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- Crucible 0.3.0: Keep takes. - Patina 0.4.0: Tone guard and the Bass line preset. - Planish 0.1.0 is already at its first version. - Update the current version in every plugin guide; several still named an older release.
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# Crucible
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Crucible melts the bars you just played into ready-to-use samples. Current version
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**0.3.0**.
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Resampling is the core loop of riddim sound design: bounce, open in Edison, chop,
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trim, declick, normalise, find the key, name, save, load into a sampler. Crucible
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does all of it from one button. It always records its input, so the take you
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liked is already there when you press **Capture**.
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## Install on Windows
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Copy `Crucible.clap` into `C:\Program Files\Common Files\CLAP\`. In FL Studio
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2024.1 or newer, open Options → Manage plugins, enable Verify plugins, and Find
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installed plugins. Load Crucible in a mixer slot at the end of the chain you want
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to resample. Keep the font license with redistributed packages.
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## Work with it
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1. Play the pattern or song section.
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2. Choose **Bars** (1–16) and press **Capture**. Crucible takes the newest complete
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bars on FL's bar grid. With the transport stopped, it takes the newest audio at
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the last known tempo instead.
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3. Choose how to slice: **Grid** (1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/8T, 1/16T) or **Transients**
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with a Sensitivity. Double-click the waveform to add a cut, right-click to remove
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the nearest one.
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4. Click a slice to hear it. Untick **Export** to leave it out.
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5. Press **Export**.
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Each export creates a folder named after the date, time and tempo, holding:
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- `loop.wav`: the whole take, for Slicex or Edison;
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- `s01_F1.wav`, `s02_G#1.wav`, …: one file per slice, named by its detected root
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note. The root is also stored in the file's sampler chunk;
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- `wavetable.wav` when **Wavetable** is on: up to 256 single-cycle frames of 2048
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samples from the selected slice. Each frame starts on a rising zero crossing, so
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frames morph without phase jumps. Serum reads the frame size from the file; in
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Vital, import it as a wavetable with 2048-sample frames.
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Every slice is cleaned on export: **Trim silence** removes leading silence below
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−60 dBFS, **Declick** fades both ends (default 2 ms), **Normalize** peaks it at
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−0.3 dBFS. Files are 32-bit float WAV at the session rate.
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Add the export folder to FL's browser once (Options → File settings → Browser extra
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search folders). New exports then appear there and can be dragged into channels,
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the playlist or Edison. **Open folder** shows the latest export in Explorer.
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## Timing and limits
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Crucible adds no latency and passes audio through untouched. Auditioned slices are
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mixed into its output only while they play. The history holds 72 s, enough for
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16 bars at 60 BPM. The newest eight takes stay in memory until the plugin is
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removed; they are not saved with the project. With **Keep takes** on (the
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default), every capture's loop is also written at once to
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`takes/<date>_<time>_<tempo>bpm_<bars>bars.wav` in the export folder, so a reload
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or a crash loses nothing. Existing files are never overwritten.
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Bar alignment follows the host's song position and time signature. Root notes are
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detected between 35 Hz and 1 kHz. Unpitched slices, such as drums or noise, get
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no note in their name. Transient slicing finds hits that rise out of quieter
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audio; for legato basses, slice on the grid.
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