DigiTech Vocalist Live 2 and Vocalist Live 4
All of the sudden I have GAS to get a Digitech Vocalist. I don’t have the greatest voice in the world and I can get a bit pitchy at times especially if the song is not in my range. I was always intrigued with the vocalist since the initial releases. It just didn’t seem worth the $300+ investment since I am just a studio hack. My own voice was usually good enough or I would have my wife sing.
Digitech is about to release new generation of Vocalists. The Vocalist Live 2 and Vocalist Live 4.
The Vocalist Live 2 can output your voice and two more harmonies. That is plenty for my needs. Also the Vocalist 2 will do one harmony above and one harmony below your voice. I kind of wish it had the option to do both harmonies higher. It seems like the Vocalist 2 does not have pitch correction, which is a bit of a bummer, but maybe it can. One of the harmony options is “Unison”. The manual states:
When Unison 1 is on (and Unison 2 is off), it doesn’t track notes in a chromatic scale, so it produces a tight double sound, even if you’re singing slightly out of pitch. When Unison 2 is on (and Unison 1 is off), it tracks chromatic notes. This can help you sing on pitch better.
So maybe it can do pitch correction. I emailed Digitech about this matter. There aren’t manuals available for the Vocalist Live 4 yet on the site.
These particular products are geared towards guitarists. Rather than create harmonies based on the key of the song or scales it actually tracks the chords you are playing on guitar and creates the harmonies based on what you are playing. It’s a pretty amazing concept and early reports are that it tracks well.
Being the “bang for the buck” guy that I am I am on the lookout for a used Digitech Vocalist Performer on Ebay. Another candidate may be the Vocalist Workstation EX will seems like it may have do pith correction capabilities.
I am also looking for Cakewalk/Sonar plugins that would be able to accomplish this same task.
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jim attias said,
July 5, 2007 @ 4:14 pm
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