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adminandClaude Opus 5.5 2764919bb8 Stream long sounds from an Opus copy instead of decoding them (#349)
A sound was decoded whole as soon as the project opened, in the editor
and in a released game: five minutes of stereo held some 115 MB for as
long as the page was open. A sound with Stream on now plays from a copy
as Opus in Ogg, fetched a piece at a time and decoded a few seconds
ahead by WebCodecs, so a game holds a few megabytes for it.

- The Stream switch is a row of the sound, off by default. The Sound
  tab suggests it from a minute on and says how far the copy has got.
- StreamKeeper makes the copies in the browser, a moment after the
  last change, one at a time: the sound's own and one per clip of its
  cut, fades and Reverse baked in. A copy that is no longer wanted is
  taken off and deleted once the project is saved without it.
- streamTable says which played names stream from which copy. A clip
  without a fitting copy, a Sample and a Reverb impulse stay decoded.
  A sound with Stream on is never decoded ahead.
- The page fetches by Range and takes the whole file from a server
  that ignores it, as the CI's PHP server does. It keeps the bytes
  and the first two seconds decoded, the rest goes four seconds ahead.
- A jump decodes 32 packets before the place first. Measured in
  Chrome, what follows is then the same to the bit as decoding from
  the start. With 4 packets it was 0.06 off.
- The stream-player on the FX worklet reads the samples at the rate
  of the context along a Catmull-Rom curve. What comes late is silent
  and skipped once it is there, so a clip keeps its beat.
- The opening stretch goes with the player as it is made. Sent by
  message it came a few milliseconds late, and 557 samples of the
  attack were lost.
- Pitch on a streamed sound is a shifter after the player, as on a
  bus: the length stays and it is heard 42.7 ms late.
- Bakes of patterns and songs (#340) always stream now.
- The song timeline draws a streamed sound from its copy decoded at
  8 kHz, keeping only the peaks.

Tests:
- Gate: CHECK EXIT 0, 280 files, 4312 tests (31 new: ogg +3,
  stream-queue 6, streams 11, streaming 6, sound-library +5).
- e2e 34: ALL PASSED, 106 checks (7 new). Five minutes of mono,
  4.8 MB as WAV, 3.6 MB as its copy: streamed the renderer grows by
  5.8 MB, decoded by 69.6 MB. Offline at 48 kHz, start, loop seam and
  a reversed clip are the copy decoded whole to the sample (0).
- Counter-checks red as they should be: no pre-roll, no catch-up of
  late samples at the end, no opening stretch, a streamed sound
  decoded ahead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 20:27:32 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 3377524958 Zoom the Parametric EQ's dB with the wheel, saved on its node (#376)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m48s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 14m59s
Close moves of a few dB were hard to set and to see on a curve that
always spans -24 to +24 dB. The wheel on free space now zooms the dB
the curve shows, and the node's small curve shows the same range.

- The range is one of ±3, ±6, ±12, ±24 and ±48 dB, always the same
  either side of 0. Up zooms in.
- It is saved on the node as `range`, so it is back after loading.
  Like the game scale (#226) it is no undo step. EditorState gets
  `setNodeView` for such a setting of a node.
- The lines across the curve follow the range: every 1, 2, 3, 6 or
  12 dB. A handle whose gain lies beyond the range stays on the edge,
  in sight and in reach.
- The wheel over a handle still turns the band's Q. It no longer does
  so anywhere while a band is picked: after opening, a band nearly
  always is, and the zoom would be out of reach.
- `EqArea` carries the range, so the tab and the node map dB alike.
  The spectrum keeps its own scale.

Tests:
- Unit parametric-eq: 16 green, 5 new (range in compile and save,
  node picture, wheel steps, grid lines, handle on the edge)
- Counter-check: the node's picture without the saved range turns
  the new picture test red
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 99 checks, 1 new
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 275 files, 4252 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 16:36:33 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 687377682c Draw the EQ's curve in its node and a spectrum behind it (#375, #374)
Both were asked for in #367 "for later". The node of a Parametric EQ
now shows its curve in small, and its tab shows what passes the node
while it is seen.

#375, the curve in the node:

- NodeDef has an optional `picture`: a height, and shapes made from
  the settings as plain point lists (guide, area, line). It is
  general, the Parametric EQ is its first user.
- NodeView draws it in a box below the rows, again only when the box
  or the settings change. A drag in the EQ tab changes them, so the
  node follows it live.
- Without a band the box stays, flat on its 0 dB line, so the node
  does not grow at the first band.
- The axes of the curve, `eqCurvePoints` and `fillShapes` move from
  editor/soundfx/eqView to core/soundfx/parametricEq. Tab and node
  draw the sum from the same function.

#374, the spectrum:

- A node marked `tapped` gets a `tap` stage in front of its own
  stages and one behind them when compiled, in a sound FX and in an
  instrument alike. Its id is asset and node, since a copied asset
  keeps its node ids.
- A tap is a gain of 1. SpectrumTaps (new, viewport/spectrum.ts)
  holds the tap of every voice and bus while it plays.
- While the EQ tab is seen, in the tab row or in a window, the taps
  of that node feed one analyser per side (8192 points). Nothing is
  made before a tap of the node plays, so no AudioContext is opened
  early.
- The tab draws both behind the curve, on a scale of 0 to -96 dBFS:
  the sound coming in faint and grey, the sound going on in the
  colour of a sound port. The analyser smooths it, and once the
  sound has gone the sum still hands it silence, so it falls away.
- Once the tab is not seen, Editor.tick lets the analysers go, like
  the meters of the Song tab.
- A tap does nothing to the sound, so `stats().last.stages` leaves it
  out, and a bypassed EQ keeps its taps.

Decided on my own:

- Every sound passing the node counts: Play of the sound FX tab, an
  instrument's keys, a song, a run. The issue proposed that.
- The spectrum has no labels of its own. Its scale is in the wiki.

Tests:

  Gate (melektaus-atx)     275 files, 4247 tests (11 new), EXIT 0
  e2e 34 (melektaus-atx)   ALL PASSED, 98 checks (2 new), twice

Counter-checks, each put back by copy and compared with cmp:

- The node's curve drawn without its bands: 2 unit tests fail.
- The spectrum without the loudest bin between two points: 1 fails.
- SpectrumTaps.stop leaving the taps linked: 1 fails.
- Taps that never feed the analyser: e2e 34 fails in exactly the
  spectrum check (frames 0). Run in the container only.

The screenshots of the second run were looked at: the blip as one
peak behind the curve, and the dip at 4 kHz in the node.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 15:58:53 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 25084f8576 Refactoring round 10: split SoundLibrary, fold sound duplicates (#85)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 4m3s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 14m52s
Refactoring round 10 covers everything since round 9 (808e1ee): 110
commits with about 47 000 new lines, nearly all of them sound, sound
FX, instruments, patterns and songs. Behaviour is unchanged.

Duplicate code (jscpd over src, 50 tokens, TypeScript only, measured
on 808e1ee and here alike: 47 clones / 426 lines before, 33 / 245
after; round 9 itself ended at 22 / 160 by this count):

- PreviewParams (new, editor/soundfx) is the header's parameter bar
  of the Sound FX and the Instrument tab: values, defaults, fields
  and the voices a moved field reaches. Both tabs had it line for
  line.
- fxWorklet: an Effect base runs the bit crusher, phaser, flanger,
  limiter, LFO and bus shifter, a Source base the pitch player and
  the Chip. Start is the one wait for a voice's first sample, which
  four processors wrote out each.
- nodes/shared has checkPort, detachedPort, fxParamsPort and
  letRingPort. The Play and Stop nodes of sounds, notes, patterns and
  songs spelled each port out, up to five times.
- parameterValues builds both Sound FX parameters and Instrument
  parameters, which differed in name and text only.
- SetLoopCommand sets the ruler loop of a pattern or a song. It
  replaces SetPatternLoopCommand and SetSongLoopCommand.
- addLink in music/routing is the one rule for a link that both the
  song routing and the Master routing keep.
- eqCurves works out each band and their sum for the EQ tab, which
  did that in its drawing code. It replaces eqCurveDb, which only a
  test called.
- Smaller ones: the eight neighbour directions of a tile cell, and
  drawFloatingBox for the shadowed box of Popup and FloatWindow.
- Left on purpose: Play pattern and Play song stay two parallel node
  definitions, and the smaller clones under ten lines stay.

Architecture:

- SoundLibrary.ts goes from 2897 to 2188 lines. What a stage of a
  sound FX becomes as Web Audio nodes, and how the knobs of a playing
  voice move, is now viewport/fxNodes.ts. None of it keeps state of
  the library.

Dead code (TS language service, references per export and member):

- soundRefIds, LFO_SHAPE_INDEX, TREMOLO_ROWS, VIBRATO_ROWS and
  REVERB_ROWS had no reader. The four routing node defs are
  registered without an unused exported name.
- soundFileOf and portTypeOf were called by tests only. The tests
  now ask findSound and portOf, which the editor uses. DRY moves
  from src into the one test that uses it.
- 51 values used only in their own file lose their `export`. Types
  and the node catalogues stay exported.
- Kept on purpose: neighboursOf is the cell by cell reading the
  indexed neighboursIn is checked against, and PitchShifter.latency
  is the test's one view of how late the shifter is.

Comments and docs:

- Seven comments told history ("no longer", "any more", "as
  before", "of before #354"). Nine comment blocks ran far past the
  line width. Proof that this changed no code: the bundle was md5
  identical, and the touched tests and e2e modules were identical
  after esbuild.
- README: sound FX, instrument, pattern, song and bus in the asset
  list, the pages Instruments, Patterns and Songs, 1919 checks.
- Wiki: see its own commit.

Tests:

  Gate (melektaus-atx)    274 files, 4236 tests, CHECK EXIT 0
  e2e 34, 64, 65          ALL PASSED, 180 checks
  Unit, touched areas     16 files, 804 tests

No check was added, the e2e sum stays at 1919. Counter-checks, each
put back by copy and compared with cmp:

- addLink without the loop rule: 2 tests fail, one per routing.
- eqCurves with the sum of the last band only: 1 test fails.
- Start in the worklet never waiting: e2e 34 fails in exactly the
  four checks that hang on a voice's first sample (Flanger, Tremolo,
  Chip, a pitched note planned ahead).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 15:31:33 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 9ab1bbc507 Edit a Parametric EQ in a tab of its own (#370)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 4m21s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m17s
The EQ's editor floated over the editor as a window since #367. The
user wants it as a tab for now. Whether any tab can float and dock
again is weighed apart from this.

- A double-click on the node asks for the tab through
  `EditorState.openEq`, as `openValues` does for a Variables tab.
- The tab is a document `eq:<asset>:<node>`, one per EQ node. A
  second double-click brings the open one up.
- Its name is the asset's, with `EQ 2`, `EQ 3` when the asset has
  more than one. The icon is the sound FX's.
- The tab closes with its node, its asset, or a new project, through
  the same `syncDocuments` as every document.
- `EqWindow` becomes `EqEditor`, a `VStack` with a `TabHeader`. The
  curve takes the room of the tab, 320 x 160 at least.
- The window's title bar, dragging and Close button are gone.
- Delete in the EQ's tab removes the picked band. It never falls
  through to the selection, which is still the EQ's node.
- The hint below the curve is shorter, it was cut off at 1280 px.

Tests:
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 96 checks, 2 rewritten. The
  tab opens on a double-click and goes with its node.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 274 files, 4231 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 13:45:02 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 af2312a5e7 Play every tab's preview straight into the master (#368)
Since #351 the tabs played their asset along its links in the Master
routing, as the game does. A song linked into a reverb bus was heard
through that bus while it was edited. A preview should sound like the
asset itself, so the tabs leave the Master routing out again.

- The Sound, Sound FX, Instrument, Pattern and Song tab play into the
  master. The sound FX of the asset still applies, and so does the
  master's own volume and FX.
- Inside a song its own routing of tracks and sends still counts.
- The game is unchanged: Play nodes go along the routing as before.

Tests:
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 96 checks. The routing check
  now holds the mix of the two buses as before, and the Sound tab on
  the master with the bus silent.
- Counter-probe e2e: the Sound tab along the routing again, the
  routing check red.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 274 files, 4230 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 13:09:36 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 1f13794b0c Shape a sound with a Parametric EQ and its own curve editor (#367)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 4m17s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 16m14s
A sound FX or an instrument had a 5-Band-EQ with fixed bands and a
Filter with one band. The Parametric EQ holds up to ten bands of any
type, and a double-click on the node opens an editor that draws the
curve they make together.

- The bands are a list on the node (`bands`): type, frequency, gain,
  Q and slope. A hand-edited project is held to the editor's ranges
  and to ten bands.
- Each band compiles to the existing `pass` stage, so the audio core
  is unchanged. A peak or a shelf at 0 dB is left out.
- The curve is worked out in `parametricEq.ts` with the biquad
  formulas of the Web Audio spec, so the editor draws what is heard.
- The editor is a window that floats over the editor without a
  backdrop, so the tab's Play stays usable. A double-click adds a
  peak, a drag moves a band, the wheel turns its Q, a right-click
  removes it. Fields below the curve set the picked band. It opens in
  the middle of the screen and moves by its title bar.
- A drag or a scrub writes the node as a preview and makes one undo
  step on release. The panels hear of the preview once a frame, and
  the window lays itself out only when one of its texts changes.
- The area under the curve is filled as one shape for each side of
  0 dB. As a single shape it crossed itself and came apart.
- The curve works out each band's coefficients once and adds the sum
  up from the bands. A drag took 295 ms of script time in a profile
  before and 64 ms after.

Decided on my own:
- Bands are added by a double-click, so a single click can let go of
  the picked band without adding one.
- The cuts are labelled "Low cut" and "High cut" as in an EQ, not
  "High-pass" and "Low-pass" as on the Filter.
- The bands have no input, so no parameter or Envelope moves them.

Tests:
- Unit parametric-eq (new) and soundfx: 69 green. Counter-probe with
  no stages emitted: the compile test red. Counter-probe with one
  fill shape: the fill test red.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 96 checks (3 new).
- Counter-probe e2e: no stages emitted, the playing check red.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 274 files, 4230 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 12:00:43 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 87ec62aace Keep the scheduler check in e2e 34 from flaking on a clock tick (#366)
The check "the scheduler plans a looped bar" read the position and
the audio clock one after the other and compared them to 1 tick. In
Chrome the audio clock moves on by a render block even inside one
task, so now and then the two reads lay 2.9 ms (3.5 ticks) apart.
It was red in CI task 580 and in 2 of 5 runs during #351.

- The clock is now read before and after the position. The position
  has to lie between the two, with 1 tick to spare, also across the
  seam of the loop.
- The scheduler itself is unchanged, it was never wrong.

Tests:
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 93 checks, 3 of 3 runs.
- Counter-probe with the position 10 ticks off: this check red.
- Only the e2e file changed. node --check, Prettier and ESLint are
  clean on it, the gate did not run again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 09:51:15 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 0e73fd85b9 Route sounds, songs and buses in one Master routing graph (#351)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 4m20s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 15m17s
A project bus could only go into one other bus, and a sound, an
instrument, a pattern or a song into exactly one bus. A shared reverb
needs a sound to go there in part and on dry at the same time. Instead
of a list of sends on every asset, the project gets one routing graph
like the routing of a song (#350), one level up.

- Menu -> Master routing opens a tab with one graph per project. It has
  a node per sound, instrument, pattern, song and bus, named after its
  asset, and one Master. Embedded assets have none, their song routes
  them.
- The nodes follow the assets. Every edit settles the routing in the
  same undo step (KeepRoutingCommand), so an undone delete brings the
  links of its asset back. A new asset gets a node and a link to the
  master. What went only into a deleted bus goes to the master.
- New nodes start in three columns: what plays, the buses, and the
  master a row above, so no link into it runs behind a bus.
- Links are sends: -60 to +12 dB, and a Mode on links out of a bus or a
  song. Out of a sound, an instrument or a pattern a link always takes
  the sound after its volume and FX. Loops are refused.
- A node without a link is silent and says "Goes nowhere".
- The rows Bus and Into are gone. Play nodes with a picked bus still
  overrule the routing.
- A click on a node shows its asset in the inspector, the Master shows
  the master volume and sound FX. A double click opens the asset's tab.
- The graph lives in project.routing and is held to the assets when a
  project is read, but nothing is added there. The editor adds the
  nodes when it opens a project. An asset without a node plays on the
  master, so old projects sound as before without a migration.
- In the mix an asset with one link at 0 dB goes straight into that bus.
  A sound or instrument with more gets a bus of its own with the sends.
  A pattern or song sends from the master of its playing, which is
  where its Mode taps. Buses of the mix can have sends now too.

Found:

- The check "the scheduler plans a looped bar" in e2e 34 wobbles. It
  failed in 2 of 5 runs here and in CI task 580 at 490fcba, before
  this change. HEAD passed it 2 of 2. Not fixed here.

Tests:

- Unit master-routing (new, 10), sound-library (2 new), buses
  rewritten onto the routing, 5 lists without the Bus row. 5 counter
  checks red.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 93 checks (3 new, 2 rewritten).
  Counter check with the Sound tab ignoring the routing: the routing
  check red.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 273 files, 4225 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 09:18:46 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 cf96442835 Keep the Sound tab smooth while it pans (#360)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m51s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m55s
Panning the Sound tab drew the whole wave anew on every move, one
filled rectangle per pixel column, and gave the ruler's labels new
texts whenever a tick left the area. At 2560 px across that took the
tab down to 16 fps.

- The wave is drawn half the area's width past either side of it. A
  pan within that moves the drawing. Zoom, height, size or a pan
  past the margin draw it anew.
- The bars of the wave share one fill instead of one fill each.
- A ruler label keeps the second it already shows. Before, a pan
  shifted every label by one and each had to be rendered anew.
- A clip's name is given its style only when the style changes.
- The rule for what a drawing covers is pure in `waveView.ts`
  (`shownSeconds`, `drawnSeconds`, `coversShown`).

Measured with a copy of the user's project, "Take 1" with 4 clips,
240 pan moves with the middle button, headless on stein2:

- 2560x1440: main thread 712 -> 373 ms/s, texts rendered 694 -> 65
- 1280x800: main thread 429 -> 225 ms/s

What is left in the profile is Pixi's render pass and the pointer
events, which hovering pays as well.

Tests:
- Unit wave-view: 12 green (1 new), counter-probe red
- e2e 34 (stein2, melektaus-atx was down): ALL PASSED, 92 checks
  (1 new). Counter-probe with the labels given out by position: red,
  7 labels set anew instead of 1.
- Gate (stein2): 272 files, 4210 tests green

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 06:19:05 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 95edf9959b Show the clips not picked faint over a sound's wave (#357)
Only the picked clip showed in the wave, between its handles. Where the
other clips lay could only be read from the strip above, so cutting one
next to another meant looking up and down all the time.

- Every clip but the picked one is drawn over the wave as a pale tint
  with a thin edge, as high as the file reaches.
- With the sound picked, all its clips are faint. While a drag spans a
  clip, that one is left out.
- Test hook soundTab.faintClips() names the faint clips.

Tests:
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 91 checks (1 extended)
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 271 files, 4195 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 21:13:17 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 852dce5142 Shrink a clip with the wave and drop it with a click beside (#357)
Zoomed out, the wave left room above and below it, but the bright file,
the picked clip and its handles still took the whole height. And a click
in the wave beside the picked clip kept it picked, so only the strip
could take it back to the sound.

- fileReach in waveView.ts is how far up and down the file reaches:
  full scale and its inset, never past the area. At level 1 it is the
  whole height, zoomed in too.
- The bright file, the shade outside the clip and the two handles are
  drawn within that reach.
- A click over the wave beside the picked clip picks the sound. Inside
  the clip or on a handle nothing changes, and a drag still spans the
  clip anew.

Tests:
- Unit wave-view: 11 green (1 new), a counter-check red
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 91 checks (1 new)
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 271 files, 4195 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 21:13:09 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 42a3759d9d Cut a sound into named clips, as a texture into frames (#357)
A sound could only be cut to one stretch, set on the asset itself. To
play two parts of one file, the file had to be imported twice. Now a
sound is always the whole file, and its clips are the stretches of it,
each with a name and a cut of its own.

- A clip is { id, name, props } on SoundAsset.clips. Its id shares the
  generator with asset ids, so a sound field holds a sound or a clip,
  as a texture field holds a texture or a frame.
- props are the cut: start, end, the fades and their curves, reverse.
  Volume, loop, sound FX and bus stay on the sound for all its clips.
  The cut rows left the sound's schema for CLIP_ROWS.
- findSound resolves either id. Play sound, the Sample of an
  instrument, a Reverb impulse, song items, the scheduler and the test
  sound of the Sound FX tab all go through it.
- Every sound field offers each sound followed by its clips, "Kick",
  "Kick / Clip 1". A clip that is gone reads as "<id>?".
- The Sound tab has a strip under the ruler with the clips as bands.
  A drag there makes a clip, a click picks one, beside the bands the
  sound. Only the picked clip has handles. Reverse, fades and curves
  in the header work on it and are greyed out without one.
- Whole file is gone from the header, as the user asked.
- Picking a clip is a selection of its own, like a frame. The
  inspector shows its name, its cut rows and Delete clip. Delete
  takes it away without asking, as with a frame. Ctrl+Z brings it
  back.
- Copies get fresh clip ids: Duplicate, Embed a copy, a song
  duplicated with its takes, and the copy a split or paste makes of
  an embedded take. An item on a clip plays the same clip of its copy.
- A double-click on a song item playing a clip opens its sound with
  the clip picked. The Sound row of an item on an embedded take
  offers the take and its clips, which no list shows.
- A new take stays the whole sound. Clips are made by hand, as the
  user decided.
- No migration in the code, as the user decided. The one project
  with cut sounds was changed over by hand.

Deviation from the issue: deleting a used clip does not warn. A frame
does not warn either, and the issue had promised "like a frame".

Tests:
- Unit sound-clips (new): 11 green, 7 counter-checks each red
- Unit sounds, embedded: adjusted to clips, green
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 90 checks (3 new, 12 rewritten)
- Counter-check in the browser: clips left out of the sound fields,
  the picker check fails
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 271 files, 4194 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 20:18:47 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 c7fa1d15b0 Zoom the height of a sound's wave over its level scale (#357)
The Sound tab always drew the wave at the full height of the tab. Quiet
stretches were hard to see, and there was no room above a loud wave.

- A level scale in dB stands left of the wave, a mark every 6 dB down
  from 0, as long as a mark lies inside the area and at least 14 px
  from the middle.
- The wheel over the scale zooms the height, from 0.25x to 16x. Over
  the wave it zooms the time as before.
- What is louder than the area stops at its edge. The fade ramps grow
  with the wave.
- Fit puts the height back to 1x. The tab keeps the height with its
  view when another tab is shown.
- The rules live in waveView.ts (zoomLevel, levelMarks), the hooks
  give the height, the scale and the top of a full-scale wave.

Tests:
- Unit wave-view: 10 green (2 new), 2 counter-checks each red
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 87 checks (1 new)
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 270 files, 4183 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 19:21:02 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 25c1d02b06 Keep the audio thread free of ended voices and too many vocoders (#356)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m45s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 14m44s
A song that had been played a few times in a long session stuttered
at regular intervals until the page was reloaded. A quick run up the
keys of a sampled instrument made every sound drop out for a second
or two. Both came from work the audio thread should not have had.

- Every worklet node of a voice listened on its port. Chrome never
  collects a port that is listened to, and through its listener not
  the voice either. Every node of the voice stayed on its bus and was
  worked on in every block. A way or stage on the worklet now closes
  its port once it ends or is stopped, and the processor closes its
  own side when it is told to stop.
- A voice without echoes now leaves its bus as soon as its sound and
  what its stages hold back are through. Before, only a voice with
  echoes did.
- At most 12 ways play through the pitch worklet at once. One more
  cuts the oldest in 10 ms, a note already let go before one still
  held. Each runs a phase vocoder, whose first block alone took
  2.7 ms of the 2.67 ms a block has on stein2.
- Play for the game ends everything the tabs play: the piece holding
  the transport and every key or preview (`stopPreviews`).
- Closing a Sound, Sound FX, Instrument, Pattern or Song tab stops
  what it plays of that asset (`AssetTabEditor.closed`).
- A preset in the Instrument tab plays nothing any more. With
  Audition on it is heard like any other change.
- Test hooks: `__gm.instrument.play`, `__gm.sound.playing`, and
  `vocoders` in the stats of the sound library.

Measured:
- A copy of the project, its Song 2 played for 12 s and stopped, six
  times (Chrome on stein2, CDP WebAudio): before, 746 nodes were left
  after the first time and 4469 after the sixth, the load at rest
  grew from 0.01 to 0.06. After, 7 nodes are left every time (the
  master and one bus) and the load at rest stays at 0.01 to 0.02.
- Pitch-player voices live in Chrome on melektaus-atx: 12 take 0.50
  of the audio thread, 16 take 0.71, 24 take 0.99. 30 struck 40 ms
  apart held it at 0.99 from the first second on.

Tests:
- Unit sound-library: 110 green (3 new), 4 counter-probes each red
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 86 checks (3 new, 2 changed)
- e2e counter-probe with game start and preset undone: their 3
  checks red, and the old check of Play note in the game as well,
  which now counts on the preview being gone
- e2e counter-probe with tab close undone: exactly its check red. A
  first form of it held a key and stayed green, since the keys let go
  of a held key by themselves once the tab shows no asset
- Gate (melektaus-atx): 270 files, 4181 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 17:57:18 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 7a17030472 Give every sound FX effect a Bypass and a Wet (#354)
A node could only be taken out of a sound FX by unplugging it, and
only six of them could be blended with the sound they get. Every
effect now has both, in the sound FX graph and in the instrument
graph alike. The Mix, the Input and the Output have neither.

- Bypass is a checkbox setting. A bypassed node is left out when
  the graph is compiled, so it costs nothing and holds nothing back.
  The graph draws it faded, and its body says "Bypass: true".
- Wet is a number input like the others. It can be a parameter, be
  moved by Set sound FX parameters and, where the node allows it for
  its other numbers, follow an Envelope.
- A blend is a stage of its own (`wet`) around what the node adds.
  The sound as it came in is held back as far as the node is late,
  so a Compressor, a Limiter or a Vibrato do not comb it out.
- The six nodes that had a Mix keep their key `mix` and only call
  it Wet. Saved values, parameters and edges stay as they were.
- The Delay crossfades now: the sound alone at 0, the sound and its
  echoes in full at 0.5, the echoes alone at 1. Before, the sound
  was always in full and `mix` was the echoes.
- The Pitch takes its semitones by Wet instead of blending, through
  a share `times` on the amount that an instrument binds as well.

Findings:

- A Delay saved before this sounds different. It sounds the same at
  half its old value. The two chip presets with a Delay (Echo Lead,
  Bell) are halved to keep their sound.
- Project cbbf160bb7e8 has two Delays (mix 1 and 0.5). They are
  left as they are.

Tests:

- Unit: soundfx 65 (8 new), sound-library 107 (3 new), instrument
  35 (1 new), envelope 13. Two delay tests and the filter ports test
  follow the new numbers.
- Counter-checks: 8, each turns its test red.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 83 checks (2 new). The
  ping-pong check at wet 0.25 measures what it did at mix 0.5.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 268 files, 4154 tests.
- After the gate the derived ports of a blend are asked for once
  instead of twice: typecheck, lint and the three unit files green
  again (113 tests).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 08:20:52 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 d349251a01 Put a sound in a room, a hall or a cave with a Reverb node (#328)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 4m0s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 13m51s
A sound FX had no space around it. The Reverb node folds the sound
with an impulse response: one it makes itself, or a sound asset as the
answer of a real space. It works on a voice and on a bus.

- Type: Room, Hall, Cave and Plate have fixed numbers. Custom shows
  Decay (up to 10 s), Damping and Pre-delay. Sound shows the pick of a
  sound asset and Pre-delay. The rows are derived ports, the sound pick
  an idle param, so they only appear for their type.
- The made impulse response is seeded noise per side, 60 dB down at
  Decay, through a low-pass closing from 20 kHz toward 500 Hz as far
  as Damping says. It is made once per rate, decay and damping, the
  last 16 are kept.
- A sound as impulse response: the sound FX compilers now get the
  project, so a node can turn a sound asset into its file. The build
  key holds that file, so a cut or swapped sound builds again. The
  instrument compiler does the same for a Reverb inside an instrument.
- The library loads that file with the voice, a sequence or before a
  bus builds its chain. A missing file leaves the reverb silent.
- Mix blends dry and reverb and is the only number that moves while
  the sound plays, as the issue said. The voice rings for pre-delay
  plus decay, or as long as its sound.
- The open point from #325 about sends on project buses is #351, not
  part of this.

Tests:
- Unit reverb (new) 4, soundfx 57 (4 new), sound-library 104 (2 new),
  green.
- Counter-checks, each turns one test red: the impulse file not loaded
  with the voice, the tail without the length of the sound.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 81 checks (1 new). Chrome
  offline: silent during the pre-delay, 35.9 dB fall over 0.6 s of a
  1 s decay (36 expected), the dry half at 0.25 for mix 0.5. A sound
  with one sample at 0.2 s gives the impulse back 0.25 s later and
  nowhere else.
- Gate (melektaus-atx) over the end of this series #318 to #328:
  CHECK EXIT 0, 267 files, 4134 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 21:27:22 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 071f194326 Swing the volume or the pitch with Tremolo and Vibrato (#320)
Alarms, sirens and wobbly retro sounds need a volume or a pitch that
swings. Two new nodes do that, on a voice and on a bus alike.

- Tremolo: Rate (0 to 20 Hz), Depth (0 to 100 %), Shape (Sine,
  Triangle, Square, Saw). The volume swings between full and
  1 - depth.
- Vibrato: Rate (0.5 to 20 Hz), Depth (0 to 4 semitones), Shape. The
  shape is the curve of the pitch, a Square jumps between two pitches.
- As the issue decided: two nodes, phase 0 on the first sample of the
  voice, no fade-in time. Both run on the FX worklet, the classes are
  in lfo.ts and tested in Node.
- Deviation from the issue text, as in the plan: the Vibrato is a delay
  that swings, not playbackRate. A bus has no playbackRate, and the
  sound keeps its length.
- The delay swings around a center taken from the start values. The
  center counts as the latency of the node, so a voice starts that
  much earlier and a Mix and a bus make up for it.
- Known limit, in the node text and the wiki: a depth turned up or a
  rate turned down after the start asks for a delay below 0. The lower
  half of the swing then flattens.

Finding: the first e2e run was red at the edge of a window. The phase
is summed up, so the square flips one sample later than 2400 steps of
10/48000 suggest. The check keeps 10 samples away from the edges.

Tests:
- Unit lfo (new) 5, soundfx 53 (2 new), sound-library 102 (1 new),
  green.
- Counter-checks, each turns one test red: the swing turned over (up
  and down swapped), the start time not passed to the worklet.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 80 checks (1 new). Chrome
  offline: Tremolo square silent before its voice, then 0.5 and 0 for
  50 ms each. Vibrato square at 5 Hz, 1 semitone: 1059.5 Hz and
  940.5 Hz.
- The gate runs once on the last commit of this series.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 21:13:18 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 d3a4cb7d0e Warm up or distort a sound with a Saturation node (#323)
A sound FX had no way to bend a sound. The Saturation node pushes it
into a curve, from warmth to a hard distortion, on a voice or a bus.

- Eight types, each a fixed curve made once: Soft (tanh), Cubic, Hard
  clip, Tube, Fuzz, Foldback, Sine fold and Rectify. The issue asked
  for as many as useful.
- Drive (0 to 48 dB) is a gain in front of the curve. The curve spans
  256 times full scale, so the drive glides like any gain.
- Output and Auto-gain blend as on the Compressor. Auto-gain brings a
  sine at -12 dBFS back to the RMS it came in with.
- Tone is a low-pass after the curve, 1 kHz at 0 to 20 kHz at 1, as
  recommended in the plan. A 10 Hz high-pass takes out the DC the
  lopsided types make.
- Mix blends with the dry sound. The 4x oversampling is 192 samples
  late in Chrome, so the dry way is held back as far. The node counts
  as late by that much for voices, Mixes and buses.
- A test hook gives e2e the auto-gain at a drive.

Tests:
- Unit saturation (new) 5, soundfx 51 (2 new), sound-library 101
  (1 new), green.
- Counter-checks, each turns tests red: no hold-back of the dry way
  (1), the level without auto-gain (2).
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 79 checks (1 new). Chrome
  offline: 192 samples late at 48 and at 44.1 kHz. Half dry at 1125 Hz
  0.00 dB. A sine at -12 dBFS driven 24 dB into Soft comes out at
  0.00 dB with full auto-gain.
- The gate runs once on the last commit of this series.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 21:04:16 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 a645026568 Tame the loudness with a Compressor and a Limiter node (#326)
A sound FX could not control dynamics. A Compressor squeezes the
loudness together, and a Limiter keeps every peak below a line. Both
work on a voice and on a bus, where they tame everything at once.

- Compressor: DynamicsCompressorNode with Threshold, Ratio, Knee,
  Attack and Release, then Makeup and Auto-gain from 0 to 1. After the
  node the sound gets (1 - w) * makeup + w * A dB. A is what the curve
  takes off at 0 dBFS.
- The node adds 0.6 of A by itself, as the spec says. That gain is
  taken back out, so 0 really means no makeup.
- The knee shape is left to the browser by the spec. dynamics.ts ports
  Chromium's curve. It gives the gain Chrome was measured to add at
  four settings to three places.
- Limiter: a class on the FX worklet with Threshold, Ceiling, Release
  and Auto-gain. It looks 5 ms ahead: the smallest gain of the window
  ahead, averaged over the window, then a release. No sample passes the
  lower of threshold and ceiling. Auto-gain raises it toward the
  ceiling.
- Deviation from the plan in the issue: the Limiter has a Threshold as
  well. Without it Auto-gain has nothing to measure against.
- Latency is made up on voices now too. A voice starts as much earlier
  as its stages are late (Compressor 6 ms, Limiter 5 ms). The other
  way of a Mix and the other layers of a note are held back to the
  latest, and a bus counts it into its latency.
- A voice with a Limiter counts as ringing, so the worklet is stopped
  only after what it still holds is out.

Tests:
- Unit dynamics (new) 8, soundfx 49 (3 new), sound-library 100 (4 new),
  green.
- Counter-checks, each turns tests red: no look-ahead in the Limiter
  (3), no taking back of the node's gain (1), a voice not started
  earlier (1), no stage latency on a bus (1), no hold-back in a Mix (1).
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 78 checks (1 new). Chrome
  offline: Compressor 288 samples late, Limiter 240. Full scale through
  -12 dB 4:1 hard knee: +0.19 dB with full auto-gain, -8.81 dB without.
  A sine at 2 through the Limiter at -6 dB peaks at -6.00 dB, with
  auto-gain 1 at -1.00 dB.
- The gate runs once on the last commit of this series.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 20:57:22 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 c99bda6489 Move a sound left or right with a Pan node (#319)
A sound FX had no way to place a sound in the stereo field. The new
Pan node does that on a voice, a bus and a track alike.

- One input, Pan from -1 (left) to 1 (right), 0 by default. Behind it
  is a StereoPannerNode. A typed-in 0 leaves the node out, a pan fed
  from a parameter stays at any value.
- It moves with Set sound FX parameters, and an Envelope can move it
  in an instrument.
- As the issue decided, no pan from the position in Play sound and no
  width control for stereo sounds.

Finding: the issue and the plan said a stereo sound gets a balance.
Web Audio pans stereo differently: the side it goes to stays and the
other side moves over into it. The node description and the wiki say
so, the e2e check measures it.

Tests:
- Unit soundfx 46 (1 new), sound-library 97 (1 new), green.
- Counter-check: a pan from a parameter at 0 left out, 1 test red.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 77 checks (1 new). Chrome
  offline, a mono sine at 0.5 gives 0.5 / 0 at -1 and 0.354 / 0.354
  at 0. A stereo one at 0.5 panned 0.5 gives 0.354 / 0.854.
- The gate runs once on the last commit of this series.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 20:47:53 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 e1ca6a5f5a Shape a sound with every filter type, a Q and a slope (#318)
The Filter node from #335 only knew low-pass, high-pass and band-pass
and had a Resonance from 0 to 1. It now has every type Web Audio
offers, a Q as a plain factor and a slope up to 48 dB per octave.

- Types: low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, notch, low shelf, high shelf,
  peaking and all-pass. The cutoff row is now labelled Frequency, its
  key stays `cutoff`.
- Q from 0.1 to 30, 0.707 by default, replaces Resonance. Web Audio
  takes the Q of a low- or high-pass in dB, so it is converted when the
  voice is wired. No project used the node.
- Gain in dB is an input only for the shelves and the peak. It is a
  derived port, so the sound FX compiler now resolves derived ports.
- Slope 12, 24 or 48 dB/oct runs 1, 2 or 4 filters in a row. They
  share one cutoff carried by a ConstantSource, only the last has the
  Q. Shelves, peak and all-pass hide the row.
- The Chip Presets get the Q their resonance gave before. Mutate moves
  Q in octaves and gain by up to a dB.
- bindStage in the instrument compiler binds every amount of a stage
  generically, so new stages need no case of their own there.

Finding: FLAT_Q was in dB and the delay damping used it. It is a
factor now, the damping takes it through passQ and is unchanged.

Tests:
- Unit envelope 13, sound-library 96 (2 new), chip-presets 14,
  soundfx 45, all green.
- Counter-checks: the Q on every filter in a row, the gain row for
  every type. Each turns one test red.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 76 checks (1 new). Chrome
  offline, 2 kHz through a low-pass at 1 kHz: -12.37 dB at 12 dB/oct,
  -49.5 dB at 48. A +6 dB peak gives 6.00 dB, a notch -124 dB.
- The gate runs once on the last commit of this series.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 20:43:49 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 3a52f2290f Mix sounds through buses and a master (#325)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m36s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 14m30s
Until now every sound went straight to the speakers. There was no
point where all of them came together, so nothing could turn the
music down against the effects, and a compressor or a shared echo
over everything had nowhere to sit. The bus technique of #346 was
there already, only the end of the chain was missing.

- Bus asset (Audio): Volume, Sound FX and Into. Into is empty for
  the master and never offers the bus itself nor a bus that already
  goes into it. The list is worked out when the menu opens, so a
  change made meanwhile counts. A loop that is in a project anyway
  sends the buses on it into the master.
- The master is no asset. Its volume and sound FX are two new rows
  under Master in Project settings, one undo step each. A project
  written before has 1 and none, which is how it sounded.
- Sound, instrument, pattern and song have a row Bus, empty for the
  master. Play sound, Play note, Play pattern and Play song have an
  input bus: From the asset, Master or a bus. Inside a song or a
  pattern only the bus of the song or pattern counts.
- Set bus volume (bus, volume, time, easing) and Bus volume. An
  empty bus is the master. The volume set holds for the whole run,
  across scenes, over that of the asset. GameRun resets it at start
  and end. Set sound FX parameters without a voice now reaches the
  sound FX of the bus picked in its new bus input.
- SoundLibrary: the master is the bus "mix", each bus "mix:<id>".
  Every bus, the playing masters of #346 included, ends there, and
  only the master is heard. setMix sets them up once a context
  exists, so an editor nobody listened to opens no audio device. The
  same mix again changes nothing, which lets the editor hand it over
  on every change of the project.
- The tabs play as the game does: Sound, Sound FX, Instrument,
  Pattern and Song tab through the bus of their asset and the master.
- Pause game does nothing to the buses (the user's answer 4b). A
  game that wants quiet in its pause menu sets a bus volume itself.
- Streaming long music files is #349, split off as asked.

Finding on the way: the Into menu first worked from a list made when
the inspector row was built. After another bus was sent into the
open one, e2e 34 saw it still offered. It is now asked on open.

The SoundLibrary tests expected voices to end at the destination.
They now end in the master, which adds its input, level and pan to
every wiring and two gains to every list. Those expectations are
updated, nothing else in them changed.

Tests:
- Unit buses (new): 15 green. Ten counter-checks, each red on its
  own: loop check, bus picked, reset at run start, bus of Set sound
  FX parameters, master volume in the settings, and in SoundLibrary
  default into the master, voices into the master, run volume over
  the mix, no context before a play, a playing on its bus.
- Unit sound-library: 90 green (5 new). Node catalog: 416 green
  (9 new cases).
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 75 checks (3 new). The voice
  of the Sound tab was heard on mix:<bus>, that bus into the other,
  that one at 0.5 into the master. Master volume 0.6 via the dialog,
  undo back to 1.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 262 files, 4072 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 19:13:32 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 101b12504e Play a sound backwards with a Reverse switch on the asset (#321)
A sound asset can now play its stretch backwards. The switch sits on
the asset, so every way the sound is heard plays it reversed: Play
sound, a song item, an instrument's Sample and a Pitch in a sound FX.
There is no Reverse node in the sound FX graph. The user dropped it,
because playing backwards needs the whole sound in advance, which a
bus or a Chip does not have.

- The cut gets a `reverse` flag, stored as the asset property
  `reverse` (default off). The cut name ends in `~reverse` when it is
  on, so a reversed sound over the whole file is a cut of its own.
- The handles keep marking the same part of the file. The reversed
  copy is made once, like any cut, and the fades follow what is heard:
  Fade in ramps at the end handle, Fade out at the start handle.
- The Sound tab has a toggle with a left-pointing play triangle. Its
  playhead runs from right to left, and the wave draws the ramps at
  the edges they now belong to. The inspector has a Reverse row.
- The icon is a tab header icon (`HEADER_ICON_SVG`, next to the snap
  magnet), not a top bar icon. The first gate run had it in the top
  bar set, and the test that fixes that set went red.
- A song item draws the waveform of a reversed sound backwards.
  Lengths stay as they are.
- The header label reads "Fade in" instead of "Fade in (ms)" and the
  fade fields are 8 px narrower. With the new button the readout was
  cut to "0.03 s of 0..." at 1280 px, now it shows in full. The
  inspector keeps the unit.

Tests:
- Unit sounds 22, sound-library 85 (1 new each). Counter-checks:
  without turning the samples round, without moving the fade in to
  the end, and without mirroring the peaks, all red.
- e2e 34: ALL PASSED, 72 checks (2 new). The reversed stretch starts
  with the last samples of the forward one, and the playhead ran
  0.75, 0.60, 0.45, 0.30, 0.15 over the whole file.
- Gate: first run red, 1 of 4031 (the top bar icon list). After
  moving the icon, CHECK EXIT 0, 260 files, 4031 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 16:08:37 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 01fd6e6464 Swirl and comb a sound with a Phaser and a Flanger node (#341)
sfxr's "phaser" is a comb filter, the sound plus a copy delayed by up
to 2.9 ms. That is a flanger, not the phaser a guitarist knows. Both
effects come in as nodes of their own, so each name fits its sound and
sfxr is covered in full. Both run on the FX worklet like the
Bitcrusher, because a feedback loop in Web Audio costs a render quantum
per round.

- Phaser: first-order allpasses (Stages 2, 4, 6, 8, 12) around
  Frequency, moved by a sine LFO Depth octaves wide at Rate Hz, with
  Feedback and Mix. An Envelope can move Frequency and Mix.
- Flanger: a delay line of Offset ms. Sweep moves it on in ms/s from
  the start of the voice, an LFO adds up to Depth ms. As in sfxr the
  delay is mirrored at 0, and it never goes past 20 ms. Feedback comes
  back exactly one delay later. An Envelope can move Offset and Mix.
- Mix 0 leaves the sound as it is, 1 is half sound and half copy. The
  notches are deepest there and the peaks stay at the sound's level.
  sfxr adds both at full, so its sound comes out 6 dB louder.
- The Flanger's processor gets the start of its voice and begins the
  sweep on that sample. stageNodes takes it as a new argument `at`.
- Explosion gets a Flanger in one draw out of two, with sfxr's offset
  and sweep and no LFO. Offset is offset^2 * 2.89 ms, Sweep is
  ramp^2 * 125 ms/s, signed so the direction holds.
- Randomize draws a Flanger's offset and sweep like sfxr. Its LFO and
  feedback and all of a Phaser are drawn within bounds of their own.
  Mix and Stages stay, as a Bitcrusher's Mix does. Mutate moves them
  too, and a 0 stays 0.
- New instrument preset Phased Pad: saw, Envelope, low-pass, Phaser of
  six stages. The other 14 are unchanged.
- The Bitcrusher's worklet setup is now shared with both nodes
  (workletNodes), its behaviour is unchanged.

Tests:
- Unit phaser (new): 8 green. Counter-check with clamping at 0 instead
  of mirroring and a flipped allpass coefficient: 3 red.
- Unit soundfx, sound-library, chip-presets: 45 / 76 / 14 green.
  Counter-checks: start time not passed on, phaser frequency eased
  linearly, sweep sign dropped, Phaser left out of Mutate, each red.
- Unit core, viewport, graph: 179 files, 2979 tests green.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 70 checks (1 new), first run.
  Chrome offline: 1 kHz notch RMS 0.0000 with two stages, 0.5657
  with four. Flanger echo after 48 samples, swept echo at 533/534.
  About 47 Phasers (12 stages) or 63 Flangers fill the audio thread.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 257 files, 3991 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 12:11:54 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 29b604dc07 Fade a sound's start and end apart, each along its own curve (#345)
A cut sound had one edge fade for both ends, always a straight ramp.
Now its start and its end each have a fade of their own, and each
fade has a curve of its own.

- Fade in (ms) and Fade out (ms) replace Edge fade (ms), 5 ms each by
  default. Like before they apply only to an edge inside the file.
- Fade in curve and Fade out curve each offer Linear (the default),
  Equal power, S-curve, Exponential and Logarithmic. A fade out runs
  its curve backwards.
- The Sound tab's header has a field and a curve dropdown per edge.
  Each dropdown shows its curve as a small picture, rising or falling,
  and names it in its tooltip. With two named dropdowns the header was
  too wide at 1280 px and cut off the readout on the right.
- The inspector shows the same four rows, the curves by name.
- The wave draws each ramp in its curve rather than as a line.
- A cut plays by
  <file>#<start>~<end>~<fadeIn>~<fadeOut>~<curveIn>~<curveOut>.
- No migration, as asked in the issue: the old fade key is no longer
  read, so saved sounds start with 5 ms each and Linear on both.

Tests:
- Unit sounds, sound-library: 96 tests
- Counter-check (fade out along the fade in's curve): 1 red
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED - 69 checks
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 256 files, 3978 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 09:48:59 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 6b49a0bea7 Give each account its own folder of uploaded files to delete (#344)
Uploaded images, fonts and sounds belonged to nobody. Every account
saw every file in the pickers, and only an administrator could
delete one, through the API alone. Now every account uploads into a
folder of its own, sees its own files and nobody's, and can delete a
file of its own that no project uses.

- Files are stored as data/<kind>/<folder>/<sha256>.<ext>, and the
  folder is part of asset.file. A name without a folder belongs to
  nobody.
- The folder is a random 12-character name kept in users.json and
  given with the first upload. Renaming an account moves no file, and
  a released game's URLs carry no account name.
- The list shows the caller's own files and nobody's. An
  administrator sees all, each with owner and deletable.
- DELETE takes the name with its folder. It answers 403 unless the
  file is the caller's or the caller is an administrator, and 409
  while a project, snapshot or release of any account names it
  (FileUsage). The 409 names the caller's own projects only.
- The pickers have a Delete button. The first press asks, the second
  deletes, and a refusal shows the server's reason.
- A deleted account's folder stays and only administrators see it.
- tools/migrate-file-owners.php moved every used file into the folder
  of the account using it (a copy each for two accounts) and rewrote
  projects, snapshots and releases. A project's revision goes up, so
  an open editor gets a conflict instead of saving old names back.
- Font families are named after the hash alone, so a folder never
  ends up in a CSS family name.

Run on stein2 on 2026-10-07, backup in
/root/config-backup-20261007/data-before-344: 25 files used,
27 copies, 8 projects, 53 snapshots and 1 release rewritten, 30
unused files stay nobody's. Afterwards all 600 references resolve to
a file in their owner's folder.

Found while building: the Delete button cut its new label to "Del…"
because a button does not measure itself again on a new text. The
picker now lays its button row out again.

Tests:
- PHP files.test.php (new): 46 checks, counter-check 3 red
- Unit core + editor: 220 files, 3403 tests
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED - 67 checks (2 new)
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 256 files, 3977 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 08:25:13 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 a2d0a02645 Play tunes on 14 instrument presets next to the sfxr sounds (#329)
game-maker / gate (push) Canceled after 9s
game-maker / suite (push) Canceled after 13s
The Preset menu only had sfxr's effects: each a fixed pitch on every
key that dies away by itself. Now its top half holds instruments to
play melodies, basses and drums on.

- Instruments: Square Lead, Pulse Lead, Echo Lead, Octave Arp, Synth
  Brass, Detuned Saws, String Pad, Organ, Flute, Bell, Pluck, Triangle
  Bass, Pluck Bass and Drum Kit. A line in the menu parts them from the
  seven effects below.
- Their Chips follow the note, and all but Bell, Pluck and the drums
  hold it while the key is held.
- They come out the same every time they are picked. Randomize and
  Mutate make a variant, as before.
- They use what the graph already has: two Chips through a Mix for
  Detuned Saws, String Pad, Organ, Flute and Bell, an Envelope on a
  Filter's cutoff for Brass, Pluck and Pluck Bass, a Pitch for the
  detune and the octave, a Delay for Echo Lead and Bell.
- Drum Kit uses single notes 36 to 46: kick, snare, closed and open
  hat on their General MIDI keys, each ending by itself.
- A small Sketch helper lays the nodes on a grid. The sfxr presets use
  it too and come out as before.
- Numbers keep to the steps of their rows. Pulse Lead's duty is 0.13,
  not 0.125, because the field rounds to 0.01.

Tests:
- Unit chip-presets: 12 green (5 new). Every instrument compiles
  without a problem, doubles its frequency an octave up, holds unless
  struck and is the same on every pick. The drum kit sounds on exactly
  36, 38, 42 and 46. Countercheck with Follow note forced off: red.
- e2e 34 (CI image on stein2, melektaus-atx was off): ALL PASSED,
  65 checks (1 new). A first run had the scheduler's looped-bar check
  red by 10 ticks between two clock reads, which the presets do not
  touch; the second run was green.
- Gate (stein2): CHECK EXIT 0, 256 files, 3974 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 07:09:37 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 f3ae19431a Make an 8-bit sound with a Preset, Randomize or Mutate (#329)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m25s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 14m27s
A Chip could play a sound, but finding a good one meant typing a dozen
numbers. sfxr's buttons do that in one click: a kind of sound drawn
anew every time, a wild draw, or a small nudge. The Instrument tab now
has the same, and plays the result at once.

- Preset menu with Pickup, Laser, Explosion, Powerup, Hit, Jump and
  Blip. It puts a new graph in place of the instrument's, as one undo
  step: Notes for all 128 notes, Chip, Envelope, Filter, Bitcrusher,
  Output. The Chip keeps its own frequency with follow note off, so
  every key plays the same effect, and sustain 0 ends it by itself.
- The presets are sfxr's generators, worked out into Hz, semitones and
  seconds with sfxr's own formulas, in chipPresets.ts. sfxr's envelope
  holds and falls in a line, ours falls quick at first. So the decay
  is three times sfxr's hold and fall.
- Randomize draws every number of the Chips, Envelopes, Filters and
  Bitcrushers anew, as sfxr's randomizer does. Waves, filter types,
  the Bitcrusher's mix and an Envelope's from and to stay.
- Mutate moves each of those numbers a little, one in two. A 0 stays
  0, so nothing that was off comes on.
- An input fed by an edge is left alone by both. Both are grey while
  the graph has none of those nodes.
- Audition, off by default as in the Pattern tab, plays the note last
  played again 150 ms after a change to the graph rests.
- Preset, Randomize and Mutate always play that note, for up to 2 s.
- ReplaceGraphCommand swaps nodes and edges and keeps groups and notes.
- The info on the right of the header kept 220 px and was cut off
  with the four new buttons. 140 px still fit "No sound picked".

Not done: punch, filter sweeps and the phaser of sfxr (#341).

Tests:
- Unit chip-presets (new) 7. Counter-check: a wrong Hz formula and
  fed inputs not left alone turn 3 of them red. Unit tests of the
  instrument tab, graph commands and sound FX nodes: 49 files, 851
  green.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 64 checks (4 new): Preset,
  Randomize and Mutate, Audition, three undos back to the Sample.
- Screenshot with a Laser preset: the header fits at 1280 px, the
  chain is fitted, the Chip is a saw with its duty grey.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 256 files, 3969 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 23:29:39 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 f46b2316f2 Make 8-bit sounds without a file with a Chip node in instruments (#329)
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 36s
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m33s
An instrument could only play sound files so far. The Chip makes the
sound of a note itself, the way old game consoles and sfxr did: a raw
wave and what its frequency does over the note. A laser, a jump or a
pickup is now an instrument and ends by itself.

- Chip node with wave (square, triangle, saw, sine, noise and the
  periodic noise of the NES), follow note, frequency, duty, duty
  sweep, slide, delta slide, min frequency, vibrato, arpeggio and
  repeat. It counts in Hz, semitones and seconds, not sfxr's 0 to 1.
- It runs as a third processor in the FX worklet. The math is a plain
  class, ChipPlayer, tested in Node. Every sample is worked out 8
  times and averaged, as sfxr does.
- Frequency and duty are AudioParams, so an Envelope can move them
  and a parameter can tune them while the note plays. A Pitch behind
  a Chip moves its frequency directly, without the phase vocoder.
- Below its min frequency a Chip ends and tells the page. Without the
  worklet it is silent and its note ends at once.
- An Envelope with sustain 0 now ends its note once the decay is over,
  for every source under it, Samples too. Before, a note with
  duration 0 ran on silently until a Stop sound.
- A note made of Chips alone needs no file. playNote and the wait for
  the bytes no longer drop it for having none.
- Inputs that do nothing as things stand are grey in the inspector.
  idleParams is told which inputs are connected, so a connected one
  always counts.

The credit names sfxr (Tomas Pettersson, MIT) and jsfxr, which turned
out to be public domain, not MIT as the plan in #329 said.

Tests:
- Unit chip (new) 12, sound-library +4. All of tests/core,
  tests/viewport, tests/editor/graph and tests/editor/inspector:
  178 files, 2953 green.
- Counter-checks: semitones read as /24 turn 4 chip tests red. Without
  the sustain rule and the file check 4 library tests fail.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 60 checks (2 new). Offline in
  Chrome a square at 220 Hz plus 12 semitones and duty 0.25 gave 329
  periods in 0.75 s, up 0.249. 64 noise voices for 2 s rendered in
  2.0 s, about 63 at once. Live a 0.2 s note with sustain 0 was gone
  after 0.26 s.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 255 files, 3962 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 22:54:44 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 165f022fc0 Crush a sound to fewer bits and a lower rate with a Bitcrusher (#322)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m32s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 18m49s
A new effect for sound FX and instruments makes a sound rough like an
old console. It rounds the sound to fewer steps and holds it at a lower
sample rate, and all three of its numbers move while the sound plays.

- Bitcrusher node with bits (1 to 16, not only whole), rate (100 Hz to
  48 kHz, sample-and-hold) and mix. A mix typed in at 0 leaves it out.
- It runs on the audio thread as a second processor next to the pitch
  player. The module is now fxWorklet.ts and the test hook is called
  fxWorkletUrl.
- A play that needs the worklet waits for it, for a Pitch or a
  Bitcrusher alike. Without the worklet the sound goes through as is.
- Bits and mix move in what they hold, the rate in octaves. An
  Envelope can move all three in an instrument.
- A stage that runs on the worklet is stopped with its voice, like the
  drivers of an Envelope or a Mix.
- The math is a plain class, Crusher, so it is tested in Node.

The cleanup check of e2e 64 from af9b202 turned suite 553 red. It
asked that no editor run was left at all. In CI a step before 64 still
leaves one of its own running. The check now asks only about its own
behavior and prints what is still running, so the next suite names it.

Tests:
- Unit crusher (new) 4, soundfx +2, sound-library +3. All of tests/core,
  tests/viewport and tests/editor/graph: 176 files, 2934 green.
- Counter-check: without the rounding 2 of 4 crusher tests fail.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 58 checks (1 new). Offline in
  Chrome 2 bits at 4 kHz leave five levels held for 12 samples each.
  64 stereo voices for 2 s render in 1.9 s, about 68 at once.
- e2e 64 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 30 checks.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 254 files, 3946 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 22:22:54 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 f1f4a57589 Cut a sound to a stretch of its file in its own Sound tab (#343)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m32s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 18m20s
A sound asset now opens in a tab that shows its file as a waveform.
Two handles set where the sound starts and ends in the file, and that
stretch is the sample: Play sound, a song item and an instrument's
Sample all play it and nothing else. The file itself is never changed.

- The asset has three new rows: Start (s), End (s) and Edge fade (ms).
  End 0 is the end of the file, the fade is 10 ms by default. Older
  assets have no values and play the whole file as before.
- Every way of playing asks playedSoundOf() for a name instead of the
  file: the file, or <file>#<start>~<end>~<fade> for a cut.
- SoundLibrary makes the cut from the decoded file the first time that
  name plays and ramps each edge inside the file over the fade. Length
  and peaks of a cut are read from the file without a copy.
- Cut buffers can be made again at any time, so the library lets the
  oldest go past 64 Mi samples. A voice holds its buffers itself.
- The tab draws min/max per pixel from 256-sample block peaks, and the
  samples as a line when zoomed in far. Wheel zooms, the middle button
  pans, as in the music tabs. Wave, cut and ruler sit under a mask,
  so a handle panned out of view does not draw over the panels beside.
- Dragging a handle moves that edge, dragging elsewhere spans a new
  stretch. One drag is one undo step for both edges. Whole file puts
  the handles back, Play or Space plays the stretch with a playhead.
- The inspector preview and the Sound FX preview play the cut too, and
  the song lanes draw and repeat it.

Tests:
- Unit: sounds 20, wave-view 8 (new), sound-library 68, plus 258 in
  the touched areas (instrument, song, pattern, inspector, tabs)
- e2e 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 57 checks (7 new)
- Gate on melektaus-atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 253 files, 3936 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 21:42:21 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 9c71eb1a0d Shape notes with an Envelope and move numbers with its curve #335
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m19s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m58s
Without an envelope a note set in hard and broke off 10 ms after its
end. An instrument now has an Envelope node with attack, decay,
sustain and release. On the way of the sound it is the volume. Its
output "value" moves a number of the note with the same curve, from
"From" to "To", for a filter sweep among others. A new Filter node
gives that sweep something to move.

- Envelope (instrument only): attack a straight line, decay and
  release ease out and are 60 dB of the way at their time. A release
  takes 10 ms at least. Defaults 0.005 / 0.1 / 1 / 0.1.
- The end of a note goes to the Envelope instead of the 10 ms fade. A
  Gate or Loop Sample under it plays on through the release, "Loop,
  then release" leaves its loop too, and the voice ends with the
  release. A One-shot under an Envelope of its own plays through.
- A note ending before attack and decay releases from the level it
  has reached. Chrome holds it with cancelAndHoldAtTime, Firefox gets
  the level worked out from the shape.
- New port type "envelope" (coral). It fits only a number input that
  says it can follow one (PortDef.followsEnvelope): Filter cutoff and
  resonance, Pitch, Gain, the EQ bands and Mix. Not the Delay, not the
  Envelope's own numbers. portsMeet() decides it for ConnectCommand,
  the drag and the drawn edges.
- On the audio thread every Envelope of a note is one
  ConstantSourceNode. A number it moves gets the curve through a
  WaveShaper, in equal ratios for a cutoff and a gain. A number an
  Envelope moves is no longer reached by a parameter.
- Filter (sound FX and instrument): low-, high- or band-pass, cutoff
  in Hz, resonance 0 to 1 as a Q. A low- or high-pass is flat at 0
  and rises 20 dB at 1, a band-pass goes from Q 0.7 to 20.
- Stop sound with "let ring" lets a note with an Envelope fall away
  in its release. Without it, and with Stop in the tab, it is cut.
- The same note again during a release is a voice of its own.
- The Envelope's numbers are set when the note starts. They can come
  from velocity or a parameter, later changes do not bend the note.

Tests:
- envelope.test.ts (new, 12): curve, ratios, Filter Q, compiling an
  Envelope, its value into each number, a Delay refused
- sound-library +7: attack and decay on the clock, release from the
  level reached, One-shot held, Stop sound with and without let ring,
  a cutoff and a pitch moved by the curve
- e2e 34: ALL PASSED, 50 checks (+2). Offline in Chrome the curve
  rendered 0.5 / 1 / 0.5005 at 0.05 / 0.1 / 0.3 s, released at 0.5 s
  it was 0.0158 at 0.65 s and 0.0005 at 0.8 s, released mid-attack it
  fell from 0.5 to 0.05 in 0.1 s. A Gain moved 0.25 to 1 was 0.5
  halfway. A looped note of 0.2 s with a release of 1 s was gone
  after 1.32 s.
- Five counter-checks (release end, One-shot hold, the follows check,
  ratios, pitch sum) failed 3, 1, 1, 2 and 2 tests.
- Gate on melektaus-atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 245 files, 3812 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 13:54:46 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 fb4d65a2ab Keep both sounds full at the middle of a Mix with a curve #331
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m16s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 16m2s
A Mix crossfaded: at 0.5 each sound was at half. Layering two sounds
in an instrument now goes through a Mix (076c564), so the user asked
for a second curve where each side stays full up to the middle and
only fades on the other half. At 0.25 a is full and b half, at 0.5
both are full, at 0.75 a is half and b full.

- The Mix has a setting Curve with Crossfade (default) and Both at
  center. A plan and a chain only say `curve` where it is `both`, so
  old projects and their compiled plans stay as they were.
- A share is not a straight line of `mix` with that curve. Two ramps
  of their own would dip to half each when `mix` glides across the
  middle. So a ConstantSourceNode carries `mix` on the audio thread,
  and two WaveShaperNodes make the shares from it. The knob of such a
  Mix is that one source.
- The source is started with the voice and stopped when it is cut or
  ends by itself, so it does not run on after the voice.
- A sound FX node in an instrument keeps the curve of a Mix inside it.
- At 0.5 both sounds are added in full, up to +6 dB where both are
  loud. That is what several edges into the Output did before. The
  wiki says so.

Found on the way: the suite of 23bdc3f (task 529) failed the Step
check in e2e 34. It timed the jump from the start of the voice, but a
timed change runs from when it arrives. In CI that was 80 ms later,
and the pitch rightly held to 2.08 s.

- stats() says `tunedAt`, the second of the audio clock the last
  change moved a voice. A change that moves nothing, as On update
  sends every frame, leaves it.
- The Step check times its readings from there.

Tests:
- sound-library.test.ts: both shares shaped from one source, a glide
  moves only the source, the source stops with a cut and with an end
  by itself (50 tests, 2 new)
- soundfx.test.ts: curve only where set, one sound at 0 (41 tests)
- instrument.test.ts: the curve through a sound FX node (34 tests)
- Counter-checks: dropping the curve in throughFx and not stopping
  the source in done() each turn their new test red
- e2e 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 48 checks (+1). Rendered
  offline in Chrome, a and b come to 1/0, 1/0.5, 1/1, 0.5/1 and 0/1
  at mix 0 to 1, and a glide from 0 to 1 reads the same at 0.25, 0.5
  and 0.75 s. Step jumped 2.04 s after the change.
- Gate on melektaus-atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 244 test files, 3793 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 13:12:56 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 23bdc3f775 Play notes in time on the audio clock with a scheduler #332
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m34s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 16m7s
Patterns and songs (#333, #334) have to play sample-accurate in time,
whatever the frame rate does. What is counted in game time runs away
from the sound. This lays the ground: musical time, a scheduler that
plans notes ahead on the audio clock, and a player that starts and ends
a note at a given second. Nothing in the editor plays a sequence yet,
the check scripts drive it through `__gm.music`.

- Ticks, 480 to the quarter as in MIDI files (decided in #332).
  Triplets and quintuplets land on whole ticks. Any meter, a beat being
  the note value under the line. The tempo always counts quarters.
- `core/music/sequence.ts` is a pure rule: the notes starting in a
  window of playing time. Across the end of a loop it looks into the
  next round, so the seam has no gap. A note past the loop end ends
  there. Windows are whole ticks, and the seam is stepped exactly, so
  no rounding can drop the first note of a round.
- `core/music/Scheduler.ts` plans the next 100 ms every 25 ms through a
  host, so it is tested with a clock of its own. The first note sounds
  50 ms after the start. Changes to the sequence are heard from the
  next window on. Stop and seek fade what it started. A new tempo or
  loop counts from what is planned, and the playhead keeps its old
  pace until the clock gets there.
- The position is the audio clock less `outputLatency`, as bar, beat
  and tick.
- The beat comes from a Web Worker (`viewport/musicTimer.ts`), which
  keeps its pace in a hidden tab.
- The sound library starts a note at `timing.at`: a buffer source by
  `start(when)`, the pitch worklet by counting down inside the render
  block it falls in. A note's end is set on the clock at once, its
  fade to the sample. Leaving a loop still waits for the page.
- Delay synced to beats (decided in #332, noted from #327): a setting
  `Sync` (Seconds / Beats), `time` then in quarter notes, held to the
  2 s of the line. Play sound and Play note have an input `tempo`,
  120 BPM where nothing is connected. A scheduled note carries the
  tempo of its sequence.
- Swing is left for #333/#334, as decided.

Also fixes the red suite of 6f1f315 (task 526). Three checks in e2e 34
waited on the page's clock for things that run on the audio clock. In
CI the voice was already 0.7 s old when first seen, and the 0.3 s note
of Play note was over. `stats().last` now says when a voice started on
the audio clock, and the Quad, Step and Play note checks hold every
reading against it.

Tests:
- music.test.ts (new): 17 tests, time, windows, loop seam, scheduler
  with a jittery timer, stop, seek, tempo change
- sound-library +4, soundfx +1, node-catalog +2 (tempo inputs)
- Counter-checks: an unclamped note length, a window that never moves
  on, a buffer source ignoring its start time and a Delay ignoring
  Beats each turn 1, 6, 1 and 2 tests red
- e2e 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 47 checks (+2). Nine notes of a
  looped bar at 150 BPM exactly 0.4 s apart, each planned 89 to 91 ms
  ahead. The position matched the clock less 32 ms latency to the
  tick. Offline the worklet started on samples 590, 12000 and 15200.
- Gate on melektaus-atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 244 test files, 3786 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 12:29:31 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 144dee0a97 Let a looped sample play out past its loop when the note ends #331
With "Mode" and "Loop" as two fields, One-shot plus Loop ran until
Stop was pressed: letting go of the key did nothing. The two fields
are now one, "Play", with four entries that each say what happens
while the note is held and when it is let go.

- Gate and One-shot play the sound once, as before. Loop repeats it
  and fades out with the note.
- "Loop, then release" is new: the sampler's sustain loop. Let go,
  it finishes the round it is in and plays what comes after "Loop
  end" to the end of the sound.
- A buffer source stops looping and plays on by itself. The pitch
  worklet gets a "leave" message. The phase vocoder then lets the
  round finish that its newest frame has read into, so nothing read
  already changes under the frames still sounding.
- Samples saved with "Mode" and "Loop" are turned into "Play" on
  load. Gate and One-shot stay, either with Loop becomes Loop, since
  playing until stopped is gone.
- The keys of the Instrument tab stay half lit while a note let go
  is still heard. Esc on the keys stops everything, like Stop.
- Striking a ringing key again plays a new note beside it rather
  than stopping the old one, so a drum can be hit quickly. This
  differs from what was proposed in the issue discussion.

Tests:
- instrument + pitch-player + sound-library + node-catalog:
  477 tests, green (12 new).
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 45 checks (+1). Let go after
  a loop of 0.05 s, the note played out for 0.31 s on the audio
  clock, the key half lit meanwhile.
- Counter-check: a release that does not leave the loop fails the
  2 new player tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 11:34:30 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 8a4e4a6762 Play sounds as notes of an instrument asset #331
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 2m40s
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m14s
A sound could only be played as it was, one at a time. An instrument
is a node graph that makes a note a sound: Notes nodes bring the note
in, Samples play sound assets for it, the effects of a sound FX shape
it and the Output sums the layers. Its tab plays it from a keyboard,
a behavior with Play note. It is what patterns and songs (#330) will
play.

- New asset type instrument, under the heading Music, not placeable.
  A new one starts as Notes into a Sample into the Output.
- Notes are counted as MIDI does: 60 is C4, names like C#4, sharps
  only, the lowest C-1. Notes has From and To, outputs any, note,
  frequency and velocity, and with Single notes a trigger per note,
  each with an optional name for a drum kit.
- New port type trigger, only into the trigger of a source. Inputs
  can take any number of edges now (PortDef.many): a trigger, and
  the Output, which plays everything into it side by side.
- Sample plays a sound asset. Follow note shifts it by note - root
  through the pitch worklet of #317, so it keeps its length. Gate
  fades it out at the end of the note, One-shot plays through. Loop
  runs between Loop start and Loop end, also in the worklet.
- Parameters declares the instrument's own parameters with a
  default. Sound FX sends the sound through a sound FX asset, its
  parameters as inputs, the sound set in where its Input was.
- compileInstrument walks the graph once per note. A trigger is on
  only for the notes it stands for, a silent source silences what it
  alone feeds, a Mix with a silent side is the other side. velocity
  and the parameters stay open for the voice. Builds are cached per
  note until the graph or a sound or FX it names changes.
- The player takes a note as one voice of several layers, each way
  with its own file and volume. release fades the gated ways out,
  one-shots play on. playNote can release after a duration.
- Play note plays one note with velocity, volume, duration and
  detached, and hands out voice for Set sound FX parameters and
  Stop sound. Velocity is always loudness. Instrument parameters
  picks values for the instrument's parameters like Sound FX
  parameters does for an FX, renames follow.
- The tab has the graph, a header field per parameter, Stop, and
  128 keys below. Keys without sound are grey. A key plays while it
  is held. Focused, the computer keyboard plays as in a tracker by
  KeyboardEvent.code, the arrows move the octave.

Findings:
- A label of the keys set fill on the shared small text style and
  darkened every small label of the editor. Caught in a screenshot
  before the commit, the keys have a style of their own now.
- Suite task 523 on cf6799a failed two checks of e2e 34 that timed
  audio by the page's clock: a 2.95 s echo tail was gone after 1 s,
  and Quad in was further along than 0.7 s allow. Both time on the
  audio clock now through a new hook __gm.sound.clock().

Tests:
- instrument.test.ts (new, 22): notes, asset, palette, round trip,
  compile per note, drum kit, zones, Mix, velocity and parameters,
  Sound FX node with rename, problems, cache, Play note, the keys
- sound-library +7 (layers, release, duration, early release, loop
  region in buffer and worklet), pitch-player +2 (loop region),
  node-catalog +4, graph adjusted. 582 tests in the touched files.
- e2e 4 and 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 34 with 44 checks (+7)
- Gate on melektaus-atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 243 test files, 3750 tests
- Counter-checks: any always on, release ending one-shots, Sound FX
  inputs ignored, loop region ignored. 3, 2, 1 and 1 tests failed.
- Browser probe on stein2: keys, held key, Single notes names and
  the header looked at in screenshots.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 10:07:40 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 cf6799a784 Let echoes ring on with a Delay node in sound FX #324 #327
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m20s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 15m4s
A voice used to end the moment its sources did, and Stop sound cut it
dead. An echo has to outlive its sound, and a stop must not click.

- Delay node: a delay line with a damped feedback loop, added at mix
  next to the untouched sound. Time 0.01 to 2 s, feedback up to 0.95,
  damping 20 kHz to 500 Hz evenly in octaves, all fed by parameters
  and moved by Set sound FX parameters like any other number.
- Ping-pong is a setting of the node. It takes the sound into the left
  of the line and swaps the sides every round.
- A voice with an echo rings on for its tail: until the last echo is
  60 dB below the sound, from time, feedback and mix (fxTailOf). It
  stays reachable meanwhile, and a change counts the tail again.
- The end of a tail is timed on the audio clock with a silent
  ConstantSourceNode, so a paused run holds it. Then the voice is
  disconnected, since an echo is a loop of nodes.
- Stop sound fades a voice out in 10 ms instead of cutting it. Let
  ring fades only its sources and keeps the voice for its echoes.
  Where the context is suspended it cuts at once.
- Stop sound takes a voice. Connected, it stops only that play, and a
  0 from a Play sound that played nothing stops nothing.
- Play sound hands out tail: length plus the echoes at its start
  values.
- Destroying a behavior and ending a run still cut, echoes included.
- No limit on voices. The emit of a sound FX node now also gets the
  node's settings.

Finding: in Chrome every round of a feedback loop comes one render
quantum late (128 samples, 2.7 ms at 48 kHz), measured as 0, 128, 256,
384 for the first four echoes. Left so, since a browser without it
would then hear the echoes early. Written in the wiki.

Tests:
- sound-library, soundfx, node-catalog, sounds, keep-on-scene-load:
  489 tests green. New: fade on stop, cut while suspended, echo and
  ping-pong wiring, ringing until the tail, tail counted again, let
  ring, stop by voice, echo knobs, delay compile, tail sums.
- Counter-checks: no tail, a stop without fade, a connected voice 0
  read as unconnected. Each fails its tests, files back by cmp.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 37 checks. A blip through a
  ping-pong Delay (0.3 s, 0.5, 0.5) rang 2.97 s, 2.95 s worked out.
  Let ring kept the voice, a stop after it cut it. Rendered offline
  with the player's own stageNodes the echoes are 0.25 left, 0.125
  right, 0.063 left. 64 stereo voices of it took about 0.3 s for 2 s,
  so about 400 play at once.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 242 test files, 3713 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 09:05:05 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 6e70421b92 Keep the length of a sound whatever its pitch does #317
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m13s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m36s
A Pitch used to keep the length only for the pitch a voice started at.
Set sound FX parameters changed it by speed, so a sweep made the sound
longer or shorter, and length into time no longer spanned the sound.
Now a way with a Pitch is played by an AudioWorklet, a phase vocoder
whose pitch is an AudioParam in semitones. The length never changes,
and a pitch glides, ramps and eases like a Gain.

- PitchPlayer (core/soundfx) is the vocoder as a plain class, so it
  runs in a unit test. Frames of about 43 ms, four overlapping, a real
  FFT done as a complex one of half the size.
- Peaks are moved with the bins around them (Laroche and Dolson's
  phase locking), and frames are turned by half their size so a phase
  is the one at the middle. Without both, a tone beat against itself
  and dipped to 0.54 of its loudness while the pitch moved.
- It reads the sound itself rather than being fed it. It looks ahead
  as far as a frame reaches, so a voice starts with its first sample
  and every way of a Mix stays in step. A change of pitch is heard
  about half a frame (20 ms) late.
- At exactly 0 a frame is the sound itself and costs next to nothing.
  Coming back to 0, the phases are pulled round to the sound's for
  about half a second before it switches, so the switch does not dip.
- pitchWorklet (viewport) is the processor, bundled by Vite through
  ?worker&url. It is loaded with the first play that has a Pitch, which
  waits for it like for its bytes. A file's samples are sent with its
  first voice only and kept in the worklet's scope.
- A way has the worklet when its plan has a Pitch, a typed-in 0
  excepted (FxChain.shifted). A way without one stays a plain buffer
  source. Without AudioWorklet a Pitch is not heard, and the console
  says so.
- The pitched copies (WSOLA, pitchShift.ts) and their cache are gone.
- Decisions of the user: the player at the source rather than an
  effect in the chain, a phase vocoder rather than WSOLA, no limit on
  voices, no range tighter than the node's -64 to +64.
- stats() says whether the worklet is there, levels() gives a pitch in
  semitones, and __gm.sound.pitchWorkletUrl() lets a check run it.

Tests:
- pitch-player.test.ts (new, replaces pitch-shift.test.ts): 11 tests.
  Pitches from -30.5 to +12 within 2 %, the length to the sample, 0
  exact to 1e-5, a sweep half a frame behind, 8 kHz sounds, loops,
  ramps there and back without a dip.
- sound-library.test.ts: 23 tests (+4), soundfx.test.ts: 31 (+1).
- Counter-checks: no worklet in the player, shifted taken from the
  value, no pull back to 0. 15 tests fail, files restored by cmp.
- e2e 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 34 checks (+1). In real Chrome
  the worklet is there and the pitch param glides to 3.0007.
  Offline: 880.0 Hz for 440 an octave up, 48000 of 48000 samples, a
  sweep 0 to -12 at 392 then 248 Hz, still 48000 samples.
- Gate on melektaus-atx: 242 test files, 3690 tests, CHECK EXIT 0.
- Cost: 53 ms per second of a stereo voice at +5 in Node on stein2,
  5 ms at 0. In headless Chrome 16 voices for 2 s took 1.3 s, about 24
  fill the audio thread.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 08:00:13 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 e7a360db73 Offer the easings of an animation key on Lerp and sound FX ramps
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m15s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m36s
A timed Set sound FX parameters ran only linearly, and a Lerp had four
quadratic eases of its own. An animation key already had the full set.
Now all three offer the same choice: Linear, Step, the ten curves from
Sine to Bounce with In, Out or In-out, and a drawn Curve asset.

- easingParams in src/core/graph/nodes/easing.ts gives a node the
  fields Easing, Direction and Curve from the key's own lists, and
  easingOfParams reads them back as a key interpolation.
- There is no migration. A Lerp saved with the old in, out or inOut
  runs linear until its easing is picked again.
- Set sound FX parameters hands the easing to the player. Linear and
  Step stay ramps of the audio clock, every other easing goes to
  setValueCurveAtTime as 200 samples a second, in semitones and dB.
- Step now reaches its end at t 1. A key never asked for that, it
  reads the next key itself, so animations play as before.
- The curve-in-use count and the warning for a gone curve cover the
  sound node too.

Tests:
- node-catalog: Lerp with cubic in, quad out and in-out, a curve
  without a direction, step, an unknown easing as linear. The sound
  node hands on a curve, step and a gone curve as linear.
- sound-library: an eased change becomes a curve in semitones and
  decibels, a step a jump at the end.
- node-catalog and curve after dropping the old values: 399, green.
- e2e 6, 34, 53 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 198 checks. In Chrome a
  2 s Quad in from depth 7 to -5 read speed 0.864 early and 0.5 at the
  end, a 1 s Step held 1 and then jumped to 0.5.
- Counter-check: with curves sent as linear ramps, the curve test of
  the sound library fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 22:05:00 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 501a1524ed Ramp sound FX parameters over a time on the audio clock
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m21s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m26s
A pitch sweep counted down in On update or On fixed update runs in
game time, while the sound runs on the clock of the audio device. A
short sound magnifies any offset between the two, so the sweep came
out different on every play and most of all on the first.

- Set sound FX parameters has a new input time in seconds. The values
  run evenly to their target in that time, scheduled on the audio
  clock with linearRampToValueAtTime or exponentialRampToValueAtTime.
- Evenly in their own unit: a pitch in semitones and a gain in
  decibels, an EQ band and a Mix share linearly in their value.
- A time of 0 or below keeps the quick glide of about 0.1 s.
- Each change starts from where the voice is now. Whatever was still
  planned is dropped, so a change never queues behind an older one.
  Firefox lacks cancelAndHoldAtTime, there the value is held by hand.
- A voice still waiting on its bytes starts a timed change with the
  sound, so the whole sweep is heard.

Tests:
- node-catalog: time is handed on, a time below 0 is a quick glide.
- sound-library: semitones and decibels ramp in their own steps, a
  timed change on a waiting voice starts with the sound.
- sound-library + node-catalog + soundfx: 419 tests, green.
- e2e 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 31 checks. A 2 s ramp from
  depth 7 to -5 read speed 0.979, 0.926 and 0.778 half a second on.
- Counter-check: folding a timed change on a waiting voice into its
  start values fails the new test.
- The gate did not run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 21:47:13 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 c7e9769f90 Change the sound FX parameters of a sound while it plays #315
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m14s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m39s
Until now a value handed to a sound FX counted from the start of the
voice only. An engine whose pitch follows the speed, or a loop that
gets quieter, could not be built. Every play of Play sound now gives
out the number of its voice, and a new node lets the knobs of that one
voice glide to new values while it plays.

- Play sound has a new output voice: the number of this one play, or 0
  where nothing was played. Kept in a Number variable it reaches the
  voice from another event. Two plays of one sound are two voices.
- New action node Set sound FX parameters (exec, voice, fx params).
  It reaches exactly the voice it is given, a detached one too. A
  voice that has ended, or voice 0, is not reached.
- AudioSink.play returns the voice number and takes the plan and the
  values (FxVoice) instead of a finished chain. AudioSink.tune takes a
  voice number and new values. A name the voice's FX does not have is
  left out, one not given keeps its value.
- SoundLibrary hands out the number at once, before the bytes are
  there, and never twice. A voice still waiting for its bytes starts
  with the values handed in meanwhile.
- Every knob of a voice moves with setTargetAtTime (30 ms time
  constant). A knob whose value did not change is not sent again, so a
  tune every frame costs next to nothing.
- A pitch on a playing voice glides by playbackRate. A new WSOLA copy
  in the middle of a sound is not worked out, so the voice gets shorter
  or longer while it is moved. On a loop that is not heard.
- fxChainOf now gives a chain whose shape depends on the plan alone.
  A stage fed by a parameter stays at 0 dB, and a Mix fed by a
  parameter keeps both ways. A typed-in 0 or Mix at 0/1 is still left
  out by the compiler.
- Every way of a voice has a source of its own, also at the same
  pitch, so each can glide on its own. The pitched copy is shared.
- The tab keeps the numbers of what it plays, so moving a parameter
  field is heard at once.
- Test hook __gm.sound.levels(file) reads the knobs of every voice of
  a file, oldest first, and stats() counts the voices tuned.

Tests:
- soundfx.test.ts: 29 tests (+2 for the node in a running world: the
  voice of the first of two plays of one sound, and a play that played
  nothing)
- sound-library.test.ts: 15 tests (+3: glide, reach by number,
  pending voice)
- node-catalog.test.ts: 370 tests (+2, Play sound checks its voice)
- sounds + keep-on-scene-load: 31 tests, unchanged
- Counter-test: a tune that reaches every voice of the same file makes
  the reach test fail.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED - 30 checks (+1). In Chrome two
  looping voices of one sound start at depth 7. The one whose number
  sits in a variable glides to 0.7938 (2^(-4/12) = 0.7937), the other
  stays at 1. Both gains stay at 0.5012.
- The gate ran before voices got a number (CHECK EXIT 0, 241 files,
  3658 tests), not after.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 20:53:26 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 072537b2e8 Blend two ways of a sound FX with a Mix node #316
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m10s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m30s
A sound FX was a single line from Input to Output, so two versions
of one sound could not be heard together. The new Mix node joins two
ways again, and each way can carry its own effects, its own Pitch
included.

- Mix has the audio inputs a and b and a number input mix (0 to 1,
  default 0.5). At 0 only a is heard, at 1 only b. Like every number
  it can come from a parameter of the Input and is held to its range.
- The compiled plan and the chain a voice gets are now a tree. A
  source carries a pitch and stages, a mix carries a, b and the
  stages after it. A Mix that ends at exactly 0 or 1 collapses to the
  one way heard, so the silent way is never worked out.
- A Pitch is still worked out on the sound as it starts (#312). Behind
  a Mix it goes to both of its sounds. An effect before a Pitch
  therefore acts as if it came after it, the node now says so.
- The player starts one source per pitch, all at once and all of the
  same length, and two ways at the same pitch share one. A mix becomes
  two gain nodes with 1 - mix and mix into a sum. A voice leaves the
  count when all of its sources have ended.
- stats().last reports pitches (one per source) instead of pitch.

Tests:
- soundfx.test.ts: 27 tests (+5), sound-library.test.ts: 12 (+2),
  node-catalog.test.ts: 368, all green. Typecheck, ESLint, Prettier
  clean.
- Counter-check: a Pitch behind the Mix given to a only, and b mixed
  at 1 - mix, each fails its new test.
- e2e 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 29 checks (+1). The new check
  plays the pitched way mixed with the dry Input in the browser: two
  sources at 5 and 0 semitones, as long as the sound itself.
- The full gate did not run before this commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 20:09:30 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 790e483198 Pitch a sound FX without changing its length #312 #313 #314
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m9s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m19s
The Pitch node changed the playback speed, so a sound pitched up was
also shorter and one pitched down longer. A pitch now keeps the
length, takes fractions and reaches further. Gain and the EQ bands
reach further down, and the EQ is renamed so a parametric one can
come later without a mix-up.

- Pitch shifting is the pure function pitchShift in
  core/soundfx/pitchShift.ts. It reads the sound faster or slower and
  stretches it back by WSOLA: 40 ms frames under a Hann window, each
  moved within 12.5 ms to where it continues the frame before it.
  A looping sound reads on across its end.
- SoundLibrary plays a pitched copy of the decoded buffer instead of
  setting playbackRate. Copies are kept per file, pitch and loop, the
  last 32 of them.
- stats().last tells the duration of what was played, so a check can
  see that the length is kept.
- Pitch: -64 to +64 semitones, scrubbed in steps of 0.1 (#312).
- Gain: -120 to +24 dB (#313).
- EQ is now labelled "5-Band-EQ", its bands go -60 to +24 dB (#314).
  The node type stays SoundFxEq, so saved graphs load unchanged.

Findings:
- A plain granular shifter was tried first and missed the pitch: at
  +0.5 semitones it measured 438 Hz instead of 452.9 Hz, because every
  grain restarts at the phase of the original. WSOLA measures 452 Hz.
- Far ends: +64 semitones from 440 Hz lands above half the sample rate
  and folds back, -64 is below what a 40 ms frame can follow. Nobody
  has listened to either.
- Speed: 3 s of a 48 kHz channel take 47 ms at +3 and +64, 171 ms
  at -64 (measured in Node).

Tests:
- pitch-shift (new): 7 tests. A 440 Hz sine at +12, -12, +7, +0.5 and
  -30.5 semitones is within 2 % of the target and keeps its length.
  Level stays at most 1, a loop does not fade at its seam.
- sound-library: 10 tests (+1), soundfx 22, node-catalog 368.
- Counter-check: with the pitched copy switched off the new
  sound-library test fails.
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED - 28 checks. Its octave-down
  voice is now also checked for the length of the sound.
- Typecheck, ESLint and Prettier clean. The gate did not run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 19:32:00 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 183f356c99 Let a game hand values to the parameters of a sound FX #311
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m10s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 14m15s
A sound FX played the same every time: its numbers were settings of
the nodes. Now the Input declares parameters with a default, every
number of Gain, Pitch and EQ is an input they can feed, and a Play
sound hands in values for them.

- Input declares number parameters in the inspector, each with a
  Default (DeclaredPort.default, SetPortDefaultCommand). They are
  outputs of the Input. Input and Output count as terminals now, one
  of each per graph.
- Gain, Pitch and EQ take their numbers at inputs under the keys the
  settings had, so saved graphs sound as before without a migration.
  Each value is held to its range however it arrives.
- The compiler gives an FxPlan with the parameters still open.
  fxChainOf fills them in when a voice starts. The player still only
  sees an FxChain.
- New behavior node Sound FX parameters: names an FX and picks its
  parameters like a Variables node picks variables. Each picked one is
  a number input that starts at the FX's default. Its output has the
  new port type fxparams, which only fits Play sound's fx params.
- Play sound warns when the parameters name another FX than the one
  it plays. Names the FX does not know are left out.
- Renaming a parameter at the Input renames it in every Sound FX
  parameters node naming that FX, edges and values included.
- The Sound FX tab has a number field per parameter in its header.
  Play uses those values, they are never written into the asset.
- A value counts from the start of a voice. Changing a playing voice
  is #315, a Mix node is #316.

Tests:
- soundfx.test.ts 22 (+11): parameters in the plan, held values, a
  0-by-default stage, EQ band, save with defaults, wrong port types,
  default command with undo, Sound FX parameters into Play sound,
  defaults of picked ones, node problems, mismatch, rename with undo
- node-catalog 368 (+3): Play sound fx params, Sound FX parameters
- e2e 34: ALL PASSED - 28 checks (+2: header field plays depth 5,
  a Sound FX parameters node gives the game's voice depth 7)
- Gate on melektaus-atx: typecheck, lint, prettier clean, 240 test
  files, 3636 tests green
- Counter-check: with fxChainOf ignoring the values and the rename
  not followed, 5 of the new tests fail.
- Browser probe: header fields, inspector Default and the picked
  parameter looked at in two screenshots.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 17:26:20 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 de14f0f9e2 Play a sound through a graph of gain, pitch and EQ effects #311
A sound could only be played as it was uploaded. A Sound FX asset is
a node graph like a shader: Input, effects, Output. Play sound has a
new input fx that sends the voice through it.

- New asset type soundfx ("Sound FX"), not placeable, with a graph
  and its own tab. The heading in the asset panel is "Sound effects",
  so it does not take the click meant for the + menu entry.
- Nodes in core/soundfx/nodes.ts, category sound, port type audio
  that only fits audio: Input, Output, Gain (dB), Pitch (semitones),
  EQ (80 Hz and 12 kHz shelves, peaks at 250 Hz, 1 kHz and 4 kHz).
- compileSoundFx walks back from the Output with the shared graph
  emitter. An input takes one edge, so the result is one line: a
  pitch and a list of gain and filter stages. A node without input
  or a graph without Output reports a problem on the node.
- Pitch is the playback rate of the source. It applies to the whole
  sound and also changes its length, the node description says so.
- The BehaviorSystem resolves fx and hands the line to the AudioSink.
  An fx that is missing or does not compile plays the sound dry.
- SoundLibrary wires source, stages, volume, destination in that
  order. stats().last now also names pitch and stage count.
- The tab header picks one of the project's sounds and plays it
  through the graph as it stands. Stop there ends only its own voice.

Tests:
- soundfx.test.ts (new, 11), sound-library (9, +2 for the wiring),
  node-catalog (+1 for fx), graph and asset-groups adjusted
- e2e 34: ALL PASSED - 26 checks (+5: + menu opens the tab, palette,
  2 effects, tab Play and game Play through the FX at -12 st)
- Gate on melektaus-atx: typecheck, lint, prettier clean, 239 of 240
  test files green. The red one was sound-library (its fake
  AudioContext had no playbackRate), fixed afterwards, gate not
  re-run in full.
- Counter-check: without the audio rule in portsCompatible the port
  test fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 16:45:42 +02:00
admin 7e5003b590 A test that waits for a deadline somebody guessed is waiting for the wrong thing, so it waits for the editor (#93)
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 6m48s
The suite spent 88% of its step time asleep: 564 s of steps, 496 s of
them in sleep(n) - fixed spans estimated by hand and then copied from
step to step. That is why it was slow, and why it flickered.

The signal is afterFrames(count, timeout) in ui/render.ts, exposed as
__gm.afterFrames(). It wakes the loop itself, because an editor that
draws nothing would never redeem a promise of a frame, and it gives up
after a timeout instead of hanging the run. settle() in the harness
waits two drawn frames (~32 ms) instead of 150-300 ms and falls back to
sleep(150) when the hook is missing (an old build): silently not
waiting would make every later check a coin toss.

Every action goes through it now - click, doubleClick, wheel, drag,
dragAsset, press, typeText, select, mutate, undo, redo - and with that
about 550 sleep() calls behind those actions became redundant, helpers
that are nothing but a mutate in a coat included. What a frame cannot
answer got its own condition instead: waitUntil(expr), play()/stop()
waiting on __gm.state.mode rather than on 300 ms, saved() for the
autosave (the two hand-written polling loops sampled at 300 ms for
something that arrives after a second), and showTab() as a real tool -
47 places called evaluate("__gm.showTab(...)") raw, and 24 of them
waited for nothing at all and read the old panel.

564 s -> 243 s of step time, the waiting share 88% -> 76%. Three kinds
of wait were kept, and each one bit when it was taken away: loading
bytes (textures, fonts), game time that a repaint cannot stand in for
(time scale, shader and particle clocks, the live values a running
graph carries), and the inertia the scroll step measures on purpose.

Two things the new speed uncovered, both real: 25-animation read the
frame menu unfiltered and had frozen an incomplete list (the CI failure
on c990dbc), and 33-render-on-change measured idleness while the
autosave of the step before was still painting - it waits for
saveStatus to leave dirty/saving now, so it measures that nothing
happens any more instead of that it waited long enough.
2026-09-16 08:08:10 +02:00
admin 1e9d21cd5d A game that is more than one scene needs a way from one to the next, so the graph can load one (#39)
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 11m6s
Load scene sets a flag on the World like Stop and Restart do; the swap
happens after the tick, and the last wish of a tick wins. Exactly one
thing crosses over: the SharedState, so global variables and global
machines keep what they know while everything local is built anew.
Loading the scene that is already running rebuilds it, which is what
"reset the level" means when the score must survive.

A run starts either from the start scene (a new project field, set from
the asset panel and marked with an arrow in the list) or from whatever
scene is open. The toggle next to Play says which question is asked and
remembers the answer in localStorage: it is a way of working, not part
of the game.

Sounds no longer end because a scene ends. A voice belongs to the
behavior that started it and stops right after On destroy, so the scene
swap is no longer a special case at all. For the enemy that plays its
explosion and destroys itself in the same breath there is now a
detached input on Play sound.

The scene selector stays usable while a run plays, because a double
click in the asset panel already did the same thing unguarded. It moves
what the editor looks at, not what the run plays.
2026-09-15 13:24:26 +02:00
admin 5671a38044 A game that stays silent is only half a game, so a sound is an asset like any other (#45)
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 12m1s
Sounds follow the road fonts already paved: the file goes to the server
content-addressed under its sha256, the project keeps a named asset that
points at it, and nothing is ever re-encoded. The format is read from the
file's own signature, not from what the browser claims - the same .m4a
arrives as audio/mp4, audio/x-m4a or as nothing at all.

Playing is two nodes. "Play sound" takes the asset and may raise or lower
its volume; every call is its own voice, so two jumps in a row are two
jumps heard. Its loop input is a choice of three - from the asset, on,
off - because a checkbox has to spend one of its two positions on "not
set" and would lose a case: an asset that loops could then never be
played once.

Below the graph core stays browser-free: NodeContext hands out an asset
id, BehaviorSystem resolves it against the project and folds the asset's
own volume and loop into the call, and only viewport/SoundLibrary knows
about Web Audio. A run without a sink plays nothing instead of throwing.

The CI browser is muted, so the ear is no witness: the debug hook counts
started and stopped voices, and step 34 reads that counter.
2026-09-15 07:54:28 +02:00