Roland has announced the VT-4 Voice Transformer, an effects processor upgrade for manipulating the human voice. The VT-4 allows the user to connect a microphone and quickly create unique vocal sounds with performance-oriented controls. Harmony, vocoding, pitch shifting, hard tuning, ambience, and other effects are available, providing everything from subtle augmentation to radical transformation. Battery-powered and ready to travel, the VT-4 is perfect for singers, DJs, web broadcasters, and all those who use their voice in a creative application.
The VT-4 allows users to manipulate their sound in real-time, altering the effect to suit the track and enhance the performance. Direct control over both pitch and format instantly transforms a vocal persona with male/female gender characteristics, electronic timbres, robot voices, and more. With the VT-4, multiple effects can be used at the same time. Each effect has a selection of one-touch variations for quick access to different vocoder characteristics, lo-fi effects, multi-part harmonies, and distinct kinds of reverb and delay. Users can chain effects, set the controls how they like, and save their setups in preset buttons for later recall.
Plugging in a MIDI keyboard to the VT-4, unlocks more expressive possibilities, allowing users to guide the Auto-Pitch, harmony, and vocoder engines with notes and chords. This makes it possible to hard-tune the vocal input to specific pitches, play keyboard leads with a funky vocoded flavor, and create multi-part backing vocal stacks on the fly. Additionally, the VT-4 is a powerful tool for bringing humor, drama, and variety to spoken-word applications. Offering simple controls and USB-audio capabilities, it’s uniquely suited to altering voices for YouTube broadcasts, Twitch and Facebook streams, podcasts, and more.
No pricing or availability has been announced for the Roland VT-4 Voice Transformer.
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