex-outputs needed). Then it generates the correct vocal harmony. For example, if you're singing an A over the chords that are generally found in the key of G, Vocalist will harmonize with a C. But, if you then play an A major, Vocalist will shift to the C#...because like any good harmony singer, it listens to the guitar!
With musIQ, forget about the technology - just sing and play!
Skip complicated programming and having to analyze each song
chord by chord,
1. Plug in your microphone and guitar,
2. Pick a 3rd or 5th above or below harmony preset,
3. Sing and play - when you want harmony, just step on the footswitch!
Patent pending musIQ technology combines new Note Detection algorithms with state-of-the-art Harmony Generation. The Note Detection section analyzes complex guitar waveforms and determines which notes in each chord are critical to accurate harmony. This information is then fed to an advanced harmony engine that creates harmonies consistent with both the singer's melody and the underlying guitar accompaniment.
This totally new, musically intelligent hybrid of traditional chordal and scalic harmony modes means that Vocalist Live musIQ harmonies stay true to not only the overall key and song scale, but also localized variations due to chords that aren't part of the global key. You've never heard anything like it!
The Digitech Vocalist Live 2 Feature List
- 2 part vocal harmony with no programming - just sing, play and let Vocalist Live 2s groundbreaking MusIQ technology do the rest
- Selectable voicing: unison, 3rd, 5th above or below your lead vocal
- Vocal enhancement effects matrix with separate Compressor, Reverb and EQ/Enhance controls
- Separate Harmony and Effects pedals
- On board guitar tuner
- XLR mic /line input with level adjustment, low-noise preamp and 48V phantom power
- Road rugged, all-metal chassis
- Power supply included
Check out the Digitech Vocalist video here
Checkout this great Vocalist Live 2 Demo!
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