Plugin for Formant Shifting

[penguinpajamas]

Hey guys! So I'm starting to realize that there's tons of awesome tonal stuff that can be accomplished with formant shifting, however, I don't currently possess anything to do it with. I've heard Melodyne is pretty great, but it's extremely pricey, especially when all I really want is formant shifting and not all of the pitch and time correction stuff.

So does anyone know of any plugins that you can recommend for formant shifting?

Thanks,
Charlie

[jlgrimes]

Hey guys! So I'm starting to realize that there's tons of awesome tonal stuff that can be accomplished with formant shifting, however, I don't currently possess anything to do it with. I've heard Melodyne is pretty great, but it's extremely pricey, especially when all I really want is formant shifting and not all of the pitch and time correction stuff.

So does anyone know of any plugins that you can recommend for formant shifting?

Thanks,
Charlie

Autotune. There might be something in Max4Live even.

Both Melodyne and Autotune are pricey but both have limited models which start around $100. I'm not sure though at what price point though they start offering the formant mode.

If you are on PC, Gsnap is a freeware autotune plugin. Reaper also has a suite of free effects on of them does pitch correction but then again not sure if it does formant.

If you have Reaktor or Max someone might have created something that does this.

[jlgrimes]

Hey guys! So I'm starting to realize that there's tons of awesome tonal stuff that can be accomplished with formant shifting, however, I don't currently possess anything to do it with. I've heard Melodyne is pretty great, but it's extremely pricey, especially when all I really want is formant shifting and not all of the pitch and time correction stuff.

So does anyone know of any plugins that you can recommend for formant shifting?

Thanks,
Charlie

Someone created a Live Rack that does this using a bunch of EQ8s.

[penguinpajamas]

Just to reiterate, I'm not looking for vowel filters using formants so much as a formant shifter so I could get the effect where it sounds like something like a voice is dropping in pitch when only the timbre changes and the pitch stays intact.

[yur2die4]

Kerovee. Free vst. Turn off the hard tuning and have at the formant wildness.

[rinkybink]

I asked about this a few months ago and never got a reply. This would be something like I have in my Roland VS-890 or the Roland Voice Transformer stand alone effects box, which I don't have.

I would love to have this, too. I'm on a Mac. A M4L device would be great.

[penguinpajamas]

Kerovee. Free vst. Turn off the hard tuning and have at the formant wildness.

I heard it was only for Windows. Is that true?

[TomViolenz]

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[re:dream]

Robert Henke has a very nice M4L formant plugin on his site here: http://www.roberthenke.com/technology/m4l.html

[moscom_musik]

It reminds me of what you can do with NI Razor, where you have the ability to move only the partials and leave the fundamental untouched. As I was interested in this, I did a similar search as the OP's, and only found Melodyne though . I could not find any M4L device that would work in a spirit close to that of Melodyne regarding partial modulation.

[Michael Hatsis]

My favorite is the reason thingie - Neptune. that thing is just bananas. Such a shame that it's so cumbersome to pipe audio from Live to reason.
Izotope Nectar has a nice formant shifter if you don't want to go the ilok route w autotune. Also, someone did make an autotune thingie for MFL if your into that sort of thing. it was back when MFL first came out. i forget the name, it was something poking at antares autotune, like autotalent or something.

mike

[3dot...]

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar01/a ... nthsec.asp

also... Live's vocoder has a 'Formant' knob ,, wink wink