Nudist Audio has announced the release of Fermenter, a strange new timbral-shifting plugin that works on any source.
On vocals and other monophonic signals, Fermenter sounds like something like a formant shifter with a distinctly dirty and unpredictable character. But it can also uniquely alter the timbre of polyphonic signals, like guitars, pianos, synths, and even drums, all with zero latency. On some settings, it acts more like a strange distortion, harmonically warping signals beyond recognition and pulling overtones seemingly out of nowhere.
Under the hood, Fermenter is a high-throughput resampler: it deconstructs audio into thousands of small chunks, and then reconstructs the chunks in an altered way. In this way, it functions differently from a standard formant shifter, which shifts the spectral peaks of a signal. This is how it can function with zero latency.
Fermenter includes knobs to adjust the character of the timbral-shifting process, tone controls, an extensive modulation system, and a “Weirdo Knobs” section with other abnormal digital algorithms.
Fermenter is available for $40 at nudistaudio.com in VST3, AU, and AAX formats for macOS and Windows.
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