This was inspired by Jakub Ciupinski’s idea of feeding audio into the Random module to make a resampler, which then goes through a filter for a formant effect (Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1TH2-fVrYM). I wanted to try this on guitar, with an expression pedal connected to my MIDI foot controller for a kind of talk box. The guitar didn’t really have the right frequency range to make it work, until I had the idea of running the signal through a clock divider first. This is basically an octaver, but it’s absolutely filthy on guitar.
I also mixed in some of the original guitar sound on a separate channel just to make the notes clearer, and added a few VST effects using Host (reverb, delay and chorus). NOTE: If you don’t have the VCV Host module, substitute the send effects for other modules – Plateau for reverb, Chronoblob for delay and the Rackwindows or Surge chorus would be just as good.
I can’t think of any musical application for this sound at all, but if you have an expression controller and want to make a horrible talk box effect in VCV, now you can.