music-video-gen/flow-state/tools/build-song-bank.js
Dejvino e0c0dd664a Give the sections shapes, and the songs an opinion about their own edges
Two complaints, one cause: stages were flat blocks and the noise bed was glued
to the pad level, so the bed was a constant hiss under a track that never went
anywhere.

Sections have contours now — rise, fall, swell, dip, surge — sampled per note
rather than per stage, so a build builds through its chords instead of stepping
between two flat halves. The noise gets its own per-stage level instead of
following the pad, which makes it an arrangement element: a riser through a
build with its filter sweeping up, a wash under a drop, nearly absent in a
breakdown. That is also the better test signal, since the segmenter classifies a
section partly on its energy slope and a build that does not build is one it has
to guess at.

Transition hardness is a per-song axis. Genres differ on this more than they
differ on tempo — an ambient record dissolves between its sections and a club
record cuts — and until now every song in the bank cut. Soft songs crossfade
across a couple of bars; the hardest get the pre-drop trick, where everything
stops for most of a beat before the loud stage lands. Five soft, three mid, nine
hard, and the builder fails if the bank ever loses either end.

The contours immediately broke the axis they were layered onto: section-to-
section contrast is dynamic range, so adding it put a floor of 0.50 under a
statistic that had reached 0.18. That is what compression IS, so contour depth
now scales with the track's dynamics — a limitered master has shallow section
contrast as well as a shallow crest. Back to 0.29, which is as low as enveloped
notes and hard cuts will go.

One regression accepted rather than fixed: the soft fades cost the beatless
entries their tempo detection, since the attack that gave a drone a pulse is
exactly what a crossfade removes. `drone` reads 170bpm for a 62bpm source. A
beatless track has no tempo and the detector is guessing either way; `ember`
exists to anchor the low end with a beat that is actually there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 07:43:59 +02:00

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// Build the test song bank: synthesize every song in src/audio/songbank.js,
// write it out as audio, and verify that the bank covers what it claims to.
//
// The bank is generated rather than stored. It is deterministic, it is a few
// hundred megabytes as audio, and it is derived from a table that will keep
// changing — all three say "rebuild it" rather than "commit it". The output
// directory is gitignored; this tool is the thing that is versioned.
//
// node tools/build-song-bank.js → test/songs/, 120s each
// node tools/build-song-bank.js --duration 60 → shorter, for a quick pass
// node tools/build-song-bank.js --check → verify coverage, write nothing
// node tools/build-song-bank.js --out /tmp/bank
//
// Coverage is measured, never assumed. Each song declares the corner of the
// feature space it exists to occupy; this analyses what was actually produced
// and fails loudly if an axis has collapsed — a synth change that quietly stops
// producing noisy tracks would otherwise leave every downstream measurement
// looking fine while testing half the space.
import { writeFileSync, mkdirSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs';
import { resolve, dirname } from 'node:path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
import { synthesizeSong } from '../src/audio/synth.js';
import { FeatureTrack } from '../src/audio/FeatureTrack.js';
import { SONGS, AXES } from '../src/audio/songbank.js';
const here = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
function arg(name, fallback = null) {
const i = process.argv.indexOf(`--${name}`);
return i >= 0 && process.argv[i + 1] && !process.argv[i + 1].startsWith('--')
? process.argv[i + 1] : fallback;
}
const has = (name) => process.argv.includes(`--${name}`);
const DURATION = Number(arg('duration', 120));
const OUT = resolve(arg('out', resolve(here, '../test/songs')));
const CHECK_ONLY = has('check');
/**
* 16-bit PCM WAV, mono.
*
* Mono halves the size and loses nothing: the analyser sums to mono before it
* does anything, and the synth writes the same signal to both channels anyway.
*/
function wav(samples, sampleRate) {
const bytes = samples.length * 2;
const buffer = Buffer.alloc(44 + bytes);
buffer.write('RIFF', 0);
buffer.writeUInt32LE(36 + bytes, 4);
buffer.write('WAVE', 8);
buffer.write('fmt ', 12);
buffer.writeUInt32LE(16, 16); // PCM chunk size
buffer.writeUInt16LE(1, 20); // PCM
buffer.writeUInt16LE(1, 22); // mono
buffer.writeUInt32LE(sampleRate, 24);
buffer.writeUInt32LE(sampleRate * 2, 28);
buffer.writeUInt16LE(2, 32); // block align
buffer.writeUInt16LE(16, 34); // bits
buffer.write('data', 36);
buffer.writeUInt32LE(bytes, 40);
// Peak-normalise to -1 dBFS. Without it the quiet ambient entries clip down
// into 16-bit noise and their measured flatness stops being what the spec
// asked for — the bank would then be testing the encoder, not the generator.
let peak = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < samples.length; i++) peak = Math.max(peak, Math.abs(samples[i]));
const gain = peak > 1e-9 ? 0.89 / peak : 1;
for (let i = 0; i < samples.length; i++) {
const v = Math.max(-1, Math.min(1, samples[i] * gain));
buffer.writeInt16LE(Math.round(v * 32767), 44 + i * 2);
}
return buffer;
}
if (!CHECK_ONLY && !existsSync(OUT)) mkdirSync(OUT, { recursive: true });
console.log(`\nbuilding ${SONGS.length} songs · ${DURATION}s each` +
(CHECK_ONLY ? ' · check only, writing nothing' : ` · → ${OUT}`) + '\n');
const built = [];
for (const spec of SONGS) {
const buffer = synthesizeSong({
bpm: spec.bpm,
duration: DURATION,
arrangement: spec.arrangement,
brightness: spec.brightness,
noise: spec.noise,
noiseColour: spec.noiseColour ?? null,
dynamics: spec.dynamics,
transition: spec.transition ?? 0.5,
seed: 1 + SONGS.indexOf(spec),
});
const track = FeatureTrack.fromAudioBuffer(buffer, { fps: 60 });
if (!CHECK_ONLY) {
writeFileSync(resolve(OUT, `${spec.name}.wav`),
wav(buffer.getChannelData(0), buffer.sampleRate));
}
built.push({
...spec,
file: `${spec.name}.wav`,
measured: {
bpm: track.summary.bpm,
centroid: track.summary.meanCentroid,
flatness: track.summary.meanFlatness,
dynamics: track.summary.dynamicRange,
loudness: track.summary.meanLoudness,
sections: track.sections.length,
kinds: track.sections.map((s) => s.kind),
},
});
process.stdout.write(` ${spec.name.padEnd(10)} ${built.at(-1).measured.kinds.join(' ')}\n`);
}
// --- what was actually produced -------------------------------------------
const n2 = (x) => (typeof x === 'number' ? x.toFixed(2) : String(x)).padStart(7);
console.log('\n MEASURED — what the generator will actually read\n');
console.log(' song tempo bright noisy dynamic loud sections arrangement cuts');
console.log(' ' + '-'.repeat(86));
for (const b of built) {
console.log(` ${b.name.padEnd(11)}${n2(b.measured.bpm)}${n2(b.measured.centroid)}` +
`${n2(b.measured.flatness)}${n2(b.measured.dynamics)}${n2(b.measured.loudness)}` +
`${String(b.measured.sections).padStart(10)} ${b.arrangement.padEnd(9)}` +
` ${(b.transition ?? 0.5) >= 0.7 ? 'hard' : (b.transition ?? 0.5) <= 0.3 ? 'soft' : 'mid '}`);
}
// --- coverage --------------------------------------------------------------
// An axis is covered when the bank spreads across it AND reaches both ends. A
// bank can have a wide range and still be two clusters with a hole in the
// middle, so occupancy is measured in quintiles rather than as min-to-max.
console.log('\n COVERAGE — measured, not claimed\n');
const problems = [];
for (const axis of AXES) {
const values = built.map((b) => b.measured[axis.key === 'bpm' ? 'bpm' : axis.key]);
const lo = Math.min(...values), hi = Math.max(...values);
const [rLo, rHi] = axis.range;
const bins = new Set(values.map(
(v) => Math.max(0, Math.min(4, Math.floor((v - rLo) / (rHi - rLo) * 5)))));
const filled = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4].map((i) => (bins.has(i) ? '█' : '·')).join('');
const span = (hi - lo) / (rHi - rLo);
console.log(` ${axis.label.padEnd(15)} ${filled} ${lo.toFixed(2)}${hi.toFixed(2)}` +
` spans ${(span * 100).toFixed(0)}% of ${rLo}${rHi}`);
console.log(` ${''.padEnd(15)} reads: ${axis.reads}`);
if (bins.size < 3) problems.push(`${axis.label} occupies only ${bins.size}/5 of its range`);
}
// --- what the bank CANNOT decouple ----------------------------------------
// Spread on every axis is not the same as covering the space. Two axes that
// move together mean whole combinations are unrepresentable, and a downstream
// test would then attribute to the generator what is really a hole in the bank.
//
// One correlation here is a property of the ANALYSER and cannot be engineered
// away. Flatness is the geometric mean of the spectrum over its arithmetic
// mean, taken across the whole band, so a signal only measures flat if it has
// energy everywhere — which is the same thing as measuring bright. Adding a
// noise bed raises both, and band-limiting it to keep the centroid down empties
// the top of the spectrum and drops the flatness with it. Two attempts at
// decoupling (a steeper noise filter, then noise colour as its own axis) moved
// r from 0.95 to 0.94. Real material behaves the same way.
//
// So it is allowlisted with its reason rather than failed on, and anything NOT
// on the list still fails — the check is here to catch a bank that has
// collapsed, not to relitigate physics on every run.
console.log('\n AXIS CORRELATION — |r| near 1 means the bank cannot vary these independently\n');
const corr = (a, b) => {
const ma = a.reduce((x, y) => x + y, 0) / a.length;
const mb = b.reduce((x, y) => x + y, 0) / b.length;
let num = 0, da = 0, db = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
num += (a[i] - ma) * (b[i] - mb);
da += (a[i] - ma) ** 2;
db += (b[i] - mb) ** 2;
}
return num / (Math.sqrt(da * db) || 1e-9);
};
const series = Object.fromEntries(AXES.map(
(a) => [a.key, built.map((b) => b.measured[a.key])]));
const EXPECTED = {
'brightness↔noisiness':
'spectral flatness is measured across the whole band, so flat implies bright',
};
for (let i = 0; i < AXES.length; i++) {
for (let j = i + 1; j < AXES.length; j++) {
const r = corr(series[AXES[i].key], series[AXES[j].key]);
if (Math.abs(r) < 0.6) continue;
const key = `${AXES[i].label}${AXES[j].label}`;
const expected = EXPECTED[key];
console.log(` ${AXES[i].label}${AXES[j].label}: r = ${r.toFixed(2)}` +
(expected ? ` expected — ${expected}` : Math.abs(r) > 0.85 ? ' ← effectively one axis' : ''));
if (Math.abs(r) > 0.85 && !expected) {
problems.push(`${AXES[i].label} and ${AXES[j].label} are collinear (r ${r.toFixed(2)})`);
}
}
}
// Transition hardness is a spec input rather than a summary statistic, so it is
// reported rather than binned: how abruptly one section becomes the next is a
// genre difference the bank has to contain — an ambient record dissolves where a
// club record cuts — and a bank where every song cut would be testing the
// generator against one kind of music.
const soft = built.filter((b) => (b.transition ?? 0.5) <= 0.3).length;
const hard = built.filter((b) => (b.transition ?? 0.5) >= 0.7).length;
console.log(`\n transitions ${soft} soft · ${built.length - soft - hard} mid · ${hard} hard`);
if (!soft || !hard) problems.push('the bank has no ' + (soft ? 'hard' : 'soft') + ' transitions');
// Section kinds are the casting gate, so coverage of them is not optional: a
// bank with no drop cannot reach the geometric, glitch or structural families
// no matter how widely its tempo spreads.
const kinds = new Map();
for (const b of built) for (const k of b.measured.kinds) kinds.set(k, (kinds.get(k) || 0) + 1);
const ALL_KINDS = ['intro', 'build', 'drop', 'sustain', 'breakdown', 'outro'];
console.log(`\n section kinds ${ALL_KINDS.map((k) => (kinds.get(k) ? '█' : '·')).join('')} ` +
ALL_KINDS.map((k) => `${k} ${kinds.get(k) || 0}`).join(' · '));
const missing = ALL_KINDS.filter((k) => !kinds.get(k));
if (missing.length) problems.push(`no song produces: ${missing.join(', ')}`);
if (!CHECK_ONLY) {
writeFileSync(resolve(OUT, 'manifest.json'), JSON.stringify({
built: new Date().toISOString(),
duration: DURATION,
songs: built,
}, null, 2));
}
console.log('');
if (problems.length) {
console.log(' GAPS');
for (const p of problems) console.log(` ${p}`);
console.log('');
process.exitCode = 1;
} else {
console.log(` all ${AXES.length} axes and all ${ALL_KINDS.length} section kinds covered`);
if (!CHECK_ONLY) console.log(` wrote ${built.length} wav files + manifest.json to ${OUT}`);
console.log('');
}