heck - sounds weak. incomparable to a live human, even processed by vocoder (like neato&inexpensive Viscount HP-3 with extremely natural sounding when used properly, or more expensive and beginner-targeted TC VoiceOne).
This is just a late answer to Roland's VariPhrase and voice processing in Roland Discovery. As Yamaha are tehnically cheap and inpowerful, they couldn't make it in inexpensive hardware, for many years already (from the time VariPhrase was released), so they finaly thrown away all the hardware efforts and made it a program, just to hit&hurt Roland somehow.
I remember using Cratives Dr.Baitso (made in Qbasic+Asm:) and various other toys. This Yamaha's one is the same kind. No use nor for effect nor for inability to sing.
I, myself, prefer or multitracking and recording and singing "clean" way, however it depends on music, and singer generally. And patience.
Also own a rackful of Viscount HP-3 and own homebrew software to steer them, as well as added digial-audio-in to them. (In strange 37kHz samplerate:)
This program, once again, is another thing built around PSOLA or PSOLAR algorhythm/engine. As it has the same artefacts and oddites associated to them. So many vendors do enhance his base-engine with extremely complicated subband analysis and processing, to make it sound real. Despite price, yet Viscount Hp-3, and Rolands are one of those who have made it sound the best and mot natural.
Other PSOLA-alike engine based things are: Roland/Boss VT-1 Roland VP9000 and VA-7, VA-76, and other VariPhrase-s TC VoiceOne (despite their claims about "physical modeling") Viscount HP series harmonizers Roland DicCovery5 and other new hings Digitech Vocalist
Many of them patented engine from Viscount, and some of them are hiding it.:)
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heck - sounds weak. incomparable to a live human, even processed by vocoder (like neato&inexpensive Viscount HP-3 with extremely natural sounding when used properly, or more expensive and beginner-targeted TC VoiceOne).
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This is just a late answer to Roland's VariPhrase and voice processing in Roland Discovery. As Yamaha are tehnically cheap and inpowerful, they couldn't make it in inexpensive hardware, for many years already (from the time VariPhrase was released), so they finaly thrown away all the hardware efforts and made it a program, just to hit&hurt Roland somehow.
I remember using Cratives Dr.Baitso (made in Qbasic+Asm:) and various other toys. This Yamaha's one is the same kind. No use nor for effect nor for inability to sing.
I, myself, prefer or multitracking and recording and singing "clean" way, however it depends on music, and singer generally. And patience.
Also own a rackful of Viscount HP-3 and own homebrew software to steer them, as well as added digial-audio-in to them. (In strange 37kHz samplerate:)
This program, once again, is another thing built around PSOLA or PSOLAR algorhythm/engine. As it has the same artefacts and oddites associated to them. So many vendors do enhance his base-engine with extremely complicated subband analysis and processing, to make it sound real. Despite price, yet Viscount Hp-3, and Rolands are one of those who have made it sound the best and mot natural.
Other PSOLA-alike engine based things are:
Roland/Boss VT-1
Roland VP9000 and VA-7, VA-76, and other VariPhrase-s
TC VoiceOne (despite their claims about "physical modeling")
Viscount HP series harmonizers
Roland DicCovery5 and other new hings
Digitech Vocalist
Many of them patented engine from Viscount, and some of them are hiding it.