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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 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 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