What is 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.
Quick start
Get a result with Scorchit Raw in under a minute.
- Insert it. Put Scorchit Raw on the track or bus you want to change.
- Turn SCORCH up. Raise SCORCH until it sounds right. Auto-gain keeps the level matched.
- Compare. Bypass the plugin in your DAW to hear the difference.
The interface
Controls
Header
- 1Fire Head: click the flame logo to open the About panel: what the plugin is, who made it and the trademark notices. Click anywhere in the panel to close it.
The knob
- 2SCORCH: a single macro that controls drive intensity, and as it climbs, the vocal formant character opens up with it. At low settings you get gentle, warm saturation. Push it and the formant filter bank glides open, revealing a singing, vowel-like color on top of the heat. Automatic gain compensation keeps the output level-matched at every position, so your A/B comparison is honest.
Key specs*
| 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. |
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| 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 color; 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. |
| Controls | One knob, SCORCH |
| Formats | macOS: AU, VST3, CLAP, AAX, Standalone. Windows: VST3, CLAP, Standalone |
* Key specs from the plugin page. Some specs may not be listed.
How do I use Scorchit Raw on a track?
- Insert it. Put Scorchit Raw on the track or bus you want to change.
- Turn SCORCH up. Raise SCORCH until it sounds right. At low settings you get gentle, warm saturation. Push it and the formant filter bank glides open, revealing a singing, vowel-like color on top of the heat.
What about the full Scorchit?
Love the heat? The full Scorchit goes deeper. The Pro version adds four saturation modes (Warm/Grit/Tape/Tube), a 5-band formant filter bank, a vowel-lock system, formant entropy (Melt) drift, envelope modulation from a dropped sample, tone shaping, and 15 factory presets. Every control is explained in the Scorchit manual.
Keyboard and mouse shortcuts
These work in every Scorchit Raw format (AU, VST3, CLAP, AAX, Standalone).
| Reset a control to its default | Double-click the knob or slider |
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| Scroll to change a value | Hover over a knob and scroll the mouse wheel |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Scorchit Raw free?
Yes. Scorchit Raw is completely free: freeware, no trial, no nag screens, no expiration.
What does the SCORCH knob do?
SCORCH is a macro that drives warm analog saturation while opening up its vocal formant character as you push it. It runs HQ-oversampled with automatic gain compensation, so you get singing harmonic heat with no volume spikes.
What makes Scorchit's saturation different?
Drive and vocal character are linked. As you push the SCORCH knob, the formant filter bank glides open, adding a singing, vowel-like quality on top of the harmonic heat: the signature move of the full Scorchit.
How is Scorchit Raw different from Scorchit (Pro)?
Scorchit Raw gives you the formant-linked saturation behind a single SCORCH knob with auto gain. The full Scorchit adds four saturation modes, a 5-band formant filter bank, a vowel-lock system, formant entropy (Melt), envelope modulation, tone shaping, and 15 factory presets.
Does Scorchit Raw run on Apple Silicon and Windows?
Yes. Scorchit Raw is a Universal Binary that runs natively on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and Intel Macs, and ships as a 64-bit build for Windows 10 and 11.
Do I need the Pro version of Scorchit?
No. Scorchit Raw is a complete, free, fully working plugin: the whole formant-linked saturation engine driven by one SCORCH knob, level-matched and HQ-oversampled. The full Scorchit just adds more control: four saturation modes, the 5-band formant filter bank, a vowel-lock system, formant entropy (Melt), envelope modulation, tone shaping, and 15 factory presets.
Where can I find more about Scorchit Raw?
On the Scorchit Raw page: its features, system requirements and how to get it.
How do I get and install Scorchit Raw?
- Get it. Scorchit Raw is free. Get it from the Scorchit Raw page.
- Run the installer. On macOS, double-click the .pkg file and choose AU, VST3, CLAP, AAX or Standalone. On Windows, run the .exe installer and choose VST3, CLAP or Standalone.
- Open your DAW. Restart your DAW and rescan plugins if needed, then find Scorchit Raw under Remi Blaze in your plugin list.
More about Scorchit Raw, including its features and system requirements, is on the Scorchit Raw page.
Where are the plugin files?
If you need to find Scorchit Raw on disk, for example to troubleshoot or to uninstall it manually, these are the standard locations.
| macOS AU | ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/ |
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| macOS VST3 | ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/ |
| macOS CLAP | ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/CLAP/ |
| macOS AAX | /Library/Application Support/Avid/Audio/Plug-Ins/ |
| Windows VST3 | C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\ |
| Windows CLAP | C:\Program Files\Common Files\CLAP\ |
To uninstall, quit your DAW and delete the Scorchit Raw file from the relevant folder. Your DAW will stop listing it on its next rescan.
Need help with Scorchit Raw?
If something isn't covered here, or Scorchit Raw doesn't behave as described, contact support or email support@remiblaze.com. To get an answer faster, include:
- your operating system and version (for example macOS 15.6 or Windows 11)
- your DAW and its version
- the format you're using (AU, VST3, CLAP, AAX or Standalone)
- the version you installed (shown in the installer and in your download), since the About panel of every Raw shows v1.0.0
- what you did, what you expected, and what happened instead
This manual is for Scorchit Raw 1.0.1. Controls and settings can change between versions, so if something here doesn't match what you see, check the version shown in your installer or download. Spotted a mistake or have a question? Let us know.