Welcome to SIGNAL, the world’s most powerful dedicated Pulse Engine. Whether you’re a producer or composer, performing artist or sound designer- it’s the pulse that often becomes the center of your track. SIGNAL is now your gateway there.
With a team of 70 graphic designers, sound designers, producers and developers, we set out to expand far beyond the limits of a typical synthesizer. We all love synths - and here at Output we use them every day. But by focusing on the pulse itself, we were able to create something that’s less about oscillators and hertz and more about making music.
SIGNAL’s content is massive – including over 40GB of multi-dynamic and round-robin sources. The engine combines 4 separate rhythms, all locked to your DAW and each controlled individually. These can be different rhythms playing together or combine them for one great big fat pulse. The combination of warm, fat synthetic sounds and beautiful organic instruments make for something new and not yet heard. Some of our favorite sounds combine the grit of synths and the depth of real instruments.
Under the hood, SIGNAL brings together every form of pulse making we could think of; Arpeggiators, LFO’s, step sequencers and “Looper” (a unique looping engine designed specific to SIGNAL). All patches, or Pulse Instruments as we call them, are organized by tag in the preset menu, making it very easy to access exactly what you want and saving hours of cycling through sounds. Each Pulse Instrument features its own unique set of central sliders. We’ve all become accustomed to products with one big central knob - SIGNAL has 4 and each is built for that particular Pulse Instrument. Use the sliders to make the sound your own, add continuous movement, assign it to a real knob for live use or even use our custom Lemur or Touch OSC template to tweak with an iPad. Sliders are not just effect sends, these are macros controlling multiple parameters at once. For example with a touch of a slider you can morph rhythms, control multiple filters and infinite effects combinations. And of course, everything is editable.
We didn’t want to leave any stone unturned and the result is an endlessly fun instrument with countless options. It’s dense for anyone that wants to tweak, but also simple and clean for those that want to jump right in.
NI’s Native Kontrol Standard allows all Output products to work seamlessly with Komplete Kontrol keyboards and Maschine, letting you access 1000s of snapshots and quickly dive into sound design with custom mapped control knobs.
