VST effects plugin
Transformant provides a multichannel formant filter effect that is tailored to provide gritty, honking, nasal grunts rather than pristine angelic choirs.
The sounds can be shaped across the stereo field with separate oscillators and vowel controls while the sound can be routed through a distortion chain to really accent the odd harmonics.
Transformant works best on spectrally rich input (such as sawtooth bass or drums), but with subtle adjustment of the controls you will never know what kind of otherworldly howls you can extract from the most mundane of sound sources.
If you wish to hear the plugins sound design qualities in action, Transformant is the leading effect on Drosophelia's Detractor.
Controls
The controls for Transformant are mirrored across the left and right side of the stereo field, where the Sync control can be used to link the two channels (just their effect properties, the input signals channel amount will be respected when writing into the output).
There are basically only two sections: the Formant section and the Distortion section.
Formant
- Vowel interpolates between A, E, O, I, U vowel sounds
- Speed controls the speed of an oscillator that modulates the vowel
- Depth controls the intensity of the modulated vowel range
When the oscillator speed is set at 0, the oscillator is disabled making the vowel sound fixed.
Distortion
- Drive the amount of distortion applied to the signal
- Crush distort using bit crushing algorithm*
- Post mix whether to apply the distortion before or after the formant processing
*When Crush is disabled, a wave shaping algorithm is used instead.