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Little AlterBoy

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Little AlterBoy is a vocal pitch and formant manipulation plugin that combines real-time pitch shifting with tube saturation modeling. It enables transformations ranging from simple pitch transposition to extreme effects like pitch quantization, gender and character manipulation, and robotic vocoding, making it ideal for creative vocal processing on monophonic sources.

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Key Features

01Pitch shifting up to one octave above or below
02Formant control for gender and character manipulation
03TRANSPOSE, QUANTIZE, and ROBOT operational modes
04LINK button couples Pitch and Formant for sample-style warping
05Drive control with analog-modeled tube saturation
06Mix control for dry/wet blending and harmony effects
07MIDI-mappable Pitch control for vocoder-style effects

Things to Try

  • 01Shift formant down by -1.0 to -3.0 to add depth and richness to nasal or thin background vocals
  • 02Use QUANTIZE mode with a healthy dose of DRIVE for an instant pop vocal effect
  • 03Leave LINK set to ON for DJ-style pitch warping, which produces smoother results on challenging vocal tracks
  • 04Map Pitch control to a MIDI keyboard to play intervals in TRANSPOSE and QUANTIZE modes, or create vocoder-style effects in ROBOT mode

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