TC-Helicon Announces That VoiceTone Synth Effects Pedal Now Shipping

TC-Helicon has announced that the new VoiceTone Synth is now shipping. VoiceTone Synth is a vocal effects pedal that specializes in recreating the kinds of effects heard on a lot of modern tracks, and it’s the first time that such a collection of vocal effects has been made available in a pedal.

The collection includes extreme, exotic and contemporary sounds like jagged HardTune effects, classic vocoder effects, a voice-controlled synthesizer and vocal distortion and megaphone effects, all dialed in at the press of a footswitch.

HardTune Effects
The jagged, stair-stepped vocal sound of key-based hard tuning is everywhere in contemporary R&B, Hip Hop and Electronica. Now musicians can produce this effect live by simply recalling a preset and hitting the ‘On’ button.

Easy key input methods include auto-instrument sensing or push-buttons with a clear display of the current key. Other features of the HardTune effect include dry voice mixing, octave shift and character modification.

Vocoder
The vocoder in VoiceTone Synth is called ‘Massive-Band’. It effectively scales resolution from ultra-clearly-enunciated Robot voices to the sound of the classic, analog low-band-count vocoders.

The benefit is that, while typical vocoders require a lot of pre-processing, like distortion and EQ to hear the effect properly, with the VoiceTone Synth vocoder effect players can input signals such as clean acoustic guitar and vocode perfectly for sounds that until now have been impossible to achieve.

Voice-Controlled Synth
The vocoder also features a voice-controlled synth mode – considered by many as the Holy Grail for vocoding. Prior to VoiceTone Synth, vocoding required a voice (the exciter), and an instrument input (the carrier) to make cool vocoded sounds.

The VoiceTone Synth supports the dual input method, but for artists who don’t have another instrument or don’t play one, it an generate a synth part directly from the vocal and vocode that, resulting in generated vocoder parts with one input: the voice.

VoiceTone Synth – Key Features
• HardTune effect with user-selectable key or instrument-sensing
• Vocoder carrier can be driven by internal voice-controlled synth or instrument input (such as guitar)
• Transducer effects, such as megaphones, distortion and radio voices
• All effects can run simultaneously
• Includes Tone feature for adaptive live engineer sound processing
• Presets that can be edited and stored
• Instrument Thru allows normal instrument amplification and vocoding

MSRP for the new VoiceTone Synth is $395 USD.

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