Groove, honest sensors, and real headroom

GROOVE (Paul: "maybe things need more groove... different tracks have different groove too"). The audit measured the problem: 247 of 274 genres had ZERO per-lane push/pull — bass sat on kick to within 0.31ms — so every genre shared one rhythmic feel with only tempo differing.

SWING — deliberately NOT raised, with evidence. In every jazz genre the RIDE plays only on the beat, so the knob cannot reach the instrument whose swing defines the music

• VOICE REPEAT GOVERNOR (Paul: "no vocal or textural sample should repeat more than five times in 64 bars... speech phrases looping ad nauseum").

• KICK -20% (Paul: "pretty enormous — it can grate"), one named constant after the existing hot-kit balance so it composes rather than fights.

MASTER BRICKWALL — the output exceeded full scale in 14.3% of loud 100ms windows (the limiter was a 2ms-attack compressor). A lookahead brickwall with a sliding minimum takes that to 0.00% with octave bands within +/-0.5dB

▶ Play it: Barometric Stampede → Smoke Arithmetic → Unblinking Interval — the three genres this change names, as one path https://stellate.app/?genre=jungle&seed=5731&path=1718.20526,292.16891,1956.22436&xdur=0.129

1165cad https://github.com/aboard-io/stellate/commit/1165cad38a10c460ff336641b85f104458ce9ac5