# TODO: pages that don't exist yet A wish list of new pages and folder-wide features for Fieldwork. The ideas are ranked, and each one is specific enough to start from. These are ideas, not promises. Each one follows the house rules: **one self-contained `.html` file**, every sound synthesized with Web Audio, offline, and **labs that measure what they argue**. If a page can't show its claim with a meter, a counter or an A/B, it isn't ready yet. ## Where the gaps are Today the folder covers **writing parts** (V2, V3, Trance, Orbit for arps), **drums and low end** (The Kit, Rumble, Low End, Groove), **sound design** (Serum, Patch, The Cut) and **arranging** (Arc, Build Order, The Move). It has almost nothing on: | Missing | Why it hurts | |---|---| | Mixing, space (reverb/delay), loudness | Users can write an idea here but can't finish it. | | Ear training | Every guide says "listen for it" but nothing teaches you to hear it. | | Performance and jamming | Everything is step-edited; nothing is played live. | | Vocals | Mentioned in The Cut. Talk now turns your own spoken line into hooks; singing, formant synthesis and vocoding are still missing. | | Genre rooms beyond trance and disco house | Garage, breaks, acid, dub techno and amapiano appear only as rows in the Pattern Bank. | --- ## Tier 1: finish the chain ### 1. `space.html` — **Room** · reverb and delay as arrangement The argument: space is a part you write, not a coat of paint. - **Tail-vs-kick meter.** A reverb on the clap, with a live readout of how much tail energy below 250 Hz overlaps the next kick. Sweep decay and pre-delay and watch the kick lose its punch as a number. - **Pre-delay as groove.** Pre-delay snapped to 1/64 … 1/8 at the current BPM, so you hear the tail land *on* a 16th instead of smearing between them. - **Dub throw performer.** Hold a key to open the send to a filtered feedback delay and let go to hear it tail out. Record the throws and export them as a MIDI CC lane. - **Ducked reverb, gated reverb, reverse swell and freeze** as four A/B demos. - **Haas and width lab** with a mono-fold button and a correlation meter, so you hear width vanish in a club. - The impulse responses are generated algorithmically (decaying noise with filtered early reflections), so there are still no audio files. - A **delay-time table** in ms and Hz for every note value at any BPM (straight, dotted and triplet), ready for Live's Delay and Echo. ### 2. `mixdown.html` — **The Balance** · mixing as a game you can lose - **Broken mix.** A synthesized eight-stem track (kick, bass, hats, clap, chords, lead, pad, FX) loads with its faders deliberately wrong. You fix it by ear, then press **Reveal**: the page scores your balance against the reference, stem by stem, in dB. - **Masking map.** A live heat map of how much each pair of stems collides in each frequency band. Click a hot cell to solo the two stems and hear the collision. - **Pink-noise balancing.** The classic trick, done live, with the page measuring how close you got. - **Mute-one-thing.** The page drops one stem by 3 dB and you name which one. Levels get harder as you score. - **Mono, phone speaker and club** monitoring simulations (band-limited and summed), switchable in the transport. - Export: fader positions as a text recipe, plus stems as WAV. ### 3. `loudness.html` — **Headroom** · mastering without superstition - **Real meters in JavaScript**: K-weighted integrated, short-term and momentary LUFS, true peak (4× oversampled), crest factor and PLR. - **Normalization simulator.** Push a master hard, then hear it turned down to −14 LUFS (Spotify), −16 LUFS (Apple) and "club": the loud version loses. The penalty is shown in dB. - **Clipper vs limiter vs soft-clip.** Three A/Bs at matched loudness, with the added harmonic distortion measured. - **Drop your own WAV/MP3** (File API, stays on your machine) to get the same meters on your bounce, plus an "is it ready for a DJ" checklist. ### 4. `tension.html` — **Tension** · the sound of a transition Arc's Transitions lab covers *where* transitions go. This page covers the sounds that make them. - **Riser forge.** Noise sweep, pitch riser, **Shepard tone** (a riser that climbs forever) and a filtered supersaw build, each with length snapped to 4/8/16 bars. - **Snare roll generator.** Accelerating rolls (8ths to 16ths to 32nds to 64ths) with velocity and pitch curves, exported as MIDI. - **Downlifters, impacts, reverse crashes, tape stops and "the silence before the drop"**, with the length of that silence measured in beats. - **Tension meter.** A composite of spectral centroid, density and loudness drawn across the build. Remove one layer and watch the curve go flat. - Export: rolls as MIDI, risers as WAV, filter sweeps as MIDI CC. --- ## Tier 2: train the ear ### 5. `ear.html` — **Ear Gym** · five minutes a day, electronic music only Ear training built for this genre, not for conservatory interval drills. - **Drills:** which band was boosted (EQ), which 16th is the ghost note, swing % (50/54/58/62), compressor attack fast vs slow, stab quality (min7 / sus / add9), which part is out of key, kick-bass phase in or out, tap the BPM, 909 vs 808 vs 707. - **Spaced repetition** in `localStorage`, a streak, and a **weakness heat map**. - **Missed a drill? Go read it.** Every drill links to the guide section that teaches it (Low End's phase lab, Groove's swing section, Voicing's chord shapes). - **Level exams** (Bronze to Club-ready), unlocked by accuracy over the last 50 answers. ### 6. `xray.html` — **X-Ray** · look inside a reference track ✅ built Shipped: see [XRAY.md](XRAY.md). Its companion, **Blueprint** (`blueprint.html`), now draws a reference's arrangement and finds every transition move; see [BLUEPRINT.md](BLUEPRINT.md). The next steps for it: tempo maps for live-played tracks, a per-section key-change detector, and `.als` export once the folder-wide Live Set exporter exists. --- ## Tier 3: play it, don't program it ### 7. `jam.html` — **Live Rig** · a performance instrument - An eight-channel groovebox built from the existing engines: drums from The Kit, basses from Rumble, stabs from Voicing. It has scenes, mutes, solos, per-channel filter and send throws, and one **big macro**. - **Web MIDI in**, so any controller can be mapped with MIDI-learn. It is fully playable from the computer keyboard too. - **Record the performance.** Export it as a multi-track MIDI arrangement, with filter and send moves as CC lanes. A 20-minute jam becomes an Ableton arrangement. - **Challenges:** "keep the floor for 64 bars using only mutes", "build a drop with nothing but one filter", "the three-deck 909 routine". ### 8. `blend.html` — **Blend** · write tracks DJs can actually mix - Two decks with synthesized tracks and a **bass-swap lab**. Hear what happens when two sub lines play at once, measured by the meter from Low End. - **Phrase check.** Does your intro give 16 or 32 bars of clean kick? The page flags the bars that trip a mix. - **Harmonic mixing** across the Camelot wheel (linking In Key), with a "mix into this key" suggestion. - **DJ-friendly intro and outro templates** exported as MIDI. --- ## Tier 4: genre rooms (the `trance.html` treatment) Each room gets studies, treatments, sound recipes, artist *perspectives* (principles, never copies), arrangement maps and a MIDI pack. | File | Name | What makes it more than a preset list | |---|---|---| | `acid.html` | **303** | A sequencer with real TB-303 semantics: accent drives cutoff-envelope depth *and* volume, slide ties notes with an exponential glide, and the accent sweep circuit is modelled. A "musically constrained" randomizer. Cutoff and resonance export as CC. | | `dub-techno.html` | **Chord & Echo** | A chord stab feeding a delay network with a filter *inside* the feedback loop, plus tape wow and flutter and hiss. Shows how one chord becomes eight minutes. | | `garage.html` | **2-Step** | The skipped-kick shuffle lab, organ and bassline wobble bass, vocal-chop rhythm generator, and speed garage and UK bassline variants. | | `breaks.html` | **Break Surgery** | Synthesized breakbeats you chop, re-sequence and ghost at 160–175 BPM. The jungle edit grid, Reese at speed, and a "time-stretch vs repitch" A/B. | | `amapiano.html` | **Log Drum** | Log drum synthesis (the pitch-bent, filtered decay), shaker grids, 3:2 and 6:8-over-4/4 polyrhythm lab, and the "slow build that never drops". | | `talk.html` | **Talk** ✅ built | The tech house room: talking formant bass and mic-to-hook. See [TALK.md](TALK.md). Next: the bass answering the vocal's pitch, a vowel drawn per note, and a Live Set export. | | `melodic.html` | **Afterglow** | Melodic techno and progressive house: long-form energy curves and the 7-minute build. (The 64-bar evolving arp itself now lives in [Orbit](orbit.html): gate, octave, note-count and cutoff lanes, exported as CC.) | --- ## Tier 5: go somewhere new ### 9. `voice.html` — **Voice** · vocals without a singer Talk's mic booth covers chopping, pitching and placing your own spoken line. This page is still the place for vocals with no recording at all. - A **formant synthesizer** that speaks vowels and simple syllables, so chops, "oh-ah" pads and one-word hooks work with no samples. - **Chop-to-hook.** Slice a synthesized phrase, re-sequence it rhythmically and export a Simpler slice map as MIDI. - A **vocoder**, a **talk box** and **hard-tuned pitch as an instrument**, each as an A/B. - Sections on writing a four-word hook and on where a vocal sits against the lead. ### 10. `off-grid.html` — **Off-Grid** · tunings beyond 12-TET - Just intonation, maqam (Rast, Bayati), gamelan pelog and slendro, Bohlen–Pierce and 31-EDO. Each plays through a synth and a drone, so you hear what the 12-note grid rounds off. - **Exports `.ascl` tuning files** for Live 12's tuning system, plus MIDI written in that tuning. - A **beat-frequency lab**: two sines at equal-tempered vs just intervals, with the beating counted in Hz. ### 11. `garden.html` — **Garden** · generative and ambient long-form - Probability sequencing, Eno-style loops of co-prime lengths (17 : 23 : 29 bars), and "never repeats for 3 hours" arithmetic shown on screen. - **Render an hour** to WAV offline. Export seeded MIDI variations. - The "one rule per part" composition method. ### 12. `lineage.html` — **Lineage** · the family tree, playable - An interactive map of electronic dance music from 1977 to today: disco → Chicago → Detroit → acid → rave → jungle → garage → minimal → dubstep → amapiano → … - Each node plays a **synthesized four-bar signature** (the defining drum pattern, bass and stab) and links to the room or study that teaches it. - A **"what changed"** diff between a parent and a child genre, reusing The Kit's morph-lab structure/texture idea across genres. ### 13. `daily.html` — **Daily Seed** · one prompt, every day - The date seeds a **key, tempo, motif (from the V3 engine), constraint and deadline**. Everyone who opens it on the same day gets the same seed. - A 20-minute timer, an archive of past seeds in `localStorage`, and a streak. - Constraints like "no chords", "only one synth", "the bass is the lead" and "write the break first". ### 14. `unstuck.html` — **Oblique** · escape the 8-bar loop - Tick what's true about your loop (it's full, it's flat, the drop is weak, it's too busy…). The page deals **three concrete moves** from a deck of about 100, each an exact Ableton action that links to the page section that teaches it. - **Timer mode:** "30-minute arrangement" deals a move every five minutes. - It gathers the fixes the diagnosis tables in Low End, Serum, The Cut and Patch already give. --- ## Folder-wide features - **Global "I have a problem" search.** One index built by `site/build.mjs` from every page's headings and diagnosis tables, searchable from the home page. - **Send between pages.** Encode a motif, pattern or patch in the URL hash so a V3 motif opens in Tension, a Kit pattern opens in Live Rig, and so on. There is no server, and it works from `file://`. - **Web MIDI out** from every studio, so you can play straight into Ableton over IAC or loopMIDI while you audition. - **Ableton Live Set export (`.als`).** A Live Set is gzipped XML, which `CompressionStream` can write. A skeleton set with named tracks, locators from the arrangement map, and the MIDI clips already in place would be a big step up from separate MIDI files. The format is undocumented, so version it and test it against Live 11 and 12. - **Printable cheat cards.** A print stylesheet so every guide prints as one A4 card for the studio wall. - **Shortcut overlay.** Press ? on any page to see its keys. --- ## Picking up an item 1. Build it as one `.html` file in the root, or as a `*-src/` folder with a `build.mjs` if it is data-heavy. 2. Add it to a section in `site/catalog.mjs`, and to `NAV` if it earns a top-bar slot. 3. Run `node site/build.mjs`, then `node site/check.mjs`. 4. Write its notes file (`NAME.md`) and add it to `DOCS`. 5. Move the item from this list into the README's release history.