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Tangerine Jet

Tangerine Jet is a colour grade in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Jet cobalt lows torn open by tangerine and cream.

Runs live on video, images, a camera or generated art. Stack it with any other effect, and route LFOs, envelopes or any of ten audio bands to its controls so it moves with the music.

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The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines
Source
The eye-in-triangle illustration in cobalt blue lines over tangerine orange and cream bands
Tangerine Jet, default settings

What Tangerine Jet does

Cobalt shadows brighten into azure, then tangerine tears through the mids and a cream shoulder caps the highlights. It's the band's straight blue-orange complement at full saturation, driven only by brightness. Cobalt spreads azure into the darks, Tangerine drags orange lower, and Cream decides how much of the top goes pale.

Using Tangerine Jet

Where it works
Sports-style promo, bold logo stings and hard house flyers. Compared with Mango Riot the floor is cobalt rather than teal and the top is cream rather than pink, so it reads cleaner and more graphic.
With the music
Nothing here reacts on its own. B1 kick on Tangerine rips orange across the mids with every kick, and a bar-synced LFO on Cobalt slides azure in and out of the shadows.
Starting point
Cobalt at centre, Tangerine three-quarters, Cream a quarter, then raise Cream until the brightest lines turn pale.

Controls

Cobalt
Cobalt floor spread into the mids.
Tangerine
Tangerine midtone weight.
Cream
Cream shoulder on the highlights.

Pairs well with Tangerine Jet