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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.
Crucible
Crucible melts the bars you just played into ready-to-use samples. Current version 0.4.0.
Resampling is the core loop of riddim sound design: bounce, open in Edison, chop, trim, declick, normalise, find the key, name, save, load into a sampler. Crucible does all of it from one button. It always records its input, so the take you liked is already there when you press Capture.
Install on Windows
Copy Crucible.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 Crucible in a mixer slot at the end of the chain you want
to resample. Keep the font license with redistributed packages.
Work with it
- Play the pattern or song section.
- Choose Bars (1–16) and press Capture. Crucible takes the newest complete bars on FL's bar grid. With the transport stopped, it takes the newest audio at the last known tempo instead.
- Choose how to slice: Grid (1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/8T, 1/16T) or Transients with a Sensitivity. Double-click the waveform to add a cut, right-click to remove the nearest one.
- Click a slice to hear it. Untick Export to leave it out.
- Press Export.
Each export creates a folder named after the date, time and tempo, holding:
loop.wav: the whole take, for Slicex or Edison;s01_F1.wav,s02_G#1.wav, …: one file per slice, named by its detected root note. The root is also stored in the file's sampler chunk. A slice gets a note only when most of it holds one clear pitch; a growl, a slide or noise is saved ass03.wav, because a wrong note name is worse than none. Choose the song's Key to spell the names in it: in F minor a slice iss02_Ab1.wav, nots02_G#1.wav. Without a key, names use sharps;wavetable.wavwhen Wavetable is on: up to 256 single-cycle frames of 2048 samples from the selected slice. Each frame starts on a rising zero crossing, so frames morph without phase jumps. Serum reads the frame size from the file; in Vital, import it as a wavetable with 2048-sample frames.
Every slice is cleaned on export: Trim silence removes leading silence below −60 dBFS, Declick fades both ends (default 2 ms), Normalize peaks it at −0.3 dBFS. Files are 32-bit float WAV at the session rate.
Add the export folder to FL's browser once (Options → File settings → Browser extra search folders). New exports then appear there and can be dragged into channels, the playlist or Edison. Open folder shows the latest export in Explorer.
Timing and limits
Crucible adds no latency and passes audio through untouched. Auditioned slices are
mixed into its output only while they play. The history holds 72 s, enough for
16 bars at 60 BPM. The newest eight takes stay in memory until the plugin is
removed; they are not saved with the project. With Keep takes on (the
default), every capture's loop is also written at once to
takes/<date>_<time>_<tempo>bpm_<bars>bars.wav in the export folder, so a reload
or a crash loses nothing. Existing files are never overwritten.
Bar alignment follows the host's song position and time signature. Root notes are detected between 35 Hz and 1 kHz. The pitch is read at up to 12 points across each slice after its attack; at least three reads in five must be clear and on the same note. Unpitched slices, such as drums or noise, get no note in their name. Transient slicing finds hits that rise out of quieter audio; for legato basses, slice on the grid.