Tempera Owner’s Manual

Welcome to the Owner’s Manual of Tempera, a multi-sample, 16-voice polyphonic granular synthesizer.

This manual is also available in a PDF version.

For more information about Tempera, visit beetlecrab.audio/tempera.

Contents

• Introduction
• Layout
• Getting started
  • Canvas
• Tracks
  • Tracks menu
  • Editing a track
  • Loading a sample into track
  • Trimming a sample
• Emitters
  • Per-emitter parameters
• Overlay Keyboard
  • Overlay keyboard scales
• Modulators
  • ADSR envelope
  • Modulator options
• Effects
  • Filter
  • Chorus
  • Delay
  • Reverb
• Settings
  • Recording options
  • MIDI and tempo options
  • Miscellaneous options
  • Emitter primary colors
• Load and save canvases
  • Sharing your canvas
• Macros
  • Shortcuts
• Recording
• Live grains
  • Synced live grains
  • Switching armed tracks
• External storage
  • Firmware upgrade
  • Micro SD card USB bridge
• MIDI input
  • Internal parameters
  • Placing and removing emitters with MIDI
  • Changing canvases with MIDI
• Specifications
  • Health and safety