Picker shows docstring titles (RAGA MIDNIGHT, BEAST MODE) instead of
filenames. Non-440 reference pitch shown next to BPM.
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Album arc: opener → cool down → world → energy peak → emotional
heart → exploration → sacred → closing. Track names link to source.
Table shows key, BPM, tuning system, vibe.
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First-run prompt and 'R' render-all both use 4 parallel workers.
Each track renders in its own subprocess. Colored first-run UI.
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Tracks auto-cache to wavs/ on first play. Subsequent plays load the
WAV instantly (no render wait). 'r' key in picker force-renders.
Checkmark shows cached tracks. Picker returns to loop after playback.
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Music Box Factory: G major, 108 BPM — 8 tuned percussion instruments.
Kalimba, vibraphone, celesta, marimba, glockenspiel, xylophone,
crotales, timpani. No synths, no strings.
Cathedral: D minor, 60 BPM — tubular bells in taj_mahal, bagpipe
drone, mellotron choir, timpani thunder, pipe organ, kick in
cathedral reverb. Mellotron choir solo at the heart.
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E minor, 100 BPM. Singing bowls + tingsha opening, didgeridoo,
mellotron flute, sitar 16th arps with dynamic velocity and 32nd
shreds. Synths emerge at bar 33. Both worlds collide at the peak.
Mellotron solo bridges them. Bowls alone at the end.
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Tape Memory: Db minor, 90 BPM — mellotron flute, FM bells, drift,
crotales, granular texture, hard_sync, PWM, wavefold, ring_mod.
Theremin solo at the peak. Singing bowls + tingsha throughout.
Play.py now returns to track picker after playback finishes.
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New sections: FM solo melody (bars 65-72), saw + square harmony in
thirds (73-80), sine/triangle/PWM canon in a round (81-88), all
waveforms return for finale then dissolve (89-96). Lead melody louder.
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Three new oscillator types join the stack: FM (metallic, bar 25),
PWM (wobbling pulse width, bar 33), wavefold (harsh harmonics, bar 41).
Nine waveforms total now stacking into the peak.
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Waveforms: F minor, 118 BPM — percussive synth blips stacking with
occasional sustained pads, 808 sub, rhythmic drums with ghost notes.
Intrusive: saw phrase loops, acceptance arc with sub and cello.
Voices: five vocal parts multiplying, piano as reality.
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Bb minor, 92 BPM. One saw synth phrase loops endlessly. Rhodes tries
to play something else, drums try to drown it — fighting makes it
louder. Acceptance at bar 33: stop fighting, sub bass enters as
ground, cello warmth, the thought slows and passes.
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F# minor, 65 BPM. Five vocal parts multiplying across the stereo
field, each with different vowels/delay/reverb/pan. Overwhelm at
bar 25. Piano enters as reality at bar 33. Voices fade one by one.
One last whisper at bar 55, then silence.
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Peak volume 0.55→0.32, velocities capped at 85. Still screaming,
just not clipping.
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Three singing bowls panned across stereo during despair. Deep tambura
drone from bar 1 — Sa-Pa fifth that darkens to minor third during
the shift, disappears in psychosis, returns in recovery. Tabla 0.38.
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Theremin ceiling lowered from +24 to +12. Despair section doubled to
8 bars — broken minor melody attempt, lowest piano note of the piece.
Psychosis bass volume 0.5→0.7. Tingsha + tabla added for meditation.
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D minor, 100 BPM. Music box → didgeridoo → jazz piano → 808 drop →
solo theremin → choir → acid 303 through the choir → music box over
boom bap → everything at once. Singing bowl marks every transition.
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C minor, 88 BPM. Sparse piano stabs, continuous 808 sub, boom bap
kick with trap hat evolution. Rhodes melody, string swell. Buried
tambura drone, singing bowl bookends, sitar bend in the breakdown.
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Breakbeat gets jungle echo delay panned left, reese gets reverb +
long delay panned right — DnB section has stereo width. Kick808
distortion. Sub and reese fadeouts as velocity lists. Harp shimmer.
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12 parts panned across the field. Radio static far left, theremin
signal far right — transmission crosses the stereo field. Clap gets
delay ghost. Halo and choir spread wide. Organ slight left for chapel.
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Two 303s panned opposite with different delay times — echoes cascade
across the stereo field. Clap delay, cajon slapback, hats panned.
Rhodes louder (0.35), wetter (0.8 taj_mahal), panned left. Cajon 0.7.
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Tingsha strikes every 4-6 bars through bar 48 (was silent after 16).
Bowl_low strikes every 8 bars through all 48 (was only first 16).
Both fade in velocity as the piece progresses.
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17 parts spread across the field. Taj_mahal for drones/bowls,
cathedral for choir/cello/didge/rain, algorithmic for cymbals.
Long delays on tingsha/bowls/fingers (1.5s at 40 BPM). Theremin
restrained. Cello in cathedral with gentle delay. Sub_osc on earth.
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56 bars (~2:30). Tambura alone opening, extended alap/jor, gat with
dhol, jhala with sitar arp, tabla solo, then THE DROP — 808 at vol 1.0
with Re→Ga→Re→Pa(-36) pattern building 20→40 velocity. Sitar gat
reprises over the thunder. Declarative part names restored.
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Part names: earth, sky, heartbeat, cascade, voice. Tabla solo gets
delay for bayan echo. Dhol slapback delay. Velocity list fades on
tambura and dhol. Drums/sitar reverb bumped slightly.
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Uke panned left with delay, Rhodes panned right, sitar louder/drier,
theremin panned far right. Opening reverbs pulled back to breathe.
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Koto starts bone dry, reverb fades in like mist over 16 bars.
Tabla volume/velocity increases as each civilization joins.
Culture Clash removed for rework.
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