The painter existed as of the previous commit but nothing called it, which is exactly
how the surface went dark in the first place: the only LED path was the Pulsar HUD, so
the board was lit only when the editor happened to be open AND its frame pipeline was
healthy. #57 says that pipeline latches an early empty frame. A rig whose feedback
depends on an editor being up is a rig with no feedback.
So both boot paths paint now:
* tools/tidal-remote.py boot becomes a 5-step dance — reboot, wait for BootTidal, seed
the surface (lcxl-init), PAINT it (lcxl-leds --map <track>), eval. Order matters and
is unchanged in spirit: the seed gives every `^NN` a value instead of `silence`, and
the paint makes that state visible. Per-track, so the board is a map of the file
about to play: dark = this track does not bind that control.
* gig-up.sh paints at step 2b, the moment the rig owns MIDI — BEFORE Ardour and Pulsar
are even launched, using the no-track CONVENTION paint so there is always something
to look at. GIG_LEDS=watch additionally starts the touch-reactive daemon (log →
gig-leds.log, gitignored); GIG_LEDS=off skips the whole thing.
Both call sites are NON-FATAL on failure and say so out loud. LEDs are feedback, not
sound: a dark board is annoying, a boot that aborts because of a dark board is a lost
gig. gig-up additionally names the one thing software cannot fix — if input works but
the board stays dark, that is a USB OUT endpoint stall and only a REPLUG clears it.
Both messages refuse to claim success: "a clean exit is not a lit LED". amidi/aseqsend
returning 0 means the bytes left the machine, nothing more.
Validation: bash -n on gig-up.sh, ast.parse on tidal-remote.py, and the paint command
itself run against the live device (rc=0, 40 LEDs in one 89-byte SysEx write). NOT run:
tidal-remote boot, deliberately — PLN is measuring audio in this same rig right now and
a reboot would trash his results. The 5-step path is verified structurally, not live.
