Antares TA-1VP Contents, 5 – Operation, 7 – Appendix, Producer, 1 – Introduction, 6 – Get Creative, Safety Information, 8 – Specifications, IMPORTANT SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

IMPORTANT SAFETY PRECAUTIONS..............	2
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS.............	3
Safety Information..........................................	4
1 – Introduction...............................................	6
Included items......................................................................	6
About this manual...............................................................	6
Trademarks............................................................................	6
Precautions for placement and use..............................	6
Beware of condensation...................................................	6
Cleaning the unit.................................................................	6
2 – Introducing the TASCAM TA-1VP Vocal
Producer.....................................................	7
How to use this manual.....................................................	7
The contents of this manual............................................	7
TASCAM Vocal Producer Overview...............................	7
Auto-Tune Pitch Correction.............................................	8
A little bit about pitch.................................................	8
Some pitch terminology............................................	8
How Auto-Tune detects pitch..................................	8
How Auto-Tune corrects pitch.................................	9
Scales.................................................................................	9
Speed................................................................................	9
An example.....................................................................	9
Antares Microphone Modeling......................................	9
About the technology...............................................	10
So what exactly does it do?.....................................	10
Understanding Compression........................................	10
Threshold and Ratio...................................................	10
Limiting..........................................................................	11
Dynamic Expansion and Gating............................	11
Compression and Expansion Combined............	11
Hard Knee/Soft Knee.................................................	12
Attack and Release Times........................................	12
What is a De-Esser?...........................................................	13
Equalization.........................................................................	13
Low Pass - High Pass Filters.....................................	13
Shelving Filters............................................................	14
Peaking Filter................................................................	14
Band Pass and Notch Filters....................................	14
3 – Setting Up the TASCAM Vocal Producer.15
4 – Names and Functions of Parts................	16
Front panel...........................................................................	16
Rear panel............................................................................	18
5 – Operation.................................................	19
Live or mixdown?...............................................................	19

Contents
Patching the TA-1VP into your system.......................	19
As an insert effect using your mixer’s channel
insert jack(s)..................................................................	19
As an insert effect using two mixer channels.	.19
With an instrument....................................................	20
Live, Direct Microphone connection...................	20
AN IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT MONITORING...	20
Controls and Display Screens........................................	20
MASTER MODULE.......................................................	20
MICROPHONE MODELER MODULE .....................	26
AUTO-TUNE MODULE ..............................................	28
Why set Scale notes to “Blank”?...................................	28
COMPRESSOR/GATE MODULE ..............................	29
DE-ESSER MODULE.....................................................	30
EQUALIZER/OUTPUT MODULE .............................	31
6 – Get Creative..............................................	34
Using the Auto-Tune Module........................................	34
Using Auto-Tune in Double Track Mode...................	34
Using the Microphone Modeler Module..................	34
7 – Appendix..................................................	35
TA-1VP Factory Presets.....................................................	35
The Presets...........................................................................	35
Realistic Mic Modeling Expectations..........................	36
8 – Specifications...........................................	38
Dimensional drawing.......................................................	40
Block diagram.....................................................................	40
Level diagram.....................................................................	41

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