Run 6 through the whole gate. 150 samples in 43 kits across 9 tracks, staged at
`~/Work/Sound/Samples/Fred/output/<kit>/` and symlinked into Dirt-Samples, so
`s "fred_marea_drums" # n 3` resolves right now.
restage --dry-run 0 of 43 kits (idempotent, as designed)
grade re-run S×84 A×28 B×38 · manifest matches the audio on disk, 0 mismatches
kitcheck 144 clean, 6 advisory, 0 failing · 150 of 150 distinct sounds
n indices 43 kit dirs hold exactly their 150 manifest files
bank-check "No shadowed bank names. Every `s \"name\"` is unambiguous."
rights 43 of 43 third_party, with provenance — per-track release blocks
MAREA is the ground truth: it declares `123BPM` in its filenames and the grid read
**123.0**. PLEASEMAKEITBETTER read 20% tempo confidence and correctly shipped chops
only. Nothing in the pack now sits below **-63.7 dBFS** peak, where run 3 had files at
-104.
**The gate had to be restructured before it would pass, and not by loosening it.** It
blocked all 150 samples on 20 `near-silent` and 17 `mono-incompatible` files, none of
which was broken. That is a category error I built in: a kit is gain-staged as a unit
and deliberately never boosted, so its quiet members are quiet *on purpose*; and low
interchannel correlation in a vocal double or a stereo pad is the width someone paid
for. So the rule is now explicit — **the gate blocks on defects, reports properties.**
Defects, which block: `clipping`, `empty`, and `mono-incompatible` **on bass only**,
where summing to mono on a house PA kills the fundamental and nobody chose that.
Properties, which are printed with the numbers that let PLN judge them by eye and go
straight into La Cale's audition-first list: 20 near-silent (crest 14-34 dB — sparse,
not silent), 17 wide (corr -0.35…+0.19), 2 marginal seams (+7.7 and +6.7 dB, where the
threshold for an audible click is +20).
Also dropped a false positive: `off-grid` on something the manifest calls a chop. A
sub-bar one-shot has no bar grid to be off; `grade` guesses from duration, the manifest
knows, so the manifest wins.
The 6 kitcheck advisories are all weak bar periodicity on sustained material (pads,
keys, synth) plus two MAREA drum loops at 0.08-0.12 against a 0.30 floor — bar-aligned
but not repeating units. Those two are the first rows to audition.
Blocking a pack on a property is not the cautious direction. It is a gate nobody can
pass, which is a gate everybody learns to ignore.
Suite 125 → 128.
