 Hey, I'm Rob from TC Helicon and today I'm going to be giving you an overview of the sample synthesis features in the Perform VE The Perform VE is a really unique product because it combines our vocal effects with an innovative sample synth Nothing else on the market does what this does especially not this easily and at this price point The core of the VE sample synth is this sample button right here now to record a sample You just hold the record and speak something into your mic. Let's do that. I'm just gonna say Now if we're approaching this like a synthesizer the sample that we record is like our waveform in an oscillator So let's just play back the sample that we took First off it automatically maps it to the keyboard pitches. So that's a C and I didn't have to do anything I just recorded the sample So I can play chords just right off the bat and it sounds good and it works It's in tune. The other thing it does really well is it flattens your pitch and it time stretches your signal So if I do something like an arpeggio like Ah You can hear they're all the same pitch you hear the timbre shift a bit, but it's the same pitch What's really good about this is if I have something ugly and pitchy it'll just flatten it It also makes the notes the same length other samplers if you played a low note It might sound really long and if you played a high note It would be really short because all it's doing to pitch the sample is speed it up or slow it down This actually stretches the sample so that you can play chords and all the notes are the same length Let's just get a sample of me saying some words. I'm gonna say sample synthesis sample synthesis Sample synthesis sweet. So the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna mess with the mode on the Morph button So when it's green, this is just affecting the release time of our sample. So Sample synthesis sample sample sample sample synthesis sample synthesis This essentially just affects how long the notes ring out after I release them This is really useful if you want to have chords that kind of blend together because the Vee doesn't have a sustained pedal Input like a lot of other keyboards. So this lets you kind of compensate for that sample synthesis sample synthesis sample synthesis sample synthesis and When you turn it past the green into the red now the Vee is monophonic Samples samples samples samples and as you increase this it increases the glide time between notes So they kind of slide to each other sample sample synthesis sample. This sounds really cool if you have just a static sample like You can make some cool synth leads that way which I'll show in a later video So let's just get that sample synthesis sample back sample synthesis And as you can see it's really easy to recreate something like that So if you've got a song you play live a lot where you've got a word you say you can do that live just by singing into the mic And you can get your sound back our new firmware update gives you the ability to also load samples onto our mobile app So you can store them and recall them live So now that we've got our sample back the next thing we'll want to affect is the style Which is the bottom right of the Morph button here by default it's set to natural So it just sounds like your voice except pitched across the keyboard like this Samples synthesis Samples synthesis one thing that we've added in version 2.0 is the ability to add Variable gender shifting across the keyboard what this means is you can dial into taste how much you want the gender parameter to track the keyboard so With nothing the gender parameter isn't affected sample synthesis, but as you turn this up sample synthesis The lower you are on the keyboard the more male it sounds and the higher you are the more female it sounds so you can hear The gender parameter just kind of shifts the formant of your sound So when you dial past this you get into vocoder waveforms So you can get some really lush warm vocoder sounds and it's great You don't need to sing them live you can use the sample for that another thing the Morph button can do is set a static shift to The gender so you can just set the gender up or down and it's not affected by where you are on the keyboard So let's just shift the gender up a little bit So you can hear just using the Morph button we've gone from this sample synthesis which sounds very dry It sounds good, but this is what it sounds like now with the Morph button And it's way more synthy and there's a ton you can do with the Morph button to kind of tweak the sound to your taste Next up we have a bunch of effects that you can add to the sound after you've kind of got your timbre You can embellish it with some reverb or delay or you can cut frequencies away with the filter Let's just look at the filter quickly on most synths the filter is where you do 80% of your sound shaping the great thing about the human voice is it already sounds pretty good a synth wave form on an Analog synth sounds really harsh so you need a filter, but with the voice you don't necessarily need it It's more an extra. So we've built the filter more as a performance tool than as a sound shaping tool So I'll just show that this is a low and high-pass filter Samples synthesis Transducers on our other products are what we call the EQ circuits and little distortion circuits that will add to make your voice sound like It's coming through a radio or through a megaphone So we have some of those loaded on here and they can sound really cool If you want to make your synth sound like it's coming through a radio or a megaphone and they also are interesting little filters I'm just gonna turn the filter off for now and we'll add some reverb and delay So the reverb delay knob has four buttons as well If you hold down the reverb button, it allows you to increase the amount of reverb And if you use the style button it allows you to select the type of reverb So we've got a few we've got a plate a haul reverb a spring reverb and a room reverb. I'm just gonna use the plate And then delay you have divisions which are synced to the tap tempo and then you've also got the delay amount and feedback on one knob But as you can see you have a lot of flexibility you also get ping pong delay types Which are synced with your tap tempo or your midi tempo, so it's really useful in live performance It's just easy it syncs if you want to add some more rhythmic effects to your sound You can use the x-effects which has everything from a stutter panning tremolo a ring mod Several phasers and even a sidechain compressor that is linked to the kick in the looper. Let's go through a few of those I'm just gonna get a simpler sample so that I can show you the rhythmic effects better Perfect so the first step is the stutter which is more of a looping tool so we won't look at that right now We've got some tremolo Got panning which you won't hear because we're in mono right now. We've got ring mod We have some flangers Then there's the sidechain compressor which is linked to the looper, so we'll show that in the looping video What's awesome with the VE is that it has a synthesizer in it It's fully featured you can do a lot with it And so there's a lot of different crazy or not so crazy sounds that you can make with this thing in the next few weeks We're gonna be diving more into how to make different unique sounds using the synth engine But for now, here's one sound that I really like