Appendix B

IVL Vocal Studio

About the IVL Vocal Studio

The IVL Vocal Studio is a truly unique tool that offers natural sounding harmonies, wild vocal effects, and vocal utilities. You will hear that Vocal Studio can help you to quickly create killer vocal tracks. In order to get you excited—and for your general information—here is what’s packed into IVL Vocal Studio:

•Formant-Preserving Pitch Shifting

•Intelligent Vocal Harmony (with four operating modes)

•Pitch Corrector

•Vocal Special Effects

•Integral Reverb Effect

Technologies Used

Formant-Preserving Pitch Shifting: No chipmunks or Darth Vader here! With IVL’s patented formant-preserving pitch shifting algorithm, the Vocal Studio uses precise analyzation techniques on the input voice to naturally shift it higher or lower.

Pitch recognition: IVL does more than just take a note and shift its pitch. The pitch shifting algorithm detects the exact pitch of the note in order to provide the most natural shifted sound.

Intelligent Harmony: The Vocal Studio has musical knowledge. It took lessons from some amazing musicians. By using different control modes, you can choose how much of this intelligence the Vocal Studio will use when creating your harmonies. By selecting the key and scale that the vocal passage is in, and with IVL Vocal Studio’s pitch recognition, an intelligent harmony can be created with 1 to 4 voices.

Voice Muting: These buttons allow you to mute individual voices. When Voice Muting is ON, the audio signal passes through Vocal Studio’s processing. When MUTE is selected, the audio signal is muted for that voice. The small number to the left of each button corresponds to the Harmony Ensemble voice that it affects.

Note: The Digital 8•Bus ships with one MFX (Mackie Effects) card installed. You can load it with either the Mackie Effects plug-in or the IVL Vocal Studio plug-in. The IVL Vocal Studio software will run in demonstration mode, where it times out after about 10 minutes of use. You must then download the plug-in to the card once again to activate it for another 10 minute session.

To authorize the IVL software plug-in, simply purchase and install a second MFX card into your Digital 8•Bus. Then you can download the Mackie Effects plug-in to one card, and the IVL Vocal Studio plug-in to the other card and use them both for as long as you like.

The Interface

Menu

Click this button to save and load your own presets, save changes made to an existing preset, rename a preset, copy current settings to the clipboard, and paste settings from the clipboard to any other Vocal Studio preset.

On/Off

This button turns the IVL Vocal Studio on or off.

Processing Mode

Use this button to select either Harmony or Pitch Correct mode.

Harmony: This button puts the IVL Vocal Studio into harmony mode, allowing 4 voices of harmony or doubled voices to be added to a mix.

Pitch Correct: This button puts the IVL Vocal

Studio into pitch correct mode, allowing a vocal line to be nudged to the note your ear wants to hear.

Output Mode

Stereo: This button selects two independent mono in/stereo out effects blocks. One effects block is used for pitch shifting, harmony, and doubling. The second effects block, assigned to a second aux send, is used for reverb. The input to the reverb effects block comes from a mix of its assigned aux send and

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