Electronic Musician

VT-4 Voice Transformer

$230 roland.com

Strengths

+ Sounds way better than the VT-3, with much improved Auto-Pitch tracking and very clear and responsive vocoding
+ Very easy to use, with plenty of useful, musical-sounding modes and solid functionality
+ Compact, well-built (but lightweight) and can be battery powered too

Limitations

- No standard power input; USB- Max polyphony is limited to four notes when using the internal synth/vocoder (when harmony mode is on)- No class-compliant USB driver

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