Transformant: Create Unique Voice Timbres and Unearthly Sounds
Discover Transformant by igorski, a multi-channel formant filter designed not to create clean and angelic choirs, but to achieve rough, croaking, and nasal sounds. This plugin is a powerful tool for sound designers and musicians looking for custom textures and vocal-like effects.
Unlike traditional filters, Transformant allows you to create a sound with a unique character by imitating or distorting the human voice and other resonant sounds. It’s the perfect choice if you want to add aggression, experimentation, and uniqueness to your audio.
Key Features of Transformant:
- A multi-channel formant filter specialized in creating rough, croaking, and nasal tones.
- The ability to independently control and shape the sound within the stereo field thanks to separate oscillators and formant (“vowel”) controls.
- Built-in distortion circuit to emphasize even and odd harmonics, adding dirt and aggression to the sound.
- Optimized for use with audio material rich in spectral components, such as dusty bass, drums, and synthesizers.
- The ability to extract completely unexpected and “unearthly” sounds even from ordinary sources with fine-tuning of parameters.
Application potential:
Transformant is great for processing synthesizer parts, especially leads and basses, giving them an aggressive “singing” character. It can also dramatically change the sound of drums and percussion, turning them into strange, resonant objects. Experiment with vocals (although not for a “pure” effect), guitars, or any other sound to open up new horizons of sound textures.
The plugin provides ample opportunities for creative manipulation of formants, allowing you to literally “sculpt” the sound. A separate control for stereo channels expands the panorama and adds dynamics, and the built-in distortion is the final touch to saturate and punch up the mix.
The Igorski Transformant is not just a filter, it’s a tool for bold sound experiments. If you’re tired of standard effects and are looking for a way to make your sound truly unique and expressive, this plugin is a must-have in your collection. Get ready to explore new, sometimes strange, but always interesting soundscapes.
The plugin is available in VST format for Windows (64-bit) and MacOS operating systems.
