两年磨一剑：oeksound 发布多功能声音塑形音频处理插件 Bloom

著名的芬兰插件制造商 oeksound 通过长达两年的周期开发了一款新产品：Bloom，
这款插件功能强大，足以替代均衡器、多端压缩器，并带来完全的音色塑形。

what we wish an EQ would do
Control irregularities in a rough sound
Increase warmth, clarity, or brightness in a safe and controlled fashion
Transform the tone of a sound with natural-sounding results
Track through Bloom with low latency mode

我们希望 EQ 能做什么？
控制粗糙声音中的不规则性
以安全可控的方式带来温暖度、清晰度或通透度
改变声音的音色，获得自然的声音效果
通过低延迟模式应用 Bloom

find your tone with bloom
Bloom is an adaptive tone shaper.
It analyzes the character of a signal and applies corrections to the perceived tonal balance for a more even and refined sound.
It also lets you shape the tone and character of a track, for example, by adding warmth, brightness, or clarity.
Tonal adjustments made with Bloom are dynamic and context-aware.
This, together with its carefully designed user interface, makes the plug-in quick and intuitive to use
and helps keep the material sounding natural, even when making radical changes.

用 Bloom 找到你的音色
Bloom 是一个自适应色调塑造器。
它分析信号的特征，并对感知到的音色平衡进行修正，以获得更均匀、更精致的声音。
它还可以让你塑造音轨的音色和特征，例如，通过增强温暖度、透明度或清晰度。
使用 Bloom 进行的音色调整是动态的且具有音乐性感知能力。
这一点，连同其精心设计的用户界面，使得插件使用起来快速而直观，
并有助于保持声音素材听起来自然，即使在进行大幅度的处理时也是如此。

fits the occasion
Bloom boosts and cuts frequencies only when needed, helping to mitigate energy build-ups and reveal more detail.
It lets you make tonal changes quickly while being considerate of the source material.
For example, you can boost the high-end on vocals without emphasizing unwanted sibilance.
With Bloom, bright doesn’t need to mean shrill, and big doesn’t need to mean boomy.
Use it to shape tone with confidence.

应用场景
Bloom 仅在需要时提高和降低频率，有助于减轻能量积聚并提升更多细节。
它可以让你快速改变音色，同时照顾到声音素材的本质。
例如，你可以提高人声的高频，而不会强调不需要的齿音。
对于 Bloom 来说，明亮并不一定意味着刺耳，而大声也不一定意味着轰鸣。
用它自信地塑造音色。

starting point or finishing touches
Bloom can work as a good starting point when shaping a sound.
Useful for quickly crafting single tracks towards a cohesive mix,
it’s also equally functional as a bus processor, whether for sculpting groups or sensitively shaping a master.
Get your mix up to speed effortlessly, or dive deeper to bring that exact sound you envisioned to life.

开始和结束的地方
Bloom 可以作为塑造声音的一个很好的起点。
它可用于快速制作单条音轨以形成有凝聚力的混音，
它也具有总线处理器同等的功能，无论是用于大范围的雕刻还是轻微的进行母带处理。
让你的混音轻松加快速度，或者深入发掘以将你想象的声音变为现实。

make it personal
A good mix is not one-size-fits-all.
Bloom can do a lot of the heavy lifting, but at the end of the day, it’s your ears that decide what’s right.
Bloom’s four tone controls allow you to shape the tone freely to your liking.
The controls change the overall tonal balance Bloom is working towards rather
than making absolute cuts or boosts, as found in an EQ.
This way, you can reach your vision fast without needing to compensate for bigger moves or automate around problems.

让声音个性化
好的组合并不是一刀切的。
Bloom 可以完成很多繁重的工作，但最终，由你的耳朵决定什么是正确的。
Bloom 的四个音色控制可让你根据自己的喜好自由塑造音色。
这些参数改变了 Bloom 正在努力实现的整体音色平衡，
而不是像 EQ 中那样进行绝对的削减或增强。
这样，你就可以快速达到目标，而无需进行更大的处理或自动化解决问题。

squash sounds into shape
When bolder moves are needed, crank Bloom’s amount control to engage squash mode.
With squash engaged, Bloom applies frequency-dependent upward and downward compression
to reduce the dynamic range of the signal and mold it towards the specified shape.
Use it to subtly bring out detail or dramatically over-emphasize it, adding grit without saturation.

为声音塑造形状
当需要更大胆的动作时，转动 Bloom 的音量控制以启动挤压模式。
启用挤压后，Bloom 会应用与频率相关的向上和向下压缩，
以减少信号的动态范围并将其塑造为指定的形状。
用它巧妙的展现细节或大胆的过度强调细节，在不饱和的情况下增强质感。

so… what is it exactly?
In addition to being a quick broad-strokes EQ tool,
Bloom can be thought of as our take on a color box.
It can give character, glue, or grit to your sound in a way that fits your vision.
You might use it in place of a dynamic EQ, multiband compressor, saturator, or even compressor,
but it falls under none of these categories.
We call it an adaptive tone shaper.

那么……到底是什么？
除了作为一种快速、全方位的 EQ 工具之外，
Bloom 还可以被认为是我们对音色盒子的理解。
它可以以符合你需求的方式为你的声音带来个性、粘合力或质感。
你可以使用它来代替动态均衡器、多频段压缩器、饱和器甚至压缩器，
但它不属于这些类别。
我们称之为这是自适应音色塑造器。

our process behind bloom — three questions
The idea for Bloom came from research questions we’ve studied since 2018.
The initial research question was, What is warmth in audio?
and later in an unrelated venture, we studied the question: What is presence?
Both led us down a rabbit hole involving the balance of overtone series and a third research question:
How do we bring out and balance overtones present in a sound?
This was the basis for Bloom’s first prototypes,
and from there, Bloom started to take form as a tone shaper.

Bloom 背后的经历——三大问题
Bloom 的想法来自 oeksound 自 2018 年以来研究的问题。
最初的研究问题是，什么是音频中的温暖感？
后来在一项不相关的尝试中，我们研究了这个问题：什么是临场感？
两者都让我们陷入了一个涉及泛音列平衡和第三个研究问题的深渊：
我们如何控制并平衡声音中存在的泛音？
这是 Bloom 第一个原型的基础，
从那时起，Bloom 开始成为音色塑造者。

Two years of critical listening followed, leading to numerous prototypes
and thousands of incremental improvements to the DSP.
A lot of this process is about seeing how the plugin reacts to different sound sources
and iterating until it behaves in the way we want it to.

随后两年的严格聆听，编程了大量模型
并对 DSP 进行了数千项渐进式改进。
这个过程的大部分内容是查看插件如何对不同的声源做出反应并进行迭代，
直到它按照我们想要的方式运行。

In parallel, we spent a lot of time testing how to present the idea to the user in an approachable way.
After testing users’ interactions with different designs, we landed on one that not only felt the best
but also helped us and our testers make the best-sounding decisions.
One of the bigger challenges of Bloom was giving the user all the control
they need while making sure the plug-in is still fun to work with.

与此同时，oeksound 花了很多时间测试如何以具有亲和力的方式向用户展示这个想法。
在测试了用户与不同设计的交互后，oeksound 找到了一种不仅感觉最好，
而且可以帮助 oeksound 和测试人员做出听起来最好的决定的设计。
Bloom 面临的更大挑战之一是为用户提供他们所需的所有控制权，
同时确保插件使用起来仍然很有趣。

The end result is something novel and far more complex than we initially imagined.
But Bloom still follows our ethos.
It offers new ways to manipulate audio, presented in an approachable manner.

最终的结果是突破性的，并且比我们最初想象的要复杂得多。
但 Bloom 仍然遵循 oeksound 的精神。
它提供了操纵音频的新方法，并以极其友好的方式呈现。

technical specifications
Windows 10 – 11
64-bit VST3 and AAX (Pro Tools 11 and up)
Mac OS X 10.14 (Mojave) – macOS 14 (Sonoma)
64-bit VST3, AU and AAX.
Both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs supported.
iLok account and iLok License Manager installation required.

技术规格
Windows 10 – 11 64 位 VST3 和 AAX（Pro Tools 11 及更高版本）
Mac OS X 10.14 （Mojave） – macOS 14 （Sonoma)）
64 位 VST3、AU 和 AAX。
Intel 和 Apple Silicon 苹果电脑均支持。
需要安装 iLok 帐户和 iLok License Manager。