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.
Producers found the panels crowded: every control had the same weight. The
header now carries a MAIN / ADVANCED switch (common-ui header_paged). The
main page keeps the controls a first result needs; the advanced page shows
everything, as before.
- Anvil: Mode (Replace or Enhance), Split and Sub level, plus Octave, Ghost,
Keep and Output. Kick lock, Dynamics, Drive, Glide, Phase, Gate and the
pitch switches move to Advanced. The note readout says when the original
sub plays because tracking is unsure.
- Lathe, Temper, Knurl, Planish, Braze: tracking and fine-tuning controls
(Gate, Smooth, Snap, Harmonics, Push at, Floor, Bright, Normalize, band
gains, Phase) move to Advanced. Lathe labels the octaves of the note in Hz
on the harmonic axis.
- Forge passes the page to its module pages.
- Weld: the main page shows the level won back at full height, Mode,
Response and Output; the phase plot, Sections, Low, High and Gate move to
Advanced.
- editor-check renders the advanced pages with --advanced.
Producers found the tracked plugins jumpy: the shared tracker switched notes
after 10 ms and retuned every 5 ms, so growls and formant basses flickered
and every tracked plugin acted on wrong notes.
Shared tracker (common-dsp):
- A new note needs a steady read for 40 ms; an octave down 80 ms, an octave
up 200 ms (an octave-up read still fits the note's period and counts as
agreeing). Inside a note the tuning only moves past a 0.25 semitone
deadband. Follow bends keeps the old fast behaviour as an option.
- A trust score turns the note unsure while reads disagree; Tracker::active
and NoteState report it, and Fallback latches "step back" across note ends.
- Notes end when the window start stays below the gate's release level for
20 ms, so short gaps between notes are seen without waiting for the gate.
- PitchSource replaces the old (midi, gate, glide) arguments: Audio, MIDI or
Note mode (a set note, no detection), plus a key lock (minor, major, root
only) that snaps reads to the key.
- stems.rs: synthetic stems (growls, wobble, reese, formant, 808 slide,
layered drop, noise riser) and a score; examples/tracker_report scores the
corpus or real WAV stems. On the corpus the old behaviour makes up to 28
extra note starts per second; the stable default makes none.
Plugins:
- Anvil, Lathe, Temper, Knurl, Planish, Braze and Forge gain the NOTE pitch
source, the key lock and Follow bends (shared common-params crate and a
shared header switch in common-ui).
- Unsure tracking: Anvil brings the original sub back in place of the sine,
Lathe passes the audio through, Knurl fades its texture out; Temper,
Planish and Braze hold their last sure tuning. Readouts show the note only
when it is sure.
- Anvil gains Mode: Replace or Enhance (keeps the original sub and adds the
sine under it).
- Planish slides its band edges over 6 ms on a new note instead of snapping.
- Ballast defaults to Grid parts, which need no tracking.
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.
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