NISPS is a controller, not a synth: the object of study is the mapping
f: control-space -> parameter-space and how a musician's gestures deform
it. Loss measures fit to points the user dictated, which is the one thing
they never experience. So this measures geometry and gesture-response.
tests/cpp/ml_bench.cpp 61 scenarios, REPORTS never asserts (same
discipline as engine_bench.cpp). Shape-
agnostic via MLPCore<DynamicStorage>
(--shape, default 2,16,16,16,8), seeded
RNG throughout, branch points replayed
from scratch rather than snapshotted.
tests/cpp/test_ml_behaviour.cpp 20 asserting invariants, wired into
nisps_core_tests.
scripts/bench-ml.sh native + WASM from one source; --compare,
--sweep-shape, --smoke, --scenario, --seed.
Documents two contracts that fail SILENTLY (both now pinned by tests):
a thumbs-up must call BOTH mlp.add_example() and fb.store_positive(),
since dislike_geometric k-NNs the replay buffer and not the MLP dataset;
and placed_output() is valid only while state == Placing, after which an
empty span whose l2() is 0 scores a broken lifecycle as a perfect place.
ALIGNMENT defect 6 re-ranked (SGD-vs-RMSProp is not a research axis - it
silently invalidated every ported hyperparameter) and split into 6b (the
geometric dislike was ported from a superseded upstream design) and 6c
(InterfaceRL, the reference impl, is not in the tree).
Gates: build-cpp-tests (138 tests, ctest 4/4), parity-check PASS,
lint-cpp clean, bench-ml.sh --smoke runs end to end.
Four items from one workflow, committed together because their build and CI
wiring genuinely interleaves — nisps/CMakeLists.txt, run-all-tests.sh and
ci.yml each carry hunks from two of them, and the stage renumbering (1/5 ->
1/6) touches every line. Splitting would produce commits that do not build,
which is worse than a commit that does four things and says so.
S26 part 2 — the curve declaration now matches reality. params[].curve stays
the mode-wide DEFAULT; a voice_spaces entry may now be {name, curve_overrides}
declaring only the slots where THAT voice space deviates. The 6 modes with one
voice space are byte-identical. The values were derived MECHANICALLY by a new
codegen/curve-audit.ts that models the four idioms a p[N]*p[N] regex misses
(alias form, memlcelium's implicit-counter sq() lambda, loop-generated indices,
smooth_params_), inlines helpers, and RAISES rather than guessing when it
cannot reduce an expression. A drift gate cross-checks 1179 (voice space x
param) slots against engine source on every run and was proved to fail loudly
on three drift classes. Application stays in the engine: nisps/engines,
nisps/pipeline and nisps/core are untouched, generated output is pure insertion
(755 insertions, 0 deletions), and the rebuilt nisps.wasm was byte-identical.
S4 / 7.2 — firmware reads the active mode's driver config at mode start, and
mic/line is real. My brief assumed the engine owns this; the code disagreed and
the code was right. sound_analysis_midi's EngineT is NoOpEngine — the mic lives
on a separately-composed AnalysisEngine member — so engine-level wiring would
have compiled, passed every gate, and left the one mic mode on line input.
Hence a mode-level seam defaulting to engine().driver_config(). Separately,
DriverConfig's defaults (line_level 0, output_volume 1.0) had drifted from
memllib's actual 3/0.8 because nothing had ever read them; wiring them as-is
would have made every silent mode louder and its line input maximally
insensitive — a behaviour change disguised as plumbing. Now pinned by a test.
Also: GetSysClockSpeed() panic()s on unsupported sample rates and runs on the
first line of setup(), so sample_rate needed a fallback ahead of clock setup.
CI's firmware env list gains soundanalysismidi — it is the only mic variant and
nothing else compiles that path.
Plan 5e — telemetry is real. A loss_history C-API entry across the full 5-layer
chain lets the browser read the per-iteration loss the core already records.
The audit named one fabrication site; there were two — wasm-iml.ts's
synchronous train() published lossHistory: [loss] as well. A third, ctx.loss,
was not merely dead but actively synthetic (fallbacks of prev * 0.82 and a
literal 0.5, rendered by nothing) and is deleted. The firmware buffer stays
untouched, per the L25 call. EngineApi.lossHistory() reads spine state rather
than the MLP handle, because trainAsync() fits on the worker's mirror net and
the handle would give a subtly-wrong second answer.
Plan 5f — engine throughput is measurable. One source compiled twice (CMake
natively, emcc for WASM) so the targets compare directly and no WASM export is
added. Sequencers are driven into a working state, and every row prints its own
working-state evidence so a number produced by an idle engine is visible rather
than plausible. Reports, never asserts: a wall-clock threshold on shared
hardware is meaningless or flaky, same call as the firmware size job.
ALIGNMENT: the telemetry defect is deleted (built, not deferred); the
performance defect is rewritten to what is actually left — these are HOST
numbers, and nothing measures the RP2350 at 150 MHz, which is the target the
mission's constraint is about. Q4 (memllib ownership) and Q5 (legacy feedback
modes) are closed.
Corrections to my own earlier claims, both found by agents contradicting the
brief: manifold/ONBOARDING.md was NOT "now accurate" — its primitives list
still named five deleted primitives and cited a seededGradient() that does not
exist. And the parity harness misses the sequencer engines because it runs 128
frames while their sequencers evaluate every 400-500 samples, NOT because
all-params-0.5 fails to trigger them (it does trigger: 0.5 maps to ratio 2,
firing three times per bar). The fix is a longer window, not different params.
Gates: run-all-tests.sh ALL GREEN — 4/4 ctest, parity PASS, lint clean, curve
drift 1179 slots ok, 39 e2e (was 33). Firmware: 5 envs built including the mic
variant.
The operator's call: "there should be one default learning rate and one
default max iterations and they should both be configurable at runtime."
There were SIX copies, not the four the audit described, and they did not
agree:
nisps/ml/mlp.hpp no-arg train() hardcoding 1.f / 1000u / 0.001f —
and firmware's ONLY training path calls exactly
this, so firmware had no runtime knob at all
wasm-iml.ts train() and trainAsync() TS default params (x2)
engine-api.ts learningRate ?? 1.0, with no maxIterations knob
vcv/src/iml.hpp 200 / 0.1 / 0.00001 — silently divergent
external_synth_midi.hpp its own kDefaultLearningRate/kDefaultMaxIterations
schemas/modes/*.json x9, identical, read by nobody at runtime
Now: schemas/ml_defaults.json is the single declaration (validated against a
sibling meta-schema, matching the midi_device.schema.json convention), codegen
emits it to C++ and TS in the same run, and MLPCore carries a TrainConfig whose
default member initialisers read the generated constant.
set_train_config()/nisps_ml_set_train_config() make it runtime-overridable on
every target; the explicit-argument train() overload is untouched. min_error
joins the tuple — it was duplicated identically and belongs with the other two.
The per-mode ml block loses default_learning_rate/default_max_iterations.
default_spread stays (genuinely wired on both targets) and input_channels stays
(codegen-time validated, real information for sound_analysis_midi).
VCV BEHAVIOUR CHANGE, deliberate: MEMLNaut.cpp constructs IML positionally and
relies on those defaults, so the module moves to 1000/1.0/0.001 — 5x the max
iterations, 10x the learning rate, and a 100x looser early-stop threshold. The
old values were never justified anywhere; they arrived with fbc68eb alongside
an unrelated module rewrite and no tuning rationale. Firmware and WASM have
shipped 1.0/1000 all along. It is now runtime-settable if this turns out worse.
The generated header lands in nisps/ml/generated/, not nisps/modes/generated/
where the rest of codegen output lives: training hyperparameters are an ML
fact, and nisps/ml sits below nisps/modes, so emitting them there would make
mlp.hpp include upward. The agent that built this flagged the directory-crossing
rather than hiding it; this is the fix. CI's generated-freshness gate learns the
new directory.
Gates: run-all-tests.sh ALL GREEN — 4/4 ctest, parity PASS (max delta 2.38e-7),
lint clean, manifold typecheck + 17 unit + 33 e2e (which exercise train() and
trainAsync() through a real browser).
feedback_/fbzm1_/fb_smooth_alpha_ were read every process() call but nothing
ever wrote feedback_, so the path was silently inert. Git history shows this
was a *muted* feature, not dead code: `feedback = v0 * feedbackGain` with
feedbackGain 0.1f (MEMLCeliumAudioApp.hpp @ d095688), then "0; //0.1f" —
zeroed with the value kept in the comment — then the write was dropped
entirely when the engine was ported to nisps/engines/ at the 2026-04-29
rewrite (8d0d47b). Operator decision: port it back, live at 0.1f.
The tap is voice 0's own enveloped output, post-envelope and pre voice-1/mix/
shape — NOT the final output. This differs from PAFSynth's feedback shape;
where the sibling and the reference disagreed, the reference won.
Not schema-exposed: the reference hardcoded it, and MEMLCelium has no voice
spaces to vary it by. If feedback depth becomes a research axis it wants to be
a runtime parameter — noted, not built.
Verification, and a gap worth recording: parity-check.sh PASSES (max delta
2.38e-7) but that is NOT evidence for this change — its harness only exercises
PAFSynth and ChannelStrip, and the impulse baseline runs all-params-0.5, under
which voice 0's sequencer never triggers, so v0_env stays 0 and the new write
is 0 either way. That baseline is blind to this path, not a check on it. So it
was cross-checked directly instead: sequencer params forced to trigger early,
4800 samples native vs WASM through the nisps_engine_* C ABI —
native vs WASM max abs diff 1.19e-7 (tolerance 1e-5)
all 4800 samples nonzero, finite, max amplitude ~0.99 (tanh-bounded)
same run with gain forced to 0 diverges by up to 1.49 — not a no-op
No fixture regenerated. nisps.wasm ships here because it is a tracked artifact
under the Phase 0 freshness gate.
Follow-up: the parity harness covers 2 of 8 engines. "Firmware and WASM share
the same engines" is asserted repo-wide but tested narrowly.
Phase 3 (L8). Pure statement-for-statement relocation into
dsp/ratio_seq.hpp, dsp/seq_clock.hpp and core/event_queue.hpp.
AUDIT CORRECTION: L8 says "breakor and elysiamorf duplicate ratio_seq". That is
false — ElysiamorfEngine has no ratio_seq at all; it triggers continuously via
FM operators. The real duplicate pair is BreakOrEngine and MEMLCeliumEngine,
whose copies are byte-for-byte identical. Elysiamorf did share the clock and
event-queue machinery, so it uses those. memlcelium now includes the shared
ratio_seq too, which is what actually closes this finding.
Deliberately NOT folded into core/ring_buffer.hpp: RingBuffer is an
atomics-based cross-core SPSC channel (its header says so), whereas the engines'
event queue is produced and drained on one thread. Reusing it would have meant
paying for atomics to serve a single-threaded FIFO. The distinction is now
recorded in MAP.md so the next audit does not read them as duplicates.
Bit-exactness: verified the MIDI-clock tick and bar-phasor tick preserve the
original operation order with no floating-point re-association, and that
EventQueue keeps the original `% N` indexing rather than adopting RingBuffer's
bitmask. The golden suite (nisps_golden_tests) and the native<->WASM parity blob
both pass unchanged — they are the check, and they were not re-baselined.
Phase 3 (S1, S5, S6, S25, L11, L37, ST11, ST12). Behaviour-preserving by
construction: the diff on the generated directories is PURELY ADDITIVE (217
insertions, 0 deletions), so no emitted constant changed value. This moves where
truth lives; it does not change what truth says.
- S5: nine mode headers each carried a mechanically identical 12-field
positional ParamSchema aggregate. codegen now emits one
`inline constexpr ParamSchema k<Mode>Schema` per mode, and the struct itself
moved into generated/schema_types.hpp. Each param_schema() is a one-line
return.
- S6 + S25: every mode hand-typed its net shape a second time as MLP template
args, duplicating the schema's own dims. codegen emits a `<Mode>MLP` alias
built from the already-emitted constants (not re-literalled), and all nine
modes use it. NMaxExamples still defaults from kDefaultMaxExamples (Phase 2).
- S1: model.ts hand-imported all nine schemas by name and hand-paired each with
its overlay — so the SET of modes was hand-maintained and could silently drift
from codegen. codegen now emits ALL_MODE_SCHEMAS; SCHEMA_MODE_OVERLAYS is
purely display truth (label/glyph/css/order), which stays hand-curated.
- L37: deleted the hand-written modeEngineId switch, which duplicated
schema.engine_id and silently defaulted unknown modes to 'thru'. Routes on
MFMode.engineId with exactly one documented exception: sound_analysis_midi
declares engine_id 'thru' because its ModeBase audio slot really is
NoOpEngine, while it separately drives the real AnalysisEngine.
- L11: ExternalSynthMIDIMode's shape was literal in two places; now named once
in an ext_synth_defaults namespace with an ExtSynthMIDIMLP alias. Full folding
into the JSON pipeline is NOT done and the reason is recorded in-file: it is a
template family over an externally-supplied Device and variable NOut, with no
single (device, NOut) schema to author.
- ST12: extracted codegen/lib.ts for the helpers both generators duplicated, and
corrected the comment that claimed they had to be separate. Proof the
extraction was behaviour-free: regenerating the MIDI-device outputs produces a
byte-identical tree.
- ST11: deleted codegen/templates/ — dead "reference" files no generator reads,
already drifted from the real emitters.
Gates: run-all-tests.sh ALL GREEN; codegen idempotent (re-running both
generators yields no further diff), which is what CI's dirty-diff gate checks.
Phase 2, S35. Two real defects from one root cause, both confirmed by trace
rather than taken from the audit:
1. Divergence. WasmIML built its TS Dataset mirror with a cap of 100 while
every addExample() ALSO pushed into the C++ FIFO ring, capped at 128. Since
train() reads the C++ ring and trainAsync() reads the TS mirror, past 100
examples the two trained on different datasets — silently.
2. Latent OOB read. nisps_ml_train sizes its sample-weight span by the C++
side's example_count() (up to 128), but wasm-iml.ts allocates that heap
buffer from the TS dataset's size (<=100). Once the ring exceeds the mirror,
the span reads past the end of the caller's allocation.
Fix: name the capacity ONCE as nisps::ml::kDefaultMaxExamples = 128, used by
FixedStorage's default template arg, DynamicStorage's default ctor arg, and the
MLP<> alias (which is the only real FixedStorage instantiation path and carried
its own independent 128 literal — the last copy of this dual truth). Expose it
through nisps_ml_describe and have the TS side read it instead of hardcoding.
Dataset's constructor default is removed entirely: a default was what invited
this bug class, and the sole call site now always supplies the describe() value.
ABI NOTE: this extends nisps_ml_describe from a 6-int to a 7-int descriptor.
nisps_ml_describe always writes 7 ints regardless of the caller's buffer, so
every call site had to grow in the same change or it would overflow the WASM
heap by 4 bytes per call. All five sites updated: three in wasm-iml.ts (init
defaults, init per-instance, reshape re-describe — the finding said there were
two), one in wasm-worker.ts, one in tests/cpp/parity_wasm.mjs. The parity
harness's expected-dims check now also pins the new max_examples slot.
Regression test: tests/cpp/test_mlp_storage_defaults.cpp — pins the two storage
policies to one constant, and drives MLPCore<DynamicStorage> exactly as
bindings.cpp does past the old TS cap, asserting it saturates at 128 and not at
100. Fail-before/pass-after confirmed by temporarily setting the constant to
100: 2 failures, named. Reverted: green.
Audit correction: the cited dataset.ts:81 is the FIFO eviction check; the
hardcoded default was at dataset.ts:45.
Gates: run-all-tests.sh ALL GREEN, parity PASS.
Phase 1 group 4 (S33, S34, L54).
- S33: removed 12 dead entries across the full 5-layer registration chain
(bindings.cpp KEEPALIVE -> EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS -> the NispsModule declaration
table -> the WasmIML wrapper -> the EngineApi facade): nisps_ml_reset,
example_count, move_weights, feedback_learning_paused, feedback_drag,
jolt_lr_scale, jolt_tick_lr_ramp, pipeline_state_size/save_state/load_state,
feedback_placing and feedback_state. Each was grepped against manifold/src,
manifold/tests, the e2e specs, manifold/tests/wasm-load.ts and
tests/cpp/parity_wasm.mjs — the parity gate builds its own API via cwrap and
is a real consumer, so it counts.
KEPT deliberately: EXPORTED_RUNTIME's heap views + ccall/cwrap (the parity
harness and wasm-load.ts depend on them), and nisps_ml_feedback_static_output,
whose C export IS called directly by parity_wasm.mjs even though no TS
wrapper reaches it. Also dropped parity_wasm.mjs's moveWeights cwrap, which
was declared but never invoked.
- S34: deleted the publishWeights_ channel — EngineSink.setWeights,
Spine.setWeights/weights()/liveWeights and every call site. It ran a C->heap
copy plus a fresh Float32Array allocation at up to 200 Hz into a field
nothing read. getWeights survives for persistence and the debug probe.
- L54: worklet loader — deleted the unused imports object, the 'c' branch,
exMap and the duplicate second loop, and replaced the silent `() => 0` stub
with one that throws, so a missing import fails loudly instead of returning
plausible zeros into the audio path.
manifold/public/nisps.{js,wasm} rebuilt with the trimmed export list (emcc
3.1.69, the CI-pinned version) and committed — the freshness gate added in
Phase 0 requires it, and the webhook ships this artifact to production.
Gates: run-all-tests.sh ALL GREEN, parity 1273 floats within 1e-5.
Phase 1 group 3 (L3, L9, L4, L5, L6, ST1).
- L3: nisps/modes/voice_space.hpp — entirely dead, no includes anywhere.
- L4: deleted SawOsc and SquareOsc. KEPT SineOsc — a verifier caught that the
original reviewer's grep missed its live consumer (the firmware selftest);
re-confirmed here before touching the file.
- L9: removed the no-op VoiceSpace enum/table/setter boilerplate from the five
engines with no real voice spaces; kept it on PAFSynth, VerbFX and
ChannelStrip, which have real ones. Every engine member was checked against
nisps/wasm/bindings.cpp, firmware/ and tests/ for callers first.
- L5: ModeBase::input_dirty_ was write-only state — deleted the flag rather
than making it gate inference, which would have been a behaviour change.
- L6: VerbFXEngine's delay_to_verb_ (computed 12x per block, never read),
enable_reverb_, enable_delay_to_reverb_ and the unused set_enable_* setters.
- ST1: rewrote the four engine header comment blocks that described
implementations which do not exist.
L7 (MEMLCeliumEngine's inert feedback path) is deliberately NOT done — tracing
git history showed feedbackGain went 0.1f (live) -> "0; //0.1f" (explicitly
muted, value preserved) -> dropped entirely in the port. That is a muted
feature, not dead weight, and deleting it would silently lose it. Left intact
pending an operator decision; see the phase report.
Gates: run-all-tests.sh ALL GREEN.
Phase 1 group 2 (L27, L26, L28, S21, L13, ST6, S20).
- L27: fixed_buffer.hpp + its test + the CMake entry — no consumers.
- L26: dislike_multiplier_ and its doubling/halving bookkeeping — upstream
InterfaceRL residue that drove nothing. The audit pointed at the wrong test
file for the surviving reference; the actual assert was in
test_mlp_geo_dislike.cpp:211, removed here.
- L28: added copy_weights_to(std::span<float>) to FixedStorage and
DynamicStorage and switched feedback.hpp's take_snapshot/push_undo/nudge to
it. Drops the permanent whole-net flat_ scratch buffer from FixedStorage and
the per-gesture double copy. Behaviour-identical: same source values, same
write order, same RNG draw order in nudge().
- S21 + L13: deleted NISPS_AUDIO_MEM / NISPS_APP_SRAM / NISPS_AUDIO_FUNC —
zero use sites outside perf.hpp and comments — and rewrote midi_io.hpp's one
misshapen NISPS_AUDIO_FUNC use as a plain `inline void`. perf.hpp now
documents only the inlining/hotness macros that actually exist, and
audio_driver.hpp no longer claims an SRAM discipline the code never had.
- ST6: feedback.hpp's header now describes the four current modes and the
Geometric default, dropping the retracted "geometric push NOT ported" claim.
S20 — OPERATOR DECISION (§7.1): the four legacy feedback behaviours
(RandomiseOutputs, RandomiseMlp, AvoidStyle::Diffuse, the RandomiseMlp branch of
on_drag) are KEPT, not deleted. They are wanted as building blocks for
experimenting with how different instruments feel under different behaviours.
Each is now marked at its definition as deliberately-retained research reserve
so future audits stop flagging it as dead code.
L25 (the 16 KB firmware loss-history buffer) is NOT done here — see the phase
report; it turned out to be coupled into the shared mlp.hpp, and its fate
belongs with the browser telemetry build (§7.3 / plan §6.5e).
Gates: run-all-tests.sh ALL GREEN.
First real signal from the restored pipeline: with checkout fixed, the cpp-tests
job got far enough to fail at `-Werror=stringop-overflow` in ring_buffer.hpp on
GitHub's GCC 13, a failure that had been invisible behind the broken submodule
checkout for a month. Reproduced locally against gcc 13.4.0 (local default is
gcc 14, which does not fire).
The warning is a false positive: GCC anchors the destination object to the
member at offset 0 and reports `buf_[head & kMask]` as writing past
`head_._M_i` (size 8) at offset [16, 268] — offsets that are precisely
buf_[0..63] of a 64-entry, 4-byte ControlEvent array. Adding an explicit
`__builtin_unreachable()` bound hint does not help, because the index range was
never what GCC got wrong. Declaring buf_ first anchors the analysis correctly.
Not a suppression, and behaviour-preserving: RingBuffer has exactly one
production user (ModeBase::events_) and is never serialized, copied, or sent
over a wire, so member order is unobservable. Reasoning recorded at the
declaration so nobody "tidies" the order back.
Verified: full ctest suite green under gcc 13.4.0 (the CI compiler) as well as
gcc 14.2, and scripts/run-all-tests.sh ALL GREEN (parity 1273 floats within
1e-5, lint, 33 Playwright specs).
Replace the vendored runtime MLP in vcv/src/iml.hpp (DetRng + 3D-weight-store
MLP + Dataset + IML) with a THIN, Rack-free adapter over the shared core:
nisps::ml::MLPCore<nisps::ml::DynamicStorage> (8->[16,24,16]->16, the P2 dynamic
case), nisps::Rng, and the core MLP's own FIFO dataset. Behaviour changes from
the vendored approximation to core-exact firmware/WASM semantics.
- MEMLNaut.cpp: staged/pending weight buffers and patch JSON now use the core's
flat [weights..][biases..] vector (nisps::IML<float>::Weights); patch version
bumped to 3. Double-buffer / single-writer threading discipline unchanged.
- New ctest tests/cpp/test_vcv_iml_parity.cpp: seeded train/infer/move_weights
session through the adapter is memcmp-equal to a bare MLPCore<DynamicStorage>.
- Docs: vcv-module.md delta #5 marked CLOSED (2026-07-18); MAP.md vcv/ updated.
Closes vcv-module.md delta #5.
- plan P2 marked landed (hardware timing spot-check deferred to the
chokepoint-B session on physical MEMLNaut)
- ALIGNMENT: defect #3 resolved by the runtime-shaped browser MLP
- MAP/AGENT-REFERENCE/nisps-wasm-README: describe the honoured-dims
create + reshape ABI; note per-mode dims become schema-real at P5
- fresh wasm artifacts from the gate run
Operator-approved ABI change (P2 stop-point). The WASM MLP is now
MLPCore<DynamicStorage>:
- nisps_ml_create(input, output, hidden[3], n, seed) honours its args;
non-positive/null fall back to the historical 32→[10,14,18]→126, so
every pre-P2 caller (manifold, worker, parity harness) stays
bit-identical. Invalid/oversized dims (>4096) → null.
- NEW nisps_ml_reshape(ml, in, out, hidden, n, spread): fresh net at the
new dims, warm-started via nisps/ml/warm_start.hpp (overlapping region
copied; rest keeps spread init); feedback controller re-created (state
resets — reset-on-reshape modal is the front-end contract). Failure
leaves the old net untouched.
- nisps_ml_describe(ml, out): takes the handle; null reports defaults.
- FeedbackController got the same storage split: algorithms in
FeedbackControllerCore<FbStorage>; FixedFeedbackStorage keeps firmware/
tests source-identical via the old alias; DynamicFeedbackStorage (one
arena) sizes to the runtime net. Firmware .text unchanged (122692).
- MLHandle: per-instance scratch vectors; dropped the dead 2MB
batch_out_scratch.
- TS: types.ts decls (+_nisps_ml_reshape), wasm-iml re-describes the
created instance, worker carries a shape-contract note for P2.3.
Verified: ctest 4/4 incl. new warm-start grow/shrink test; reshape ABI
smoke (dims honoured, overlap survives, invalid rejected, outputs
bounded); parity PASS unchanged (2.4e-7); lint clean; manifold 9 unit +
20 e2e green; firmware .text 122692 (+0.30% vs pre-P2 baseline).
Algorithms (forward, backprop/SGD, init, move_weights, diagnostics) now live
once in MLPCore<Storage> (nisps/ml/mlp.hpp). Storage models:
- FixedStorage (storage.hpp): template-sized std::array, zero heap. The
classic MLP<NIn,H1,H2,H3,NOut,...> is an alias preserving kInput/kHidden*/
kOutput/kNumLayers/weight_count() constexpr — firmware + bindings + modes
compile unchanged.
- DynamicStorage (dynamic_storage.hpp): runtime dims, ONE arena allocation
at construction, nothing per-call. #error under NISPS_TARGET_EMBEDDED
(new macro in core/perf.hpp); sole lint-cpp.sh heap-allowlist entry, plus
a lint check that fails if the #error guard disappears.
Verification:
- new ctest test_mlp_storage_parity: fixed↔dynamic BIT-identical across
init/draw/inference/train(FIFO)/move_weights(pin mask)/eval_loss/
layer_stats/set_weights/infer_batch/reset; invalid+moved-from inert
- golden ML vectors (pre-refactor constants) pass → bit-stable refactor
- native↔WASM parity PASS, max delta unchanged (2.4e-7)
- chokepoint B compile: PAFSynth .text 122324→122692 (+0.30%, ±1% budget);
RAM +416B (eval scratch)
- fix: firmware-common.sh used bare 'python' (absent here) → ${PYTHON:-python3}
Part of one-core-engine-refactor P2. nisps_ml_create ABI untouched (P2.2 is
an operator stop-point).
Add a "grab → move → drop" gesture that moves an existing positive
example's output to a new input position, preserving the output. This is
the new core's home for upstream InterfaceRL's drag-store/reposition-commit,
distinct from Explore→Place (which places newly-auditioned scratchpad sounds).
- nisps/ml/feedback.hpp: begin_reposition()/commit_reposition()/repositioning().
Reuses the Placing state (static_output holds the carried vector) but a
reposition_ flag makes commit AND the mode-switch teardown SKIP the weight
restore — the real net is never set aside here, so restoring snapshot_ would
clobber the live trained net. Guards cancel_place + abort_explore_place.
- firmware glue: state-gate Toggle B. Exploring → reroll/nudge (unchanged);
Idle → MomB1 grab, MomB2 drop (commit + add_example + train). The 4D variant
has no joystick button, so the gesture lives on the momentary toggle. Also
fix a stale top-of-file control-map comment that contradicted the bindings.
- tests: 4 reposition cases (hold without snapshot; commit stores carried
output with no restore; mode-switch aborts without clobber; begin-only-Idle).
- MAP.md: document the full ExploreAndPlace lifecycle + reposition wiring.
Audio-hold (carrying the sound audibly during the move) remains the existing
unwired static_output() TODO and affects Explore→Place identically.
Firmware compile unverified (no arduino-cli); host tests + lint pass.
New SLP-Workshop firmware variant (Synth Library Portland), built on the
MEMLCelium engine + MLP shape. Ports the two post-fork learning-algorithm
changes from upstream memllib InterfaceRL into the shared nisps/ml core,
runtime-configurable (no compile-time switch), inert by default:
- nisps/ml/jolt.hpp: Jolt — held continuous weight morph over the flat
weight buffer + post-release LR ramp (kJolt* constants verbatim).
- nisps/ml/ou_noise.hpp: OUNoise<N> — Ornstein-Uhlenbeck exploration walk
on the output vector (theta=0.02, dt=0.001, kMaxAmplitude=0.65).
Both wired into ModeBase so every mode gains jolt_press/jolt_release/
jolt_lr_scale + set_explore_intensity; gated so existing modes stay
bit-identical (parity + golden tests green). Firmware surfaces them on
TogB1 (Jolt) and RVX1 (explore). New SLPWorkshopMode mode + schema +
codegen; firmware alias + .ino variant; playground mode registration.
Tests: jolt + OU unit tests, ModeBase learning integration incl. an
inert-parity test proving SLP-Workshop == MEMLCelium with features off.
Verified: cpp tests, wasm build, native↔wasm parity, lint, codegen
golden, playground typecheck. Firmware compile/e2e/hardware are
environment-bound (no arduino-cli/submodules/browser here).
Refs ergo 019f0fca.
Platform-agnostic neutral-pin mechanism (set_input_pinned/pin_value) on
ModeBase, lifted from ebb953a. Consumed by the firmware Joystick Dual/Single
settings menu; the browser fixed-MLP<4> half of ebb953a is superseded by main's
MLP<32> N-D input work and intentionally dropped.
Wire the modular input layer into the Console and reshape the browser
engine so input axes are genuine independent dimensions.
Inputs (manifold/src/inputs/):
- gamepad-source: emit press+release edges with standard-mapping labels
(enables hold-and-move); single/double-stick already present.
- midi-input-source: single-device selection + batch "MIDI Learn"
(every CC swept while armed becomes an axis); notes stay discrete.
- input-layer: compose() forwards each axis 1:1 (no mean-blend);
add onReducedInput so the manifold tracks gamepad/MIDI position.
- types: InputAction.phase, InputMode.
Console (manifold/src/console/):
- ConsoleApp: bind gamepad buttons to verdicts (RB up / LB down /
X randomise / Y nudge / B undo / A-hold reposition); mirror composed
position onto the manifold.
- Drawers: rebuilt Inputs drawer (source picker, gamepad legend, MIDI
device picker + batch-learn flow, learned-control meters).
Engine (nisps/wasm, manifold/src/engine):
- DefaultMLP widened MLP<2,..> -> MLP<32,..> (32 = MAX_AXES); each
active axis gets a dedicated slot, unused slots held at 0 (inert).
Rebuilt nisps.wasm (playground + manifold).
- spine/engine-api: setInputs writes the full N-D vector (was dropping
arr[2+]); primary pair keeps the 2-D pipeline; process() re-ticks the
whole vector via spine.reprocess().
Tests:
- parity_check/parity_wasm: ParityMLP -> 32 inputs, widen example bufs.
- CMakeLists: build parity binary with -ffp-contract=off so native
matches FMA-free WASM (training amplified the gap past 1e-5).
Inputs dock is still an exclusive picker; mixing toggles, reshape modal,
and the >2-D slider view (inputs-spec.md) are groundwork-laid but not
yet wired. See docs/redesign/midi-gamepad-inputs-worklog.md.
Joystick -> MLP -> MIDI CC for an external hardware synth, using the
compile-time device templates from nisps/midi/generated. ExternalSynthMIDIMode
<const MidiDevice&, NOut> mirrors SoundAnalysisMIDIMode (NoOpEngine,
kRouteOutputsToEngine=false, pushes ControlChange events). A consteval
pick_cc_slots curates which NOut params fill the output slots (prefers musical
params over Bank Select/global). Adds six flashable variants
(MEMLNautModeExtSynth{Sub37,SubPhatty,Pro12,AnalogKeys,Hydrasynth,JD800}) wired
into mode_select.hpp + the .ino variant list + NISPS_ST guards, and a src/nisps/
midi symlink so the sketch tree can reach nisps/midi.
Host-compile-verified under C++20 (incl. via the sketch include path) and
lint-clean; full arduino-cli build + flash is on the hardware (no toolchain here.
Add a durable, committed source of truth for external MIDI synth control:
- synth-midi-cc.json: verified CC maps + provenance/sources (8 devices researched)
- schemas/midi_device.schema.json + schemas/midi_devices/*.json: 6 CC-controllable
device templates (Moog Sub 37/Sub Phatty, Creamware Pro-12 ASB, Elektron Analog
Keys, ASM Hydrasynth, Roland JD-800), params keyed {id, cc, label, min, max,
default, group}.
- codegen/generate-midi-devices.ts (isolated from the mode golden test) emits both
nisps/midi/generated/midi_devices.hpp (no-heap constexpr, firmware+WASM) and
manifold/src/midi-devices/generated/ (typed catalogue for the browser).
- codegen/seed-midi-devices.ts: reproducible seed from the research artifact.
Lets a performer pick a device and address its parameters by name (not CC number)
on both the firmware and the Manifold browser engine.
Stream 7 wires nisps/ml + nisps/engines into the playground via Emscripten.
Highlights:
- nisps/wasm/bindings.cpp: flat C API per architecture.md §6.2. Fixed-arch
MLP<2, 10, 14, 18, 126>; engine string→type dispatch table with NoOp
fallback.
- scripts/build-wasm.sh: emcc invocation, MODULARIZE=1, exports listed
explicitly; produces playground/public/nisps.{js,wasm}.
- playground/src/ml/wasm-iml.ts: main-thread MLP host (sync inference,
sync training, RL ops, weights I/O, layer stats, localStorage).
- playground/src/ml/wasm-worker.ts: disposable Web Worker for off-thread
async training, owns its own WASM instance.
- playground/src/ml/dataset.ts: Float32Array-backed FIFO with sample-weight
modes (uniform/global/local/combined). Port of legacy dataset.js.
- playground/src/audio/engine-host.ts: AudioContext + AudioWorkletNode
lifecycle, with start/stop/setEngine/setParams.
- playground/src/audio/worklet/nisps-processor.ts: WASM-loading
AudioWorkletProcessor that runs engine.process_block per 128-sample
block. Loads its own WASM instance from main-thread-supplied bytes
(no fetch in worklet).
- playground/src/stores/ml-store.ts: wired stub methods to WasmIML
singleton; lazy initialize().
- playground/src/debug/probe.ts: window.__nisps now calls real WasmIML
via the store; lazy-init on first use.
Verified:
- bash scripts/build-wasm.sh succeeds (94 KB nisps.wasm)
- bun run typecheck OK
- bun run build OK (production bundle)
- vite dev server serves /nisps.{js,wasm} with COOP/COEP
Known limitation: WASM is fixed at one MLP shape. Multi-arch deferred —
documented in nisps/wasm/README.md.
One header per mode, each ~50-130 LOC built atop ModeBase:
- `paf_synth.hpp` (4 inputs → 33 outputs, 7 voice spaces, note_on/off)
- `channel_strip.hpp` (4 → 24, 6 voice spaces)
- `xiasri.hpp` (4 → 24, 1 'Direct' voice space)
- `verb_fx.hpp` (4 → 47, 12 voice spaces)
- `memlcelium.hpp` (4 → 56, dual synth + 2-track sequencer; set_playing/update_bpm)
- `breakor.hpp` (4 → 56, 8-track ratio sequencer; pumps engine NoteOn/Off/Clock
events into ControlEvent ring buffer)
- `elysiamorf.hpp` (4 → 40, 8-track FM-pair MIDI-CC sequencer; pumps CC events)
- `sound_analysis_midi.hpp` (10 → 8; owns AnalysisEngine for input feature
extraction PLUS NoOpEngine 'thru' for audio passthrough; ML outputs
converted to MIDI CC events via on_post_inference; opts out of
output→engine routing via ModeRoutesOutputsToEngine specialisation)
Every mode satisfies `nisps::Mode` (verified via `static_assert` in each
header). Schema `output_size` is verified against engine `param_count()`
at compile time inside ModeBase.
All hardware-specific glue (MEMLNaut::Instance, pico/util/queue, MIDIInOut,
display widgets, button callbacks) is intentionally absent — that lives in
firmware/glue and playground/src/modes per architecture.md §4.3.
Adds two foundational pieces shared by every concrete mode:
- `base.hpp`: defines `nisps::ParamSchema` (the aggregate type the
`Mode` concept's `param_schema()` returns by const-reference),
`nisps::ControlEvent`, and `ModeBase<Derived, EngineT, MLPType,
NInputs>` — a CRTP scaffold absorbing input forwarding, ML
inference + voice space mapping, engine.set_params() routing, and
a per-mode ControlEvent ring buffer for MIDI/I2C events.
`ModeRoutesOutputsToEngine<Derived>` lets a derived mode (e.g.
SoundAnalysisMIDI) opt out of routing ML outputs to engine
params when its outputs become MIDI CCs instead.
- `voice_space.hpp`: `VoiceSpaceEntry` + `make_voice_space_entries()`
+ `find_voice_space()` helpers. Voice-space *mapping code* lives
inside engines (mirroring firmware); mode layer just selects
which voice space the engine uses by index/name.
No heap, no virtuals, no Pico/Arduino dependencies; satisfies stream
4 of architecture.md.
Stream 3's NoOpEngine used engine_id()=='noop' but the schema for
sound_analysis_midi.json declares engine_id: 'thru' (matches firmware's
ThruAudioApp naming). The class name stays NoOpEngine — it accurately
describes what process() does — but the schema-facing identifier is now
'thru'. BreakOr/Elysiamorf compose NoOpEngine by type, not engine_id, so
they're unaffected.
Stream 5 shipped a temporary local Curve enum (PascalCase) while stream 1
was in flight. Stream 1 has now landed nisps/core/math.hpp with the
authoritative lowercase Curve enum per architecture spec. Generated C++
headers now include core/math.hpp and re-export the enum into the
generated namespace via 'using Curve = ::nisps::Curve;'.
- codegen/generate.ts: emit lowercase enum values + include math.hpp
- regenerated all 8 mode schema headers
- updated golden snapshot to match
Verified all 8 headers compile clean with -std=c++20 -Wall -Wextra.
Output of \`bun run codegen/generate.ts\` for the 8 mode schemas.
These files are checked in so consumers don't need bun on every
build, but they remain regenerable and byte-identical.
C++ (nisps/modes/generated/):
schema_types.hpp + 8 <mode_id>_schema.hpp files. All compile
cleanly with g++ -std=c++20 -Wall -Wextra -fsyntax-only -I nisps.
TS (playground/src/modes/generated/):
types.ts + index.ts + 8 <mode_id>_schema.ts files. Type-check
cleanly with tsc --strict.
CMakeLists.txt:
- Native host build by default; Emscripten-target detection plumbed but
WASM emit deferred to stream 7 (playground build script).
- Header-only INTERFACE library `nisps_core`.
- Host test executable `nisps_core_tests` compiled with -Wall -Wextra
-Werror -Wpedantic (Chris's rules: clean build is non-negotiable).
tests/cpp/test_helpers.hpp:
- Minimal NISPS_TEST / NISPS_EXPECT / NISPS_EXPECT_NEAR macros, no external
deps. Rationale documented in-file: Catch2/doctest would add ~10MB and 30s
for what is currently <100 LOC of test runtime.
22 unit tests covering FixedBuffer (5), RingBuffer (5), Rng (7), math (5).
All green; verified via `cmake --build nisps/build && ./nisps/build/nisps_core_tests`.
