fix(core): separate Studio author and user audio gain - #3328
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… probes Builds on #3328, which made the preview graph apply author gain and user volume exactly once each. That ownership is now correct but everything is still clamped to 1.0, so a clip authored above unity cannot be heard or rendered. `HTMLMediaElement.volume` is spec-clamped to [0,1], so both timeline probes lost a clip's authored gain the moment it also carried a fade: the probe seeded the element at the clamped value and every sample read back at or below 0 dB, and the mixer prefers probed keyframes over the static volume. Both probes now shadow the accessor for their own duration and forward the clamped value to the native setter, so the authored gain survives while nothing outside the probe ever sees an illegal volume. Measured on one 6 s composition, first 4 s: unity -32.8 LUFS, boosted-with-fade -32.8 before and -27.0 after — +5.8 dB, exactly the gain the clip was authored at. One ceiling, defined once in `audioGain.ts` and reachable from both sides: the render mixer imports it, and the page-serialized probe takes it as a parameter rather than re-literalling it. User volume stays spec-clamped — it is a fader, not a gain. Also holds the percent volume slider above unity in both property panels. That control tops out at 100%, so one touch would cap a boosted clip and drop up to 12 dB that now genuinely renders; the dB fader that can represent these levels replaces it in the next PR.
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… probes Builds on #3328, which made the preview graph apply author gain and user volume exactly once each. That ownership is now correct but everything is still clamped to 1.0, so a clip authored above unity cannot be heard or rendered. `HTMLMediaElement.volume` is spec-clamped to [0,1], so both timeline probes lost a clip's authored gain the moment it also carried a fade: the probe seeded the element at the clamped value and every sample read back at or below 0 dB, and the mixer prefers probed keyframes over the static volume. Both probes now shadow the accessor for their own duration and forward the clamped value to the native setter, so the authored gain survives while nothing outside the probe ever sees an illegal volume. Measured on one 6 s composition, first 4 s: unity -32.8 LUFS, boosted-with-fade -32.8 before and -27.0 after — +5.8 dB, exactly the gain the clip was authored at. One ceiling, defined once in `audioGain.ts` and reachable from both sides: the render mixer imports it, and the page-serialized probe takes it as a parameter rather than re-literalling it. User volume stays spec-clamped — it is a fader, not a gain. Also holds the percent volume slider above unity in both property panels. That control tops out at 100%, so one touch would cap a boosted clip and drop up to 12 dB that now genuinely renders; the dB fader that can represent these levels replaces it in the next PR.
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… probes (#3333) * fix(audio): raise the authoring gain ceiling and carry it through the probes Builds on #3328, which made the preview graph apply author gain and user volume exactly once each. That ownership is now correct but everything is still clamped to 1.0, so a clip authored above unity cannot be heard or rendered. `HTMLMediaElement.volume` is spec-clamped to [0,1], so both timeline probes lost a clip's authored gain the moment it also carried a fade: the probe seeded the element at the clamped value and every sample read back at or below 0 dB, and the mixer prefers probed keyframes over the static volume. Both probes now shadow the accessor for their own duration and forward the clamped value to the native setter, so the authored gain survives while nothing outside the probe ever sees an illegal volume. Measured on one 6 s composition, first 4 s: unity -32.8 LUFS, boosted-with-fade -32.8 before and -27.0 after — +5.8 dB, exactly the gain the clip was authored at. One ceiling, defined once in `audioGain.ts` and reachable from both sides: the render mixer imports it, and the page-serialized probe takes it as a parameter rather than re-literalling it. User volume stays spec-clamped — it is a fader, not a gain. Also holds the percent volume slider above unity in both property panels. That control tops out at 100%, so one touch would cap a boosted clip and drop up to 12 dB that now genuinely renders; the dB fader that can represent these levels replaces it in the next PR. * fix(audio): carry a static above-unity gain onto the preview gain node Review follow-up. `setElementVolume` receives the clip's author gain and clamped it to [0,1], so a static `data-volume` above unity was capped on the WebAudio preview path while the render honoured it — the exact preview/render divergence this ceiling exists to close. Automation lanes hid it: they schedule ramps onto the param directly and never pass through here. The master volume beside it stays spec-clamped, because a user fader is not a gain. Verified by mutation: restoring the [0,1] clamp reds the new case. Also scope the leveller's rationale to this rung — `VOLUME_RANGE` still stops at unity until the dB fader lands, so "both now span the same range" was premature — and say why the GSAP-tracking fallback is unity-capped: it reads back through `el.volume`, which the spec pins to [0,1], so it cannot observe an above-unity value however wide the clamp gets. * fix(audio): restore the live test files this branch overwrote, and uncap preview Review blocker: three files were wholesale copies from the abandoned #3304 branch laid over a two-day-newer base, so they silently reverted work that had landed in between. CI could not see it — deleted tests do not fail. - `audioMixer.test.ts` was byte-identical to #3304's head: 1186 lines against a base of 1353. Gone with it were the `data-playback-start` fallthrough cases from #3322 — merged 54 minutes before this branch's own merge base — and all retiming coverage (`playbackRate` 7 to 0, `atempo` 5 to 0), the strict literal-timing table, and the zero-window cases. - `mediaVolumeEnvelope.test.ts` dropped the trailing-garbage duration case and the plateau-retention case. - `packages/core/package.json` rolled the package version back 0.8.3 to 0.7.109. All three are restored from `main` with only this PR's additions re-applied on top, and the subpath export is regenerated by the repo's own script rather than hand-edited. Also closes the preview/render split the same review raised. Two clamps had to go, not one: `setElementVolume` capped the author gain at the transport, and the first-tick branch in `syncRuntimeMedia` trusted `el.volume` — which is spec-bound to [0,1] and so cannot represent a boost, opening a boosted clip at 0 dB for one tick before the steady-state branch took over. Both pinned by tests, both verified by mutation.
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What
Fixes HyperFrames Studio preview volume so authored track gain and Studio user volume are each applied exactly once.
Why
The browser-native WebAudio route already preserves voice pitch, but it multiplied Studio user volume into the per-element gain and then applied the same user volume again at the master. An authored gain of
0.8with user volume0.5therefore produced0.2instead of0.4.How
Test plan
Unit tests added/updated
Manual testing performed
Documentation not needed (runtime ownership correction only)
Focused runtime tests: 216/216
Full runtime gate: 946/946
Full core suite: 2,396/2,396
Exact Studio browser graph: element
0.8× master0.5=0.400000006for authored and automated volumeExact Studio loudness: user
1.0to0.5measures-6.0 dBfor authored and automated volumeUser zero/unmute and mute/unmute restore the same
0.4effective outputFull repository format, lint, build, typecheck, and hooks passed