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The producer-feedback round: stable note tracking, the NOTE pitch source with Key lock and Follow bends, unsure-means-neutral fallbacks, Anvil's Enhance mode, MAIN and ADVANCED pages, Ballast on Grid by default, and Crucible's sure-note slice names with a song key. Adds docs/pitch.md for the shared pitch source, updates every changed plugin's README and changelog, the release table, the editor previews, the website bullets, and the status in docs/ideas.md.
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Temper
Temper is a distortion that drives every note the same. Current version 0.3.0.
A distortion with a fixed tone filter acts differently on each note: a lowpass at 2 kHz lets through 45 harmonics of an F1 but only 22 of an F2, and a patch that is 6 dB quieter is driven 6 dB less. Across a riddim line that makes some notes fizzy and others dull. Temper evens out each note's level before the shaper and moves its tone filters with the pitch, so the character stays the same on every note.
Install on Windows
Copy Temper.clap into C:\Program Files\Common Files\CLAP\. In FL Studio
2024.1 or newer, open Options → Manage plugins, enable Verify plugins, and Find
installed plugins. Load Temper in a mixer slot of the bass. Keep the font license
with redistributed packages.
Work with it
The editor opens on the MAIN page with Curve, Drive, Bias, Push, Mix and Output. The ADVANCED switch in the header adds Push at, Floor, Bright, Normalize and Gate.
- Choose a Curve:
- Soft: tanh, smooth and rounded.
- Hard: clipping with a narrow knee, dense and square-like.
- Fold: the wave folds back on itself; Drive moves the upper harmonics.
- Tube: the negative half clips earlier, adding even harmonics.
- Set Drive. The transfer plot shows the curve over the range a normalised note covers; the Into shaper meter shows how far past the knee it goes.
- Add Bias for asymmetry and even harmonics.
- Shape the tone around the shaper, all in multiples of the note:
- Floor is a highpass before the shaper (0.25–2 × the fundamental; 0 is off). It keeps sub mud out of the distortion. Put Anvil after Temper to add a clean sub back.
- Push boosts or cuts one harmonic (Push at, 1–16) before the shaper, so the distortion bites in the same place on every note.
- Bright is a lowpass after the shaper at a harmonic number (4–64; 0 is off), so the top end stops at the same harmonic on every note.
Other controls:
- Normalize is how far each note's level is evened out before Drive. At 100 % a quiet and a loud patch distort the same; at 0 % Temper acts like a normal distortion.
- Auto gain keeps the output at the input's loudness, so turning up Drive changes the character, not the level.
- Gate is the input level that counts as a note.
- Mix blends with the delayed dry signal; Output trims the level.
Pitch source
Pitch from in the header chooses where the note comes from: AUDIO detects it, MIDI follows MIDI notes sent to Temper, and NOTE uses a note you set. For heavy FM, formant or noise basses, NOTE with the drop's root is the safest choice. Key lock and Follow bends tune the detection. While detection is unsure of the note, Temper keeps the tuning of the last sure note and the readout shows ?. See Pitch source.
Timing and limits
Detection uses about 67 ms of lookahead; the 4× oversampling filters add under 1 ms. Both are reported to the host for delay compensation. Pitch range is 30–500 Hz, one note at a time. Before the first note the tracked filters are off; between notes they hold the last tuning.
Aliasing stays below −60 dB for bass material (tested with a 2 kHz tone at 24 dB drive and a 440 Hz tone at full drive, on every curve). High-pitched content at full drive aliases more: a 5 kHz tone at 36 dB on the Hard curve reaches about −31 dB.