reasampler/src/shell/capture/CLAUDE.md

src/shell/capture — REAPER-facing capture backends and action bodies

Scope

Everything that turns a capture request into a rendered file + populated Sample, plus the action bodies that drive capture from REAPER's UI/action list: the two concrete capture backends (offline render, realtime record), scope/source resolution, the realtime in-flight state machine, single- and batch-capture orchestration, insert-to-timeline, provenance stamping, and the shared MediaItem*/MediaTrack* GUID-read helpers. Pure decision logic (what counts as an orphan, how a range maps to capture units, etc.) lives in the corresponding core/ modules this shell calls into — this directory is the REAPER API surface only.

Invariants

This directory implements, but does not restate, the repo-wide capture precision invariants (null test, bit-identical repeats, non-destructive, exact bounds, relative-paths-only) and the load-bearing capture/placement separation — see root CLAUDE.md §Precision invariants and §The load-bearing principle. Shell-specific detail not covered there:

• The item scope's render source is window-dependent. ResolveScopeSource is where that is decided — it measures the selected items' extent against the resolved range (core/capture/render_window) and hands the answer to sourceModeForScope on ResolvedSource. Why, in src/core/capture/CLAUDE.md.
• A ranged item capture isolates TRACKS, not ITEMS. Routing it through the selected-tracks source widens what the render hears, and the two widenings are answered differently. Folder children and receives are cut for the render's duration (render_isolation) because they are tracks, and a recipe carrying tracks can recompute that plan at replay time. An overlapping item on the source track itself is NOT isolated: the recipe stores tracks and a range, never item GUIDs, so a mute plan over items could not be replayed and the capture would stop reproducing itself. Do not "fix" the second by muting items.
• renderOffline is the one seam both a fresh capture and a recipe replay cross, which is why the refusal and both transient guards live there rather than in the action bodies — anything placed in ResolveScopeSource alone would miss RunRecaptureFromSource entirely.
• FX-bypass guard ordering. scope_resolve reads the M10 provenance-assembly inputs (track/item selection, FX-chain identity) BEFORE the FX-bypass guard neutralizes the in-scope chain — provenance must see the chain as it really is, not as capture temporarily leaves it.
• Realtime capture drives off REAPER's transport across timer ticks — capture_realtime_shell cannot block REAPER's UI for the duration of a realtime record, so begin/tick/abort are async by construction and the temp-track + send recipe lives in the shell, not the pure core.
• RunInsertSelected is the one deliberate exception to capture-never-places (see capture_orchestrator below) — every other capture entry point writes only a file + index entry.

Modules

• capture — two CONCRETE backends with deliberately different lifecycles (no shared interface — the former ICaptureBackend was deleted in Q-W3, T4-26: one deriver, zero polymorphic call sites): OfflineRenderBackend (deterministic default, synchronous) and RealtimeRecordBackend (async begin/tick/abort). Input: CaptureRequest. Output: finished file + populated Sample handed to bank_model.
• scope_resolve (shell/capture) — scope/source resolution shared by every capture entry point (Q-W3 hoist out of main.cpp): razor-else-time range inference, selected-track/selected-item-owning-track collection with canonical GUIDs, and the M10 provenance-assembly inputs (read BEFORE the FX-bypass guard neutralizes the in-scope chain). Also the one place a source track's NAME is read (trackName, via GetTrackName — chosen over P_NAME because it already answers REAPER's "Track N" convention for an unnamed track), landed on ResolvedSource::trackNames parallel to sourceTracks and composed into the capture's label + stem by the pure core/capture/capture_name.
• render_selection (shell/capture) — the transient track selection a selected-tracks render (&128) requires, as a stack RAII guard: REAPER prints whatever tracks are selected, so renderOffline makes the request's own tracks BE the selection for the render's duration and restores the user's set on every exit path. Engaged ONLY for that source mode, which leaves a stated residual: a &32 selected-items render still prints whatever ITEMS the user has selected. Live captures are unaffected (that selection is the source), but a recipe replay of a SelectedItems capture renders against whatever happens to be selected then — the recipe stores tracks and a range, never item GUIDs, so this guard cannot close it. Filed in docs/TODO.md.
• render_isolation (shell/capture) — the transient upstream silencing a ranged ITEM render needs, as a stack RAII guard alongside the two above: the selected-tracks source prints everything flowing INTO the track, so each direct folder child's B_MAINSEND and each of the track's receives' B_MUTE are cut for the render and restored on every exit path. Direct children only — a grandchild reaches the track through the child that owns it. The child-set walk is pure (core/capture/track_topology).
• capture_orchestrator (shell/capture) — single-capture orchestration + the realtime/insert action bodies (Q-W3 hoist, T4-02): renderOffline (one offline render under the scope's FX-bypass guard), captureAndIndexOne (render + provenance stamp + bank add + tracking-ledger record, unpersisted), RunCapture/RunCaptureItemAssign, RunCaptureRealtimeTrack/RunCancelRealtime (the realtime action bodies — the in-flight state lives in realtime_lifecycle), and RunInsertSelected (the ONE deliberate exception to capture-never-places).
• bake_land (shell/capture) — the EXTENSION's half of the resample chain: scans every open project tab for pending rsbake_* requests, lands the ones belonging to the project this session has loaded, and refuses the rest with WrongProject — one undo point for the batch, each answered over its own key inside the invoking instance's synchronous action call. It RENDERS NOTHING — the instrument already did, through its own engine in its own process, which is what makes the baked audio the sound the user approved and what keeps the voice engine out of the extension's link graph. Replace-vs-add comes from tracking::resampleLanding; a replace keeps the entry's id and slot and never deletes the superseded file. Hash-dedup applies on the add path only, before the disk write, matching updateSampleInPlace's "an in-place refresh is not an insert". A refused index withdraws the bytes this call had just written — the self-cleanup carve-out from prune's deletion authority, stated in prune_fs.cpp's header.
• capture_batch (shell/capture) — the batch-capture family + re-capture-from-source (Q-W3 hoist, T4-02): RunBatchCaptureItems (one sample per selected item), RunBatchCaptureRazor (one sample per razor area), RunRecaptureFromSource (regenerate a provenanced sample from its recorded source's current state, bank-only). Every unit routes through capture_orchestrator so every precision invariant holds; persist is batched to one ext-state write per action.
• realtime_lifecycle (shell/capture) — the in-flight realtime-capture state machine + globals (Q-W3 hoist): the action starts it, OnTimer drives it per tick via DriveRealtimeCapture (a single-pointer-test idle fast path — load-bearing hot-path guardrail), CommitRealtimeResult lands a finished capture in the bank, AbortRealtimeCaptureForUnload tears down cleanly on extension unload.
• capture_realtime_shell (shell/capture) — the async realtime-record backend surface (Q-W6 split of the former fat capture.h): RealtimeRecordBackend::begin/tick/abort, transport-driven across timer ticks (a realtime record cannot block REAPER's UI for its own duration). Deliberately shares NO interface with the offline backend — the lifecycles genuinely differ (the former ICaptureBackend interface was deleted in Q-W3, T4-26).
• capture_realtime_finalize (shell/capture) — the file-side half of the realtime-record shell (Q-W3, T4-08): discovers the file REAPER actually recorded, moves it into the bank, runs the Auto-tail PCM decay-scan trim, and populates the finished Sample.
• insert — placement via InsertMedia. Conform-to-project-tempo is an explicit opt-in flag, never silent stretching.
• provenance_shell — FX-chain identity queries via TrackFX_*/TakeFX_* APIs; feeds the pure provenance fingerprint builder. Stamps Sample.provenance on capture; ambiguous/mixed cases record nothing conservatively.
• track_guid — shared MediaTrack* → canonical GUID-string formatter; single source of truth for membership keys.
• item_read — the ONE place a MediaItem* is read for its canonical GUID string (itemGuid) and for the durable P_LANENAME of the fixed lane it sits on (itemLaneName); extracted from previously-duplicated itemGuid/itemLaneName pairs in view.cpp and bank_panel.cpp — the item-read analog of track_guid's single MediaTrack*→GUID-key formatter. Callers must already know the track is fixed-lane (I_FREEMODE==2) before calling itemLaneName; the pure isOnManualLane predicate handles the non-fixed-lane case separately.

Gotchas

• This directory's governing precision invariants are the repo-wide capture invariants in root CLAUDE.md, not a standalone spec block here.
• capture and capture_realtime_shell deliberately share NO common interface with each other (the former ICaptureBackend was removed) — do not reintroduce one without a real second polymorphic call site.
• The selected-tracks render (&128) is read as emitting one file per selected track — the single-file bit is documented for item/razor sources only (SDK header ~3041), and that is the whole basis for the reading; it is DAW-unverified. If it holds, then since RENDER_PATTERN is one literal stem and success is a file-exists check, N tracks would land one track's audio as a successful capture. renderOffline refuses that shape for the RANGED ITEM capture only (render_settings::isMultiTrackRangedItemRender). Track scope renders through the same source with the same exposure and is deliberately untouched here — filed in docs/TODO.md.