THROAT GOAT✦Formant Shifter✦FREE✦ONE CONTROL✦WET✦ALIVE✦Take hold of it and drag. The singer gets bigger, on the same note.✦THROAT GOAT✦Formant Shifter✦FREE✦ONE CONTROL✦WET✦ALIVE✦Take hold of it and drag. The singer gets bigger, on the same note.✦THROAT GOAT✦Formant Shifter✦FREE✦ONE CONTROL✦WET✦ALIVE✦Take hold of it and drag. The singer gets bigger, on the same note.✦THROAT GOAT✦Formant Shifter✦FREE✦ONE CONTROL✦WET✦ALIVE✦Take hold of it and drag. The singer gets bigger, on the same note.✦
Your licence key arrives with the download. Paste it in the first time you open the plug-in and it works offline for good, on up to three machines. Until it is activated it runs in demo: it drops three seconds of silence in every minute.
WHO IS THROAT GOAT?
A voice is a buzz through a tube. The buzz sets the pitch and the tube's resonances set who it sounds like, so moving the resonances without moving the pitch changes the size of the singer while they go on singing the same note. One control, in semitones of throat.
There is no knob on the panel. You take hold of the throat itself and drag it open or shut, and double-click puts it back. The eyes narrow as it closes, the folds part with the level, the uvula sways behind them, and every eight seconds or so, with nothing playing at all, it swallows.
SEE IT
Seven semitones open — a bigger singer on the same noteEight down, and the eyes narrow with itSwallowing, which it does on its own with nothing playing
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WARNING LABEL
It shifts everything in the recording, not just the voice. Room tone, bleed and reverb move with the formants, and only the voice should. Past roughly a fifth in either direction it stops reading as a different-sized person and starts reading as a different-sized room, so a dry, close source gets much further than a live one. It also expects one voice: fed a chord or a full mix there is no single tract to model.
THROAT GOAT_SPECS.TXT
What it does
Shifts the formants of a voice without moving its pitch — the speaker changes size while singing the same note. Larger throat downward, smaller upward
Controls
One: FORMANT, −12 to +12 semitones, set by dragging the throat open or shut. Double-click returns it to zero
Processing
A 2048-sample STFT at 75% overlap. The spectral envelope is estimated by cepstral liftering and applied as a real, positive gain per bin, so every phase is left exactly as it was found. It is a time-varying EQ rather than a resynthesis, and it does not smear transients
Pitch
Unchanged, by construction. A per-bin gain cannot move a partial sideways, so the harmonic series stays exactly where it arrived
Latency
2048 samples, reported to the host — about 43 ms at 48 kHz, constant at every setting. Your host will compensate on playback; it is too much to monitor through while tracking
Formats
VST3, AU and CLAP, plus a standalone application
Requirements
macOS 11 or later (Universal, Apple silicon and Intel), Windows 10 or later, and Linux. 64-bit only
Updates and licence
One licence key, no account required, valid on your machines. Updates are free for the life of the product
