Using the TC Helicon Voicelive 3 with a keyboard

Swim Good performed live: • Swim Good - Live Frank...
Gavin Castleton explains how he uses the TC-Helicon Voicelive 3 with a Rhodes piano for the live performances of his Frank Ocean / Portishead cover "Swim Good."
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[@woundsdrone]

You're so talented, man.

[@danielkinney6325]

DAMN. this was awesome. LOVE THE WAY YOU TALK

[@kickbiker7920]

Gavin! I first came across you when I was researching TC Helicon Voice Touch 2. It was the middle bit in Sledgehammer when you went falsetto that I thought (a brilliant imaginative very astute different direction to the original Gabriels version)...yep this guy has something. Then I watched the Doom vid. .... Prince-like inflections on the verse Gabriel/Phil Collins inflections on the very catchy chorus.....brilliant. The video you made of how you used the VL3 in Doom pushed me towards that product and made me purchase that one rather than the Touch 2. Watching this video with a keyboard is informative and NOT geeky. You're not necessarily giving away any secrets but as you explain quickly people who have or are interested in the product can see how its used in a band situation by someone who's rather clever and very good at getting across what you're trying to achieve. most impressive sir! The 'behind the scenes' vids you shoot are well worth keeping up alongside any tunes you do.

[@gavincastletonmusic]

Thanks for the solid feedback! Glad you found them useful - good luck with the new pedal!!!

[@michael_harren]

Love these videos from you!

[@musicmantrainstitute1449]

how did you connected normal keyboard with vl 2?

[@daviddelemont]

HI, I have a Microkorg, but i can´t make it sound connecting thru the guitar input of the Voicelive. How do you do that?

[@pyannaguy4361]

Did you ever have any luck? I can't get Helicon to respond to my repeating BEGGING for help with MIDI-ing so that my Korg Kronos can sense the KEY from my chords but NOT have ITS sound altered! ..SO frustrating!

[@daviddelemont]

@@pyannaguy4361 Hi. You can connect it through the guitar thru or the in, you can also connect it to the midi ports. I have some videos with both ways, kzbin.info/door/5eA-3THsciu0LwvIbpKKPAvideos

[@pyannaguy4361]

@@daviddelemont Thanks, David! This was a great day! Finally, by process of elimination & playing around, I FINALLY got the VL3X to STOP applying effects to my Korg Kronos. I'd always MIDI'ed OUT from KORG to IN on VL3X both on Channel 1 & just 1/4 inch into guitar IN...BUT the big fix was going to SYSTEM & on the right side: All Guitar FX Global ON (on the left side: Global Key Scale ON). YES!! I finally have just what I want: Pure Kronos sound & perfectly in tune vocal harmonies. Whatever works, Right?

[@juliangutierrez9265]

Can we harmonized the voice with the chords of the piano!

[@Hugosanches594]

one question, voice live has some effect that sounds natural? because i am interested but i don't like when its so obviously, i would preffer some more natural that seems like when you use a mix console and its has a little reber or has some effect for your voice sound a little more acute for the high notes, it has something like that?

[@gavincastletonmusic]

It has tons of customization options... you can tweak a ton of parameters for each layer of your effects chain (reverb, delay, overdrive, harmonizer, chorus, doubler, etc.) to make it sound as subtle or as pronounced as your heart desires. That's the whole reason I upgraded from the Voicelive Play, which has a more limited set of customizable features.

[@alphasxsignal]

Cool I want to use one of these Voicelive 3 with my new Kronos 2 88key.

[@pyannaguy4361]

Hope you don't mind - it's SIX YEARS LATER - but I just wonder if you got things going. I'm trying to make things work with a Korg Kronos & a Voice Live 3 EXTREME. I feel like I'm looking in a little window at a nuclear power plant! Yikes!

[@MillieDee]

Gavin, thank you for your great videos. I have just been introduced to you by an awesome guitarist in Boston, and now I just can't get enough!!! What a talent. Wondering, in addition to your Voicelive 3 it seems you use some type of rhythm machine in your videos. This may be a VERY dumb question but I am wondering what that is? And is it overwhelming for an artists that is unfamiliar with the varied looping, voice live, etc to begin using this for our live gigs. Again, may very well be a dumb question...but it seems like you're a master at all of this and I know, with my limited gadgety experience, that I may never be able to use it all if I purchase it. On an ease level...is it impossible?

[@gavincastletonmusic]

Hi Dee, thanks for checking out my work! I use various things for the rhythm portions of my performances. In the Swim Good performance that inspired this video, I have a live drummer playing with me. In my looping videos, I usually create the beats with a beatbox loop (sometimes combined with a keyboard triggered kick drum to thicken up the low end). I do a lot of programming in Ableton Live as well (my Hot Knife cover video is a good example of the two working together). If looping feels too daunting, there are many options for live playback beats... there are simple drum machines that you could quickly make beats with on the fly, or playback beats you already created. Check out tools like the BKE Beat Thang or the Akai Rhythm Wolf. Since I do my programming with software primarily, I couldn't recommend the best hardware solution for you, but that's the ballpark you want to be in, I think. Good luck!

[@lucidextract]

Cool video! Is the Rhodes going into the pedal via a single cable, mono, or two cables, stereo?

[@gavincastletonmusic]

+lucidextract single cable - mono. The VoiceLive 3 has a wonderful stereo tremolo and amp simulator that sounds really close to my Rhodes' stereo cabinet (at 1/100th the weight!!).

[@lucidextract]

+Gavin Castleton Thanks for the response. and Cool music! I was also wondering about your midi keyboard demo - Are there only certain modes that allow for harmony control?

[@gavincastletonmusic]

ya, you can use it to control the notes of the harmonizer or the vocoder, you just have to put it on the right setting.

[@lucidextract]

+Gavin Castleton Oh ok gotcha. I started going through presets (got up to 13, i think) and was getting upset 'cause the vocal harmony wasn't changing as I played, but I guess that's because its preset. Ok so just the harmonizer and vocoder setting. Again, thanks for your response!

[@iloschmid]

i want your Roedes i play Kronos nice Video

[@carloscacepero]

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