Scorchit Raw

One knob. Turn it up and your signal gets hotter, with a vocal, formant-like character that opens up as it drives. Scorchit Raw is the free, one-knob version of Scorchit — all the tone-shaping happens under the hood, so there's nothing to set up. Just grab the knob and add heat.

Scorchit Raw drives your signal with warm analog saturation — the same formant-linked engine from the full Scorchit, running at HQ oversampling behind one knob. It adds singing harmonic heat and vocal-like character to flat vocals, leads, and synths. The output is auto-leveled, so you hear the tone bloom, not just volume.

Warm saturation (oversampled) — a tanh soft-clip saturation stage runs inside HQ 8× oversampling for clean, anti-aliased harmonics, with drive scaling the input into the clipper as the macro opens.

Parallel vocal-formant filter bank — a 5-band bandpass bank (base frequencies 800 / 1200 / 2500 / 3500 / 4500 Hz) runs in parallel with the saturated signal, its bands shifting with a formant-link glide tied to the drive to produce the singing, vowel-like colour; a matched all-pass network keeps any dry blend phase-aligned.

Auto-gain (high-passed matching) — makeup gain is measured on the high-passed mids and tops of the pre- and post-engine signal, so it holds the level without re-inflating the low end and keeps perceived loudness steady across the sweep.

Constant latency — the oversampler is pinned to HQ and the plugin always reports the maximum HQ latency, so the reported plugin-delay compensation never changes mid-stream.

Safety chain — a 5 Hz DC blocker after saturation preserves headroom, and a gentle tanh soft-clip near 0 dBFS backed by a final NaN/Inf and hard-limit pass catches overs at the output.