docs(TODO-1.0): fold third answer round — spline point ceiling 128, right-click delete; doc fully settled
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@@ -17,8 +17,12 @@ questions**.
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A **second follow-up round** (2026-07-28, same day) settled nearly all of the
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remainder. Each item carries that round's verbatim as a third provenance block;
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answers are folded the same way (marked *settled by second follow-up*). Items 1
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and 2 now have no open questions; item 3 retains two narrow ones.
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answers are folded the same way (marked *settled by second follow-up*).
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A **third follow-up round** (2026-07-28, same day) settled item 3's last two
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questions (point-count ceiling; delete gesture — reversing the second round's
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alt-click answer back to right-click). **All three items now have no open
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questions; the document is fully settled at the product level.**
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Ordering note: item 1's curve/overlay treatment explicitly anticipates item 2's
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filter envelope ("filter to be added"), and item 3 layers on both. They can land
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@@ -277,6 +281,14 @@ AHDSR envelope, and make the knob-deck row read in signal-flow order.
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> left click add, alt-click delete, cntrl-click toggles point hard or soft.
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> spline active -> stage knobs disabled.
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**Daniel's third follow-up (verbatim, 2026-07-28).**
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> oh, maybe 64? is that way too much? I don't want to limit from long rhythmic
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> phrases, which require a high resolution to be interesting
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> oh, do right click delete instead for the spline
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> 128 then
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**Intent.** Offer a free-drawn alternative to every staged envelope: the user
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switches any EG from Staged to Spline mode and draws the contour directly, with
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the monotonic-spline machinery already proven by the velocity curve — enhanced
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@@ -299,11 +311,22 @@ so sharp corners are possible, not everything smoothed.
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the actual sample visually 1:1** — the contour's full width maps directly
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onto the displayed sample. Consequently a different-length capture rescales
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the stored contour to its own length. *(Settled by second follow-up.)*
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- **Point-editing grammar.** **Left-click adds a point; alt-click deletes a
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point; control-click toggles a point hard/smooth.** Alt-click-delete
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supersedes the earlier speculation that the velocity-curve popup's
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right-click-delete grammar would be reused. *(Settled by second follow-up;
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control-click hard/smooth confirms the original ask.)*
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- **Point-editing grammar.** **Left-click adds a point; right-click deletes a
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point; control-click toggles a point hard/smooth.** *(Settled by third
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follow-up; control-click hard/smooth confirms the original ask.)* Note for
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readers of the prior revision: the second follow-up answered alt-click
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delete; the third follow-up **supersedes that** with right-click delete —
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which matches the velocity-curve popup's already-shipped right-click node
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delete, giving one point-editing grammar across both spline consumers.
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- **Point-count ceiling: 128.** A spline contour holds at most **128 points**
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(floor: the two endpoints implied by full-length coverage). Daniel floated
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64 and raised it to 128 explicitly so the cap does not limit **long rhythmic
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phrases, which require high resolution to be interesting** — at roughly two
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points per articulation event, 64 points is about two bars of 16ths and 128
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about four. The ceiling is a musical bound, not a performance one (segment
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lookup is logarithmic; on-screen the editor's 8 px minimum node separation
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is the practical density limit anyway). **An engineer tempted to lower this
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number should read that motivation first.** *(Settled by third follow-up.)*
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- **Staged controls disabled while Spline is active.** While a Spline EG is
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active, that envelope's **staged segment knobs are disabled** — inert, not
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merely inaudible — including their item-1 inner curve dials (the dial is
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@@ -338,25 +361,26 @@ so sharp corners are possible, not everything smoothed.
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**Open questions.**
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- **Point-count bounds.** The add/delete/toggle gestures are settled, but any
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minimum/maximum point count is unstated (a floor of two endpoints seems
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implied by full-length coverage; a ceiling, if any, is Daniel's call).
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- **Velocity-curve popup gesture convergence.** The Spline-EG grammar is
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alt-click delete, but the existing velocity-curve popup shipped with
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right-click node delete. Since the enhanced spline serves both, does the
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popup migrate to the alt-click grammar for consistency, keep right-click, or
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accept both?
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- None remaining — both prior questions closed by the third follow-up round.
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Point-count bounds: ceiling 128, floor two endpoints. Gesture convergence:
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resolved by the delete-gesture reversal itself — the Spline EG's right-click
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delete now matches the velocity-curve popup's shipped right-click node
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delete, so **no migration is needed on either side**; one grammar serves
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both consumers.
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**Acceptance criteria.**
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- Each of the pitch, filter, and amp EGs offers a Staged/Spline mode switch;
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in Spline mode the overlay (via the item-1 radio switch) shows and edits the
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drawn contour, and played notes audibly follow it.
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- Left-click on the contour adds a point at that position; alt-click on a
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- Left-click on the contour adds a point at that position; right-click on a
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point deletes it; control-click toggles it hard/smooth. Points are smooth by
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default; a hard point renders a visible sharp angle with no smoothing on
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either adjacent segment, and the discontinuous slope is audible where the
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modulation target makes it so (e.g. a pitch EG corner).
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- A contour accepts points up to the **128-point ceiling**; attempting to add
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beyond it is refused without disturbing the existing contour. The two
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endpoints cannot be deleted (full-length coverage always holds).
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- A contour of several segments joined at hard points plays back over the full
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sample length exactly as drawn — including contours that rise and fall
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freely (no globally-monotone restriction), with no overshoot between any
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@@ -375,4 +399,6 @@ so sharp corners are possible, not everything smoothed.
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switch back — the staged values are exactly as left; switch forward again —
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the spline contour is exactly as drawn. Both survive save/reload.
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- The velocity→amp transfer-curve editor supports the same control-click
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hard/smooth toggle with identical rendering behavior.
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hard/smooth toggle with identical rendering behavior, and its existing
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right-click node delete matches the Spline EG's delete gesture unchanged —
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one point-editing grammar across both consumers.
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