硬件 NightSky 是 Strymon 一款吉他混响踏板，将混响和合成器与步进音序器集成在一个踏板中，
而 NightSky 插件是官方自己复刻的插件版本，提供了实验性声音设计的强大平台，
忘记对混响的认知，以全新的方式体验氛围音乐。
Warp Space and Time.
With the NightSky plugin, you can create vast soundscapes from just a few notes, and apply pitch and harmonic manipulation to your reverb tails with synth-like filter sweeps.
It fundamentally changes what’s possible in the world of reverb, bringing new sonic inspiration with every twist of a control.
扭曲时空。
借助 NightSky 插件，你仅需几个音符即可构建浩瀚声景，并通过类似合成器的滤波扫频效果，对混响尾音施加音高与谐波调制。
它从根本上改变了混响领域的可能性，每一次旋钮的转动都将带来全新的声音灵感。
Reverberant Synthesis Disguised As A Reverb Plugin.
Underneath the hood, NightSky is actually a reverberant synthesis workstation and a powerful platform for experimental sound design.
Giving you real-time continuous control of the fundamental building blocks of reverberation, the plugin allows you to manipulate your own reality.
With NightSky you can control the pitch, processing rate and size of the reverb core,
as well as shaping the harmonic structure and utilizing a synth-like resonant filter with multiple modulation wave shapes.
There is no other plugin like it, anywhere.
伪装成混响插件的混响合成工作站。
NightSky 本质上是一个混响合成工作站，也是实验性声音设计的强大平台。
该插件让你能够实时连续控制混响的基本构建模块，从而重塑你的声音现实。
通过 NightSky，你可以控制混响核心的音高、处理速率和空间大小，
同时还能塑造谐波结构，并利用具有多种调制波形的类合成器谐振滤波器。
它是独一无二、无可替代的插件。
The Rules of Space and Time Have Been Rewritten.
Warp Core Reverb
NightSky uses a Variable Process Rate for its reverb core, which allows you to not only change the size of the reverb but the pitch of it as well.
The changes in pitch can be completely smooth or they can be quantized to a variety of different musical scales, resulting in a complete transformation for your tracks.
时空法则已被重写。
扭曲核心混响
NightSky 的混响核心采用可变处理速率，使你不仅能改变混响的空间大小，还能调整其音高。
音高变化可以是完全平滑的，也可以量化到各种不同的音阶，从而为你的音轨带来彻底的转变。
Harmonic Sculpting Machine
NightSky also includes a suite of tools to add even more complexity to the output.
Use Shimmer to shift the harmonic structure by selectable musical intervals.
Add Glimmer to dynamically enhance the harmonic spectrum.
Turn up the Drive to generate saturated and overdriven harmonics, and then sculpt the overall sound with the variable-resonance low pass filter.
谐波塑形引擎
NightSky 内置一套工具，为输出增添更多复杂性。
使用 Shimmer 功能，通过可选音程偏移谐波结构。
添加 Glimmer 效果，动态增强谐波频谱。
提升 Drive 参数，调节饱和度以生成过载谐波，通过可变共振低通滤波器对整体音色进行塑形。
Inspiration
With a desire to achieve something very different with reverberation, we started by creating the variable rate core.
Once that came together, we realized that NightSky would need a suite of complementary tools,
which led to a full-featured modulation section, a 4-pole resonant filter and tools to control the reverb’s harmonic structure.
灵感
怀着对混响效果实现突破性创新的渴望，我们首先创建了可变速率核心。
当这一核心成型后，我们意识到 NightSky 需要一套互补工具，
这促使我们开发了全功能调制模块、四阶谐振滤波器以及控制混响谐波结构的工具。
Texture
There are three distinct reverb textures to choose from: Sparse, Dense and Diffuse.
The Sparse texture creates reflections that are far enough apart that they are audibly distinct from one another,
so legato notes remain lush and keep the sound field clear, while staccato notes trigger individual echoes in a way that is perfect for sound design and special effects.
The Dense texture is a smooth reverb with an instantaneous feel to the response, sharing some sonic similarities with a plate reverb.
The Diffuse texture creates a slow-building atmospheric wash that is perfect for ambient, swell and reverse-like sounds.
This texture deconstructs transients and spreads them over time, creating a blooming effect.
纹理
提供三种独特的混响质感选择： Sparse、Dense 与 Diffuse。
Sparse 质感产生的反射间隔足够远，使每个反射清晰可辨，
因此连奏音符保持饱满且声场清晰，而断奏音符则触发独立的回声，非常适合声音设计与特效制作。
Dense 质感是一种响应瞬态平滑的混响，与板式混响具有部分声学相似性。
Diffuse 质感创造出缓慢构建的氛围音垫，完美适配环境音效、渐强与反向类声音。
该质感将瞬态解构并随时间扩散，形成绽放般的效果。
Size/Pitch
This controls the Size and Pitch of the reverb’s core.
Changing the size and pitch of the reverb changes the density of the reflections and the overall response, all while safeguarding the integrity of the audio being processed.
As a result you can easily transpose and modulate the reverberated signal, which opens a whole new world of possibilities.
尺寸/音高
此旋钮控制混响核心的尺寸与音高。
调整混响的尺寸与音高将改变反射密度与整体响应特性，同时确保处理音频的完整性。
由此你可轻松对混响信号进行移调与调制，开启全新的创作可能。
Shimmer
Shimmer effects were pioneered in the eighties, using digital reverbs and pitch shifters in tandem.
NightSky’s Shimmer voice is carefully created from the reverberated signal itself, generating intriguing characteristics and beauty.
Deep and low ambient string sections come to mind when using the octave down setting, while spacey and ethereal textures are created using octave up.
There are also other relevant intervals in between the octaves for shifting the harmonic content of the reverb in different ways.
The Shimmer processing can be applied in two different places: at the reverb input only, or from within the reverb core for ever-ascending or descending pitches as the reverb tail decays.
Shimmer
Shimmer 效果开创于八十年代，通过数字混响与音高变换器的协同实现。
NightSky 的 Shimmer 部分由混响信号本身精心生成，呈现出迷人的特性与美感。
使用低八度设置时，会让人联想到深沉低缓的环境弦乐声部；而高八度设置则创造出空灵缥缈的质感。
八度音程之间还包含其他相关音程，用于以不同方式变换混响的谐波内容。
Shimmer 处理可应用于两个不同位置：仅作用于混响输入，或从混响核心内部处理，使混响尾音在衰减过程中持续升调或降调。
Glimmer
Glimmer’s High setting accentuates higher-frequency harmonics, creating a washy and dreamy ambience.
Switched to the Low setting, Glimmer enhances lower frequency harmonics, altering the perceived harmonic structure and creating mysterious synth-like textures.
Glimmer
Glimmer 的高频设置强化高频谐波，营造出朦胧梦幻的氛围感。
切换至低频设置时，Glimmer 增强低频谐波，改变感知谐波结构并创造出神秘的类合成器质感。
Drive
The Drive feature generates saturated and overdriven harmonics that can either react to the core’s input signal, or dynamically distort the reverb’s output in an interactive way.
When Drive is applied at the input, distorted harmonics are generated based upon the input signal,
so you can dynamically “play” the distortion going into the reverb core with the kind of audio that you’re sending to the plugin.
Placed at the output, Drive acts like a soft-clipped limiter, reacting dynamically with the complex decay of the reverb.
This can introduce interesting distorted stereo panning effects, as reflections on either side of the stereo image can exceed or fall short of the amplitude necessary to generate noticeable distortion.
The harmonic complexity created by the Drive section is perfectly suited for additional sonic sculpting via the low pass filter.
Drive
Drive 功能生成饱和与过载谐波，可响应核心输入信号，或以交互方式动态扭曲混响输出。
当 Drive 作用于输入时，基于输入信号生成失真谐波，
因此你可通过发送至插件的音频动态“演奏”进入混响核心的失真效果。
置于输出端时，Drive 如同软削波限制器，与混响的复杂衰减动态交互。
这能引入有趣的失真立体声声像效果，因为立体声声像两侧的反射可能超过或低于产生明显失真所需的幅度。
Drive 模块创造的谐波复杂性，非常适合通过低通滤波器进行额外的声音塑形。
Filter
The NightSky plugin features a beautifully-tuned 4-pole 24dB/octave low pass filter,
with selectable resonance amount for gorgeous synth-like filter sweeps of the reverb output.
This filter is highly effective at shaping the distortion characteristics from the Drive section,
and when used in conjunction with the Modulation section it reveals the inspiring power of reverberant synthesis.
The section can also be set to operate as a high cut filter to remove high frequencies from the regenerating core, which can create a reverb that gets darker as it decays.
The TONE section also includes a separate low cut filter that you can use to remove low end both at the output and within the reverb core.
滤波器
NightSky 插件配备精心调校的四阶 24dB/倍频程低通滤波器，
可选共振量，为混响输出提供华丽的类合成器滤波扫频效果。
该滤波器能高效塑造驱动模块的失真特性，
与调制模块结合使用时，可展现混响合成的强大灵感激发力。
此模块还可设置为高通滤波器，从再生核心中去除高频，创造出随衰减逐渐变暗的混响效果。
TONE 部分还包含独立的低切滤波器，可用于在输出端和混响核心内部去除低频。
Modulation
NightSky’s Modulation section allows you to add motion to your sounds,
allowing you to create evolving textures with an ethereal quality or tread confidently into the waters of experimental sound design.
A suite of different waveforms can be used to modulate your choice of targets, including Triangle, Square, Ramp, Saw, Random and Envelope.
Modulate the delay lines within the reverb core, or the size/pitch instead. Or, for very synth-like sounds, you can modulate the resonant low pass filter.
There are also sidechain options for using an external signal to trigger NightSky’s modulation envelopes.
调制模块
NightSky 的调制部分让你能为声音添加动态变化，
既可创造具有空灵特质的渐变质感，也能助你自信探索实验性声音设计领域。
提供多种波形选择用于调制目标参数，包括三角波、方波、斜坡波、锯齿波、随机以及包络。
可对混响核心内的延迟线、空间尺寸/音高进行调制。若要打造类合成器音色，亦可调制谐振低通滤波器。
系统还支持侧链选项，允许使用外部信号触发 NightSky 的调制包络。
Hold
The Hold button has two modes: Infinite and Freeze.
Infinite: sets reverb to continue infinitely, with each new note that you play adding to the reverb signal.
Freeze: sets the reverb to deliver infinite sustain and allow new notes on top of the sustain without them being added to the reverb.
保持
保持按钮提供两种模式：无限与冻结。
无限模式：使混响持续无限延长，你演奏的每个新音符都将叠加到混响信号中。
冻结模式：使混响保持无限延音，并允许在延音基础上叠加新音符，而新音符不会加入混响信号。
System Requirements
Mac
macOS Sonoma 14.8
Intel Core i5 processor or Apple M1 processor
8GB RAM minimum
AAX, AU, or VST3 compatible plugin host software
iLok account and Internet connection for activation
Windows
Windows 11
Intel Core i5 processor or AMD multi-core processor
8GB RAM minimum
AAX or VST3 compatible plugin host software
iLok account and Internet connection for activation
系统要求
Mac
macOS Sonoma 14.8
Intel Core i5 处理器或 Apple M1 处理器
最低 8GB 内存
兼容 AAX、AU 或 VST3 的插件宿主软件
iLok 账户及网络连接（用于激活）
Windows
Windows 11
Intel Core i5 处理器或 AMD 多核处理器
最低 8GB 内存
兼容 AAX 或 VST3 的插件宿主软件
iLok 账户及网络连接（用于激活）
官方网址：
https://www.strymon.net/product/nightsky-plugin
产品价格：
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