I think a reason that some of the tweaks you made didn't have as noticeable effect as you would have thought was because there are separate wet/dry sliders for both the grain controls section and for the plugin as a whole. Even after you adjusted the main wet/dry to fully wet, you were still getting 50% dry signal, which made it less clear what exactly each of the knobs were doing. Great video, though.
Yeah it really is helpful to work that way. The hardest thing is getting comfortable with composing a song with less than ideal sounds in place. I try to see my song writing times in a similar way to sketching out an illustration or design. It's going to look ugly and rough, because it's supposed. And that's ok, but can be so hard to be comfortable with haha! Thanks for the sub by the way!
Nice! It's so good to meet you! I love finding out that I have friends in other countries. And I'm happy to know that the subtitles were in Portuguese.
Yeah it is definitely a crazy plugin. It took me forever to know what to do with it. But now I at least try using it in everything. Hope you find yourself a lot more out of it!
Your room is sick! It's so light 🥹❤️ Too many producers sit in pitch black rooms with no light or oxygen. God bless you man. I bought Portal but only used it once. This video was actually helpful and i'll use it on my chords next time 🙏🏽🔊
Thanks, glad you like the room! If you go through my videos, my room has changed around 3-4 times. My current setup is finally what I'll have for the long term. Still aiming for a light and bright set up, because I agree, there needs to be more bright setups. And happy to hear that these tips could help. Portal is a hard one to get control of, but once you do, it does wonders.
It's a really good plugin. I still keep going back for it, for so many reasons. Lately, I've been using their delay presets whenever I want a creative sounding delay. If you want to compare it to something similar, check out Arturia's Efx Fragments. It's another granular effects plugin. It's great as well, I would even say a little easier to use than Portal. If you're interested here's a vid all about Fragments: ruclips.net/video/CR8qaEZCGYI/видео.html
Thanks, this video helped me out a LOT! How better can it get? Great commentary, Great music production, and GREAT QUALITY! Keep up the good work man! Your channel is definitely an under-rated RUclips channel, I hope you make it to 1 million one day.
daaaang, I'm taking a screenshot of this comment! This meant a lot to me. Thanks for watching and giving me that encouragement. I never take these kinds of comments for granted.
I would love to watch long form content of yours just making a full track start to finish. Your music is really cool and I’d love to see your process. Have you considered live streaming?
Hey! Thanks for the kind words. Little known fact about me is that I’m a dad. Which means that I barely have time to take a shower most days. So for now, live streaming is off the table. What I find that’s doable in this season is making videos around reviews and tutorials. Right now those are simple enough to do well. But maybe when my kid(s) need less of my attention, I’ll happily start to venture into different video formats.
I felt the exact same way when I first grabbed Portal. I knew it could do amazing things but couldn't quite figure it out. Hopefully what I learned is able to help you get the most out of this plugin. Because once it clicks, you'll become so grateful you spent that small fortune on the plugin
I love portal so much too! Glad you liked the video. In a couple days I'm going to release another video that digs even deeper. We'll go through the knobs in the advanced panel and learn what they do. It's going to be a doozy, but so worth it if you want to become an even bigger master of this plugin.
Niiice! Portal is a such a good plugin. It's kind of hard to understand at first which I why I made this video about it. Glad it could help you out, have fun with it!
Hey thanks for watching and sharing your support! It always means a ton when I hear that. Portal is a beast, have fun making all kinds of textures, glitches, and weirdness with it.
@@ThisIsOnesto creativity does matter as well, besides mixing. That's why Portal is one of the greatest tools for being a creative producer. This video realized me that:)
Onesto this video about Portal IMO was perfect!! Because it really took the weight off understanding Portal and how you went about the tips truly helped me master this plugin now, thank you for your time, explanation and attitude! No offense to Output but their demonstration and another paid video by a company explaining Portal wasn’t that good. You know how sometimes people with big brains can’t simplify something? That’s my issue with them but you did outstanding!!
Woah woah woah, that's all high praise. That's pretty much why I wanted to create this video. I knew this plugin was a gem, but whenever I tried to learn it, I left feeling more stumped. Hopefully you can have a lot more fun surprising yourself with what Portal can do!
That's exactly how I felt before making this video! Hopefully you'll know how to better tweak and sort through those presets. Thanks for watching and the support!
Sei il benvenuto, non posso fare a meno di essere onesto. È il mio cognome ma anche un tratto che è molto profondo nella mia famiglia, nel bene e nel male ahah!
great vid mate. love that the song examples you're making are actually really good too. dumb questions as im pretty new to plugins and looking for black friday stuff. which do you prefer, portal or quanta? seems like i enjoyed the sounds you were making in your quanta vid more with that iglooghost feel. looks like they do different things, but could that iglooghost example be similarly achieved in portal or could the sounds in this vid here be achieved in quanta?
Thanks for watching! Glad you're liking the examples from the videos. And get ready to find dive into the world of plugins. It's great. Iglooghost is doing some great work. Here's how I would describe the difference between the two. They both utilize granular synthesis. Quanta is a granular synthesizer (an instrument), Portal is a granular synthesis effect (you run other instruments into it). If you're new to plugins i would recommend Quanta. It's simpler and you'll have more control. I think quanta is easier to wrap your head around. You can get Iglooghost textures and sounds with both though.
Hey! This is the best news that I can hear, glad this tutorial could help you out. Portal is really fun to use but definitely isn't the easiest to understand
Great question, latency and CPU usage is really low. I just did a quick test by placing like 10 Portals on an audio track and there was no latency and CPU load was quite low for having 10 instances of Portal. I also tried running Portal through a Kontakt library and same thing, zero- to-low latency and low CPU usage. Thanks for watching!
I have portal, I really want to like it, but then get this instant sense of relief when I remove it from my sound. It just makes things sound weird, maybe it’s good for everything but mainstream pop lol
I know what you mean, and it’s one issue I came across when I first used Portal. What might help is using Portal for Ear Candy. When Portal is the focus of a song, it doesn’t like to fit in a lot of use cases, but I find that if it’s used to create weird interesting sounds in the background, it becomes a lot more fun and successful to use. I hope you have more luck that way. Thanks for watching!
@@ThisIsOnesto I did gather that, then i just found it annoying to have to find a way to always make it work. then i slowly just forgot about it. I really like its concept and all, but i tend to find that all these clever, modulating plugins are never for mainstream pop.
Yeah that can be annoying, here's what I would do. Open up Portal and press the save button. The window that pops up should show you where your user presets are located. From there I would find that folder again outside of your DAW and then drag out or do whatever you want with your preset files. This is a round about way, but right now there's not an official way to export presets inside of Portal that I know of. Hope this helps.
Thank you for the video man ! I have a beginner's question : How can I assign the preset movements to my modwheel, or to my midi modulation (or any other way) so I can basically "record" the changes permanently ? You know what I mean ? Cause right now I'm just playing with the mouse and moving the dots, but I can't figure out how to use it in my tracks... The same question goes for Signal, Substance, Movement, etc...
Thanks for watching! That's a good question. I just checked in Portal itself and it looks like you aren't able to assign these parameters within the plugin. But maybe try right clicking any of the macros or knobs in portal and seeing is an option appears for assigning to a knob. If that doesn't work you'll need to assign the Portal parameters (to your mod wheel or midi controller knobs) through your DAW. That looks a little different for every DAW, but it's usually quite easy and one of those essential things to know about. Hope that helps!
I'm sorry to say, but I got rid of the preset link. It just wasn't used enough for me to keep up with it. I thought people would be more interested, but they weren't. Thanks for watching though!
Hey I just looked into this and it seems that Portal should be compatible with Catalina which is OS X 10.15. Portal requires that your Mac OS be at least OS X 10.9 or higher. Here's Portal's support page that you can check out and hopefully find the answer you're looking for: support.output.com/en/support/solutions/articles/1000278453-manual-system-requirements
Sorry to hear that this video wasn't inspiring you enough 🫂. Here's a couple of things you can check out. 1. Check out this video from oversampled. He's one of my favorite producers to learn from. ruclips.net/video/H51cXx-YFnQ/видео.html If you drop in at 8:55 you'll start to see him demonstrate some Portal magic. 2. If that still isn't doing it for you, try watching the videos in this playlist that I put together. ruclips.net/p/PLHQ_I1uNdUgmeMGewPbePR3Kjyqpvkysz you'll see that videos 1 and 2 are mine, but videos 3-5 are other ones that I think show off Portal well.
I use presets for a few reasons. When it comes to a deep plugin like Portal, I use presets to quickly get me to a starting point that I like. Once I find a preset I like, I'll tweak a few controls to see if I can make it better. Another reason why I love presets is that I know someone has spent their time, effort, and applied their expertise to a tool that's often brand new to me. If someone wants to pass on their help, I'll gladly take it. What are your thoughts about using presets?
I think it's alright to use them, but not to demonstrate an understanding of the VST and especially to not teach people how to use it. I'm just being honest, but I think it's a waste of time learning from people who use presets in their demonstration. We can do that on our own time. As content creators, why would we want to learn from someone who uses Other peoples' work as your own demonstration? @@ThisIsOnesto
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This is a really beautiful track, it’s always nice when tutorials are made in the context of well made tracks
Thanks for letting me know, that means a lot!
I think a reason that some of the tweaks you made didn't have as noticeable effect as you would have thought was because there are separate wet/dry sliders for both the grain controls section and for the plugin as a whole. Even after you adjusted the main wet/dry to fully wet, you were still getting 50% dry signal, which made it less clear what exactly each of the knobs were doing. Great video, though.
The sound design sessions tip is great! Definitely takes pressure away from feeling I have to create a whole track by a certain time.
Yeah it really is helpful to work that way. The hardest thing is getting comfortable with composing a song with less than ideal sounds in place.
I try to see my song writing times in a similar way to sketching out an illustration or design. It's going to look ugly and rough, because it's supposed. And that's ok, but can be so hard to be comfortable with haha!
Thanks for the sub by the way!
Congratulations! I loved especially because there is a subtitle in Portuguese. Greetings from Brazil!!!
Nice! It's so good to meet you! I love finding out that I have friends in other countries.
And I'm happy to know that the subtitles were in Portuguese.
Thanks for the tutorial, I have no idea how to use this crazy plugin before.
Yeah it is definitely a crazy plugin. It took me forever to know what to do with it. But now I at least try using it in everything. Hope you find yourself a lot more out of it!
Your room is sick! It's so light 🥹❤️
Too many producers sit in pitch black rooms with no light or oxygen. God bless you man.
I bought Portal but only used it once. This video was actually helpful and i'll use it on my chords next time 🙏🏽🔊
Thanks, glad you like the room! If you go through my videos, my room has changed around 3-4 times. My current setup is finally what I'll have for the long term. Still aiming for a light and bright set up, because I agree, there needs to be more bright setups.
And happy to hear that these tips could help. Portal is a hard one to get control of, but once you do, it does wonders.
You are correct, after watching this video I do now want Portal 😊
It's a really good plugin. I still keep going back for it, for so many reasons. Lately, I've been using their delay presets whenever I want a creative sounding delay.
If you want to compare it to something similar, check out Arturia's Efx Fragments. It's another granular effects plugin. It's great as well, I would even say a little easier to use than Portal. If you're interested here's a vid all about Fragments: ruclips.net/video/CR8qaEZCGYI/видео.html
These videos are amazing, really smooth production on them too and nice timeline grouping. Keep it up!!!!!
Nice! Thanks for so saying those things. I'm always trying to make these videos as useful as possible and as least annoying as possible.
Thanks, this video helped me out a LOT! How better can it get? Great commentary, Great music production, and GREAT QUALITY!
Keep up the good work man!
Your channel is definitely an under-rated RUclips channel, I hope you make it to 1 million one day.
daaaang, I'm taking a screenshot of this comment! This meant a lot to me. Thanks for watching and giving me that encouragement. I never take these kinds of comments for granted.
I would love to watch long form content of yours just making a full track start to finish. Your music is really cool and I’d love to see your process. Have you considered live streaming?
Hey! Thanks for the kind words. Little known fact about me is that I’m a dad. Which means that I barely have time to take a shower most days. So for now, live streaming is off the table. What I find that’s doable in this season is making videos around reviews and tutorials. Right now those are simple enough to do well. But maybe when my kid(s) need less of my attention, I’ll happily start to venture into different video formats.
I needed this. I have Portal and just click through presets and they are just too crazy sounding.
I felt the exact same way when I first grabbed Portal. I knew it could do amazing things but couldn't quite figure it out. Hopefully what I learned is able to help you get the most out of this plugin. Because once it clicks, you'll become so grateful you spent that small fortune on the plugin
Fantastic video. I really enjoy Portal. Thanks for digging deeper.
I love portal so much too! Glad you liked the video. In a couple days I'm going to release another video that digs even deeper. We'll go through the knobs in the advanced panel and learn what they do. It's going to be a doozy, but so worth it if you want to become an even bigger master of this plugin.
This Is Onesto Great, thanks. Looking forward to it!
This was a great tutorial for a plugin I have been wanting for a while now! I will definitely be copping this soon!
Niiice! Portal is a such a good plugin. It's kind of hard to understand at first which I why I made this video about it. Glad it could help you out, have fun with it!
Thanks man! I just got portal and haven't made something with it yet, You deserve way more subs
Hey thanks for watching and sharing your support! It always means a ton when I hear that.
Portal is a beast, have fun making all kinds of textures, glitches, and weirdness with it.
Wow, so mindblowing. I thought I don't need this plugin. Thanks Onesto!
Portal is a pretty amazing plugin, but can be difficult to understand. Hopefully this inspires you! Thanks again for watching!
@@ThisIsOnesto creativity does matter as well, besides mixing. That's why Portal is one of the greatest tools for being a creative producer. This video realized me that:)
Onesto this video about Portal IMO was perfect!! Because it really took the weight off understanding Portal and how you went about the tips truly helped me master this plugin now, thank you for your time, explanation and attitude! No offense to Output but their demonstration and another paid video by a company explaining Portal wasn’t that good. You know how sometimes people with big brains can’t simplify something? That’s my issue with them but you did outstanding!!
Woah woah woah, that's all high praise. That's pretty much why I wanted to create this video. I knew this plugin was a gem, but whenever I tried to learn it, I left feeling more stumped.
Hopefully you can have a lot more fun surprising yourself with what Portal can do!
wow this is such a great tutorial! ♥
Hey! Thanks for watching, and I’m so happy you found the tutorial helpful. It always means a lot hearing that from anyone watching.
your content is great! Keep it up!
Hey! Thanks for sharing that. Glad you're liking the content. I'm still figuring things out, so I hope you stick around.
Commenting for the algorithm.
Finally! Thank you! I've been trying to use this plugin for a year now, but the presets are way too busy! 🐐
That's exactly how I felt before making this video! Hopefully you'll know how to better tweak and sort through those presets.
Thanks for watching and the support!
4:00 nice track
Thanks, it was just a little vibe that I put together.Still learning how to get my full tracks feeling this good.
grazie Onesto sei stato onesto
Sei il benvenuto, non posso fare a meno di essere onesto. È il mio cognome ma anche un tratto che è molto profondo nella mia famiglia, nel bene e nel male ahah!
ma ? 🇮🇹😂
great vid mate. love that the song examples you're making are actually really good too. dumb questions as im pretty new to plugins and looking for black friday stuff. which do you prefer, portal or quanta? seems like i enjoyed the sounds you were making in your quanta vid more with that iglooghost feel. looks like they do different things, but could that iglooghost example be similarly achieved in portal or could the sounds in this vid here be achieved in quanta?
Thanks for watching! Glad you're liking the examples from the videos. And get ready to find dive into the world of plugins. It's great.
Iglooghost is doing some great work. Here's how I would describe the difference between the two.
They both utilize granular synthesis. Quanta is a granular synthesizer (an instrument), Portal is a granular synthesis effect (you run other instruments into it).
If you're new to plugins i would recommend Quanta. It's simpler and you'll have more control. I think quanta is easier to wrap your head around. You can get Iglooghost textures and sounds with both though.
Nice tuto
Hey thanks so much 🫂
🌀Start making crazy stuff with Portal : bit.ly/portal-o 🌀
Yo ! Thanks for checking out this tutorial!
Hey! This is the best news that I can hear, glad this tutorial could help you out.
Portal is really fun to use but definitely isn't the easiest to understand
@@auraldecoy niiiiice
thanks onesto!
You're very welcome, thanks for watching!
hi great video, can we use portal for live shows or it have latency/ cpu overload?
Great question, latency and CPU usage is really low. I just did a quick test by placing like 10 Portals on an audio track and there was no latency and CPU load was quite low for having 10 instances of Portal. I also tried running Portal through a Kontakt library and same thing, zero- to-low latency and low CPU usage.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks . Is there an option to midi learn the X/Y axes to a midi controller ( joystick ) ?
I have portal, I really want to like it, but then get this instant sense of relief when I remove it from my sound. It just makes things sound weird, maybe it’s good for everything but mainstream pop lol
I know what you mean, and it’s one issue I came across when I first used Portal. What might help is using Portal for Ear Candy. When Portal is the focus of a song, it doesn’t like to fit in a lot of use cases, but I find that if it’s used to create weird interesting sounds in the background, it becomes a lot more fun and successful to use. I hope you have more luck that way. Thanks for watching!
@@ThisIsOnesto I did gather that, then i just found it annoying to have to find a way to always make it work. then i slowly just forgot about it. I really like its concept and all, but i tend to find that all these clever, modulating plugins are never for mainstream pop.
Hey brotha. Can you tell me how to export the presets I’ve made to make my own preset pack? It’s driving me crazy
Yeah that can be annoying, here's what I would do.
Open up Portal and press the save button. The window that pops up should show you where your user presets are located.
From there I would find that folder again outside of your DAW and then drag out or do whatever you want with your preset files.
This is a round about way, but right now there's not an official way to export presets inside of Portal that I know of.
Hope this helps.
@@ThisIsOnesto thank u for replying ! Trying this now
Thank you for the video man ! I have a beginner's question : How can I assign the preset movements to my modwheel, or to my midi modulation (or any other way)
so I can basically "record" the changes permanently ? You know what I mean ? Cause right now I'm just playing with the mouse and moving the dots, but I can't figure out how to use it in my tracks... The same question goes for Signal, Substance, Movement, etc...
Thanks for watching! That's a good question. I just checked in Portal itself and it looks like you aren't able to assign these parameters within the plugin. But maybe try right clicking any of the macros or knobs in portal and seeing is an option appears for assigning to a knob.
If that doesn't work you'll need to assign the Portal parameters (to your mod wheel or midi controller knobs) through your DAW. That looks a little different for every DAW, but it's usually quite easy and one of those essential things to know about.
Hope that helps!
This Is Onesto thanks a lot man !
The grains vontrol screen should have an epilepsy warning.
Just wait till you see their plugin Thermal. They double-down on the flashing lights.
where's the presets link?
I'm sorry to say, but I got rid of the preset link. It just wasn't used enough for me to keep up with it.
I thought people would be more interested, but they weren't.
Thanks for watching though!
What C$122 will get me?
how to fix portal in Catalina? the vst is not compatible for this os version
Hey I just looked into this and it seems that Portal should be compatible with Catalina which is OS X 10.15.
Portal requires that your Mac OS be at least OS X 10.9 or higher.
Here's Portal's support page that you can check out and hopefully find the answer you're looking for: support.output.com/en/support/solutions/articles/1000278453-manual-system-requirements
Why i'm not impressed too much maybe i need another example of this plugin
Sorry to hear that this video wasn't inspiring you enough 🫂. Here's a couple of things you can check out.
1. Check out this video from oversampled. He's one of my favorite producers to learn from. ruclips.net/video/H51cXx-YFnQ/видео.html
If you drop in at 8:55 you'll start to see him demonstrate some Portal magic.
2. If that still isn't doing it for you, try watching the videos in this playlist that I put together. ruclips.net/p/PLHQ_I1uNdUgmeMGewPbePR3Kjyqpvkysz
you'll see that videos 1 and 2 are mine, but videos 3-5 are other ones that I think show off Portal well.
Why are you using presets
I use presets for a few reasons. When it comes to a deep plugin like Portal, I use presets to quickly get me to a starting point that I like. Once I find a preset I like, I'll tweak a few controls to see if I can make it better.
Another reason why I love presets is that I know someone has spent their time, effort, and applied their expertise to a tool that's often brand new to me. If someone wants to pass on their help, I'll gladly take it.
What are your thoughts about using presets?
I think it's alright to use them, but not to demonstrate an understanding of the VST and especially to not teach people how to use it. I'm just being honest, but I think it's a waste of time learning from people who use presets in their demonstration.
We can do that on our own time. As content creators, why would we want to learn from someone who uses Other peoples' work as your own demonstration?
@@ThisIsOnesto
I'm sorry but I had to restart it..cuz I hear porno n not portal 😂
uses bitwig. subbed
Thanks homie, the world will understand the power of bitwig one day.