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I looked up the manual for the Digitech vocalist VL3D, and it allow midi CC comands, and support harmony on/off, patch change, and many more that could be very useful live with RB as a midi track with CC commands could be included in a song to make appropriate program changes during a song. Having the harmony come in and even chage at specific points could be very powerful.



I just downloaded the PDF manual for this device, and it does indeed allow total control using continuous controllers, just like the more expensive vocal processors. Page 24 shows the CC commands to use for automated control of the various functions.

THis is a very cool device.. especially in conjunction with BIAB or RealBand, this would be very easy to use because BIAB is already able to send chords to a vocalist device...

To turn on the generation of vocalist chords in BIAB, go to:
OPTIONS->PREFERENCES ->OUTPUT CH ->OUTPUT CHORDS? [ ] <-(CHECK THIS BOX)

You also need to tell BIAB what channel your device expects to recieve MIDI data on
(Digitech Manual tells how to set this channel on page 21)

Once you have BIAB sending chords to the vocalist VL3D, your pitch and harmonies will automatically follow the same chords in your song.

So, for example, let's say you have done the procedure shown above, and BIAB is now sending your song's chords to the vocalist. Here's how you use CCs to turn features off and on:

1) I don't know how to do this in BIAB, so I would first save the project and open it in Real Band. The vocalist chords will still be part of the project

2) select the track that contains the MIDI chord data. Make sure the track's output is routed to the MIDI channel of the vocalist

3) go to piano roll mode

4) at the top right of the piano roll dialog is the CC list box... by default it says VELOCITY... click on it and when the list of options drops down, select CONTROL (for Continuous CONTROLlers)

5) a second dropdown list box wil appear so you can pick which controller you want to activate.
The list is populated with the standard CC list of controls, but the vocalist has its own CC definitions, and they are shown in the manual on page 24


So if you want to turn pitch correction ON, scroll down in the second listbox to CC #86
Pitch Correct On/Off 86 0 - 63 = Off, 64 - 127 = On


the bottom half of the piano roll is a grid with numbers from 0 to 127. This grid is where you enter parameters for Continuous controllers. Click on a number in this grid to assign a numeric parameter. In this case, any number less than 64 will turn Pitch correction OFF, and any number between 64 and 127 will turn it ON


Pretty easy, huh?

Likewise, to turn harmony on, select CC #88, then in the numeric grid at the bottom click any number higher than 64

Harmony On/Off 88 0 - 63 = Off, 64 - 127 = On



to select reverb type "HALL", select continuous controller 107, and click number 2 in the numberic grid

Reverb Type 107 0-Studio, 1-Room, 2-Hall



to set the reverb LEVEL, click continuous controller 108... in this case the numbers 0-127 set the reverb level... lower numbers mean less reverb, 127 means max reverb

Reverb Level 108 0-127

All the CCs in the list on page 24 use this same logic. I know this is a long post, but it should provide enough info to automate your new toy if you want to. Hope this helps!

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