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@ABowlOfEleven ABowlOfEleven released this 30 Jun 20:09
v0.2.0
5b450a9

Formant 0.2.0 is a big creative and reliability update. Your existing presets, sessions, and config keep working: new fields default cleanly when an older file loads.

Creative voice nodes

  • Pitch and formant shifter (phase vocoder). Control pitch and formant separately, in semitones: go higher or lower, change the apparent size of your voice without changing pitch, or both. Adds about one frame of latency, only when in your chain.
  • Reverb, Delay (echo), and Chorus, each with a dry/wet mix.

Metering

  • Spectrum analyzer in the Mixer, showing the frequency content of your processed voice.
  • Momentary loudness in LUFS (ITU-R BS.1770), which turns green near common streaming and voice-chat targets. Both are fed by a non-blocking tap, so the audio thread never waits.

Node editor

  • Per-node Solo to hear one node in isolation while tuning.
  • Wire removal: hover a connection's midpoint and click the handle to delete it.
  • Undo and redo (Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z, plus buttons), with edits debounced so a slider drag is one step.

Mic and setup

  • Gate auto-calibration: measures your noise floor, then your voice, and sets the gate threshold between them.
  • Device dropdowns of the detected devices, with an Advanced section that keeps substring matching.
  • Virtual cable detection: Formant tells you if no virtual cable is installed and gives a one-click link to get one.
  • A first-run welcome, a one-time tray hint, and an About panel with a Check-for-updates link (Formant never checks on its own).

Reliability

  • Crash logging with a backtrace and a dialog pointing at the log, instead of a silent exit.
  • Safe saved files: writes go through a temp file and keep a backup, so an interrupted write or format change cannot lose your work.
  • Device-loss recovery: unplug or change a device and Formant reconnects. Losing one output no longer takes down the cable.

Install

  • Run Formant-0.2.0-x64.msi for a normal install (it upgrades 0.1.0 in place), or unzip Formant-0.2.0-portable.zip and run formant.exe.
  • To route into other apps you still need a virtual audio device such as VB-CABLE (free); Formant will prompt you if one is missing.

Requires Windows 10 or 11. Free software under the GNU GPL v3 or later. See the full CHANGELOG.

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