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Listenability Guarantees

A deterministic system left unbounded will eventually produce something unlistenable. Listenability bounds are the creator's commitment, fixed before launch and hashed into the record, that the output stays inside a stated envelope.

• · Scale and root; the pitch set the mapping is allowed to use.
• · Tempo range; the minimum and maximum rate of event generation.
• · Maximum simultaneous voices; a hard ceiling on density.
• · Attack and release; the envelope applied to every voice.
• · Quantization; whether events are snapped to the declared grid.

Defaults and overrides#

Each model class carries safe defaults. A creator may override them, but any frequency launched without quantization carries a permanent [experimental; unquantized] tag that follows it everywhere on the site. The tag is not a warning about quality; it states that the output is not constrained to a grid.

What a guarantee is not#

Bounds constrain the mapping from state to sound. They do not promise the result is good, and they do not restrict what the underlying system does internally.