[RWP] tc helicon voicelive 2

[Colin McDonald]

ok thanks.
Not sure I want to subscribe to midimag unless the traffic there has slowed 
down a bit in recent years.
But thanks for the tip.  I might do that just to get some tips on the best 
ways to use the thing without sight.

Regards
Colin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] tc helicon voicelive 2


> 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
>>
>>
>>> 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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