🚪 Output 发布了 Portal —— 一款颗粒效果插件。 正如 Output 所宣称的，Portal 邀请您将任何输入信号通过其颗粒合成引擎进行处理，从而将“您的声音带入另一个维度”。这款插件还具备广泛的调制能力和额外的效果器。
🌾 与其他颗粒合成器及效果器（如 Granulizer 2, PolyGAS, 或 Cosmosf FX4）类似，Output Portal 将音频分割成微小的颗粒。随后对这些颗粒进行重新合成以形成输出信号，其结果可以像是原始声音的扭曲版本，或是完全不同的声音。与许多颗粒合成器不同，Portal 不要求您将采样加载到插件内部，而是将其自身作为一种效果应用于输入的音频信号。
🎛️ Portal 允许您通过密度、偏移、大小、数量和形状等参数来调整颗粒。您可以控制颗粒的音高变换，如果需要，还可以将其锁定到可选的音阶。在高级页面中，颗粒处理部分还具备时间伸缩、速度同步的颗粒延迟，以及低通和高通滤波器。
🕹 通过 X/Y 控制板调控参数
参数可映射到两个宏控件，然后您可以通过一个大型的 X/Y 控制板来控制它们。开发者借此机会集成了一些很酷的图形，让您真切地感受到将声音送入另一个维度。
📈 调制功能
对于调制，Output Portal 包含两个循环包络，它们似乎非常灵活。您可以图形化地编辑它们，并且它们似乎能呈现从简单曲线到复杂节奏模式在内的多种形状。这些包络可以控制任何参数，允许您调制颗粒合成的所有方面。
🎭 效果器
为了进一步塑造声音，Output Portal 包含了额外的效果器。有两个效果槽，每个槽中您可以加载七种效果之一。提供的效果包括：位压缩器、合唱、失真、滤波器、移相器、混响和延迟。除此之外，Output 还有一个主效果部分，包含一个立体声压缩器和主滤波器。
Output has released Portal, a granular effects plug-in. Portal invites you to run any input signal through its granular synthesis engine, taking “your sounds to another dimension”, as Output claims. The plug-in also features extensive modulation capabilities and additional effects.
Like other granular synthesizers and effects, such as Granulizer 2, PolyGAS, or Cosmosf FX4, Output Portal divides audio into small grains. These are then resynthesized to form the output signal, which can sound like a warped version of the original, or something completely different. Unlike many granular synthesizers, Portal does not require you to load a sample into the plug-in, but rather applies itself as an effect to the incoming audio signal.
Portal lets you adjust the grain with parameters like density, offset, size, count, and shape. You can control the pitch shifting of grains, which can lock to a selectable scale, if desired. The grain section, which is accessible on the advanced page, also features time stretching, tempo-syncing grain delay, and lowpass and highpass filters.
Control parameters with the X/Y pad
Parameters can be mapped to two macros, which you can then control with a large X/Y pad. The developers took the opportunity to integrate some cool graphics that really make you feel like you’re sending your sounds into another dimension.
For modulation, Output Portal includes two looping envelopes, which seem to be very flexible. You can edit them graphically, and it looks like they can take many shapes from simple curves to complex rhythmic patterns. The envelopes can control any parameter, allowing you to modulate all aspects of the granular synthesis.
Effects
To further shape the sound, Output Portal includes additional effects. There are two slots, into each of which you can load one of seven effects. Bit reducer, chorus, distortion, filter, phaser, reverb, and delay are on offer. In addition to that, Output also has a master effects section with a stereo compressor and master filters.