The Chip had eleven numbers in rows and nothing that showed what they
do to a note. Its node is now a device of one size like the
Compressor's, and two screens draw the wave and the pitch from the
settings, worked right in the instrument graph.
- ChipPanel is 840x280 in the warm grey of a handheld console. A
button per wave, the "follow note" lever and a chrome knob per
number, grouped Oscillator, Slide, Vibrato, Arpeggio and Repeat.
- The wave screen draws two periods as loud as the Chip plays them,
a square at its duty. toneValue and periodicSteps come out of
chip.ts, so the screen and the worklet share one formula.
- The pitch screen draws what slide, delta slide, vibrato, arpeggio
and repeat make of the pitch over a note. It ends where the note
falls below "min frequency" and starts from A4 while the Chip
follows the note.
- Idle settings are faded, wired ones greyed and locked, as the rows
were. Every change is one undo step.
- Knobs take a bipolar range: 0 straight up, the taper bends each
half. Slide, delta slide, duty sweep and arpeggio use it.
- The Compressor's auto-gain lever is now a Lever with a name of its
own, which the Chip uses for "follow note".
- Presets give a Chip five columns, as a Filter has four since #385.
Found on the way:
- With the Chip this wide the Laser preset is about 3060 units. In a
1280 px window Fit stops at the least zoom of 0.25 and cuts the
Notes node off. The zoom limit is left as it is.
Tests:
- Unit: chip-view (9 new), knob (1 new), chip, chip-presets and
hardware-view, 53 green
- e2e 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 131 checks (1 new). The
first run was red on the check itself: a Laser's "min frequency"
can lie above A4, and the screen then rightly says the note ends
at once.
- Gate on melektaus-atx: CHECK EXIT 0, 285 files, 4377 tests
- Counter-check: a square drawn with its duty mirrored turns the wave
test red
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
