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Beetlecrab.audio Tempera: MIDI CC, NRPN and OSC map

The Beetlecrab.audio Tempera as named OSC addresses — 104 CC — ready to use from Claude (MCP), SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, TouchDesigner or any OSC app via osc-bridge.

Device Beetlecrab.audio Tempera
Vendor Beetlecrab.audio
OSC prefix /tempera
Source 📦 Derived from MIDI Guide (community CC/NRPN data)
Firmware unknown
Revision per pencilresearch canonical CSV
Upstream pencilresearch
Data licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 — MIDI Guide (https://midi.guide) by Pencil Research and contributors
Driver file devices/beetlecrab-audio/tempera.pencilresearch.fw-unknown.json

Not tested on the device yet

This driver comes from documentation or community data and has not been checked on real hardware. If you own one, a quick test and a pull request promoting it helps everyone — see CONTRIBUTING.

Other variants of this device: tempera.electra-community.fw-unknown, tempera.vendor.fw-2.2.

How do you control it?

Find the MIDI ports, then start the bridge with this driver:

osc-bridge detect        # prints the ready-to-run line for what is plugged in
osc-bridge run --device devices/beetlecrab-audio/tempera.pencilresearch.fw-unknown.json --out-port <N> --in-port <M>

Then send OSC to 127.0.0.1:7777, for example:

osc-bridge osc-send /tempera/emitters/active_emitter 63

From Claude or any MCP client, the osc-bridge mcp server exposes this driver as tempera: ask “what can the Beetlecrab.audio Tempera do?” and it reads this map with list_routes. See the MCP guide.

MIDI CC and NRPN parameters (104)

OSC address CC NRPN (MSB/LSB) Range Nature Section
/tempera/emitters/active_emitter 10 0–127 continuous Emitters
/tempera/emitters/place_emitter 11 0–127 continuous Emitters
/tempera/emitters/remove_emitter 12 0–127 continuous Emitters
/tempera/envelope/attack 13 0–127 continuous Envelope
/tempera/envelope/decay 14 0–127 continuous Envelope
/tempera/envelope/sustain 15 0–127 continuous Envelope
/tempera/envelope/release 16 0–127 continuous Envelope
/tempera/reverb/size 17 0–127 continuous Reverb
/tempera/reverb/color 18 0–127 continuous Reverb
/tempera/reverb/mix 19 0–127 continuous Reverb
/tempera/delay/feedback 20 0–127 continuous Delay
/tempera/delay/time 21 0–127 continuous Delay
/tempera/delay/color 22 0–127 continuous Delay
/tempera/delay/mix 23 0–127 continuous Delay
/tempera/filter/cutoff 24 0–127 continuous Filter
/tempera/filter/resonance 25 0–127 continuous Filter
/tempera/chorus/depth 26 0–127 continuous Chorus
/tempera/chorus/speed 27 0–127 continuous Chorus
/tempera/chorus/flange 28 0–127 continuous Chorus
/tempera/chorus/mix 29 0–127 continuous Chorus
/tempera/tracks/track_1_volume 30 0–127 continuous Tracks
/tempera/tracks/track_2_volume 31 0–127 continuous Tracks
/tempera/tracks/track_3_volume 33 0–127 continuous Tracks
/tempera/tracks/track_4_volume 34 0–127 continuous Tracks
/tempera/tracks/track_5_volume 35 0–127 continuous Tracks
/tempera/tracks/track_6_volume 36 0–127 continuous Tracks
/tempera/tracks/track_7_volume 37 0–127 continuous Tracks
/tempera/tracks/track_8_volume 39 0–127 continuous Tracks
/tempera/emitter_1/volume 40 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/grain_length_cell 41 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/grain_length_note 42 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/grain_density 43 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/grain_shape 44 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/grain_shape_attack 45 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/grain_pan 46 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/grain_tune_spread 47 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/octave 48 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/relative_x 49 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/relative_y 50 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/spray_x 51 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/spray_y 52 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/tone_filter_width 53 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/tone_filter_center 54 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_1/effects_send 55 0–127 continuous Emitter 1
/tempera/emitter_2/volume 56 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/grain_length_cell 57 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/grain_length_note 59 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/grain_density 50 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/grain_shape 60 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/grain_shape_attack 61 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/grain_pan 62 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/grain_tune_spread 63 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/octave 65 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/relative_x 67 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/relative_y 68 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/spray_x 69 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/spray_y 70 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/tone_filter_width 72 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/tone_filter_center 73 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_2/effects_send 75 0–127 continuous Emitter 2
/tempera/emitter_3/volume 76 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/grain_length_cell 77 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/grain_length_note 78 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/grain_density 79 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/grain_shape 80 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/grain_shape_attack 81 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/grain_pan 82 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/grain_tune_spread 83 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/octave 84 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/relative_x 85 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/relative_y 86 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/spray_x 87 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/spray_y 88 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/tone_filter_width 89 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/tone_filter_center 90 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_3/effects_send 91 0–127 continuous Emitter 3
/tempera/emitter_4/volume 92 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/grain_length_cell 93 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/grain_length_note 94 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/grain_density 95 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/grain_shape 96 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/grain_shape_attack 97 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/grain_pan 98 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/grain_tune_spread 99 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/octave 102 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/relative_x 103 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/relative_y 104 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/spray_x 105 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/spray_y 106 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/tone_filter_width 107 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/tone_filter_center 109 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/emitter_4/effects_send 109 0–127 continuous Emitter 4
/tempera/modulators/modwheel 1 0–127 continuous Modulators
/tempera/modulators/modulator_1_size 110 0–127 continuous Modulators
/tempera/modulators/modulator_2_size 111 0–127 continuous Modulators
/tempera/modulators/modulator_3_size 112 0–127 continuous Modulators
/tempera/modulators/modulator_4_size 113 0–127 continuous Modulators
/tempera/modulators/modulator_5_size 114 0–127 continuous Modulators
/tempera/modulators/modulator_6_size 115 0–127 continuous Modulators
/tempera/modulators/modulator_7_size 116 0–127 continuous Modulators
/tempera/modulators/modulator_8_size 117 0–127 continuous Modulators
/tempera/modulators/modulator_9_size 118 0–127 continuous Modulators
/tempera/modulators/modulator_10_size 119 0–127 continuous Modulators
/tempera/general/damper_pedal 64 0–127 continuous General

Performance MIDI

Notes, pitch bend and any CC are also available: /tempera/note/on <note> <velocity>, /tempera/cc/<number> <value>, /tempera/pitchbend <0-16383>, /tempera/program_change <n>.

Limitations

CC/NRPN only. SysEx (preset management, display control, bulk dump/load, vendor-proprietary opcodes) is NOT covered by pencilresearch. To extend this device with SysEx, sniff the vendor editor, add `sysex.header/footer` + `commands` blocks, and use `update_device.md` PR template.