monsterrobotparty a039ee7d7c Add dark/yang data, concept groups, named templates, editing console, Strudel kit

- world_debt.py + world_econ.py: US national debt + inflation (the dark half)
- concept groups: "the shadow" / "the bright" — group sources by feeling
- named templates: hub save_patch/load_patch + console TEMPLATES panel
- editing console: runtime add/remove/set route + make_group; drag-to-patch,
  shift-click inspector, cmd-select grouping in the viz
- planetary orbital LFOs per group; almanac + ephemeris workers
- Web MIDI (out + learn) in the console; strudel/godstrument.md starter kit

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-05 02:25:19 +10:00

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Godstrument → Strudel (and any MIDI synth)

The destinations aren't sound on their own — they're control signals looking for a voice. The ⚙ panel's Web MIDI out already streams every destination to a MIDI port as CC (and lead.note/bass.note as notes). So any synth that speaks MIDI becomes an output that "receives sources": a hardware synth, a software instrument, Ableton — or Strudel, which reads MIDI natively and is free/open/self-hostable (fits the whole ethos).

Setup (Strudel as the sound engine, no Ableton)

In config.json set "midi": { "enabled": true } (or just use the browser Web MIDI out from the ⚙ panel — either sends the same CCs).
On macOS, open Audio MIDI Setup → MIDI Studio, double-click IAC Driver, tick Device is online. That's your virtual cable.
In the ⚙ panel: enable MIDI, pick the IAC bus as out.
Open strudel.cc (or your self-hosted Strudel), allow MIDI, set its input to the IAC bus, and paste the pattern below.

The CC map (from `config.json` → `midi.map`)

destination	CC	driven by (in the starter patch)
filter.cutoff	74	the sun / your hand
pad.brightness	71	daylight, harmony, almanac fertility
wavetable.morph	70	your hand / Mars / almanac element
delay.feedback	93	your hand Y / Mercury retrograde
reverb.size	91	room light / quakes
saturation	75	Delhi's air / debt churn
granular.density	76	Wikipedia edit rate
perc.density	77	your dealgod market / crypto volatility
tempo.nudge	78	market activity / inflation
drone.voices	79	aircraft / population / the debt's weight
lfo.rate	72	wind / the Moon rising & falling
glitch	73	retrogrades / wiki edits / light flashes
master.space	94	the moon phase / quakes / inflation
lead.note	note, ch 0	your market, quantized (G dorian)
bass.note	note, ch 1	earthquake depth, quantized

A starter pattern

// bind the hub's CCs (adjust the input-binding call to your Strudel version;
// ccn(n) returns 0..1 for controller n on the selected MIDI input)
setcps(0.5)

const cutoff = ccn(74), bright = ccn(71), morph = ccn(70)
const grit   = ccn(75), perc = ccn(77), drone = ccn(79)
const space  = ccn(94), lfo  = ccn(72), glitch = ccn(73)

stack(
  // LEAD — your market plays it (note on channel 0)
  note(notein()).s("sawtooth")
    .cutoff(cutoff.range(300, 5000)).lpq(morph.range(2, 12)).gain(0.5),

  // PAD — light / almanac brightness
  n("0 3 7 10").scale("C:dorian").s("gm_pad_warm")
    .room(space.range(0, 0.9)).gain(bright.range(0.15, 0.6)),

  // DRONE — the weight of the debt
  n("0").scale("C:dorian").s("sawtooth").cutoff(180)
    .gain(drone.range(0, 0.45)).room(0.7),

  // HATS — dealgod market activity drives density
  s("hh*8").gain(perc.range(0, 0.9)).pan(sine.fast(lfo.range(0.2, 4)))
).distort(grit.range(0, 2.5)).sometimesBy(glitch.range(0, 0.4), x => x.crush(4))

No-MIDI alternative (custom web-audio synth)

If you'd rather build your own voices, the hub also broadcasts every value on ws://localhost:8765 as JSON (dests, sources, macros). A ~30-line page can open that socket and feed the numbers straight into Web Audio nodes — no MIDI, no IAC. Ask and I'll scaffold it.

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