Roland PAINO DISCOVER5 - Manual (Page 23)

Owner’s Manual
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Vocal Harmonizer function
The Vocal Harmonizer is another major highlight of your DisCover 5. In fact, it doesn’t just produce harmonies: it
can also transform your voice in various ways. More importantly, its sound quality surpasses by far anything you
may already have tried.
Setting up
Here’s what you need to do to take advantage of
the Vocal Harmonizer function:
(1) Switch off your amp and the DisCover 5 (in
that order).
(2) Connect a dynamic microphone to the MIC
INPUT jack on the DisCover 5’s rear panel.
(3) Set the [GAIN] switch to “MIC”.
You can also connect the (mono) output of
other instruments, a CD player, etc.
In that case, you need to set [GAIN] to “LINE”.
(4) Set the [MIC≈GAIN] knob on the front panel to
“MIN”.
Note: If you like, you can connect the Vocal Harmonizer
OUTPUT sockets to another amp (or additional mixer
channels).
(5) Switch on the DisCover 5 and your amp (in
that order).
(6) Press the [SINGER] button (it must light) and
switch off the [VOCODER], [SMALL] or
[ENSEMBLE] button.
(7) Sing into the microphone and gradually
increase the [MIC≈GAIN] setting.
Set it to the highest possible value, taking care
to avoid that the OVER indicator lights. It would
be best to sing at the level you will be using
during your performances.
(8) If your singing is inaudible in the speakers
connected to the amp (or the headphones),
turn the [VOICE] knob towards the right
(towards “MAX”).
Note: If a howling sound (a.k.a. “feedback”) is produced,
your microphone may be pointed at a speaker. Try to
orient it differently, or slightly reduce the [VOICE] set-
ting.
(9) Use the [EFFECTS] knob to set the balance
between your original singing and the effects
that are added to your voice.
Note: You can start song playback and sing to it. See
“Playing back songs” (p. 16) and “Minus One” (p. 19) for
details.
Your DisCover 5 provides a Compressor effect
you might want to set up now. The Compressor
reduces volume peaks and thus “levels out” dif-
ferences in the microphone signal.
The Gate effect, on the other hand can be used
to avoid that background noises cause the
Vocal Harmonizer, etc., to start working even
though you are not singing.
These two effects are located immediately
behind the MIC INPUT socket and thus applied
to the microphone signal before it is processed
by the Vocal Harmonizer section.
(10) Press the [MIXER/EFFECT] button.
Set to “MIC”
Examples: Roland DR-10 or DR-20
KEYBOARD MODE ARPEGGIO
SEQ CTRL /
2
7
1
6
TRANSPOSE X-DUAL DUAL SPLIT
3
8
4
9
5
0
VARIATION TONE
ENTER PERFORM
/SYSTEM CONTROL KEYBOARD MIDI/TUNE LEVEL/PAN
/EFFECT ARPEGGIO
/ TONE PERFORM
/ PRESET USER
EDIT UTILITY
DRUM ENVELOPE FILTER VIBRATO TONE
CANCEL EXIT
UPPER LOWER
ROM PLAY
VOLUME PALETTE
SELECT ON/OFF
PART
VALUE EDIT
1 2 COMBINATION PALETTE
Preset:001 1>Piano 1
L/MONO
Synthesizer, CD/MD player, etc.
Set to “LINE”
® Compressor, Gate, and effects