[RWP] tc helicon voicelive 2

[Indigo]

On MidiMag, ask Brian Olaffson, God I hope I spelled his name right, 
about VoiceLive 1, he has it, I believe.

On 2/27/2013 8:20 PM, Colin McDonald wrote:
> i just realized it's actually the voicelive, not the 2 version.
> No usb connectivity on this one.
> beggars can't be choosers I suppose.
> The manual is actually exceedingly well written, and easy to follow
> including numbered buttons and numbered steps and all that good stuff.
> It's not super accessible, but the way things are layed out makes the
> unit easy enough to navigate without sight.
> All my audio gear is at our rehearsal space, so I've got to wait a few
> days to get mikes and monitors and so on to test it properly.  I
> connected my guitar to the voicelive then into my amp and it certainly
> had effects for guitar etc.
>
> Regards
> Colin
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] tc helicon voicelive 2
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>
>> I know that there are several folks on MidiMag who use VoiceLive, not
>> sure which model.
>> I use VoiceLive Play, and did use VoiceLive Create XT.
>> How much those models have in common with your VoiceLive 2 I don't know.
>> I can sympathize with your struggles to get Voice Support to recognize
>> your unit, so you can update firmware, and load new presets, if it's
>> tears and sympathy you want. smile.
>> When I gave up frustrating myself trying to get Voice Support to
>> recognize my new VoiceLive Play on a perfectly good AMD computer; then
>> switched to a Intel based computer, running XP, it all happened
>> instantly and automatically.
>> Go figure?
>> I had no luck getting answers on PC questions from TC Helicon, since
>> the support team all use Macs, and don't stoop to understand PC issues.
>>
>> I still can't run output from the VoiceLive Play by USB into Reaper.
>> My soundcard needs its propriatary Asio driver, and apparently the
>> VoiceLive Play also expects to share that asio driver, even though it
>> is shown in control panel, device manager, as running on the generic
>> Microsoft USB audio driver.
>> I think I will try Reaper's ReaRoute, which is an alternative asio
>> driver that works for devices that really want asio; even though only
>> 1 device at a time can use asio.
>> I had zero luck using asio4all, which wraps  2 or more WDM drivers as
>> an asio driver.
>> Indi
>>
>> On 2/27/2013 5:51 PM, Colin McDonald wrote:
>>> I know this is maybe a bit off topic, but if anyone has used the T.C
>>> helicon voicelive 2, I'd like to bend your ear.
>>> I just got one on loan for a while and wouldn't mind a crash corse on
>>> getting it operational.
>>>
>>> There's obvious ramifications for use with reaper, so I guess it's not
>>> too off topic.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Colin
>>>
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