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Roland VT-12 Vocal Trainer - Black

Vocal Tuner/Trainer with Onboard Mic, Illuminated Pitch Meter, 2-track Recording, and Companion Book and Exercises - Black
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Roland VT-12 Vocal Trainer - Black
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It's Easy and Fun to Improve Your Vocals

Roland's VT-12 is a tuner made specifically for vocals. Here's the tool you need to improve your vocal pitch, rehearse vocal harmony parts, and polish your performances. Singing into a conventional instrument tuner results in wild fluctuations on the readout, but Roland's groundbreaking VT-12 lets you see how sharp or flat you are, with an easily readable display that shows semitone increments. This compact tuner/trainer can detect two vocals at once, so you can work on harmonies in real time. You can even pre-record parts and rehearse with them. Sing better, with the Roland V-12.

Roland VT-12 Vocal Tuner/trainer at a Glance:
  • An innovative new take on vocal tuning and training
  • Comes with everything you need to improve your vocals
  • Appraise your performance with user tracks
  • It's a tuner, recorder, metronome - and vocal method!
An innovative new take on vocal tuning and training

Roland's VT-12 tracks your pitch and displays it in half-step increments in real time. It features an illuminated pitch meter with quick and accurate response. The intuitive display includes an easy-to-see meter that brightens as you approach correct pitch, and darkens as you move further away. The VT-12 sports a handy guide tone (triggerable with a button press) that covers a range of 24 semitones, and helps you identify the correct pitch.

Comes with everything you need to improve your vocals

The Roland VT-12 comes complete with a metronome, selectable audio exercises, and a very handy warm-up button. You even get a comprehensive textbook of exercises from the renowned Berklee School of Music. You'll sing more effectively after learning proper warm-ups, breath control, and other essentials. An onboard microphone and a built-in speaker let you quickly review your pitch against a pre-recorded track or exercise.

Appraise your performance with user tracks

The Roland VT-12 features ten user tracks (each with ten minutes of recording time) that let you record songs from your MP3 player and store them in the VT-12 for later practice. You can use the VT-12's Review feature with user tracks to record your voice along with the music to appraise your performance.

It's a tuner, recorder, metronome - and vocal method!

The Roland VT-12 is integrates a tuner, a recorder, a metronome, as well as a complete vocal method. The VT-12 gives you all the elements necessary for vocal training in an user-friendly handheld form factor. It comes with the world-standard Concone Op. 9 vocal training exercises (50 lessons). These classical voice exercises have piano accompaniment and melody guide tracks, with the VT-12 simultaneously displaying your pitch alongside the pitch of the guide melody. Made specifically for singers, the VT-12 is an immensely useful vocal-training tool for students and teachers alike.

Roland VT-12 Vocal Tuner/trainer Features:
  • Compact practice and warm-up tool for vocalists
  • Illuminated pitch meter displays your pitch in half-step increments in real time
  • Easy-to-see meter brightens as you approach correct pitch
  • Appraise your performance with user tracks
  • Companion book: Vocal Workouts for the Contemporary Singer
  • Onboard audio exercises with guide vocals and backing tracks
  • Metronome with tap tempo
  • Built-in tilt stand for desktop use
  • Runs on two AA-size batteries
Improve your vocals with the Roland V-12!

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Tech Specs

  • Type: Vocal Trainer
  • Inputs: 1 x 1/8" (rec in)
  • Outputs: 1 x 1/8" (headphones)
  • Power Source: AC adapter (sold separately) / 2 x AA batteries
  • Height: 1.12"
  • Depth: 5.31"
  • Width: 2.81"
  • Manufacturer Part Number: VT-12-BK

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Reviews

Great Vocal Tool
Exactly what I have hoped for. Help to improve my ear, my confidence and performance.
Music background: Musical Performance, a passion from the age of 13
Great Device
All around effective tool, when it comes to the vocal exercises provided and to pitch detection. I delayed the purchase of this, wondering if it was really necessary when it comes to musical awareness and songwriting, but am finding it helps in streamlining my process. For playback of the exercises when vocal training I've plugged a small mic with it (one I use with my Iphone) and that solved the low-volume issues others spoke of. Helpful when there's no piano around.
Music background: Songwriter
Roland VT-12 Vocal Trainer
I use this device simply as a second, VISUAL, indication of where my voice is going off-key, sharp or flat.
I like it a lot, actually, but it has one significant flaw, in that it does not have a designated microphone input (or mine doesn't), which would really help those of us that sing while playing guitar, and may not care to use all of the training features it offers. The built-in mic picks up ambient sound, so one's guitar is picked up as well as one's voice. Now, if you record the guitar separately and listen to it while staying very close to the VT-12, or use an electric guitar with the amp well behind the VT-12, you'll isolate your voice somewhat, but that isn't always practical. I can't speak to the training features, and those may be the primary reason for others to purchase it, but overall this device, which is very much like an electronic guitar tuner, could really use a mic input.
Music background: Old Guy, carrying a (hopefully on-key) song in my youthful heart.

Simply put, modern electronic music wouldn't exist without Roland. Many of the electronic musicians here at Sweetwater cut our teeth on TR Rhythm machines and fondly remember programming our first TB-303s. We owe a good part of our careers to this amazing and innovative company. It's been fun to watch and grow right alongside Roland, as they've introduced wave after wave of revolutionary keyboards, digital pianos, and more. For example, Roland's V-Drum Kits continuously redefine the possibilities of electronic drums, beginning with SuperNATURAL technology to the latest Prismatic Sound Modeling. We're huge fans, and we'd love to tell you all about them. Whether you want a pocket-sized synth or a cutting-edge video mixer, if Roland makes it, then Sweetwater is 100% behind it.