TC Electronic Helicon VoicePro

TC Electronic Helicon VoicePro is TC-Helicon’s flagship vocal toolkit and processor. Designed for the discerning audio professional in the broadcast, vocal production for music or video fields, VoicePro blends comprehensive vocal processing abilities with high quality I/O and an extravagant colour display. When you need to find the right sound quickly, make some quick touch ups or create a special effect from the ground up, VoicePro will make the job easy and create memorable audio tracks for your project.

 Left Front

TC Electronic Helicon VoicePro Features:
-Visible, open user interface makes searching and editing sounds fast and easy
-Browser function speeds effect searching with filters by alphabet, application or effect type
-Vocal pitch shifting over an 8 octave range
-Character modeling effects with extensive editing capability
-Four voices of harmony with editable humanization
-MultiFX include reverb and delay with ducking and µMod (micromod) detune and modulation-style effects
-Separate compressor, EQ and de-ess blocks for lead path and harmonies
-Pitch correction block with shift offset and formant adjustment
-Transducer effect block recreates distortion effects, megaphones, telephones, steep rolloff band limiting, and radios including noise generation with adjustable hum and frequency fade
-275 factory and 275 user presets
-Screen-sensitive Help menu clarifies most functions and buttons
-Stereo analog I/O and 8 channels of AES/EBU digital I/O on multipin.
-24/96 compatible

 Right Front

If you want to create that unique voice for a dialog track, look no further. Many of the presets in VoicePro have been specifically designed for speech. By setting the Browser source filter to Speaking, you’ll find nearly two hundred presets worth of vocal transformations, large and small. The beauty is in the number and uniqueness of the effects; character modeling, transducer effects, harmony processing and the µMod block all can contribute to startling characters.

 Left Rear

Whether you’re seeking to change pitch in dialog or music, the pitch shifting quality of VoicePro’s shifters can result in natural sounding (or highly un-natural but still clearly understandable) vocal transformations. Of course, the harmony voices are highly useful for creating virtual choirs, as guides for real singers or a combination of both. For dialog, VoicePro’s pitch detection speed and accuracy leads to flexibility in shift range while retaining enunciation clarity.

 Right Rear

At the Home level, each preset has up to four pre-assigned editing parameters you can adjust with the front panel edit knobs. This allows you to modify the flavour of the preset without requiring you to dive into the editing screens. The idea is to provide you with controls that make the most interesting changes to the preset. If you decide to keep your change, you can store your changes to one of the 275 user slots. Once you become a power user, preset creation sessions can include assigning new parameters of your choosing to these edit controls.

In addition to the level meters, the lcd display shows which effect blocks are on for any given preset which helps you to understand and learn more about the product. The upper display representation can change depending on the visualization chosen for the preset by the preset author. This can include an extremely accurate pitch graph scrolling over time or a representation of the four harmony voices and their gender characteristics, a representation of the rollof filters, distortion amount and noise imposed by the Transducer block, or the reverb times and filtering. All these add up to an enlightening (and sometimes entertaining) way of looking at each preset.

TC Electronic Helicon VoicePro Specifications:
-Analog Inputs and Outputs  
  -Connectors:  XLR (2 in, 2 out)
  -Input Impedance:  11/4 kohm (Balanced/unbalanced)
  -Output Impedance:  40/20 ohm (Balanced/unbalanced)
  -Max Input Level:  +15 to +30 dBu with analog domain scaling
  -Max Output Level:  +15 to +24 dBu with analog domain scaling
  -Dynamic Range:  > 110 dB (unweighted), BW: 20-20kHz, note 1
  -THD:  < -100 dB @ BW: 20-20kHz
  -Frequency Response, +0/-0.1 dB:  12 Hz - 20 kHz
  -Crosstalk:  < -110 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHz
  -AD and DA Conversion:  24 bit (Dual bit delta sigma sampling at 6.1 MHz)
  -AD and DA + Processing Delay Total:  1.54 ms
-Digital Inputs and Outputs  
  -Connectors:  DB25 (2 in, 8 out balanced proprietary cable)
  -Format:  AES/EBU or S/PDIF selectable
-DSP  
  -Internal sample rate:  44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 kHz
  -Internal processing:  24 bit
  -Processing Algorithms:  Hybrid Shifting, Flextime, VoiceModeling, 4-part harmony, 4-band EQ (2), Compressor (2), De-esser (2),
    Reverb, Delay, µMod, Transducer, Multi-path mixer
-Control Interface  
  -Ethernet:  10/100 Mbits/s, Base-T (RJ45 XLR-housed EtherCon connector)
  -Ethernet passive HUB for network:  10/100 Mbits/s, Base-T (RJ45 XLR-housed EtherCon connector)
  -MIDI:  In/Out (5-pin DIN connector)
-General  
  -Display:  Color TFT, QVGA 320x240 pixels, 450 cd/m2 Luminance
  -Finish:  Anodized aluminum face and side plates Plated and painted steel chassis
  -Dimensions:  19" x 3.50" x 11" (483mm x 89mm x 274mm)
  -Weight:  11.95 lbs. (5.4 kg.)
  -Mains voltage:  100 to 240 VAC, 50 to 60 Hz (auto-select)
  -Power consumption:  <45W
  -EMC Complies with:  EN 55103-1 and EN 55103-2 FCC part 15, Class B, 2 Class B
-Safety
  -Certified to:  IEC 60065, EN 60065, UL 6500 and CSA E65 (CSA File#LR108093)
-Operating/Storage  
  -Temperature:  0° C to 50° C ( 32° F to 122° F) / -30° C to 70° C (-22° F to 167° F)
  -Humidity:  Max. 90% non-condensing
-Warranty Parts and Labor:  1 year through TC Electronic directly