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THROAT

Reshape any voice. Keep the pitch.

THROAT reshapes the vocal tract, not the performance. Move the formants, the gender, the tilt and the resonance, and the pitch comes out exactly as it went in. Not because it was corrected, but because the maths never touches it.

The THROAT plug-in interface: VOICE section with Shift, Gender, Tilt and Focus, a Motion section, Steal timbre transfer, and the Output row with Mix, Trim, Drive and Protect.
THROAT · formant character, pitch untouched
Try it here

Move the voice yourself.

This is not a video and not a simulation. It is THROAT's own engine compiled to run in your browser, processing a real acapella live. Turn the knobs. The pitch will not move.

Source
0.0 st Shift
Try

Press play

Drag a knob, or use the arrow keys. Double click to reset.

+0 % Gender

Audio used with permission. THROAT runs at 21 ms of latency here, exactly as it does in your DAW.

The idea

Change the voice. Not the take.

Every voice is a pitch and a tube. THROAT leaves the pitch alone and reshapes the tube, so a performance keeps its timing, its phrasing and its intonation while the character in front of it changes completely.

The tube

A vocal tract you can move

SHIFT lengthens or shortens the throat, GENDER scales the formants between male and female, FOCUS sharpens or softens the resonances, and TILT sets the brightness. Small moves flatter a take. Large ones make a different singer.

The pitch

Mathematically out of reach

The engine warps the spectral envelope and nothing else. Bins never move, the hop never changes, the phase is left alone. There is no pitch tracking to drift and no grains to respace, so there is no wobble to tune out.

Inside THROAT

Four knobs make the voice.

A true spectral envelope, tracked independently of the singer's pitch, then warped exactly where you ask and nowhere else.

01

SHIFT

Formant shift, ±12 semitones. Down for a bigger, darker throat, up for a smaller, brighter one. The note stays where the singer left it.

02

GENDER

Scales the formants across the male and female range, ±100%. The fastest route from a voice to a different person.

03

PROTECT

Consonants and sibilants are guarded while the vowels move, so a big shift keeps its diction instead of lisping. Starts at 75%, and you will want it there.

04

FOCUS & TILT

FOCUS tightens or softens the resonances. TILT tips the whole spectrum, ±6 dB per octave, for brightness that follows the voice rather than an EQ curve.

05

MOTION

Move the formants or the tilt on their own, 0.05 to 12 Hz. Slow for a voice that breathes, fast for something that should not be human.

06

DRIVE & MIX

DRIVE saturates the effect, not the source. MIX blends to a latency-matched dry, so a partial setting never phases against the original.

Steal · timbre transfer

Take a voice. Wear it.

GRAB captures the vocal-tract signature of any voice you play it. STEAL moves your source toward it, MORPH travels between two of them.

01

Grab A, Grab B

Play a voice and capture its envelope. Two slots, so you always have somewhere to travel from and somewhere to travel to.

02

Steal

Blend your singer toward the captured timbre. At low amounts it is a family resemblance. High up it is somebody else entirely.

03

Morph

Ride between A and B. Automate it and the voice changes identity across a line, still on pitch, still in time.

The null

At SHIFT 0, GENDER 0 and no vowel colour, the warp gain is exactly 1 and the engine hands back what you fed it. Line the output up against the dry, at exactly the latency THROAT reports, and the residual sits more than 75 dB down: far below anything you will ever hear. THROAT sitting on a channel doing nothing does nothing, and that is measured, not promised. SOLO hands you the difference so you can hear precisely what it added.

The details

Specifications

Type
Formant, gender and vocal-tract character shaper
Engine
Fixed-hop STFT envelope warp, true-envelope estimation, independent of the singer's pitch
Pitch & timing
Never modified. Bins do not move and the hop is constant, so identity settings null against the input
Voice
SHIFT ±12 st · GENDER ±100% · TILT ±6 dB/oct · FOCUS ±100%
Motion
Formant or tilt, 0.05 to 12 Hz, depth 0 to 100%
Steal
Two capture slots, steal amount and A to B morph
Output
MIX to latency-matched dry · TRIM ±12 dB · DRIVE · PROTECT · SOLO to hear the difference
Readouts
Live F1, F2 and F3 formants, latency, input and output meters
Formats
AU · VST3 · AAX · macOS & Windows
Licence
Free with a bundle purchase in this drop, or €35 / $39 on its own. One-time, two machines, no subscription
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