TC-Helicon SINGTHING User Manual - 6. Effects
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SINGTHING User Manual
5.4 Genre
The Genre button lets you filter your Preset selections by organizing them into
groups of sounds that fit a particular genre or style. There are 18 genres to
choose from:
1. All
2. Favourite
3. Showcase
4. Songs & Artists
5. Pop
6. Rock
7. Alternative
8. Country
9. Hip Hop/Rap
10. Dance
11. Echo
12. Doubling
13. Reverb
14. Harmony
15. Hardtune
16. Megaphone
17. Extreme
18. Character
We’ve done our best to organize these genres in a sensible fashion, but the best
way to find the ones you like quickly and easily is to add them to your Favorites,
which you can do with any preset by pressing the Control Knob while that preset
is displayed on the Home screen.
6. Effects
6.1 Harmony
We can’t all afford to hire backup singers, but we here at TC HELICON couldn’t
bear the thought of you singing by yourself, so we designed some software that
creates one or two additional voices to harmonize with you. The Harmony effect
has four parameters: style, level, key, and scale. Press and hold the Harmony
button to see these parameters.
Style
The style parameter determines the number of harmony voices and the way
those voices relate to your lead vocal. A simple acoustic ballad may call for a
single high or low voice; a big ol’ sing-along might sound that much better with
and octave up and down, and some doubling, to really thicken up that big chorus.
Much like ice cream, harmony comes in many flavours – try them all! There are 28
styles to choose from:
1. High
2. Higher
3. Low
4. Lower
5. Octave Up
6. Octave Down
7. High & Low
8. High & Higher
9. High & Lower
10. Higher & Lower
11. Higher & Low
12. Lower & Low
13. Oct Down & Up
14. Oct Down & Higher
15. Oct Down & High
16. Oct Down & Low
17. Oct Down & Lower
18. Oct Up & Higher
19. Oct Up & High
20. Oct Up & Low
21. Oct Up & Lower
22. +7 Semitones
23. -5 Semitones
24. +7 & -5 Semitones
25. +12 & +7 Semitones
26. +12 & -5 Semitones
27. -12 & +7 Semitones
28. -12 & -5 semitones
Level
The level parameter controls how loud the harmonies will be in the mix relative
to your lead vocal. You can adjust the level by turning the Control Knob.
Key
To unlock the secret to amazing vocals, you must first choose the appropriate
key. Get it right and things sound amazing… get it wrong and they sound, well,
unusual at best.
There are two Key modes:
1.
Auto
– This is the one to pick if you don’t know anything about music
theory. SingThing will set the key for you based on what it hears coming in
through the Guitar or Aux/Keys inputs – pretty clever, if you ask us. If you
have a guitar plugged in and tracks playing via the Aux in, the system will
read key/scale from the guitar first. If you stop playing guitar and the Aux
signal continues, the system will look to the Aux input for chord information.
2.
Key
– This mode allows you to explicitly choose any of the 12 keys
(A through G and their sharps/flats) in western music.
Scale
When you switch from Auto to a defined Key in the previous setting, it unlocks
the Scale feature. Use the Scale to match the particular needs of your song. Bold
and triumphant? Try one of the Major scales. Dark and brooding? A Minor scale
will probably suit you best. There are six scale types: three Major scales and three
Minor scales.
6.2 Double
The Double effect creates a sense that one or two additional vocalists are singing
along with you. The effect is a “thicker” or fuller sounding vocal track. Almost
100% of all modern recorded music has double-tracked vocals because, well,
it sounds good. We thought we’d offer you the tools to create that same effect,
because we’re decent people and it gives us the warm fuzzies when your vocal
performance sounds awesome.
Double has two parameters: level and style.
Style
This parameter determines the number of voices, their timing, and their pitch
relative to your voice. There are 10 styles to choose from:
1. Voice Tight
2. 1 Voice Loose
3. 2 Voices Tight
4. 2 Voices Loose
5. Shout
6. 1 Voice Oct Up
7. 1 Voice Oct Down
8. 2 Voices Oct Up
9. 2 Voices Oct Down
10. Oct Up & Oct Down
Tight and Loose refer to how precisely the doubled voice lines up with your
lead vocal. Tight means that the voice comes in almost perfectly in time with
yours, while Loose means that it’s slightly delayed. Have a listen to the various
styles and see what suits your music best, we think you’ll find something that
complements you beautifully.
Level
This parameter makes the doubled voices louder or quieter relative to your
lead voice.