Paul Maine

Software Engineer, Musician and Life Long Learner

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TC-Helicon Voiceworks for Sax Sound Samples

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I have received a number of requests asking me to post some sound samples of the TC-Helicon Voiceworks effects box. I am playing a tenor  tenor saxophone in all of the samples.

The first sample is bypassing the Voiceworks box and is the dry sample:

[podcast]https://paulmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/tc-helicon-dry.mp3[/podcast]

The second sample sample is the Voiceworks box with the reverb effect. Reverb time is 420ms and Feedback is 25%:

[podcast]https://paulmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/tc-helicon-preset4.mp3[/podcast]

The third sample sample is the Voiceworks box with the reverb effect and Chrous. Reverb time is 420ms and Feedback is 25%, Chorus is -6dB.

[podcast]https://paulmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/tc-helicon-preset5.mp3[/podcast]

The fourth sample sample is the Voiceworks box with one unison voice, reverb effect and Chrous. Reverb time is 420ms and Feedback is 25%, Chorus is -6dB, unison voice is -6dB.

[podcast]https://paulmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/tc-helicon-preset1.mp3[/podcast]

The fifth sample sample is the Voiceworks box with one unison voice,one harmony voice ( above), reverb effect and Chrous. Reverb time is 420ms and Feedback is 20%, Chorus is -6dB, unison voice is -3dB, harmony voice -3dB.

[podcast]https://paulmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/tc-helicon-preset2.mp3[/podcast]

The sixth sample sample is the Voiceworks box with one unison voice,two harmony voices( above), reverb effect and Chrous. Reverb time is 420ms and Feedback is 20%, Chorus is -6dB, unison voice is -3dB, first harmony voice -3dB, second harmony voice -6dB.

[podcast]https://paulmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/tc-helicon-preset3.mp3[/podcast]

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  1. Great stuff Paul.
    I am working on trying to mimic a sound that I am pretty sure I can do. I want to fake a Tex-Mex button accordion. The problem I am having is that I need to play 2 notes at one time and in some cases 3 — My Yamaha chorus (SPX90II) doesn’t sound right at all. I can play the high line of the sheet music, DRY, and then I want to use a sustain pedal from a midi organ to kick in the second voice. In this case exactly 4 semitones below the dry note. In other words 2 notes lower (D4, B4). The second tone chorus would be the above group and the same note as the dry note only one octave lower (D4, B4, D3).
    I will be playing an alto, or a C-Melody.
    I can also use a Yamaha WX5, with an accordion patch (patchman patches sound killer) and then pump the analog-out from my mixer into the voiceworks. I love the WX-5, but I can’t tongue it fast enough to make the polkas sound convincing.

    Would you have any interest in taking a look at some sheet music, and MP3 of the music, and give it a try for me before I go and spend money on a box that may no please me.

    Thanks — Will Schmit (grandson of Bill Schmit – Smitty and the Boys)