BeetleCrab TEMPERA // A New Approach to Granular Synthesis // Review & Tutorial

In this video, I explore Beetlecrab’s TEMPERA and its grid-based approach to granular synthesis. I go through emitters, tracks, sampling, modulation, effects and macros, followed by the pros, cons and factory sounds.

Timeline

0:00 Intro

1:55 Why it’s special

3:05 Emitter basics

4:15 Rhythmic trigs

4:50 Playing the grid

6:50 Track types

7:35 2-lane mode

8:10 Wavetables?

9:20 Multitimbrality

10:05 Hardware

12:35 I/O

13:20 Some specs

15:00 Track menu

16:00 Sampling

16:55 Editing samples

18:20 Emitter params

25:45 Overlay “keys”

26:55 Modulators

29:05 Effects

30:55 Settings

31:30 Load/save

32:30 Macros

34:00 Gallery & misc

34:30 Pros & cons

38:50 Factory sounds

51:35 More sounds!

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