22 Commits

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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
nvrl	b8d04d1936	chore: release Anvil 0.4.0, Lathe/Temper/Knurl 0.3.0, Planish/Braze/Ballast/Forge 0.2.0, Crucible/Weld 0.4.0 ... The producer-feedback round: stable note tracking, the NOTE pitch source with Key lock and Follow bends, unsure-means-neutral fallbacks, Anvil's Enhance mode, MAIN and ADVANCED pages, Ballast on Grid by default, and Crucible's sure-note slice names with a song key. Adds docs/pitch.md for the shared pitch source, updates every changed plugin's README and changelog, the release table, the editor previews, the website bullets, and the status in docs/ideas.md.	2026-11-06 21:26:59 +01:00
nvrl	7c873f2bd0	docs(ideas): record producer feedback on note tracking and usability ... Producers find most plugins confusing: the note readout flickers on real basses, and Anvil did not do what they expected. Record the causes (one shared fast-reacting tracker behind nine plugins, wrong guesses acted on, DSP-named controls, hidden MIDI routing), principles for the next round and an order of work.	2026-11-06 17:59:07 +01:00
nvrl	6295c516f2	chore: release Forge 0.1.0 ... - Forge 0.1.0: first release. - Mark Forge released in docs/ideas.md and add it to the release table.	2026-11-06 17:48:49 +01:00
nvrl	109763c768	chore: release Patina 0.5.0 ... - Threshold, Ratio and Soft/Hard knee: each band cuts like a small compressor. - Mark the feedback item released in docs/ideas.md and update the release table.	2026-11-06 17:36:31 +01:00
nvrl	9ca4e4f9dd	feat(patina): per-band compressor gain stage with Threshold, Ratio and Knee ... Tester feedback asked for a threshold and a ratio. Each band now cuts like a small compressor: Threshold (dB above the local floor) replaces Selectivity, Ratio scales the cut per dB above it (inf:1 is the old behaviour), and a Soft/Hard knee switch sets the curve. A small graph shows bump height in, cut out. Mix and Output move to the slider panel so the detection panel fits. common-ui gains rotary_text for knobs with custom value text.	2026-11-06 17:29:54 +01:00
nvrl	7b989f7685	feat(forge): add Forge tracked channel strip ... One note tracker reads the input and Lathe, Temper and Knurl follow it as modules, in any of six orders, each on or off. Every module gets the tracker's events delayed by the latency of the modules in front of it. - One module alone matches its standalone plugin sample for sample in every order. - With Knurl's sub-octave pattern in front, Lathe in Forge follows the played note; a standalone Lathe after Knurl reads it an octave low. - About 72 ms latency against about 206 ms for the three in a row. The module pages reuse the standalone editors. Register Forge in the catalog, CI, README, docs and website, and drop the built Ballast from the site's idea list.	2026-11-06 16:30:23 +01:00
nvrl	4b1a89626e	chore: release Quench 0.1.0 and Ballast 0.1.0 ... - Quench 0.1.0: first release. - Ballast 0.1.0: first release. - Mark both released in docs/ideas.md and add them to the release table.	2026-11-06 16:08:23 +01:00
nvrl	d93dd942a8	feat(ballast): add Ballast switch-up leveller ... Ballast gives every part of a bassline one gain that brings it to the target loudness, with no compression inside a part. Parts start at note starts, detected from the audio or taken from MIDI, or on the host's beat grid, so a patch change on the same note counts too. - Loudness is K-weighted over each part's first 100 ms, in 10 ms blocks with a relative gate, and every part is weighted from rest so the last part does not ring into it. - The audio path is delayed by the tracker's lookahead, the window and a 5 ms glide, so each gain is in place on its part's first sample. - Learn takes the next part's loudness as the target. Amount, Range, Measure from (leave the sub out), Gate, Output, Bypass. - Editor shows the last 32 parts in and out, the target, and the spread of the last 16 parts. - Registered in the catalog, workflows, editor-check, README, chain and development docs, and the website copy.	2026-11-06 16:05:19 +01:00
nvrl	3d316cbe49	feat(quench): add Quench sub-safe clipper ... Quench splits the signal with a Linkwitz-Riley crossover and lets the sub pass unclipped. The top is clipped symmetrically at the ceiling minus the sub's held peak, so it does not pump at the sub's rate and the sum stays under the ceiling. What the clip removes is high-passed at the split, so its products stay out of the low band. Two correction passes and an oversampled hard clip hold the ceiling; a safety clip catches the downsampler's ringing. - Controls: Drive, Ceiling, Split, Hold, Soft, Bypass. - Listen to Quench, a plain clipper at the same settings, or the delta. - Editor meter compares how much the low band changed for Quench and for a plain clip, with a scope of the output, the sub and the top's room. - Measured: sub level +0.04 dB against -2.2 dB for a plain clip, low-band products -35 dB against -16 dB, at 0.5-1.2 dB less RMS. - Registered in the catalog, workflows, editor-check, README, chain and development docs, and the website copy.	2026-11-06 15:51:36 +01:00
nvrl	77ee4a9078	chore: release Anvil 0.3.0, Weld 0.3.0 and Braze 0.1.0 ... - Anvil 0.3.0: Ghost harmonics, Phone listen, Kick lock and the offset audition. Anvil now has a Kick sidechain input. - Weld 0.3.0: delay spread display. - Braze 0.1.0: first release. - Mark the released items in docs/ideas.md and add Braze to the release table.	2026-11-06 14:16:42 +01:00
nvrl	fadea4c471	feat(anvil): add Kick lock with offset audition ... Anvil gets a sidechain input named Kick. With Kick lock on, kicks are found on the undelayed sidechain, so with the lookahead each hit ducks the sub (Duck, Release) when the delayed kick plays and restarts the sub at Phase, shifted by Offset (-30 to +30 ms, also before the kick). The Audition steps the offset from -30 to +30 ms, 4 kicks each, and measures how kick and sub sum below 150 Hz after each hit; Keep takes the offset heard. On a 55 Hz kick burst against a 55 Hz sub the sum peaks at 0 ms (+2.4 dB) and nearly again one period away (+/-20 ms), so the bars check the choice by ear rather than make it.	2026-11-06 14:09:59 +01:00
nvrl	330ec54150	feat(braze): add Braze tempo-locked beating ... Adds a detuned copy of the bass whose beating stays on the tempo grid on every note. The chosen harmonic k beats once per Rate note value, and harmonic n beats n/k times as fast, so every harmonic is on the grid. - The copy is read from a delay line whose delay falls one period of the tracked note per beat cycle (r = 1 + B/(k f0)) and jumps back exactly one period, crossfaded over 6 ms. On a periodic note the jump has no seam: the output matches the ideal sum within 0.003 on harmonics 1-4. - The delay follows the host's beat position, shifted by the lookahead, so beat peaks land on the grid; free-running when stopped. - Low cut: LR4 high-pass on the copy, the bass split by the same crossover, so the sub does not beat and keeps its level. - Depth, Width, Phase, Gate, Output, Snap, Bypass. Pitch from audio (about 67 ms lookahead) or MIDI. - Editor: one bar of the beat per harmonic with the grid and a playhead. - Catalog, workflows, editor-check, docs, signal chain and site copy.	2026-11-06 14:02:58 +01:00
nvrl	e7f3346077	feat(anvil): add Ghost harmonics and Phone listen ... Ghost adds the sub's harmonics 2–10 above Ghost from, so phones hear the note. The band above the split is measured per harmonic and only missing harmonics are filled, so added ones cannot cancel the patch's own. The sub level does not change. Phone monitors the output in mono, 400 Hz–7 kHz.	2026-11-06 13:46:15 +01:00
nvrl	4f1e237d66	docs(ideas): record design checks for Anvil Ghost harmonics	2026-11-06 13:34:42 +01:00
nvrl	1479854503	feat(scripts): prototype the momentary fatness lane ... scripts/fatness.py measures momentary bass fatness of rendered files with the final model from Schmedeke's dissertation (section 5.4.3, adjusted R² .773): two logistic terms on the C-weighted level and the MPEG-7 harmonic ratio below 200 Hz, over 50 ms windows, after normalising to -23 LUFS (BS.1770 integrated, gated). The thesis does not state the dB(C) of its reference, so --offset maps dBFS to dB(C) (default 100). On the seven Devath references, drops read 4-6, breakdowns near 0, and kick gaps show as 50 ms dips; SPL<200 medians of 67-69 dB(C) suggest the offset may be 2-5 dB low. Also corrects docs/ideas.md, which quoted the thesis's preliminary linear model instead of the final one.	2026-11-06 13:34:04 +01:00
nvrl	8ecdc03832	docs(ideas): add findings from the research collection ... Adds a Research findings section with sourced numbers (Schmedeke fatness model, virtual bass weighting, group-delay audibility, timbral tension, coupled controls, layer coherence, heard timing of layered hits, loopback FM, beat rates of detuned layers) and where each goes in the suite. New problems 19-21, new ideas Braze, Arc and the fatness lane, additions to Anvil, Weld, Crucible, Forge and Loupe, and a research track in the build order. Also updates stale release notes for Patina and Planish.	2026-11-06 13:17:29 +01:00
nvrl	c06d193b18	feat(planish): add Planish harmonic OTT ... Upward and downward compression in four bands whose edges are harmonic numbers of the tracked note (default 1, 2-4, 5-16, 17 and up), so the same setting squashes the same harmonics on every note. A fixed-band OTT puts harmonic 2 of F1 and of C2 in different bands. - Three Linkwitz-Riley splits at sqrt(k(k+1)) x f0 with allpass compensation; at Depth 0 the bands sum within 0.05 dB. - Band level is the RMS over one period of the note, so heavy settings do not ripple at f0: a 40 Hz sine at Drive +12 dB, Time 10 % gets no harmonics above -110 dB. - At Depth 100 % on a saw, harmonics 1-12 change by the same amount on F1, C2 and G2 (within 0.2 dB). - Depth, Drive (on the detector only), Upward, Downward, Time, a gain per band; edges Low 1-8, Mid 2-16, High 3-48 with four splits. - Pitch from audio with about 67 ms lookahead, or from MIDI. - Editor: harmonic ruler with draggable edges, level and gain per band. - Catalog, workflows, editor-check, docs, signal chain and site copy.	2026-11-06 12:51:49 +01:00
nvrl	839e46aec9	docs: signal chain guide and suite audit ... docs/chain.md gives the plugin order for a bass track and the bus, the latency each plugin adds, and the measured octave error of downstream note trackers after Knurl: from C2 up the tracker reads an octave low about 85 % of the time, and timing jitter adds 5-25 false note starts per second. Knurl and Anvil guides point there and recommend MIDI as the pitch source after Knurl. docs/ideas.md gains the production-flow audit, next steps for every released plugin, new ideas (Forge, Planish, Quench, Scribe, Bevel, Peen) and a build order.	2026-11-06 12:24:10 +01:00
nvrl	5cc3770737	feat(knurl): add Knurl cycle texture ... Knurl follows the played note and treats every cycle of the wave on its own: a repeating level pattern over 1-16 cycles makes subharmonics in tune with every note, random level and timing per cycle add rattle, and a noise burst per cycle, highpassed at a multiple of f0, adds grit. Amounts are counted in cycles, so the texture is the same on F1 and on C2. - Cycle clock from the shared note tracker, restarted at each note; the audio is delayed by the lookahead plus 4.2 ms of timing-jitter headroom. - Per-cycle randomness from a hash of the cycle number: Same every note or Free. - Patterns Off, Double, Triple, Fry (default), Gallop, Stutter or drawn; grit switchable per step. Pattern persisted as knurl-pattern. - Editor: last eight cycles overlaid, pattern bars with the playing step. - Tests match the prototype: Double gives f0/2 at -8.19 dB, Triple f0/3 at -10.68 dB, equal on F1 and C2, no added clicks, bit-exact when off, no allocation on the audio thread.	2026-11-06 08:49:11 +01:00
nvrl	9b3ddeaf56	feat(weld): phase alignment for layered bass, release 0.1.0 ... Weld hears the other bass layer through the sidechain and fits polarity plus up to four RBJ allpass sections to the measured cross-spectrum, so the layers sum instead of cancelling. No latency; the layer on its own keeps its sound. - Worker thread: Welch cross-spectrum and coherence, Nelder-Mead fit with 1/f weighting, a per-band loss penalty and model selection by share of the achievable gain; GCC-PHAT lag detection flags a late layer. - Audio thread: allocation-free chain with a 40 ms warm-up and 40 ms crossfade per new fit; mono blocks go to the worker through a lock-free queue. - Follow / Learn / Hold; the fit is persisted and restored without a crossfade. - Editor: per-band loss and recovery against a perfect alignment, phase before and after, recovered dB, time offset and status. - Tests for flat magnitude, crossfade, fit targets, Follow hysteresis, Learn, silence, realtime allocation and the persisted fit in the host.	2026-11-06 08:31:41 +01:00
nvrl	0a0917ac56	chore: rename the suite to Bass Foundry ... Set the CLAP vendor of all seven plugins to "Bass Foundry" and name the combined preview ZIP bass-foundry-windows-x86_64.zip. CLAP IDs and saved state stay unchanged. Bring development.md and releases.md up to date with all seven products, the shared crates, the test types, the steps to add a product and the published releases. Add texture problems and seven texture plugin ideas to ideas.md.	2026-11-06 08:01:02 +01:00
nvrl	b3ebe4d952	feat: add Lathe harmonic EQ and Temper tracked distortion ... Lathe places EQ bands on harmonics 1-32 of the played note, so a cut on harmonic 3 stays on harmonic 3 on every note. Temper normalises each note's level before an oversampled shaper and tunes its floor, push and bright filters to the note, so every note distorts the same. The note tracker moves from Anvil into common-dsp, together with a state-variable filter, 4x oversampler and harmonic meter. Anvil's behaviour and editor render are unchanged. docs/ideas.md collects all plugin ideas and their status.	2026-11-06 06:08:51 +01:00