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TC-Helicon Perform-VE Vocal Sampler and Effects Processor

Realtime Vocal Sampler with Midas Microphone Preamp, 7 Onboard FX, Drum Looper, MIDI Input, and Stereo 1/4" Outputs
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Realtime Vocal Sampler and FX Processor with Drum Looper

Ready to take your performances to weird, wonderful new heights? The TC-Helicon Perform-VE vocal processor samples your voice and enables control of its playback via a MIDI controller, with today's hottest EDM and pop vocal effects — vocoder, autotune, and stutter — on tap to make it memorable. Whether you're a DJ or an acoustic performer, once you gig out with the Perform-VE, you'll never want to leave home without it. An onboard Midas mic preamp with Adaptive Tone processing gives you clean, clear vocals without any menu diving. You can even dial in your own studio-quality reverb and delay on the fly. Another great feature in the Perform-VE is the one-touch looper, whose built-in drums make it easy to build beats on the spot.

Realtime voice sampling and drum looping

Perform beside your own virtual choir or craft beats off the cuff with the TC-Helicon Perform-VE. It effectively turns your voice into a MIDI-playable instrument. Shift your vocals into unreachable octaves or mangle them beyond recognition. Then layer in beats via the one-button drum looper. Both features include MIDI time sync for connecting to external devices.

A true vocal workhorse

Sweetwater knows that vocalists of all backgrounds, contemporary to traditional, will enjoy the Perform-VE's solid microphone front end and studio-quality FX.

Perfect for practice

A headphone output makes the Perform-VE a valuable tool to have for hashing out songs at the hotel or gearing up in the green room.

Soundcheck in seconds

Getting your levels right with the TC-Helicon Perform-VE is painless. Plug in your mic, hold the Set button, and sing. That's it. The Perform-VE automatically sets EQ, compression, de-essing, and noise gating based on your vocal stylings. Now you can spend less time in menus and setup and more time doing what you love: creating music.

Download presets with the Perform-VE app

You can do a lot with the TC-Helicon Perform-VE vocal processor right out of the box, but pairing it with a free app on your smart device is where the fun really begins. Augment the Perform-VE's onboard reverb, echo, and doubling effects with an entire library of custom sounds. Simply beam these presets from your device via Bluetooth, and unlock a whole new world of possibilities.

TC-Helicon Perform-VE Vocal Processor Features:

  • Turns your voice into a playable instrument
  • Essential for live EDM, dance, and DJ sets
  • Onboard autotune, vocoder, and stutter effects create memorable performances
  • Midas mic preamp provides a clean, clear front end
  • Adaptive Tone sets EQ, compression, de-essing, and gating based on your voice
  • Studio-quality reverb, echo, doubling, and filter effects
  • Pitch shift and gender shift
  • Looper with built-in drum samples
  • Tap tempo and MIDI tempo sync
  • Hands-on control with optional MP-75 or MP-76 microphones (sold separately)
  • Power supply and USB cable included

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Tech Specs

  • Processor Type: Pitch shifting, multi-fx, looping
  • Analog Inputs: 1 x XLR (mic), 1 x 1/8" (aux)
  • Analog Outputs: 2 x 1/4" (left, right)
  • MIDI I/O: In
  • Headphones: 1 x 1/8"
  • USB: 1 x Type Micro-B
  • Computer Connectivity: USB
  • Power Source: 12V DC 1A power supply (included)
  • Height: 3.6"
  • Width: 6.6"
  • Depth: 6.7"
  • Weight: 0.93 lbs.
  • Manufacturer Part Number: 000-DEC02-00010

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Rated 5/5

Studio quality sound out of the box

I just plugged it in today and the first patch has a fantastic delay reverb. I only read the manual if I really get stuck and I'm guessing that once you begin to use the midi and sampling features you'll need to stop and read or YouTube it. I figured out how to change the presets, volume, fx etc on the fly...what I love most is the "set your mic" feature. Sounds incredible, eq, compression and stopped the pops from low end.
I'll review again after I learn the midi and sampling features. So far I'm loving it for live recording! Hope this helps you.
Music background: Recording artist and worship leader
Rated 5/5

Best vocal effects box I've found for doing extreme character voices

We are an indie game studio, not a live performing band, and I bought this so that we could easily do a wide variety of character voices (robots, monsters, anthropomorphic pets, etc.) both for pre-recorded game audio, and also while streaming in character (an area where VST plugins falls short). We first had a Boss VT-1, then the VT-4, and now this. The VE's party piece feature--not found in the other Perform units--is the pitch and formant shifting. The Perform VE does this better than the VT units IMO. The fact that the VE has augo-gain, compression and noise gating ahead of the effects also helps tremendously for getting usable results from the vocoder effect. Like with the VT-4, the vocoder effect is limited and falls well short of what you get from a dedicated vocoder like the VC-340, MiniNova, MicroKorg, etc.
Music background: Piano and pipe organ student, now indie game composer
Rated 5/5

NOTHING inspires me more

not a thing inspires me more than setting up a quick drum loop, then looping some synth, then singing my face off to lines Im not sold on yet, I will be buried with it, it is such a force for making music playing fun.
Rated 5/5

TC Helicon

Pretty interesting "toy" ! It will take a month of Sundays to learn how to use each application !
Rated 5/5

Incredible

I bought the Perform-VE to manually (via a MIDI keyboard) play harmonies with myself while playing a brass instrument (usually flugelhorn) or singing. There are very few pedals on the market that let you do it manually via a keyboard, and they're all TC to my knowledge. For this function the Perform-VE is as good as it gets. Unlike my old TC Voicetone Harmony-M which only sent signal to the microphone when you had a key pressed for harmony, the Perform-VE always sends your signal through so you can alternate harmonizing and playing/singing alone without a break in the signal. I'm not sure how the other TC pedals with this manual harmony function compare, but I would assume the Perform-VK is does it the same way.

Where the Perform-VE really shines compared to the half as expensive Perform-VK is the live sampling. It's unbelievable. Then there's a looper, effects, voice morphing, and doubling thrown in for good measure. This pedal is like nothing else out there and is worth every penny. I've always been satisfied with TC pedals but this one is a triumph.
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