I have a TC.Helicon too and I don't replace it with Usine. Toooooo gooood (but Usine is toooo goood toooo!).
No VST will do right the same. You have TC.Helicon, you use it.
I mean: preamp + pitch-adjuster + compressor + gate + voices + de-esser + and so on, in a good way, without eating any CPU. And no latency - you like it I know.
I did not found any plugins for live vocal (unless perhaps money and CPU very-very-greedy ones - or sold with a dedicated DSP card). Vocal is too important to be processed by plugins.
If you're satisfied with the patches you've done with your TC-H, you can drive them with Usine.
Just plug a MIDI cable from your sound card to your TC and configure Usine to send MIDI msg to it. If there is no midi-out on your sound card, do it with some USB-to-MIDI device (much more cheaper than any vocal 'almost-no-latency' plugin). This way, you'll be able to change TC patches from Usine, using Prog-ch events (Midi / 'Create MIDI Message' module). Change them with Usine and/or by yourself with any foot-switch controller.
I don't know exactly how to manage with the TC, since vocal isn't my stuff, but process vocal signal first with your TC.Helicon IS the solution. Forget about reverb or delay, maybe, but do as much as you can with the TC. And then, process it a little bit more with Usine (loops + resample + pitch delirium + WateverYouLike). Think about it.
That's what I'm hardly conviced of.
Rgds.
EDIT: but maybe were you asking if you could just replace hardware with software? Well, indeed, not always. Usine and TC.Helicon aren't playing in the same ground, specially for vocal stuff. But they can be 'added', 'mixed', 'combinated', 'chained', 'Wiiremote'... with fun, art, creativity and genius...Statistics: Posted by Vincent — 26 Sep 2008, 22:33
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