The deadline for entering designs into the “Design-a-voice-product” contest is closed. Stay tuned to for the new product announcement on June 16th as well as the announcement on who won the VoiceLive 2.
Check out some of the entries so far on our Facebook page:
TC-Helicon’s Photos – Design a TC-Helicon Voice Product – Entries
VoiceScoreBoard - keep score of you vs. the rest of the band! - our office attempt at designing a product using collage
TC-Helicon is getting set to announce a monster-of-vocal product on June 16th. It’s likely some singers will pass out. To make it easier on TC-Helicon friends and owners we’re giving you a chance to predict the design of the new product using nothing but primary school art skills.
So here’s your chance to use your product design chops, vocal talent, and psychic abilities to predict what our new vocal child will look like and win a VoiceLive 2
TC-Helicon announces the product for every performing musician that gets song requests that they don’t know how to sing.
Presenting
Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-ANATOR | Don’t Know the Song Processor
The device contains three new TC-Helicon technologies that have been in development since 2006 (in addition, development of Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-ANOTOR resulted in the delay in getting VoiceLive 2 firmware released). The amazing new products will ramble on with nonsense sounds when you don’t know the words to the song. For example…
Let’s say you’ve forgotten the word to…”Everybody Have Fun Tonight” by the 80′s hit sensation Wang Chung, simply hum the melody and Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-ANATOR will insert “Na-Na”, or a number of other consonant/vowel combinations that after often sung when you forget the words.
The new technologies include:
Not-So-Intelligent Lyric Replacement
- choose what sounds you want to make instead of the lyrics you don’t know
- select the amount of Beer consumed
- apply a style to the song you don’t know
Delivery Enhancement & Un-Correction
- set how long it takes to not remember the words
- control how timid or confidently you deliver the the words you don’t know
- un-correct your voice to correlate with how bad you sing when you don’t know the words
Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-ANOTOR is available today, April 1st, 2010- but only today. Price is based on how many twenties you leave in the song-request glass on the piano.
Synth being put to work at someone's desk
VoiceTone Synth is currently enjoying its round of beta testing. The current focus is on voicing the internal vocal synth sounds. Everyone testing in the office is commenting on how satisfying it is to mess with vocoding, you can create very granular, crazy and new sounds – not too mention HardTuning yourself to oblivion. This is one fun piece of kit.
Thought some of you would be interested to follow the lives of some VoiceLive 2 beta units.
We premiered a prototype of VoiceTone Synth at Musikmesse in Frankfurt last week – but it ended up being delayed by two days. Why?, couldn’t have seen this one coming, but the eruption of Mount Redoubt in Alaska closed an airport in Anchorage which delayed our shipment of the VoiceTone Synth lens. We were surprised to see the words “NATURAL DISASTER” when we tracked the shipment. We’re saying VoiceTone Synth and its combination of effects are “Unnatural in Every Way” which is being confirmed with unexpected events like shipments being delayed by volcanoes! We’ve since received updated versions of this part in stock which have the final artwork. We’ll have some more news on VoiceTone Synth later this month.
VoiceTone Synth lens was delayed by volcano in Alaska
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