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- Forge 0.1.0: first release. - Mark Forge released in docs/ideas.md and add it to the release table.
Forge
Forge is one tracked channel strip: Lathe, Temper and Knurl run behind a single note tracker, in the order you choose. Current version 0.1.0.
Each of the three plugins detects the played note itself. In a row, their lookaheads add up (Lathe 67 ms, Temper 68 ms, Knurl 71 ms: more than 200 ms), and a tracker after Knurl hears Knurl's sub-octave and follows a note an octave low. Forge reads the note once, from its input, and every module follows that one tracker. In a test with Knurl's sub-octave pattern in front of Lathe, a standalone Lathe after Knurl followed the note an octave low in every frame; Lathe inside Forge followed the played note in every frame.
Install on Windows
Copy Forge.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 Forge in the mixer slot of the bass, right after the
synth. Keep the font license with redistributed packages.
Work with it
- Choose Pitch from in the header: AUDIO detects the note from the input; MIDI follows MIDI notes sent to the effect. All modules use it.
- The Chain row shows the modules in processing order. Click a module's name to edit it below; ON switches it on or off. The button between two modules swaps them. The default order is Lathe, Temper, Knurl, as in the standalone chain.
- Each module's page is its standalone editor: Lathe, Temper and Knurl explain the controls. Temper's AUTO GAIN sits in the Chain row while its page is open.
- The Gate knob on every page is the one shared tracker gate: turning it on one page turns it on all.
Bypass in the header crossfades the whole strip to the delayed input.
How it works
The tracker reads the strip's input, and the audio is delayed by its lookahead once. Every module gets the note events delayed by the latency of the modules in front of it, so each module sees a note start exactly on the attack of the audio it receives. A single module on its own in Forge gives the same output, sample for sample, as its standalone plugin, in every position of the chain.
Temper's Normalize measures each note's level one lookahead ahead. In Forge it measures the strip's input, not the output of the modules in front of it. Lathe and Knurl change the level about equally on every note, so the notes still reach the shaper at one level.
Timing and limits
Latency is the tracker's lookahead (about 67 ms), Temper's oversampling filters (under 1 ms) and Knurl's room for timing jitter (about 4 ms): about 72 ms in all, reported to the host. A module that is off still delays its audio by its own latency, so the latency stays the same in every order and with any module off.
Changing the order while audio plays switches the routing at once and can click. The standalone plugins stay: use them when you need only one module, or when another plugin must sit between two of them.