From mcrandal@pepperdine.eduTue May 30 14:57:13 1995 Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 14:47:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Crandall To: Lee An Cc: Analogue Heaven Subject: Re: VP-70 vocoder On Tue, 30 May 1995, Lee An wrote: > Hi folks, > > I know a little about the vp330, but not much about the vp70. Can anyone > clue me in? It's an all-digital, single-space racked pitch-shifter. It is NOT a vocoder. What they call a vocoder is merely a pitch shifter which reponds to MIDI notes. Not quite the same effect at all. (at least the korg DVP-1 SOUNDS like a vocoder, more or less) I think it's also a pitch to midi converter. Hope that helps, Marco Crandall GreytSounds Sound Development From robls@digidesign.comWed May 31 11:29:06 1995 Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 10:59:21 -0700 From: Rob Lodes To: analogue@hyperreal.com Subject: RE:VP70 Marc replyed such: On Tue, 30 May 1995, Lee An wrote: > Hi folks, > > I know a little about the vp330, but not much about the vp70 >. Can anyone clue me in? It's an all-digital, single-space racked pitch-shifter. It is NOT a vocoder. What they call a vocoder is merely a pitch shifter which reponds to MIDI notes. Not quite the same effect at all. (at least the korg DVP-1 SOUNDS like a vocoder, more or less) I think it's also a pitch to midi converter. Yes it is a pitch to Midi converter. It does un-intelligent 4 or 5 part harmonizing (meaning that once you set the intervals that's it, the newer DOD/Digitech boxes can change intervals based on the incoming note). It has both a line in and a mic in (I use to use mine as a mic preamp until I got a decent console). The Roland propaganda for it stated that Mikie J. used the pitch to midi feature on the album he did after Thriller ("Bad" I believe). It's fun to use for singers that have problems with pitch. In a special mode it will show you how far off you are and what note you are singing. It's not a vocoder, but Roland did make one of the best Vocoders. I don't recall the model but it was a 2 space rack, black and orange. It came out about the time of the System 100m stuff. -Rob- From lhammond@sol.UVic.CA Thu Aug 17 14:21:26 1995 17 Aug 95 17:21:23 +0500 15 Aug 95 13:36:28 +0500 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 10:06:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Lorne Hammond Subject: vp-70 part II JL: Yup, the VP-70 is a voice processor, monophonic pitch to midid plus 4 pitch shift circuits. Can generate 4 voice midi chords from a monophonic source. Each not +- 2 octaves, 128 patch memories, individual volume per note, bend range 0-24, dynamics off/on, aftertouch on/off. As a harmonizer intervals can be +- one octave, freq, 30hz-25khz, pitch intervals can be set externally from a midi keyboard. You can also set the note range to which the vp-70 was set. Unison detuning can thicken the input, mode one each of the 4 circuits go off slightly in different directions, mode two uses only 2 pitches for detuning. Optional FC-100 Foot Controller, external midi patch changes possible. Source Roland Users Group promo (no flaws discussed) V5, no. 2. Sounds like the Korg DVP-1 to me. Being a 1987 technology I would suspect the Vocalist harmonizer might just be a better circuit. Up here in canada Yamaha is chasing a local chip designer who has a cheap awesome 5 part harmonizing chip up and running (karioke Durna Duran anyone?) Lorne lhammond@sol.uvic.ca