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>