The Roland AIRA VT-4 Voice Transformer Kit with Mic & Cableis a real-time vocal processor designed to craft and shape your own custom vocal sounds, from subtle augmentation to radical transformation. Smoothly alter the pitch and formant of a voice or add heavily processed vocal effects to your studio work, stage performances, podcasts, web streaming, and more. All controls are conveniently located from the front panel allowing you to make quick adjustments without menu diving or programming. Create remarkable effects such as harmonizing, vocoding, pitch shifting, hard tuning, and more. Dramatically change your entire persona from male to female, big to small, or good to evil.

For controls, the unit features dedicated pitch, formant, balance, and reverb sliders. A center wheel provides auto-pitch features, while the dedicated robot, megaphone, vocoder, and harmony buttons allow you to mix and match effects. Each effect has a selection of one-touch variations, so you can get different vocoder characteristics, various lo-fi effects, multi-part harmonies, and distinct kinds of reverb and delay. Chain your effects, set the controls just how you like them, and then simply hold down a preset button to save that scene for later. Up to eight scenes can be saved for instant recall. Changing presets and tweaking controls is smooth and immediate, with no jarring artifacts, glitches, or dropouts.

For I/O, a rear panel features a combo XLR-1/4" connector with switchable +48V phantom power for use with your favorite condenser microphone. Outputs are provided by a pair of 1/4" TRS connectors which can be configured as either mono/stereo or separate wet/dry channels. A built-in USB audio interface with adjustable volume level provides loopback recording to overdub vocals on existing tracks. Power is provided by either the computer's USB bus or via the four included AA batteries.

Real-Time Vocal Processing    For Music, Podcasts, Web Streaming    Dedicated Pitch and Formant Sliders    Reverb and Mix Balance Sliders    Eight Memory Settings    Cardioid Condenser Microphone    1" Large Diaphragm    Pressure-Gradient Design / Side Address    Includes Shockmount and Desktop Stand    High Quality XLR Cable

• Robot: Produces an expressionless voice with a fixed pitch, evocative of a robot
• Megaphone: Produces a distorted voice, as though you were using a megaphone
• Vocoder: Produces a vocoder voice
• Harmony: Lets you add harmony to the sound
• Auto Pitch: Pitch-corrects your voice
• Key: Specifies the key that is used when applying an effect with the Robot button or the Auto Pitch knob
• Pitch: Adjusts the pitch of the voice
• Formant: Adjusts the formants of the sound
• Balance: Adjusts the balance between the normal voice  and the effect-processed voice
• Reverb: Adjusts the amount of reverb

• Robot
  • Normal
  • Octave-1
  • Octave+1
  • Feedback
• Megaphone
  • Megaphone
  • Radio
  • BBD Chorus
  • Strobo
• Vocoder
  • Advanced
  • VP
  • Talk Box
  • Spell Toy
• Harmony
  • +5
  • +3
  • +3, -4
  • +3, +5
• Reverb
  • Reverb
  • Echo
  • Tempo Delay
  • Dub Echo

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Is there a version with ADAT support?

A: No, the Roland AIRA TR-8S Rhythm Performer does not include ADAT support and none of the other AIRA series products have ADAT support either.

Q: 2. Does this microphone need a windscreen for outdoor use? The item description suggests the windscreen is built-in.

A: Yes you will need a windscreen for outdoor use. Why listen back to the best take of the day and say oh i can wind noise, why didnt i just put the cover on in the first place .

Q: 3. Hello, Does this series of cables pass 3G SDI ?

A: Yes it does. This cable will work with a 3G-SDI signal.

Q: 4. Can this be connected to the MIC IN of a video camera to record the tweaked audio (with video)?

A: You could use a line-to-mic attenuator cable to take the output from the headphone jack on the Roland AIRA Compact E-4 Voice Tweaker and connect it to the mic input on the camera. You can use the Kopul ACH4-25MON Line-to-Mic Attenuator Cable (B&H # KOACH425MON), which has a built-in headphone tap to monitor the audio. To extend the length, you can use a standard aux cable like the Hosa Technology Stereo Mini Male to Stereo Mini Male Cable - 10' (B&H # HOSMMSMM10) in any length you prefer.

Q: 5. Any reason why we couldn’t use this cable to provide a mixer output to a computer? Will it only work with a mic level signal?

A: You would be able to send any level your computers audio encoder and handle.

Q: 6. Item number

A: RCC-10-USXF is the manufacturer's item number for this product.

Q: 7. Will this work with a small video camera (i.e. sony ax-100)?

A: yes, no problem

Q: 8. How flexible is this cable, say compared to Belden 1505F flexible cable? Is it suitable for use for a handheld/shoulder mount wired camera such as for sideline use or an on-stage /pit camera that can't be wireless.

A: The Roland SDI cable I would say is pretty flexible compared to most SDI cables. But compared to the Belden 1505F, the Belden cable is more flexible.

Q: 9. Does this come with any shoe brackets?

A: It comes with two cold shoes, two 1/4 -20 threaded mounts plus a RC2 type camera quick release. No other brackets are listed.

Q: 10. Does the bottom of the rig have a thread to allow it to be mounted to a tripod? Or do you have to remove the camera and mount the camera to the tripod?

A: Yes it does, there is a 1/4 -20 tripod mount in base. You will be able to mount this to a tripod.