Don't just shift the formant on a single track. Duplicate your vocal. Leave one dry (normal). Shift the duplicate's formant down by -3. Blend them together. This creates a "thickened" lead vocal that sounds like a choir of the same person with different body sizes.

Take a rap vocal. Add MAutoPitch. Set Pitch to 0. Set Formant to -4.00. Add a low pass filter (cut at 5kHz). Add heavy reverb. This creates that "drunk," sleepy, deeply resonant vocal that is popular in Lo-Fi and alternative RnB.

In the world of music production and audio editing, pitch is only half the story. While everyone knows how to change the note of a vocal or a synth with a standard pitch shifter, the true secret to alien voices, monstrous characters, and "gender-bending" vocal effects lies in a different process: Formant Shifting.

If you have ever searched the internet for the phrase "formant shift vst free download free," you are likely already aware of how expensive this technology can be. (Looking at you, Little AlterBoy and Soundtoys).

But here is the good news: You do not need to spend $100 to change the vocal size of your singer. In this article, we will break down what formant shifting actually is, why you need it, and provide a curated list of the absolute best free VST plugins for formant manipulation available right now.

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