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adminandClaude Opus 5.5 e53121a0bb Let a behavior hear a song, pattern or sound come to its end (#373)
feuerwerk / gate (push) Successful in 5m56s
feuerwerk / suite (push) Failing after 20m55s
A game should be able to start the next piece of music when one is
over, or wait for a sound before it goes on. Until now a behavior
could start and stop music and sounds, but never learn that they had
ended.

- Two new events: On music finished with the fields Song and Pattern
  and the input playback, and On sound finished with the field Sound
  and the input voice. Both give out what ended and stopped.
- Two new data nodes, Music playing and Sound playing, ask whether
  something is still heard.
- Over means nothing is heard any more: no tail of the effects, and
  a fade-out has run down.
- stopped is on for Stop song, pattern or sound, when the behavior
  that owns it ends and on a scene change. For a sound also when a
  newer voice needs its place or the file does not load.
- Only what the Play nodes of this run started is heard, across
  scene changes too. Previews in the tabs, compositions and notes of
  instruments do not count.
- Switch song ends nothing. The number goes on, and the end is told
  under the song heard last.
- Playbacks and the SoundLibrary tell each end once to a new
  PlayedEnds per run. The AudioSwitch passes them on from both sinks.

Found and fixed: a pattern whose last bar ends in silence counted as
done up to one planning window before its end. In e2e 65 the next
pattern started after 1.962 s instead of 2 s. Scheduler.done now also
wants the playhead to have reached the end. Cleaning up done
playbacks therefore comes a few tenths of a second later. One test
that expected the early end is adjusted.

Tests:
- Unit: 23 new (played-ends 12, sound-library 5, node catalog 5,
  audio-switch 1), all green.
- Counter-probes: 19 bends, all red. One was green at first for want
  of a case, which is added now.
- e2e 65 on atx: ALL PASSED, 78 checks. New 65k6: the event came
  once with stopped off, and the second pattern started 2.051 s after
  the stinger. Stop song gave exactly one end with stopped on, and
  the switch from 65k3 gave none.
- Gate on atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 337 files, 5222 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-30 14:48:16 +01:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 f9428c5bc2 Let a game take a song's automation lane over and give it back (#338)
A game should be able to steer a lane of a song, the filter of the
pads in a fight, the pan of a track when the player turns, and later
hand it back to the curve the composer drew. Set song lane holds a
lane of a track at a value, Release song lane glides it back.

- Set song lane takes playback, track ("Song / Track"), lane, value,
  fade and quantize (Next bar by default). lane is volume, pan or a
  parameter name, with or without "param:".
- From where the lane stands it goes over fade to value and stays.
  The value is clamped to the lane's range. It replaces the lane and
  is not mixed with it (decision 10).
- Release song lane glides over fade back to the curve, to where the
  curve stands at the end of the fade. Then the lane follows the
  curve again.
- The override sits in the Scheduler, where the lane marks are made.
  Volume, pan and parameters go one way. The maths is pure functions
  in the new module laneHolds.ts.
- Notes that start during a parameter hold get the held value. A
  Switch song to the same song keeps the holds.
- The holds are a list per lane. The running one holds until the next
  one lands. A key held down fires the node on every beat, and with a
  single hold per lane the new call replaced the running one before it
  landed, so the lane fell back to the curve. e2e 65 found this.
- A track without that lane and a baked song write a line to the log
  (with a hint at "live tracks").
- The test harness knows the keys l and r.

Tests:
- Unit: 24 new (lane-holds 14, song-play 5, sound-library 2, node
  catalog 3), affected groups 748/748.
- Counter-probes: 12 bends, all red.
- e2e 65 on atx: ALL PASSED, 76 checks. New 65k5: the hold landed on
  the bar line, curve until 0.02 s before, -40 dB 0.14 s after, no
  values between. It stood 1.8 s. The release began at -39.8 dB and
  followed the curve again from 0.55 s on. With one hold per lane
  65k5 is red.
- Gate on atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 335 files, 5176 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-30 07:22:12 +01:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 e390d39314 Let a sound, note or pattern land on the beat of the music (#338)
A stinger has to start on the next beat or bar of the song that is
playing, not whenever the frame happens to run. Play sound, Play note
and Play pattern now take the number of a song or pattern playback and
plan their start on the audio clock, as the music is heard.

- New inputs sync (a playback number) and quantize (Next bar by
  default, decision 6) on Play sound, Play note and Play pattern.
- The landing is worked out in Playbacks (landOn), on the next beat,
  bar or marker of the playback as it is heard. SoundLibrary and the
  audio switch only pass it on, and only on the clock the stinger
  plays on.
- A pattern with sync plays in the tempo of the playback. It takes its
  bake only when both tempos match.
- Without a link, or when the playback is not heard, the node starts
  at once as before.
- The sync ports live in their own module musicSync.ts. Putting them
  in songSync.ts would have made an import cycle through Play song.

Tests:
- Unit: 8 new (6 in song-play, 1 each in sound-library and
  audio-switch), all green.
- Counter-probes: 12 bends, all red.
- e2e 65 on atx: ALL PASSED, 74 checks. New 65k4: the pattern (own
  tempo 100) started exactly 8 beats after the song and played at the
  song's 120 BPM. Without sync it is red (6.2 beats, 100 BPM).
- Gate on atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 334 files, 5152 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-30 06:40:25 +01:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 53ec1094f4 Let a game switch songs and turn their tracks on the beat (#338)
A game could start and stop a song, but not steer one while it plays.
The battle theme could not take over on the next bar, a song could not
jump to a marker, and a track could not fall away when the player
hides. This is stage 3 of 5 in #338.

- Quantize: now, next beat, next bar (the default) or next marker. The
  spot is the next one as the song is heard, and the change is planned
  on the audio clock to the sample, round the loop as the ruler counts.
- Set song track turns one track in dB on top of the song's level, over
  a fade, on the bus input before its FX and sends.
- Switch song plays another song, or the same one from a marker, in
  place of the playing one. It keeps the playback number, so Stop song,
  Set song track and On beat go on reaching it.
- A playing now has a key for its buses apart from its public number.
  During a switch the old and the new song each have buses of their own.
- Play song has a "live tracks" switch. With it off a baked song plays
  its bake, and Set song track on it writes a line to the log.
- A Switch song to a marker plays the notes, as a bake only plays from
  its start.

Found on the way:

- A cut on a bar line faded over seconds in Chrome. cancelAndHoldAtTime
  holds nothing where nothing is planned later, so the ramp ran from the
  bus's last change. The turn now sets its start value on the spot. It
  had been measured at 0.52 of full level 0.2 s past the bar line.

Tests:
- Unit: 23 new cases in beats, song-play, sound-library and the node
  catalog. Counter-checks: 17 bends, all compile, all red.
- e2e 65 (atx): ALL PASSED, 73 checks. 65k3 is new. The switch landed
  three bars after the start under the same number, and the track cut
  on the next bar line with nothing in between. With the old ramp 65k3
  is red (0.53 and 0.51 between).
- Gate (atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 334 files, 5144 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 21:17:52 +01:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 a6a41b6b69 Let a behavior follow the beat, bar and markers of the music (#338)
feuerwerk / gate (push) Failing after 15m41s
feuerwerk / suite (push) Canceled after 18m24s
Stage 2 of #338. A game that syncs to its music has to know where the
music is heard. This stage reads that on the audio clock and hands it
to behaviors as events and as a position.

- New event nodes On beat (playback, bar, beat, late), On bar
  (playback, bar, late) and On song marker (playback, marker, name,
  late).
- New data node Song position with bar, beat, fraction, seconds and
  playing.
- The nodes have the fields Song and Pattern. With neither picked,
  every playback counts. A linked playback input picks that one.
  Compositions do not count.
- The Marker field offers the markers of all songs as Song / Marker,
  as a sound field offers its clips.
- Everything follows what is heard: the audio clock minus the output
  latency. That holds for baked songs and for Play pattern too.
- Only the last beat since the frame before fires, and only when it is
  at most half a beat late, 0.15 s at most. Bars and markers alike.
- A copied song gets markers with ids of its own, so a Marker field
  never names two songs.
- The audio clock is only asked while something plays. Asked in every
  frame, it made the AudioContext without a user gesture (#436).

Tests:
- beats 14 and music-events 6 new, 4 in song-play, 2 in song-markers,
  2 catalog cases, the touched groups 756/756
- 16 counter-probes, all compile, all red
- e2e 65 on atx: ALL PASSED, 71 checks, 65k2 new: 11 beats 1.1 to 2.4
  and 2.1 again, none missing or twice, across the pause too. late
  0.015 to 0.027 s. Counter-probe without the last position: red
- gate on atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 334 files, 5121 tests

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 19:48:51 +01:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 b50c7dbc35 Let a song track automate parameters of its sounds and FX (#337)
Stage 3 of #337. Lanes moved volume and pan only. Now a lane can
steer a parameter of anything on its track, and a voice already
planned or still waiting for its file follows it too.

- A lane may aim at param:<name>. A parameter has no range of its
  own, so the lane keeps min and max. A parameter lane stays without
  points, so its range is not lost. Remove lane takes it away.
- It reaches the track FX, the FX of an item, the instrument of a
  note with its own FX, and the FX of a clip. When several have the
  name, all of them change, as with Set sound FX parameters.
- The scheduler hands the lane value to a note or clip at its start.
  Values a voice only reads at its start act from the next note.
- While a voice sounds, the knobs of buses and voices of the track
  follow the lane on the audio clock, read every 10 ms, because a
  knob is not always the parameter itself (trackParams.ts).
- A voice waiting for its file takes the marks when it starts.
- When a lane is removed, the parameter goes back to its default.
  An edit while playing does not reset a parameter a lane rules.
- This holds in the song tab, for Play song, in compositions and in
  the bake.
- Song tab: Add parameter lane in the track head menu opens a dialog
  for parameter and range (ParamLaneDialog.ts). The lane head menu
  has Range and Remove lane.
- Inspector: while a lane rules a value, a hint at the track names
  the lanes and says the fields act once the lane is gone.

Known limit: a knob that depends on two automated parameters reckons
each lane with the last value of the other, so it may lag one window.

Tests:
- automation-params.test.ts (9, new), 3 new in sound-library and 3
  in song-lanes. Affected files 407/407.
- 17 counter checks, all compile, all red.
- e2e 65 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 67 checks. 65h3 is new: a
  clip with FX parameter cut starts at the lane value and its knob
  stays within 0.04 dB of the lane. It goes red when automateBus
  does not pass parameters on.
- Gate on melektaus-atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 330 files, 5080 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-19 10:30:42 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 389a7c0fd1 Let volume and pan of a song track follow automation lanes (#337)
A song track can now change its volume and pan over time, played on
the audio clock wherever the song is heard. This is stage 1 of #337:
the model and the playback. Lanes cannot be drawn in the song tab yet.

- A track holds automation lanes for volume (dB) and pan. Each point
  has a tick, a value and an easing from the shared list, curve assets
  included. Two points on one tick make a jump. Before the first point
  its value holds, after the last point the last value holds.
- The rules are pure functions in core/music/automation.ts: the value
  at a tick and the pieces of a lane inside one scheduling window.
- The scheduler hands those pieces to the host in every window. The
  host sets them as ramps or jumps on the gain and panner of the
  track's bus. Shapes the clock cannot ramp directly (dB as gain,
  curved easings) are sampled every 10 ms. At the loop end the value
  jumps back with the playhead.
- This works in the song tab, for Play song, inside a composition
  (across the song loop, on the item's own bus) and in a bake.
- While a lane has points the fader no longer sets that value. When
  the lane goes, the fader takes over from the current value.
- Automation enters the bake fingerprint only when there is some, so
  existing bakes stay valid.
- The level helpers moved to core/music/level.ts, so song.ts and
  automation.ts do not import each other.

Known gap: a delaying sound FX on a bus after the track (a pitch
shifter) makes the automation late by that delay.

Tests:
- automation.test.ts (13, new), 3 new in sound-library.test.ts.
  Song, bake and composition tests together 286/286.
- 12 counter-checks, all compile, all red.
- e2e 65 on atx: ALL PASSED, 60 checks. New 65h2: in the song tab the
  bus level follows a volume lane, 0.09 dB off, also with the fader at
  -60 dB. Red when the song tab does not pass the automation on.
- Gate on atx: 328 files, 5053 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-19 06:45:55 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 acd12326dc Fade sounds and videos in and out on the items of a composition
A trailer needs its music and its clips to come in softly and leave
softly. Until now an item of a composition could only play at one
level, and a video item could not even be turned down on its own.

- Every item with sound gets a grip at its upper left and upper right
  corner. Dragging one inwards fades the item in or out. Dragging it
  back to the edge removes the fade. Lower down the same edge still
  trims as before.
- The fade is drawn as its curve, with the part above it darkened.
  The inspector shows Fade in and Fade out in seconds, each with the
  curves sound clips already know.
- The model keeps fadeIn and fadeOut in frames plus curveIn and
  curveOut on the item. Old projects load unchanged. An item shorter
  than its fades plays them cut to its length but keeps the setting.
- Sound, pattern and song items ramp the gain of their own bus. The
  scheduler plans the ramps on the audio clock next to the notes.
  Starting in the middle of a fade picks it up from there.
- Video items set the new sprite property Video volume each frame.
  It multiplies with the fade and is only shown for a driven video.
  The player glides to each new level over 15 ms so it does not click
  between frames.

Not covered: a container item that carries a video further down gets
no grips. Only a video on the item's own sprite counts.

Tests:
- tsc, eslint, Prettier clean.
- Unit tests for composition, music, song and sound (12 files): 269
  passed, 7 of them new.
- e2e 69 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 21 checks. 69p drags a grip to
  a fade in of 10 frames and hears the item bus rise from 0.127 over
  0.229 and 0.339 to 1 within one second.
- Counter-checks as unit tests: without the audio ramps, and without
  the level on the video sprite in the game, both go red.
- Gate on melektaus-atx: 309 files, 4796 tests passed, 8 more than
  at 77ac9d1. The first run failed 14 tests in 6 files that list the
  default sprite properties or the bus levels in full. They now
  expect videoVolume and the new level field of busLevels.
- Not tried in a browser: video fades, pattern and song items with a
  fade.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 09:05:36 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 77ac9d1aaf Play sounds, patterns and songs on the tracks of a composition (#418)
feuerwerk / gate (push) Successful in 4m31s
feuerwerk / suite (push) Successful in 18m21s
A trailer needs its music and effects on the same timeline as its
pictures. Until now a composition could only place objects, so sound
had to be started by hand from a behavior and drifted against the
picture.

- Audio items: a sound, a clip of a sound, a pattern or a song dragged
  from the asset panel onto a track becomes an item as long as one
  pass of it. It may share a track with object and video items and
  overlap them.
- Editing works as for other items: move, resize, trim on the left
  (moves the offset), fit to media, delete, copy and paste, box
  selection. Sounds draw their waveform, the colour tells the kind.
- The inspector shows what it plays, start, length, offset, volume
  (-60 to +12 dB) and bus. The bus is "From asset", the master or one
  of the buses, as asked for in the issue.
- An item longer than its material plays in rounds. Sounds and
  patterns start over, a song runs on in its loop. Loop marks on the
  item follow the same rule, a song's first mark sits at its loop end.
- compositionAudio.ts turns the items into sequences, each with its
  own tempo. CompositionSound plays them, in the tab and in a game.
- In the tab the items are heard from the playhead on, straight into
  the master like every tab. A scrub is silent. Playing a song or
  pattern in its own tab stops the composition, and the other way
  round.
- In a game they are planned on the audio clock for the moment the
  composition clock reaches them, with the scheduler's LEAD made up.
  While the clock stands (waiting for a video, paused, placement off)
  they are silent and resume at the right spot.

Found along the way:

- The asset panel never let a song out of its list, so a song could
  not be dragged anywhere. Song and scene tab reject it as they reject
  a pattern.
- The asset panel scrolled to the selected asset on every rebuild of
  its list, so folding a group far below the selection jumped back up.
  Only a new selection scrolls now.
- At the end of the list, folding a group pulled every row down by the
  rows that went away. ScrollContainer has a new opt-in holdOffset,
  set only in the asset panel, that keeps the offset until the user
  scrolls up.

Limits: a time scale other than 1 or a frame longer than 0.1 s moves
the picture and not the sound. A baked song plays its notes here, not
the bake.

Tests:
- tsc, eslint, Prettier clean. Gate on melektaus-atx green,
  309 files, 4788 tests (4772 plus 16 new).
- Unit: composition-audio.test.ts 13 new, scroll-container 3 new.
  Counter-checks: without catching up on load time or without the
  silence on pause the unit tests go red.
- e2e 68h: the sound is planned 1.2 ms after the composition reaches
  0.5 s. Without the LEAD make-up it is 54 ms late and red.
- e2e 04 and 69 ALL PASSED, 86 checks. 69o-ii drags a pattern and a
  song onto a track, 20 frames each.
- e2e 04: folding Sound at the end of the list keeps its header at
  y 234. With the old panel it jumps to 984 and the check is red.
- Not run in a browser: the loop marks of a song item, copy and paste
  of audio items, the bus choice.
- README and wiki count 2072 checks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-13 21:28:36 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 84cd36f902 Bake a pattern or song to Opus, played in its place by a game (#340)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m49s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 15m6s
A pattern or song played by a game runs every note through the
scheduler, the instruments and their FX, live. Bake works that out
once, keeps it as a file on the asset, and Play pattern and Play song
play the file instead, as one voice, for as long as nothing it is made
of has changed. The tabs always play live.

- Bake is an icon in the header of the Pattern and the Song tab, lit
  while the bake holds. A click bakes, cancels a bake that runs, or
  offers Bake again and Remove bake. The toolbar shows the progress.
  The info of the tab says "baked" or "bake outdated".
- The bake holds everything up to the output of the pattern or song.
  The sound FX of the node, fx params, volume, fade in, bus, Master
  routing and stopping with a fade stay live.
- A print of the worked-out plan decides whether it holds: notes and
  clips, tempo, length, loop, tracks, the build of each instrument for
  each note, sound FX, files, cuts and levels. A rename keeps it, an
  undo back to the baked state makes it hold again.
- The file holds the straight run and then one more round of the loop
  as heard the second time, tails included. Looped, it plays to the
  loop end and then round that round, to the sample. Once, it fades
  out over its last 10 ms. Let ring fades it out over 0.3 s.
- It is worked out by a second SoundLibrary on an OfflineAudioContext,
  its scheduler woken by suspends of the offline clock, and what
  reaches the master is taken. A worklet probe tells whether that was
  mono, so a mono bake goes on exactly as the notes did.
- Opus in Ogg, 160 kbit/s stereo or 96 kbit/s mono, encoded with
  WebCodecs, the Ogg pages written by hand. Normalized to full scale,
  the peak kept and played back.
- The file goes up into the sounds of the account as "[bake] name",
  which the sound picker leaves out. An old bake file is deleted once
  the project is saved without it. Only a bake that holds is loaded.
- Ogg files are decoded at 48 kHz: resampled to 44.1 kHz, the loop of
  a bake lost a sample a round.
- Baking and removing a bake are no undo steps, like the EQ's zoom.

Findings:
- Chrome's AudioEncoder refuses opus.format 'ogg' (NotSupportedError)
  but hands out the OpusHead with a pre-skip of 312 for 'opus'.
- The Song tab's header is full at 1280 px: a captioned Bake pushed
  Fit off the tab. Hence the icon.

Tests:
- Unit: tests/core/ogg.test.ts (6), tests/core/bake.test.ts (16),
  four new in sound-library.test.ts, one in song-play.test.ts. One
  test cuts, reverses and fades a clip on a song's track: each change
  outdates the bake, each undo makes it hold again.
- e2e 64 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 36 checks (6 new). Live and baked
  rendered offline differ by at most 0.06 dB over 114 windows of
  20 ms, two loop ends among them. e2e 65 had no red check with the
  icon in its header.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 277 files, 4281 tests.
- Counter-checks: print without instrument builds, print taking the
  sound's file instead of the clip's cut, round taken from the first
  pass, bake voice without its looping source, Play pattern or Play
  song ignoring the bake: one unit test red each. Pre-skip set to 0:
  the e2e comparison 4.8 dB off, only that check red.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 19:13:11 +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 daeffe0f9d Route the tracks of a song through a graph (#350)
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m47s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 14m20s
Every track of a song went straight into its output. Now the Song tab
has a second view, Routing: a graph with a node per track and one
Output, the links between them sends. A track can go into other
tracks, into several at once, and a link has its own volume and the
point of the track it taps.

- The song asset has a graph like an instrument (SongTrack, SongOutput).
  heldSongGraph keeps it in step with the tracks on load and in
  SetSongCommand: a node per track named after it, one output, a new
  track and every track of an old song linked to the output. Links of
  gone tracks, doubled links and links closing a loop are dropped.
- A link carries an optional send (volume in dB, tap). The inspector
  shows Volume and Mode for a picked link of a song: Post volume (Post
  pan), Pre volume (Post FX), Pre volume (Pre FX). SetSendCommand.
- NodeDef has two new flags. `fixed` nodes are never added or deleted
  by hand. Links between `acyclic` nodes may not close a loop, checked
  in canConnect, dropTargetPort and ConnectCommand.
- songBuses gives each track its sends instead of one `into`, and a
  bus `song:<song>:<track>:#items` for its own items. That bus is what
  solo closes on a track that only passes a soloed one on.
- Mute and solo now act on the sends (trackGates). A muted track passes
  nothing on, on any tap. A soloed track is heard with what goes into
  it, through the tracks it goes through, their own items silent.
  Only sends on a way through a soloed track stay open, so a track
  going into it and into the output is heard through it only.
- SoundLibrary: a bus has either `into` or sends. Each send is tap,
  delay, level, target. busLatency takes the latest way (arrivalOf),
  and each send is held back so all ways of a track arrive together
  (sendDelays). Taps are wired again whenever a chain comes or goes.
- The Song tab has Timeline and Routing in its header. The routing
  uses GraphCanvas with an empty palette. A track linked nowhere shows
  "Goes nowhere". Delete takes links, never a track node.
- Game playings route the same way, the output being the master of
  the playing.

Decided without asking: a send ranges -60 to +12 dB like a track,
default 0 dB Post. Mute closes the sends, the track's own level stays.

Found on the way: the inspector built the Mode row with the send as it
was when the rows were made. Setting Volume and then Mode wrote the old
volume back. Both rows now read the current send when they change.

Tests:
- Unit song-routing (new): 13 green. Sound library: 4 new, 94 green.
  11 counter-probes (loop on load, canConnect, solo, solo past the
  soloed track, mute, preFx latency, graph sync, delete guard, delays,
  taps, glide), each red.
- Existing tests adjusted to the new bus names and send shape: song,
  bus-fx, song-play, graph registry, edge description.
- e2e 65 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 43 checks (5 new). The first
  run caught the inspector bug. Counter-probe with the old closure:
  2 FAILED.
- Gate on melektaus-atx: typecheck, lint, format clean, 2 tests red
  (registry rule, edge shape), fixed and rerun locally: 56 green.
- Not rerun after the per-send solo fix: e2e 65 and the gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 20:18:09 +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 b519cd192f Send a track, a pattern item or a whole song through a sound FX (#346)
A sound FX could only be put on a single sound. Now a track, a pattern
item, a Play pattern and a Play song send everything they play through
one chain of it, as an insert in a DAW. A Play note gets one of its own.

- Track: an FX box in the head next to M and S opens a menu of the
  project's sound FX, and the track's inspector has the row too.
  Order: items, track FX, volume, pan.
- Pattern item: Sound FX in its inspector. Its notes play on a bus of
  their own into the track's bus.
- Play pattern and Play song take fx and fx params. The chain sits on
  the master of the playing, after the tracks and before the level and
  the fades. Set sound FX parameters reaches it by the playback.
- Play note takes fx and fx params next to the instrument's params.
  The FX parameters go by "fx:" so the two sets stay apart. Set sound
  FX parameters on a note changes a name both have in both.
- A Pitch on a bus is a new PitchShifter: the phase vocoder of the
  PitchPlayer, fed while it plays. It cannot look ahead and is exactly
  one frame late at every pitch, 2048 samples.
- That latency is made up. The other way of a Mix is held back by a
  delay of the same length. Every note and clip starts as much earlier
  as the buses it passes are late. The scheduler plans that much
  further ahead, and the first note waits that much after Play.
- The Song tab waits for the chains before it plays and lets its buses
  go a moment after Stop. A playing in a game lets them go after its
  echoes and what the shifters still hold.
- songBuses moved to its own file. Kept in song.ts it pulled the FX
  compiler into the node registry through an import cycle.

Decisions of the user: one chain for the whole (1a), FX everywhere
asked for (2a), Set sound FX parameters on playbacks (3a), and a
pitch shifter of its own with exact latency compensation for a Pitch
on a bus.

Tests:
- Unit pitch-shifter (new): 11 green. At 0 semitones the output is
  the input 2048 samples later, off by at most 1.2e-7.
- Unit sound-library: 84 green, 8 new. Counter-checks (no early
  start, no Mix delay, chain made every time, tune misses the master)
  each turned their test red.
- Unit bus-fx (new): 6 green, 4 counter-checks red. Scheduler ahead: 1
  new, its counter-check red.
- e2e 65 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 35 checks, 4 new, first run.
  Chrome at 44.1 kHz: the bus was 0.046440 s late, the note started
  exactly that much early. Offline the shifter moved 1 kHz to 2000 Hz
  and passed a click 2048 samples later.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 259 files, 4021 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 13:15:52 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 f97961c8ff Play and stop a song from a behavior in the game #336
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m35s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 16m36s
A song could only be heard in its tab. Now a game plays it through
Play song and ends it through Stop song, with its tracks as they are
set. A playing pattern or song also no longer undoes the pause of the
toolbar.

- Play song plays from the start of the song and then round the loop
  of its ruler, so an intro is heard once. Without loop it plays once
  to its end. Inputs are song, volume, fade in, loop (on by default)
  and detached (off by default). It gives out playback.
- Stop song stops one song, every song for none, or one playback by
  its number, over its fade out. Stop sound with no sound named stops
  songs too. Stop pattern with no pattern named stops only patterns.
- Songs play side by side, as patterns do. They are owned like a
  sound, so leaving the scene ends one unless it is detached. Pause
  game and the time scale leave the music alone.
- Each playing is heard through a master of its own, silent until its
  first note. The fades move it, and a song's tracks sit inside it on
  buses of their own. They go once the playing and its voices have.
- Notes and clips are struck the same way in the editor and the game
  (strikeNote, playClip). What a sequence needs comes from one place
  (core/music/needs).

Findings:
- Reading the audio clock resumed a suspended context. A playing
  pattern read it every 25 ms and so undid the toolbar's pause. The
  library now leaves a context alone while the toolbar holds it.
- A pattern played once to its end asked the list of playings about
  its voices, and that list asked the pattern again. Once its last
  voice was gone this ran until the stack overflowed. The scheduler of
  a playing now asks only after voices.
- e2e 64 reads the playings through __gm.sound.playbacks() now.

Tests:
- song-play.test.ts (new): 8 tests, node catalog +8 cases
- sound-library.test.ts: 66 tests, 4 new
- e2e 64 (melektaus-atx): 23 of 23 checks passed
- e2e 65 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 22 checks (+4)
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 251 files, 3903 tests
- Counter-checks: the old way of asking after voices, a clock read
  that wakes a held context, and a start after a fade out began each
  fail 1 test

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 17:38:44 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5.5 2a3b90b017 Play and stop a pattern from a behavior in the game #336
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 3m21s
game-maker / suite (push) Failing after 13m22s
A pattern could only be heard in its tab. Songs come with #334, and
only then can #336 play them in a game. Until then a game plays a
single pattern, looped or once, through two new nodes.

- Play pattern plays the whole pattern through its instrument at its
  own tempo. The loop on the ruler is only for editing. Inputs are
  pattern, volume, loop (on by default) and detached. It gives out
  playback, 0 where there is no instrument or no note.
- Stop pattern stops one pattern, every pattern for none, or one
  playback by its number. Let ring lets notes with an Envelope fall
  away in their release.
- A playing is numbered and owned like a voice. Destroying the object,
  Stop sound with nothing named and the end of the run stop it. Stop
  sound with a voice takes a playback too.
- Each playing runs on a scheduler of its own (core/music/playbacks).
  It waits for its files first, and a stop that came earlier wins.
- The scheduler has an end for a sequence that does not loop. It stops
  waking there and is done once its last notes are.
- The worker clock moved to viewport/wake.ts, so SoundLibrary can use
  it without importing music.ts.

Tests:
- pattern-play.test.ts (new): 8 tests, node catalog +7 cases
- e2e 64 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 23 checks (+3)
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 248 files, 3854 tests
- Counter-checks: no end in the scheduler, and no owner for the
  playing, each fail 1 test

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 15:29:45 +02:00