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Flanger
This device was built from a c74 mps tutorial on flanging. Here is a summary of the info from the tutorial.
When a signal with a time-varying delay (especially a very short delay) is added together with the original undelayed signal, the result is a continually varying comb filter effect known as flanging. Flanging can create both subtle and extreme effects, depending on the rate and depth of the modulation.
The output of cycle~ is multiplied by 0.25 to scale its amplitude. That signal is multiplied by the basic delay time of 100 ms, to create a signal with an amplitude ±25. When that signal is added to the basic delay time, the result is a signal that varies sinusoidally around the basic delay time of 100, going as low as 75 and as high as 125. This is used to express the delay time in milliseconds to the tapout~ object.
Flanging usually happens at no more than 20ms delay and you are modulating the delay time here continuously.

FormantFilter
Formants are resonant frequencies in the vocal tract that we associate with vowel sounds. Here this process is recreated using 3 resonant bandpass filters, boosting the three most distinctive frequencies associated with common vowel sounds.
The frequencies here were taken from the average vowel formants for a male voice (in Hz) found on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formant
i 240 2400 2160
y 235 2100 1865
e 390 2300 1910
ø 370 1900 1530
ɛ 610 1900 1290
æ 585 1710 1125
a 850 1610 760
ɶ 820 1530 710
ɑ 750 940 190
ɒ 700 760 60
ʌ 600 1170 570
ɔ 500 70 200
ɤ 460 1310 850
o 360 640 280
ɯ 300 1390 1090
u 250 595 345

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