Hotone VOCLAS puts vocal and guitar effects in one floor unit
Pitch correction, up to three harmony voices and a Morph engine meet a dedicated guitar chain in Hotone's VOCLAS floor unit.
Hotone built the VOCLAS around the voice, then gave it a guitar input and a chain of its own. What you get is a floor-format vocal effects processor, as the front panel labels it, that can take a singer's guitar as well as the mic. Pitch correction, up to three harmony voices and a Morph engine for vocoder-style sounds sit on the vocal side.
Voice first, with harmony and a Morph engine
Hotone's product page lists 12 effect modules, which it describes as nine dedicated vocal modules plus a guitar amp simulation module. The mic input has a preamp with up to 62 dB of gain, a de-esser and noise reduction, and Hotone's launch video adds 48 V phantom power. AT-Tune handles pitch correction. Up to three harmony voices can be set by hand, follow a guitar, respond to MIDI or be generated by AI, and Hotone says its proprietary neural-network technology is behind the processing.
The Morph engine covers vocoder effects, vocal synth modelling, real-time MIDI pitch control, throat-singing simulation and instrument synthesis, according to Hotone, and the product page adds talkbox, Robot and Monster voices. The official images show the touchscreen's home page with tiles for EQ, Comp, Morph, Harmony, Boost, Double, FX, Delay and Reverb Bus.
A guitar chain and a looper
On the instrument side, Hotone lists clean, overdrive and acoustic simulations as a dedicated guitar chain, and a thru jack passes the guitar signal on. Vocal and instrument channels can be assigned freely to the outputs. The built-in looper covers both, and the video describes a 90-second stereo looper with overdubbing. Markings around the three footswitches include Looper, Talk/Tuner and Hold for Tap. There are 100 factory presets and a songlist for putting them in set order.
Connections cover an XLR mic input, a quarter-inch instrument input with thru, an aux input, two balanced XLR outputs, headphones, USB-C audio, Bluetooth audio playback, EXP/CTRL and five-pin MIDI in and out/thru. Conversion runs at 32-bit/192 kHz, and a companion phone app handles real-time editing, per the video.
Hotone introduces the unit in "Hotone VOCLAS | Your Voice. Your Ultimate Instrument. | Official Launch" on its HotoneAudio YouTube channel.
VOCLAS is listed in Hotone's own online shop. Specifications are collected on our VOCLAS product page.
