diff --git a/src/core/graph/NodeContext.ts b/src/core/graph/NodeContext.ts
index c6b9927d..8304ef41 100644
--- a/src/core/graph/NodeContext.ts
+++ b/src/core/graph/NodeContext.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { AnimationPlayer } from '../model/animation';
+import type { AnimationPlayer, EaseShare } from '../model/animation';
 import type { Mat } from '../model/matrix';
 import type { Position, PropertyBag } from '../model/Properties';
 import type { FxParams } from '../soundfx/nodes';
@@ -255,9 +255,10 @@ export interface NodeContext {
   /**
    * Hands new values to the sound FX parameters of one voice, by the number `playSound` gave it
    * (#315), so a running sound follows the game. A voice that has ended is not reached. `time` is
-   * how many seconds the values take to get there, on the audio clock; 0 is a quick glide.
+   * how many seconds the values take to get there, on the audio clock and along `ease`; 0 is a
+   * quick glide.
    */
-  tuneSound(voice: number, fxParams: FxParams, time: number): void;
+  tuneSound(voice: number, fxParams: FxParams, time: number, ease: EaseShare): void;
   /**
    * Asks for another scene, by asset id. The swap happens once the frame is over – a graph must be
    * able to finish the flow it is in, and half a frame in the old world and half in the new one is
diff --git a/src/core/graph/nested.ts b/src/core/graph/nested.ts
index 77407b7c..3f54ac6a 100644
--- a/src/core/graph/nested.ts
+++ b/src/core/graph/nested.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import {
 } from './Graph';
 import type { GraphLookup } from './lookup';
 import { nodeDef, type NodeDef, type PortDef } from './NodeRegistry';
-import { lerpProblem } from './nodes/data/Lerp';
+import { easingProblem } from './nodes/easing';
 import { withSplits } from './portSplits';
 import { agreedType, type SharedPortGroup } from './portTypes';
 
@@ -375,13 +375,14 @@ export function ghostProblem(node: GraphNode, graph: Graph, def: NodeDef): strin
 /**
  * Why this call cannot do anything, or null if it can. A call is the one node that depends on a
  * *different* graph, so it is the one node that can look perfectly healthy and still be dead. A
- * `Lerp` depends on another asset as well, the curve it eases along (#247), and says so here too.
+ * `Lerp` or a `Set sound FX parameters` depends on another asset as well, the curve it eases along
+ * (#247), and says so here too.
  */
 export function callProblem(node: GraphNode, lookup: GraphLookup, ownerId = ''): string | null {
   if (node.type === ON_BEHAVIOR) return listenProblem(node, lookup, ownerId);
   if (node.type === SHADER_CALL) return functionCallProblem(node, lookup, ownerId);
   if (node.type === SOUND_FX_PARAMETERS) return soundFxParametersProblem(node, lookup);
-  if (node.type !== RUN_BEHAVIOR) return lerpProblem(node, lookup);
+  if (node.type !== RUN_BEHAVIOR) return easingProblem(node, lookup);
   const id = textOf(node.params[BEHAVIOR_PARAM] ?? '');
   if (!id) return 'No behavior picked';
   if (id === ownerId) return 'A behavior cannot run itself';
diff --git a/src/core/graph/nodes/action/SetSoundFxParameters.ts b/src/core/graph/nodes/action/SetSoundFxParameters.ts
index bf265efe..61f2d36e 100644
--- a/src/core/graph/nodes/action/SetSoundFxParameters.ts
+++ b/src/core/graph/nodes/action/SetSoundFxParameters.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 import type { NodeDef } from '../../NodeRegistry';
 import { asNumber } from '../../values';
+import { curvesOf, easingOfParams, easingParams, hiddenEasing } from '../easing';
 import { exec, num } from '../shared';
 import { fxParamsOf } from './PlaySound';
 
+import { easeShareOf } from '../../../model/animation';
+
 /**
  * Changes the sound FX parameters of a sound that is already playing (#315). It reaches one voice,
  * by the number its `Play sound` handed out: every play is a sound of its own, and two objects with
@@ -17,8 +20,8 @@ export const SetSoundFxParameters: NodeDef = {
     'glides to the values from a Sound FX parameters node. Keep the voice in a variable to reach it ' +
     'from another event. A parameter not given keeps its value, a voice that has ended is not ' +
     'reached. A pitch changes by speed here, so the sound gets shorter or longer while it is moved. ' +
-    'time: seconds the values take to get there, evenly and on the clock of the sound itself, so ' +
-    'a sweep sounds the same every time; 0 is a quick glide.',
+    'time: seconds the values take to get there, along the chosen easing and on the clock of the ' +
+    'sound itself, so a sweep sounds the same every time; 0 is a quick glide.',
   inputs: [
     exec(),
     { ...num('voice'), inline: false },
@@ -26,12 +29,18 @@ export const SetSoundFxParameters: NodeDef = {
     num('time'),
   ],
   outputs: [exec()],
-  params: [],
-  run: (ctx, inputs) => {
+  params: easingParams(),
+  hiddenParams: hiddenEasing,
+  run: (ctx, inputs, params, _def, _entry, lookup) => {
     const voice = asNumber(inputs.voice);
     const time = asNumber(inputs.time);
     if (voice > 0)
-      ctx.tuneSound(voice, fxParamsOf(inputs.fxParams), Number.isFinite(time) && time > 0 ? time : 0);
+      ctx.tuneSound(
+        voice,
+        fxParamsOf(inputs.fxParams),
+        Number.isFinite(time) && time > 0 ? time : 0,
+        easeShareOf(easingOfParams(params), curvesOf(lookup)),
+      );
     return { next: 'exec' };
   },
 };
diff --git a/src/core/graph/nodes/data/Lerp.ts b/src/core/graph/nodes/data/Lerp.ts
index 6afd05a0..e950c298 100644
--- a/src/core/graph/nodes/data/Lerp.ts
+++ b/src/core/graph/nodes/data/Lerp.ts
@@ -1,60 +1,27 @@
-import type { GraphNode } from '../../Graph';
-import type { GraphLookup } from '../../lookup';
 import type { NodeDef } from '../../NodeRegistry';
 import { asNumber } from '../../values';
+import { curvesOf, easingOfParams, easingParams, hiddenEasing } from '../easing';
 import { num, withDefault } from '../shared';
 
-import { curveValue, LERP, LERP_CURVE } from '../../../model/curve';
-import { textOf } from '../../../model/Properties';
-
-/** Quadratic curves over t in 0…1, each running from 0 to 1. */
-const EASES: Record<string, (t: number) => number> = {
-  linear: (t) => t,
-  in: (t) => t * t,
-  out: (t) => 1 - (1 - t) * (1 - t),
-  inOut: (t) => (t < 0.5 ? 2 * t * t : 1 - 2 * (1 - t) * (1 - t)),
-};
+import { easedShare } from '../../../model/animation';
+import { LERP } from '../../../model/curve';
 
 export const Lerp: NodeDef = {
   type: LERP,
   label: 'Lerp',
   category: 'data',
   description:
-    'Blends from a to b as t runs from 0 to 1, along the chosen ease. t is held in 0…1. With Ease ' +
-    'set to Curve it follows the Curve asset picked below, and may overshoot b.',
+    'Blends from a to b as t runs from 0 to 1, along the chosen easing – the same ones an animation ' +
+    'key offers. t is held in 0…1. Step stays at a until t reaches 1. Back, Elastic and a Curve ' +
+    'asset may overshoot b.',
   inputs: [withDefault(num('a'), 0), withDefault(num('b'), 1), withDefault(num('t'), 0)],
   outputs: [num('result')],
-  params: [
-    {
-      key: 'ease',
-      label: 'Ease',
-      kind: 'enum',
-      default: 'linear',
-      options: [
-        { value: 'linear', label: 'Linear' },
-        { value: 'in', label: 'In' },
-        { value: 'out', label: 'Out' },
-        { value: 'inOut', label: 'In-out' },
-        { value: 'curve', label: 'Curve' },
-      ],
-    },
-    { key: LERP_CURVE, label: 'Curve', kind: 'asset', default: '', assetTypes: ['curve'] },
-  ],
-  hiddenParams: (params) => (textOf(params.ease) === 'curve' ? [] : [LERP_CURVE]),
+  params: easingParams(),
+  hiddenParams: hiddenEasing,
   run: (_ctx, inputs, params, _def, _entry, lookup) => {
     const a = asNumber(inputs.a);
     const t = Math.min(Math.max(asNumber(inputs.t), 0), 1);
-    const ease = textOf(params.ease);
-    const points = ease === 'curve' ? lookup.curve(textOf(params[LERP_CURVE] ?? '')) : null;
-    const share = points ? curveValue(points, t) : (EASES[ease] ?? EASES.linear!)(t);
+    const share = easedShare(easingOfParams(params), t, curvesOf(lookup));
     return { outputs: { result: a + (asNumber(inputs.b) - a) * share } };
   },
 };
-
-/** Why a Lerp set to Curve runs linear instead, or null when it eases as it says. */
-export function lerpProblem(node: GraphNode, lookup: GraphLookup): string | null {
-  if (node.type !== LERP || textOf(node.params.ease) !== 'curve') return null;
-  const id = textOf(node.params[LERP_CURVE] ?? '');
-  if (!id) return 'No curve picked – runs linear';
-  return lookup.curve(id) ? null : 'That curve is gone – runs linear';
-}
diff --git a/src/core/graph/nodes/easing.ts b/src/core/graph/nodes/easing.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4054a421
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/graph/nodes/easing.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import type { GraphNode } from '../Graph';
+import type { GraphLookup } from '../lookup';
+
+import type { KeyInterpolation } from '../../model/Asset';
+import { EASING_DIRECTIONS, EASING_SHAPES, easingOf, easingValue } from '../../model/animation';
+import { type CurveLookup, EASED_NODES, LERP_CURVE } from '../../model/curve';
+import { type PropertyBag, textOf } from '../../model/Properties';
+import type { PropertyDef } from '../../properties/PropertySchema';
+
+const EASE = 'ease';
+const DIRECTION = 'direction';
+
+/** The easings an animation key offers, as node settings: the same choice wherever a value runs somewhere. */
+export function easingParams(): PropertyDef[] {
+  return [
+    {
+      key: EASE,
+      label: 'Easing',
+      kind: 'enum',
+      default: 'linear',
+      options: EASING_SHAPES.map((o) => ({ ...o })),
+    },
+    {
+      key: DIRECTION,
+      label: 'Direction',
+      kind: 'enum',
+      default: 'in-out',
+      options: EASING_DIRECTIONS.map((o) => ({ ...o })),
+    },
+    { key: LERP_CURVE, label: 'Curve', kind: 'asset', default: '', assetTypes: ['curve'] },
+  ];
+}
+
+/** The settings read as an animation key's interpolation; unknown text is linear. */
+export function easingOfParams(params: PropertyBag): KeyInterpolation {
+  const ease = textOf(params[EASE] ?? 'linear');
+  const shape = EASING_SHAPES.find((o) => o.value === ease)?.value ?? 'linear';
+  const direction = EASING_DIRECTIONS.find((o) => o.value === textOf(params[DIRECTION] ?? ''))?.value;
+  return easingValue(shape, direction, textOf(params[LERP_CURVE] ?? ''));
+}
+
+/** The settings that say nothing for this easing, for `hiddenParams`. */
+export function hiddenEasing(params: PropertyBag): string[] {
+  const { shape, direction } = easingOf(easingOfParams(params));
+  return [...(direction ? [] : [DIRECTION]), ...(shape === 'curve' ? [] : [LERP_CURVE])];
+}
+
+export function curvesOf(lookup: GraphLookup): CurveLookup {
+  return (id) => lookup.curve(id) ?? undefined;
+}
+
+/** Why a node set to Curve runs linear instead, or null when it eases as it says. */
+export function easingProblem(node: GraphNode, lookup: GraphLookup): string | null {
+  if (!EASED_NODES.includes(node.type)) return null;
+  const { shape, curve } = easingOf(easingOfParams(node.params));
+  if (shape !== 'curve') return null;
+  if (!curve) return 'No curve picked – runs linear';
+  return lookup.curve(curve) ? null : 'That curve is gone – runs linear';
+}
diff --git a/src/core/model/animation.ts b/src/core/model/animation.ts
index 3c7e3f77..8f92e377 100644
--- a/src/core/model/animation.ts
+++ b/src/core/model/animation.ts
@@ -233,7 +233,8 @@ export function easedShare(
 ): number {
   const { shape, direction, curve } = easingOf(interpolation);
   if (shape === 'linear') return t;
-  if (shape === 'step') return 0;
+  // A key reads the next key's own value once it is there, so for it a step only ever holds.
+  if (shape === 'step') return t >= 1 ? 1 : 0;
   if (shape === 'curve') {
     const points = curves(curve ?? '');
     return points ? curveValue(points, t) : t;
@@ -249,6 +250,19 @@ export function easedShare(
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * An easing as something that runs on its own clock, the audio one: the two shapes it has built in
+ * stay names, everything else is the share at each `t`, a gone curve already read as linear.
+ */
+export type EaseShare = 'linear' | 'step' | ((t: number) => number);
+
+export function easeShareOf(interpolation: KeyInterpolation, curves: CurveLookup = NO_CURVES): EaseShare {
+  const { shape, curve } = easingOf(interpolation);
+  if (shape === 'linear' || shape === 'step') return shape;
+  if (shape === 'curve' && !curves(curve ?? '')) return 'linear';
+  return (t) => easedShare(interpolation, t, curves);
+}
+
 /** The value between two keys, `t` from 0 (at `a`) to 1 (at `b`). */
 export function blendValue(kind: string, a: PropertyValue, b: PropertyValue, t: number): PropertyValue {
   if (kind === 'number') {
diff --git a/src/core/model/curve.ts b/src/core/model/curve.ts
index 461c3c65..84d96e60 100644
--- a/src/core/model/curve.ts
+++ b/src/core/model/curve.ts
@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ import { cloneVectorPoint } from './vectorart';
 /** The node type that eases along a curve, and its setting naming the curve. */
 export const LERP = 'Lerp';
 export const LERP_CURVE = 'curve';
+/** Every node type with the easing settings of a `Lerp`, the curve among them. */
+export const EASED_NODES: readonly string[] = [LERP, 'SetSoundFxParameters'];
 
-/** How many animation keys and `Lerp` nodes ease along a curve – what deleting it has to warn about. */
+/** How many animation keys and eased nodes run along a curve – what deleting it has to warn about. */
 export function curveUsages(project: Project, curveId: string): { keys: number; nodes: number } {
   let keys = 0;
   let nodes = 0;
@@ -25,7 +27,9 @@ export function curveUsages(project: Project, curveId: string): { keys: number;
       for (const track of asset.tracks)
         keys += track.keys.filter((key) => key.interpolation === `curve:${curveId}`).length;
     if (isGraphAsset(asset))
-      nodes += asset.graph.nodes.filter((n) => n.type === LERP && n.params[LERP_CURVE] === curveId).length;
+      nodes += asset.graph.nodes.filter(
+        (n) => EASED_NODES.includes(n.type) && n.params[LERP_CURVE] === curveId,
+      ).length;
   }
   return { keys, nodes };
 }
diff --git a/src/runtime/systems/Audio.ts b/src/runtime/systems/Audio.ts
index ff8d0ce9..2de66169 100644
--- a/src/runtime/systems/Audio.ts
+++ b/src/runtime/systems/Audio.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { EaseShare } from '../../core/model/animation';
 import type { FxParams, FxVoice } from '../../core/soundfx/nodes';
 
 /**
@@ -23,9 +24,10 @@ export interface AudioSink {
    * A name its FX does not have is left out, one not given keeps its value. A voice that has ended
    * is not there any more and nothing happens – a detached one is reached like any other. `time` is
    * how many seconds the values take to get there, counted on the audio clock from now – or from
-   * the moment the voice really starts, where it still waits on its bytes. 0 is a quick glide.
+   * the moment the voice really starts, where it still waits on its bytes, along `ease` (linear
+   * where it is not given). 0 is a quick glide.
    */
-  tune(voice: number, params: FxParams, time?: number): void;
+  tune(voice: number, params: FxParams, time?: number, ease?: EaseShare): void;
   /** Silences every voice of that file; `''` silences all of them. */
   stop(file: string): void;
   /** Silences every voice started by that owner – what destroying a behavior does. */
diff --git a/src/runtime/systems/behaviorContext.ts b/src/runtime/systems/behaviorContext.ts
index 46e4d259..05db358b 100644
--- a/src/runtime/systems/behaviorContext.ts
+++ b/src/runtime/systems/behaviorContext.ts
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ export function behaviorContext(
       const file = assetId === '' ? '' : soundFileOf(project, assetId);
       if (assetId === '' || file) run.audio.stop(file);
     },
-    tuneSound: (voice, fxParams, time) => run.audio.tune(voice, fxParams, time),
+    tuneSound: (voice, fxParams, time, ease) => run.audio.tune(voice, fxParams, time, ease),
     spawn: (assetId, position, parent) => world.spawn(assetId, position, resolve(parent) ?? null),
     addJoint: (assetId, owner, connected, at) => {
       const on = resolve(owner);
diff --git a/src/viewport/SoundLibrary.ts b/src/viewport/SoundLibrary.ts
index 1e33c08c..47a78679 100644
--- a/src/viewport/SoundLibrary.ts
+++ b/src/viewport/SoundLibrary.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   type FxStage,
   type FxVoice,
 } from '../core/soundfx/nodes';
+import type { EaseShare } from '../core/model/animation';
 import { pitchShift } from '../core/soundfx/pitchShift';
 import type { AudioSink } from '../runtime/systems/Audio';
 
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ interface Wiring {
 interface Pending {
   id: number;
   fx: FxVoice;
-  timed: { params: FxParams; time: number }[];
+  timed: { params: FxParams; time: number; ease: EaseShare }[];
 }
 
 /**
@@ -136,25 +137,25 @@ export class SoundLibrary implements AudioSink {
       // bytes were in flight has to win, or a sound the run already ended would start afterwards.
       if (!loaded || this.cancelsFor(file, owner) !== askedAt) return;
       this.start(id, file, loaded, volume, loop, owner, waiting.fx);
-      for (const { params, time } of waiting.timed) this.tune(id, params, time);
+      for (const { params, time, ease } of waiting.timed) this.tune(id, params, time, ease);
     });
     return id;
   }
 
   /** Says whether the voice was still there to be reached – playing, or waiting on its bytes. */
-  tune(id: number, params: FxParams, time = 0): boolean {
+  tune(id: number, params: FxParams, time = 0, ease: EaseShare = 'linear'): boolean {
     const waiting = this.pending.find((other) => other.id === id);
     if (waiting) {
       // A quick change is where the voice starts; a timed one – and anything after it, so the order
       // holds – runs from the moment it is heard.
-      if (time > 0 || waiting.timed.length > 0) waiting.timed.push({ params, time });
+      if (time > 0 || waiting.timed.length > 0) waiting.timed.push({ params, time, ease });
       else waiting.fx = { plan: waiting.fx.plan, params: { ...waiting.fx.params, ...params } };
       return true;
     }
     const voice = this.voices.find((other) => other.id === id);
     if (!voice) return false;
     voice.fx = { plan: voice.fx.plan, params: { ...voice.fx.params, ...params } };
-    this.glide(voice, time);
+    this.glide(voice, time, ease);
     this.tuned += 1;
     return true;
   }
@@ -350,10 +351,10 @@ export class SoundLibrary implements AudioSink {
 
   /**
    * Sends every knob of a voice towards what its values say now, in `time` seconds of the audio
-   * clock or else in a quick glide. A pitch cannot get a new copy in the middle of a sound, so it
+   * clock along `ease`, or else in a quick glide. A pitch cannot get a new copy in the middle of a sound, so it
    * glides by speed: the voice gets that much shorter or longer.
    */
-  private glide(voice: Voice, time: number): void {
+  private glide(voice: Voice, time: number, ease: EaseShare): void {
     const levels = levelsOf(fxChainOf(voice.fx.plan, voice.fx.params));
     const now = this.audio().currentTime;
     voice.knobs.forEach((knob, i) => {
@@ -361,8 +362,8 @@ export class SoundLibrary implements AudioSink {
       if (level === undefined || level === knob.target) return;
       knob.target = level;
       if (knob.kind === 'pitch')
-        move(knob.source.playbackRate, 2 ** ((level - knob.base) / 12), now, time, true);
-      else move(knob.param, level, now, time, knob.even === 'ratio');
+        move(knob.source.playbackRate, 2 ** ((level - knob.base) / 12), now, time, true, ease);
+      else move(knob.param, level, now, time, knob.even === 'ratio', ease);
     });
   }
 
@@ -445,21 +446,52 @@ function fxNode(context: AudioContext, stage: FxStage): [AudioNode, AudioParam]
 
 /**
  * Sends one knob from where it is right now to `to`. Whatever was still planned for it is dropped
- * first, so a change never queues behind an older one. A timed change runs evenly – a `ratio` one
- * evenly in its logarithm, which is what decibels and semitones are.
+ * first, so a change never queues behind an older one. A timed change runs along `ease` – a `ratio`
+ * one in its logarithm, which is what decibels and semitones are. Linear and step are the clock's
+ * own ramps, every other easing is handed over as a curve of samples.
  */
-function move(param: AudioParam, to: number, now: number, time: number, ratio: boolean): void {
+function move(
+  param: AudioParam,
+  to: number,
+  now: number,
+  time: number,
+  ratio: boolean,
+  ease: EaseShare = 'linear',
+): void {
+  const from = param.value;
   // Firefox has no cancelAndHoldAtTime: there the value it reads out now is held by hand.
   const held = param as Omit<AudioParam, 'cancelAndHoldAtTime'> &
     Partial<Pick<AudioParam, 'cancelAndHoldAtTime'>>;
   if (held.cancelAndHoldAtTime) held.cancelAndHoldAtTime(now);
   else {
     param.cancelScheduledValues(now);
-    param.setValueAtTime(param.value, now);
+    param.setValueAtTime(from, now);
   }
+  const logarithmic = ratio && from > 0 && to > 0;
   if (time <= 0) param.setTargetAtTime(to, now, GLIDE);
-  else if (ratio && to > 0) param.exponentialRampToValueAtTime(to, now + time);
-  else param.linearRampToValueAtTime(to, now + time);
+  else if (ease === 'step') param.setValueAtTime(to, now + time);
+  else if (ease === 'linear' && logarithmic) param.exponentialRampToValueAtTime(to, now + time);
+  else if (ease === 'linear') param.linearRampToValueAtTime(to, now + time);
+  else param.setValueCurveAtTime(easedCurve(from, to, time, logarithmic, ease), now, time);
+}
+
+/** Samples per second of an eased curve: a bounce keeps its corners, a long sweep stays small. */
+const CURVE_RATE = 200;
+
+function easedCurve(
+  from: number,
+  to: number,
+  time: number,
+  logarithmic: boolean,
+  share: (t: number) => number,
+): Float32Array {
+  const count = Math.min(Math.max(Math.ceil(time * CURVE_RATE) + 1, 16), 4096);
+  const curve = new Float32Array(count);
+  for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+    const s = share(i / (count - 1));
+    curve[i] = logarithmic ? from * (to / from) ** s : from + (to - from) * s;
+  }
+  return curve;
 }
 
 /** The numbers of a chain in the order `wire` makes their knobs: a stage's `gain` is what its node holds. */
diff --git a/tests/core/curve.test.ts b/tests/core/curve.test.ts
index 7070ae90..7fa29027 100644
--- a/tests/core/curve.test.ts
+++ b/tests/core/curve.test.ts
@@ -208,8 +208,15 @@ describe('a key and a Lerp that ease along a curve', () => {
     findAssetOf(f.project, behavior.asset.id, 'behavior')!.graph.nodes.push(
       { id: 'l1', type: 'Lerp', x: 0, y: 0, params: { ease: 'curve', curve: curve.asset.id } },
       { id: 'l2', type: 'Lerp', x: 0, y: 0, params: { ease: 'linear' } },
+      {
+        id: 's1',
+        type: 'SetSoundFxParameters',
+        x: 0,
+        y: 0,
+        params: { ease: 'curve', curve: curve.asset.id },
+      },
     );
-    expect(curveUsages(f.project, curve.asset.id)).toEqual({ keys: 2, nodes: 1 });
+    expect(curveUsages(f.project, curve.asset.id)).toEqual({ keys: 2, nodes: 2 });
   });
 });
 
diff --git a/tests/core/node-catalog.test.ts b/tests/core/node-catalog.test.ts
index e2917367..46a7f5eb 100644
--- a/tests/core/node-catalog.test.ts
+++ b/tests/core/node-catalog.test.ts
@@ -834,25 +834,65 @@ const CASES: Record<string, Case[]> = {
   ],
   Lerp: [
     { name: 'linear by default', inputs: { a: 10, b: 20, t: 0.25 }, outputs: { result: 12.5 } },
-    { name: 'ease in', inputs: { a: 0, b: 8, t: 0.5 }, params: { ease: 'in' }, outputs: { result: 2 } },
-    { name: 'ease out', inputs: { a: 0, b: 8, t: 0.5 }, params: { ease: 'out' }, outputs: { result: 6 } },
     {
-      name: 'ease in-out, slow at both ends',
-      inputs: { a: 0, b: 8, t: 0.25 },
-      params: { ease: 'inOut' },
+      name: 'the easings of an animation key: cubic in',
+      inputs: { a: 0, b: 8, t: 0.5 },
+      params: { ease: 'cubic', direction: 'in' },
       outputs: { result: 1 },
     },
     {
-      name: 'ease in-out, half way at the middle',
+      name: 'quad out',
       inputs: { a: 0, b: 8, t: 0.5 },
-      params: { ease: 'inOut' },
+      params: { ease: 'quad', direction: 'out' },
+      outputs: { result: 6 },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'a curve without a direction set eases both ways',
+      inputs: { a: 0, b: 8, t: 0.25 },
+      params: { ease: 'cubic' },
+      outputs: { result: 0.5 },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'step stays at a until t reaches 1',
+      inputs: { a: 2, b: 8, t: 0.99 },
+      params: { ease: 'step' },
+      outputs: { result: 2 },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'step at t 1 is b',
+      inputs: { a: 2, b: 8, t: 1 },
+      params: { ease: 'step' },
+      outputs: { result: 8 },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'a direction says nothing for linear',
+      inputs: { a: 0, b: 8, t: 0.5 },
+      params: { ease: 'linear', direction: 'in' },
       outputs: { result: 4 },
     },
+    {
+      name: 'quad in-out, slow at both ends',
+      inputs: { a: 0, b: 8, t: 0.25 },
+      params: { ease: 'quad', direction: 'in-out' },
+      outputs: { result: 1 },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'quad in-out, half way at the middle',
+      inputs: { a: 0, b: 8, t: 0.5 },
+      params: { ease: 'quad', direction: 'in-out' },
+      outputs: { result: 4 },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'an unknown easing runs linear',
+      inputs: { a: 0, b: 8, t: 0.25 },
+      params: { ease: 'in' },
+      outputs: { result: 2 },
+    },
     { name: 't past 1 stops at b', inputs: { a: 3, b: -5, t: 1.2 }, outputs: { result: -5 } },
     {
       name: 't below 0 stops at a',
       inputs: { a: 3, b: -5, t: -0.5 },
-      params: { ease: 'out' },
+      params: { ease: 'quad', direction: 'out' },
       outputs: { result: 3 },
     },
     {
@@ -2032,19 +2072,58 @@ const CASES: Record<string, Case[]> = {
       name: 'hands the numbers of the bundle to the voice it is given',
       inputs: { voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: 3, label: 'x' } },
       next: 'exec',
-      after: (ctx) => expect(ctx.tuned).toEqual([{ voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: 3 }, time: 0 }]),
+      after: (ctx) =>
+        expect(ctx.tuned).toEqual([{ voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: 3 }, time: 0, ease: 'linear' }]),
     },
     {
       name: 'hands on the time the values take to get there',
       inputs: { voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: -64 }, time: 1.28 },
       next: 'exec',
-      after: (ctx) => expect(ctx.tuned).toEqual([{ voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: -64 }, time: 1.28 }]),
+      after: (ctx) =>
+        expect(ctx.tuned).toEqual([{ voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: -64 }, time: 1.28, ease: 'linear' }]),
     },
     {
       name: 'a time below 0 is a quick glide',
       inputs: { voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: 3 }, time: -2 },
       next: 'exec',
-      after: (ctx) => expect(ctx.tuned).toEqual([{ voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: 3 }, time: 0 }]),
+      after: (ctx) =>
+        expect(ctx.tuned).toEqual([{ voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: 3 }, time: 0, ease: 'linear' }]),
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'hands on the easing the values take: a curve with its direction as a share of the way',
+      inputs: { voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: 3 }, time: 1 },
+      params: { ease: 'cubic', direction: 'in' },
+      next: 'exec',
+      after: (ctx) => {
+        const ease = ctx.tuned[0]!.ease;
+        expect(typeof ease === 'function' && [ease(0), ease(0.5), ease(1)]).toEqual([0, 0.125, 1]);
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'step is handed on by name, the clock jumps at the end',
+      inputs: { voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: 3 }, time: 1 },
+      params: { ease: 'step' },
+      next: 'exec',
+      after: (ctx) => expect(ctx.tuned[0]!.ease).toBe('step'),
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'along a Curve asset, as a share that may overshoot',
+      inputs: { voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: 3 }, time: 1 },
+      params: { ease: 'curve', curve: 'c' },
+      lookup: overshootingCurve,
+      next: 'exec',
+      after: (ctx) => {
+        const ease = ctx.tuned[0]!.ease;
+        expect(typeof ease === 'function' && ease(0.5)).toBeCloseTo(1.5, 6);
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'a Curve asset that is gone is linear',
+      inputs: { voice: 4, fxParams: { depth: 3 }, time: 1 },
+      params: { ease: 'curve', curve: 'gone' },
+      lookup: overshootingCurve,
+      next: 'exec',
+      after: (ctx) => expect(ctx.tuned[0]!.ease).toBe('linear'),
     },
     {
       name: 'voice 0 – nothing was played – reaches nothing, and the flow carries on',
diff --git a/tests/helpers.ts b/tests/helpers.ts
index 082ffe11..6d1e663a 100644
--- a/tests/helpers.ts
+++ b/tests/helpers.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import {
   VARIABLES_PARAM,
 } from '../src/core/graph';
 import type { GraphInterpreter } from '../src/core/graph/GraphInterpreter';
+import type { EaseShare } from '../src/core/model/animation';
 import type { BehaviorAsset, SceneAsset, VariablesAsset } from '../src/core/model/Asset';
 import { findObject } from '../src/core/model/hierarchy';
 import { worldPosition } from '../src/core/properties/transform';
@@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ export type FakeContext = NodeContext & {
     fxParams: Readonly<Record<string, number>>;
   }[];
   silenced: string[];
-  tuned: { voice: number; fxParams: Readonly<Record<string, number>>; time: number }[];
+  tuned: { voice: number; fxParams: Readonly<Record<string, number>>; time: number; ease: EaseShare }[];
   /** The scenes the context was asked to load, in order. */
   loaded: string[];
   /** The time scale and the pause the context holds, as the game nodes left them. */
@@ -271,7 +272,7 @@ export function fakeContext(overrides: Partial<NodeContext> = {}): FakeContext {
       ctx.played.push({ assetId, volume, loop, detached, fx, fxParams }),
     stopSound: (assetId) => ctx.silenced.push(assetId),
     tuned: [],
-    tuneSound: (voice, fxParams, time) => ctx.tuned.push({ voice, fxParams, time }),
+    tuneSound: (voice, fxParams, time, ease) => ctx.tuned.push({ voice, fxParams, time, ease }),
     loadScene: (sceneId) => ctx.loaded.push(sceneId),
     spawn: () => null,
     addJoint: () => null,
diff --git a/tests/viewport/sound-library.test.ts b/tests/viewport/sound-library.test.ts
index 565cb66c..970af6f8 100644
--- a/tests/viewport/sound-library.test.ts
+++ b/tests/viewport/sound-library.test.ts
@@ -13,18 +13,20 @@ const FILE = 'a.wav';
 const OTHER = 'b.wav';
 
 /**
- * An AudioParam that remembers where it was sent to glide, where it was sent to ramp – "linear" or
- * "exponential", to what, by when – and how often it was held. It has no cancelAndHoldAtTime, as in
- * Firefox, so the hold by hand is what runs here.
+ * An AudioParam that remembers where it was sent to glide, where it was sent to ramp – "linear",
+ * "exponential", "set" for a jump later on or "curve" with the samples' first, middle and last value,
+ * to what, by when – and how often it was held. It has no cancelAndHoldAtTime, as in Firefox, so the
+ * hold by hand (a set at the clock's 0) is what runs here.
  */
 interface FakeParam {
   value: number;
   glides: number[];
-  ramps: [string, number, number][];
+  ramps: [string, number | number[], number][];
   holds: number;
   setTargetAtTime: (value: number) => void;
   cancelScheduledValues: () => void;
-  setValueAtTime: () => void;
+  setValueAtTime: (value: number, at: number) => void;
+  setValueCurveAtTime: (values: Float32Array, at: number, time: number) => void;
   linearRampToValueAtTime: (value: number, at: number) => void;
   exponentialRampToValueAtTime: (value: number, at: number) => void;
 }
@@ -37,7 +39,9 @@ function param(value: number): FakeParam {
     holds: 0,
     setTargetAtTime: (to) => made.glides.push(to),
     cancelScheduledValues: () => {},
-    setValueAtTime: () => void (made.holds += 1),
+    setValueAtTime: (to, at) => (at > 0 ? void made.ramps.push(['set', to, at]) : void (made.holds += 1)),
+    setValueCurveAtTime: (values, at, time) =>
+      made.ramps.push(['curve', [values[0]!, values[(values.length - 1) / 2]!, values.at(-1)!], at + time]),
     linearRampToValueAtTime: (to, at) => made.ramps.push(['linear', to, at]),
     exponentialRampToValueAtTime: (to, at) => made.ramps.push(['exponential', to, at]),
   };
@@ -440,6 +444,29 @@ describe('the sound library', () => {
       expect(sources[0]!.playbackRate.glides).toEqual([1]);
     });
 
+    it('runs a timed change along an easing as a curve, each number in its own steps', async () => {
+      const library = new SoundLibrary();
+      const voice = await play(library, FILE, { owner: 'me' }, { plan: open, params: {} });
+      const loud = gains[3]!;
+      const from = loud.value;
+      library.tune(voice, { depth: 12, loud: -6 }, 1.5, (t) => t * t);
+      // Half the time is a quarter of the way: a quarter of the octave, a quarter of the decibels.
+      expect(sources[0]!.playbackRate.ramps).toEqual([['curve', [1, expect.closeTo(2 ** 0.25), 2], 1.5]]);
+      const quarter = from * (10 ** (-6 / 20) / from) ** 0.25;
+      expect(loud.ramps).toEqual([
+        ['curve', [from, expect.closeTo(quarter), expect.closeTo(10 ** (-6 / 20))], 1.5],
+      ]);
+      expect(sources[0]!.playbackRate.holds).toBe(1);
+    });
+
+    it('a step holds the value for the time and then jumps', async () => {
+      const library = new SoundLibrary();
+      const voice = await play(library, FILE, { owner: 'me' }, { plan: open, params: {} });
+      library.tune(voice, { depth: 12 }, 2, 'step');
+      expect(sources[0]!.playbackRate.ramps).toEqual([['set', 2, 2]]);
+      expect(sources[0]!.playbackRate.glides).toEqual([]);
+    });
+
     it('starts a timed change to a voice still waiting on its bytes when the voice starts', async () => {
       const library = new SoundLibrary();
       const voice = await play(library, FILE, { hold: true, owner: 'me' }, { plan: open, params: {} });
diff --git a/tools/e2e/06-graph.mjs b/tools/e2e/06-graph.mjs
index a13100bf..34e4799b 100644
--- a/tools/e2e/06-graph.mjs
+++ b/tools/e2e/06-graph.mjs
@@ -1150,8 +1150,9 @@ export async function graph(t) {
 
   await showTab('scene');
 
-  // 6z-iii. Lerp (#246): typed into the palette it arrives linear with a 0…1 range, and the ease
-  //         picked in the inspector lands on the node and on its setting row.
+  // 6z-iii. Lerp (#246): typed into the palette it arrives linear with a 0…1 range, and the easing
+  //         picked in the inspector – the choice an animation key has – lands on the node and on its
+  //         setting rows: a curve brings its direction along.
   async function lerpNode() {
     await mutate(`
       const p = __gm.state.project;
@@ -1177,20 +1178,27 @@ export async function graph(t) {
       'typing "lerp" into the palette adds a linear Lerp from 0 to 1',
       lerp?.type === 'Lerp' &&
         JSON.stringify(inputs) === JSON.stringify(['a  0', 'b  1', 't  0']) &&
-        JSON.stringify(settings) === JSON.stringify(['Ease: Linear']),
+        JSON.stringify(settings) === JSON.stringify(['Easing: Linear']),
       JSON.stringify({ lerp, inputs, settings }),
     );
-    const easeField = await json(`__gm.inspectorField('Ease')`);
+    const easeField = await json(`__gm.inspectorField('Easing')`);
     if (easeField) {
       await click(easeField.x, easeField.y);
+      await clickText('Cubic');
+    }
+    const directionField = await json(`__gm.inspectorField('Direction')`);
+    if (directionField) {
+      await click(directionField.x, directionField.y);
       await clickText('Out');
     }
     const picked = lerp ? (await asset('lerpy')).graph.nodes.find((n) => n.id === lerp.id) : null;
     const pickedRows = lerp ? await json(`__gm.graph.nodeSettings(${JSON.stringify(lerp.id)})`) : null;
     check(
-      'picking "Out" in the inspector sets the node and its setting row',
-      picked?.params.ease === 'out' && JSON.stringify(pickedRows) === JSON.stringify(['Ease: Out']),
-      JSON.stringify({ easeField, params: picked?.params, pickedRows }),
+      'picking "Cubic" and "Out" in the inspector sets the node and its setting rows',
+      picked?.params.ease === 'cubic' &&
+        picked.params.direction === 'out' &&
+        JSON.stringify(pickedRows) === JSON.stringify(['Easing: Cubic', 'Direction: Out']),
+      JSON.stringify({ easeField, directionField, params: picked?.params, pickedRows }),
     );
     await shot('22-lerp');
     await mutate(`
diff --git a/tools/e2e/34-sound.mjs b/tools/e2e/34-sound.mjs
index 0455df14..609ee505 100644
--- a/tools/e2e/34-sound.mjs
+++ b/tools/e2e/34-sound.mjs
@@ -492,6 +492,38 @@ export async function sound(t) {
     JSON.stringify({ early, later, afterHalf }),
   );
   await stop();
+  // The easings of an animation key: Quad in hands the clock a curve, which is still near the start
+  // 0.7 s in and only then falls to the end (speed 0.5). Read a little later than that for the
+  // round trips, it is above 0.8 until 1.1 s; linear is below 0.79 from 0.7 s on.
+  await mutate(`
+    const tune = __gm.state.project.assets.find((a) => a.id === 'sn-logic').graph.nodes.find((n) => n.id === 'sn-tune');
+    Object.assign(tune.params, { ease: 'quad', direction: 'in' });`);
+  await play();
+  await waitFor(speed, (s) => typeof s === 'number');
+  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 700));
+  const easedEarly = await speed();
+  const easedEnd = await waitFor(speed, (s) => typeof s === 'number' && s < 0.52);
+  check(
+    'Set sound FX parameters with Quad in ramps slowly first, then on to the end',
+    easedEarly > 0.8 && easedEarly < 0.995 && easedEnd < 0.52,
+    JSON.stringify({ easedEarly, easedEnd }),
+  );
+  await stop();
+  // Step holds the pitch for the whole time and then jumps there.
+  await mutate(`
+    const tune = __gm.state.project.assets.find((a) => a.id === 'sn-logic').graph.nodes.find((n) => n.id === 'sn-tune');
+    Object.assign(tune.params, { ease: 'step', time: 1 });`);
+  await play();
+  await waitFor(speed, (s) => typeof s === 'number');
+  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 500));
+  const stepHeld = await speed();
+  const stepEnd = await waitFor(speed, (s) => typeof s === 'number' && s < 0.9);
+  check(
+    'Set sound FX parameters with Step holds the pitch for the time, then jumps to the end',
+    stepHeld === 1 && Math.abs(stepEnd - 0.5) < 0.001,
+    JSON.stringify({ stepHeld, stepEnd }),
+  );
+  await stop();
   await mutate(`
     const logic = __gm.state.project.assets.find((a) => a.id === 'sn-logic');
     logic.variables = [];
diff --git a/tools/e2e/53-curves.mjs b/tools/e2e/53-curves.mjs
index 575e0429..ed915956 100644
--- a/tools/e2e/53-curves.mjs
+++ b/tools/e2e/53-curves.mjs
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ export async function curves(t) {
   );
   await shot('53-curve-key');
 
-  // 53e. A Lerp picks it too – Ease: Curve, then the curve in its row – and the game logs its value.
+  // 53e. A Lerp picks it too – Easing: Curve, then the curve in its row – and the game logs its value.
   await mutate(`
     const p = __gm.state.project;
     p.assets.push({ id: 'cv-lerpy', type: 'behavior', name: 'Curve lerp', props: { enabled: true, runInEditor: false },
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ export async function curves(t) {
     await settle();
     return option;
   };
-  await pick('Ease', 'Curve');
+  await pick('Easing', 'Curve');
   const unpicked = await json("__gm.graph.nodeSettings('cv-lerp')");
   const name = await json(`__gm.state.project.assets.find((a) => a.id === ${JSON.stringify(curveId)}).name`);
   const picked = await pick('Curve', `${name} (curve)`);
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ export async function curves(t) {
   );
   const settings = await json("__gm.graph.nodeSettings('cv-lerp')");
   check(
-    'Ease: Curve brings the Curve row onto the node, and picking the curve there sets it',
+    'Easing: Curve brings the Curve row onto the node, and picking the curve there sets it',
     params?.ease === 'curve' &&
       params.curve === curveId &&
       Boolean(picked) &&