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Output Audio

Thermal £134

Web output.com

Format PC/Mac, VST/AU/AAX

Output Audio’s granular multi-effects plugin, Portal, was one of our favourite software releases of last year (10/10, 273), and the follow-up, Thermal, is a three-stage creative distortion module that adapts and elaborates on the same architectural foundation.

Thermal’s main page houses a visually sexy but functionally unremarkable XY controller mapped to a macro on each

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