The VT-4 is an effects processor for your voice. It can do a ton of cool stuff and
I'm just going to show you how I use it in my setup.
The first thing I really love about it is its ability to communicate via MIDI
and harmonize your voice so I have it hooked up to the SYSTEM- 8
and I'm using this to give information to the VT-4 to tell it what chords I want it to play.
You can balance how much of the effect and how much of your natural voice is
coming through so if I wanted to be able to sing a line over the chords I'm
playing and have that really be prevalent I can just go ahead and turn
the balance down and you'll be able to hear my voice coming through the harmony
What I love about this is that there are no menus so everything is very tactile
what you see is what you get, if you want to change something it's as easy as you
know turning this knob or moving the slider so it's very intuitive and very
easy to kind of create something really special live and not have to go through
and program everything and have it all laid out beforehand.
An effect I like to use a lot is the pitch shift I like to use my voice as a bass
and I'm using this looper here so it's really easy to kind of use my voice as all of the
instruments so what I like to do is shift my voice all the way down an
octave and then switch the formant to something warmer to give it a nice
resonance and a nice beefiness.
I like to use the megaphone effect to give my voice kind of that lo-fi quality
and the cool thing about all of these effects is
that there are multiple versions of each one so there's multiple megaphones,
multiple types of harmonies and vocoder sounds so you can really be creative and
really kind of customize every sound to your liking.
And you can use these buttons up here to customize what type of effect is on the
slider so you can do a delay, reverb chorus... whatever you want you can change
it to be exactly what you need.
So I like taking multiple effects and combining them to create a really unique
sound and then save it as a preset so that I have it when I want to go play.
So I want to start with just a simple harmony...
Cool, I like that so now I want
to add some space so maybe I'll add a little bit of delay here...
Now let's say like while I'm performing I want to do a cool pitch sweep or something I can
easily do that with this fader over here...
So now I have an effect that I'm happy with and I want to save it all I have to
do is come over here press and hold a button and it will save as a preset just
like on your car stereo.