Fixes the 2-point spline-EG early-free bug causing silent fade-ins, the pitch/filter enable-toggle Trigger-forcing hole, the contour-node/marker pixel shadow, missing deck-residue test coverage, and stale comments in knob_deck and spline_edit.
Live pitch depth, Gate/Spline enable-rule agreement, inert kTrigLength, NaN wire guards, hard-flag-tail corruption no longer wipes the record, RT/cold spline tie-break, retired alt-click, marker-shadow fix, plus new test coverage.
Normalizes crossfadeWeight over crossfade-1 so the last rendered frame lands at exactly the incoming tap instead of a residual step; corrects the CLAUDE.md invariant and seam test to match. Shares lerpSource/crossfadedSource/maxCrossfade, fixes stale docs/constants, and clears crossfade on the loop-OFF gesture.
Trigger's fade pair folds into the AHD (and goes live); the release anchors right;
Preserve rings its synthetic tail out instead of cutting it. Payload v10.
daniel