Portals

Build self‑evolving feedback networks inside BEAM. Route, split, nest, and shape feedback like a modular system.

What Portals is

Portals is a new effect node in BEAM that lets you design your own feedback systems. Drop it onto your beam and you’ll see two nodes: In and Out. Anything that goes In comes back Out, letting you loop signal through any effects you place in between, warping time, space, and tonality in ways a normal feedback knob can’t.

It’s a building block rather than a black box: route around it, split paths, insert other effects between the nodes, even nest Portals inside Portals for recursive networks.

Interface tour

Portals keeps the UI minimal so you can focus on patching. You get three core controls and a safety escape hatch:

• Gate — Sets how much of the returning signal is allowed back into the loop.
• Delay — Offsets the return in milliseconds or tempo‑synced note values.
• Feedback — Determines how much of the signal re‑enters the network.

💡 Use the new Panic button to instantly cuts the feedback path so you can stop runaway patches.

How it works (signal flow)

1. Insert Portals in your BEAM chain. Two nodes appear: In and Out.
2. Create the loop: Route audio from elsewhere in your chain into In, place any effects between In → Out, then send Out forward in the chain. Because Out feeds back into the graph, your effects become part of the feedback path.