4am pickup

halo filter

halo filter

A resonant filter that tunes itself to the note you're playing. Its peaks sit on that note's harmonics, so sustained notes pick up a glowing, in-tune resonance while noise and unpitched material pass through mostly untouched.

More feedback swells the resonance until the filter is nearly singing the note back at you. When the pitch tracker can't find a note, the effect fades to dry instead of guessing.

It runs the same DSP as the module in Tangle; nothing is cut down for the standalone version. One licence covers both: this plugin, and the same module unlocked inside the rack.

what each knob does

Eight controls, no menus. Here they are on the panel itself.

it modulates itself

4AM Pickup ships with the full CV/logic modulation section every Tangle standalone carries. Pick a modulator, drag a patch cable onto any knob, and that control moves on its own, no DAW automation required.

it keeps what you just played

A rolling capture strip runs beneath the panel, always recording the plugin's output. No transport, nothing to arm. Played something great while you were just tweaking? Click-drag across the history waveform to select it, then drag the slice straight into your DAW timeline.

ARM flips it to ring-capture for hands-free takes.

it unlocks in tangle too

4AM Pickup is a module from Tangle, the free cable-patchable rack. Buying it here licenses both: this standalone plugin, and 4am pickup unlocked inside the rack, where you can patch it into any other module you own. There is no second purchase and no upgrade path; the rack itself costs nothing.

Sign in once in the rack and your licences follow your account: a module bought this morning appears at the next licence check, on every machine you install on.

4am pickup