music/exemplars/formula_cards/UNMATCHED__24_Xtransceiver.json
{
"schema": "formula-card/v1",
"consumer": "docs/proposals/music/MASTERPIECE_PROGRAM.md rung 2 (the archetype synthesis -> MASTERPIECE_STANDARD.md)",
"tier": "RUNG-1 MEASURED",
"legal_posture": "ANALYSIS FOR UNDERSTANDING ONLY. Audio lawfully obtained by Josh, read from disk, measured, and never copied, redistributed, or used as model input of any kind.",
"track_id": "UNMATCHED__24_Xtransceiver",
"title": null,
"game": null,
"composer": null,
"purpose_class": null,
"source_path": "D:\\audio\\exemplars\\iTunes_Sweep\\Compilations\\Pokémon Black & Pokémon White_ Super Mus\\24 Xtransceiver.m4a",
"sha256": "271febcdd011aa2fb797c050ab75bbd6d51af15477fa814c33ec5ccb6205dbbc",
"bytes": 688507,
"source_format": "mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2",
"source_codec": "aac",
"source_sample_rate_hz": 44100,
"source_channels": 2,
"lossless_source": false,
"analysis_sample_rate_hz": 22050,
"decoder": "ffmpeg.exe :: ffmpeg version 9.0-full_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2000-2026 the FFmpeg developers",
"measured_at": "2026-08-07T02:10:44+00:00",
"format_induced_limit": "lossy source (aac); high-band timbre figures carry codec artefacts and the card declares it",
"control": {
"controls_passed": 24,
"controls_total": 24,
"ran_at": "2026-08-06T20:41:42+00:00",
"ffmpeg_version": "ffmpeg version 9.0-full_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2000-2026 the FFmpeg developers",
"note": "This measurement is admissible only because the positive control recovered its planted answers in the same process, immediately before it."
},
"card": {
"duration_and_structure": {
"total_length_s": 5.027,
"section_boundaries_s": [
0.0,
2.902,
5.027
],
"section_count": 2,
"repeat_map": [
{
"section": 0,
"most_like_section": null,
"similarity": 0.0,
"is_repeat": false
},
{
"section": 1,
"most_like_section": 0,
"similarity": 0.9602,
"is_repeat": true
}
],
"novelty_peak_strength": [
1.0
],
"method": "checkerboard-kernel novelty over a chroma+MFCC self-similarity matrix"
},
"tempo_and_time_grammar": {
"tempo_function": {
"baseline_bpm": 25.09,
"curve_times_s": [
0.0,
0.37,
0.74,
1.11,
1.49,
1.86,
2.23,
2.6,
2.97,
3.34,
3.72,
4.09,
4.46,
4.83
],
"curve_bpm": [
117.45,
117.45,
25.09,
25.09,
25.09,
25.09,
25.09,
25.09,
25.09,
117.45,
117.45,
117.45,
117.45,
117.45
],
"adjustment_events": [
{
"position_s": 2.09,
"duration_s": 2.93,
"delta_bpm": 53.17,
"shape": "ramp"
}
],
"dispersion_bpm": 46.183,
"rubato_depth_bpm": 92.367
},
"global_bpm": 117.45,
"octave_ambiguity_note": "Beat trackers pick a metrical level, and half/double-time readings are a real and known property, not an error -- the rig's own control plants 120 bpm and this estimator returns 60. Every bar figure on this card (time-to-hook in bars, the complexity index's bar length) inherits whichever level was picked, so compare bar counts within a card, never across cards, until rung 2 pins the metrical level per class.",
"windowed_tempo_stability": {
"tempo_bpm_global": 117.45,
"tempo_bpm_median_local": 117.45,
"tempo_iqr_bpm": 0.0,
"tempo_stability": 1.0,
"beat_interval_cv": 0.0388
},
"dominant_onset_period_s": 2.3917,
"dominant_onset_period_bpm": 25.09,
"metre": {
"assumed": "4/4",
"measured": null,
"note": "Bar arithmetic on this card uses 4 beats per bar at the baseline tempo. The onset period beside it is MEASURED; the signature is not."
},
"groove": {
"swing_ratio": null,
"onset_rate_per_s": 10.717
}
},
"tonality": {
"key": "D#",
"mode": "minor",
"windowed_key_agreement": 1.0,
"modulation_note": "Windowed key agreement below ~0.7 is the modulation signal at rung 1; a pivot-chord map needs symbolic transcription (rung 2)."
},
"the_hook": {
"available": true,
"onset_s": 0.511,
"onset_bars": 0.05,
"pitch_contour": "DUUDUUUU-DDUUDU",
"interval_vocabulary_semitones": [
0,
1,
2,
4,
5,
7,
12
],
"intervals": [
-5.0,
5.0,
7.0,
-12.0,
2.0,
2.0,
1.0,
4.0,
0.0,
-4.0,
-5.0,
5.0,
7.0,
-12.0,
2.0
],
"range_semitones": 12.0,
"distinctive_deviation": {
"largest_interval_semitones": -12.0,
"at_note_index": 4,
"is_licensed_leap": true
}
},
"motif_economy": {
"self_similarity_peak": 0.7221,
"self_similarity_baseline": 0.5774,
"self_similarity_lift": 0.1448,
"recurrence_lag_s": 2.415,
"interval_3gram_repetition": 0.2,
"interval_4gram_repetition": 0.1429
},
"lane_analysis": {
"method": "spectral_band_proxy",
"confidence": "LOW-FOR-ROSTER, USABLE-FOR-ARRANGEMENT",
"method_note": "Section 11.1 requires the lane method be declared. Bands are not instruments: two instruments in one octave read as one lane, and one instrument spanning two octaves reads as two. Entry/exit and simultaneity shapes are trustworthy; a roster is not claimed.",
"lane_roster_bands": [
"sub",
"low_bass",
"bass",
"low_mid",
"mid",
"upper_mid",
"presence",
"brilliance",
"air",
"ultra"
],
"entry_exit_map": [
{
"lane": "sub",
"band_hz": [
20,
45
],
"entry_s": 0.488,
"exit_s": 3.692,
"active_fraction": 0.4101,
"segments": [
[
0.488,
1.718
],
[
2.902,
3.692
]
]
},
{
"lane": "low_bass",
"band_hz": [
45,
90
],
"entry_s": 0.488,
"exit_s": 3.669,
"active_fraction": 0.4194,
"segments": [
[
0.488,
1.765
],
[
2.879,
3.669
]
]
},
{
"lane": "bass",
"band_hz": [
90,
180
],
"entry_s": 0.488,
"exit_s": 3.715,
"active_fraction": 0.4286,
"segments": [
[
0.488,
1.765
],
[
2.879,
3.715
]
]
},
{
"lane": "low_mid",
"band_hz": [
180,
355
],
"entry_s": 0.488,
"exit_s": 3.669,
"active_fraction": 0.4194,
"segments": [
[
0.488,
1.765
],
[
2.879,
3.669
]
]
},
{
"lane": "mid",
"band_hz": [
355,
710
],
"entry_s": 0.488,
"exit_s": 3.646,
"active_fraction": 0.4055,
"segments": [
[
0.488,
1.718
],
[
2.879,
3.646
]
]
},
{
"lane": "upper_mid",
"band_hz": [
710,
1400
],
"entry_s": 0.488,
"exit_s": 3.715,
"active_fraction": 0.4332,
"segments": [
[
0.488,
1.788
],
[
2.879,
3.715
]
]
},
{
"lane": "presence",
"band_hz": [
1400,
2800
],
"entry_s": 0.604,
"exit_s": 3.646,
"active_fraction": 0.2903,
"segments": [
[
0.604,
1.37
],
[
2.995,
3.646
]
]
},
{
"lane": "brilliance",
"band_hz": [
2800,
5600
],
"entry_s": 0.488,
"exit_s": 3.622,
"active_fraction": 0.4147,
"segments": [
[
0.488,
1.788
],
[
2.879,
3.622
]
]
},
{
"lane": "air",
"band_hz": [
5600,
11200
],
"entry_s": 0.488,
"exit_s": 3.646,
"active_fraction": 0.4194,
"segments": [
[
0.488,
1.788
],
[
2.879,
3.646
]
]
}
],
"interlap_matrix": {
"sub|low_bass": 0.9565,
"sub|bass": 0.957,
"sub|low_mid": 0.9565,
"sub|mid": 0.9667,
"sub|upper_mid": 0.9468,
"sub|presence": 0.7079,
"sub|brilliance": 0.9247,
"sub|air": 0.9355,
"low_bass|bass": 0.9785,
"low_bass|low_mid": 1.0,
"low_bass|mid": 0.967,
"low_bass|upper_mid": 0.9681,
"low_bass|presence": 0.6923,
"low_bass|brilliance": 0.9674,
"low_bass|air": 0.9783,
"bass|low_mid": 0.9785,
"bass|mid": 0.9462,
"bass|upper_mid": 0.9894,
"bass|presence": 0.6774,
"bass|brilliance": 0.9468,
"bass|air": 0.9574,
"low_mid|mid": 0.967,
"low_mid|upper_mid": 0.9681,
"low_mid|presence": 0.6923,
"low_mid|brilliance": 0.9674,
"low_mid|air": 0.9783,
"mid|upper_mid": 0.9362,
"mid|presence": 0.7159,
"mid|brilliance": 0.956,
"mid|air": 0.967,
"upper_mid|presence": 0.6702,
"upper_mid|brilliance": 0.9574,
"upper_mid|air": 0.9681,
"presence|brilliance": 0.6813,
"presence|air": 0.6923,
"brilliance|air": 0.989
},
"simultaneity_curve": {
"times_s": [
0.0,
0.186,
0.372,
0.557,
0.743,
0.929,
1.115,
1.3,
1.486,
1.672,
1.858,
2.043,
2.229,
2.415,
2.601,
2.786,
2.972,
3.158,
3.344,
3.529,
3.715,
3.901,
4.087,
4.272,
4.458,
4.644,
4.83,
5.016
],
"lanes": [
0,
0,
0,
8,
9,
9,
9,
9,
8,
8,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
8,
9,
9,
9,
2,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0
],
"max": 9,
"mean": 3.641
},
"register_spacing_octaves": [
1.085,
1.0,
0.99,
0.99,
0.99,
0.99,
1.0,
1.0
]
},
"event_grammar": {
"drops": [
{
"position": 0.3603,
"at_s": 1.811,
"db_delta": -29.03,
"lanes_removed": 7.25,
"bars_held_s": 0.72,
"re_enters_at_s": 2.531
},
{
"position": 0.8407,
"at_s": 4.226,
"db_delta": -85.75,
"lanes_removed": 1.22,
"bars_held_s": 0.209,
"re_enters_at_s": 4.435
}
],
"raises": [
{
"position": 0.1201,
"start_s": 0.604,
"end_s": 1.207,
"db_delta": 128.22,
"lanes_added": 7.29,
"slope_db_per_s": 212.378
},
{
"position": 0.6005,
"start_s": 3.019,
"end_s": 3.088,
"db_delta": 34.12,
"lanes_added": 6.88,
"slope_db_per_s": 489.818
}
],
"breaks": [
{
"position": 0.0,
"at_s": 0.0,
"duration_s": 0.441
},
{
"position": 0.4804,
"at_s": 2.415,
"duration_s": 0.441
},
{
"position": 0.8038,
"at_s": 4.04,
"duration_s": 0.975
}
],
"tuttis": [],
"silence_budget": {
"fraction": 0.3825,
"seconds": 1.923,
"threshold": "40 dB below the track's own p95 RMS",
"note": "Section 11.2 treats rest as a FIRST-CLASS parameter, not an absence."
},
"counts": {
"drops": 2,
"raises": 2,
"breaks": 3,
"tuttis": 0
}
},
"opening_and_flow_law": {
"onset_type": "fade_in",
"first_sound_at_s": 0.464,
"time_to_hook_s": 0.511,
"time_to_hook_bars": 0.05,
"time_to_full_texture_s": 0.604,
"time_to_full_texture_bars": 0.06,
"flow_curve": {
"definition": "energy = 0.45*density + 0.35*lane-simultaneity + 0.20*register, each normalised to the track's own maximum (section 11.4)",
"times_s": [
0.0,
0.74,
1.49,
2.23,
2.97,
3.72,
4.46
],
"values": [
0.0868,
0.7292,
0.707,
0.2415,
0.5974,
0.2971,
0.0931
],
"peak_position_normalised": 0.1898
}
},
"complexity_law": {
"available": false,
"reason": "track is under two bars at 25.1 bpm"
},
"texture_and_density": {
"note_rate_per_s": 3.581,
"melodic_salience": 0.8705,
"voiced_fraction": 0.4388,
"note_count": 18,
"mean_lanes": 3.641,
"max_lanes": 9
},
"dynamics": {
"dynamic_range_db_p95_minus_p10": 189.55,
"peak_position_normalised": 0.2407,
"peak_at_s": 1.207,
"arc_curve_db": [
-62.39,
-68.12,
-20.78,
-39.1,
-32.0,
-35.6,
-95.08
],
"arc_times_s": [
0.0,
0.74,
1.49,
2.23,
2.97,
3.72,
4.46
]
},
"register": {
"melody_span_semitones": 12.0,
"melody_tessitura_midi": 82.5,
"bass_floor_band": {
"sub": 3e-05,
"low_bass": 2e-05,
"bass": 0.00018,
"low_mid": 0.00022,
"mid": 0.00405,
"upper_mid": 0.75183,
"presence": 0.21253,
"brilliance": 0.02239,
"air": 0.00871,
"ultra": 0.0
},
"octave_band_profile": {
"sub": 3e-05,
"low_bass": 2e-05,
"bass": 0.00018,
"low_mid": 0.00022,
"mid": 0.00405,
"upper_mid": 0.75183,
"presence": 0.21253,
"brilliance": 0.02239,
"air": 0.00871,
"ultra": 0.0
}
},
"cadence_and_ending": {
"loop_seam": {
"measurable": true,
"seam_distance": 1.0,
"interior_distance_median": 0.21566,
"seam_ratio": 4.637,
"seam_clean": false,
"tail_rms_over_mid": 0.0,
"head_rms_over_mid": 0.0,
"tail_rms_trend": -0.515,
"head_rms_trend": 0.867,
"baked_fade_out": true,
"baked_fade_in": true
},
"ending": "baked_fade_out",
"cadence_census_note": "A cadence census needs harmonic transcription and is a rung-2 dimension; the seam measurement is what rung 1 can honestly report about how it ends."
},
"timbre": {
"spectral_centroid_hz_mean": 1885.4,
"spectral_centroid_curve_hz": [
0.0,
2917.9,
3113.0,
1519.0,
3156.5,
1841.9,
1067.4
],
"spectral_rolloff85_hz_mean": 3695.7,
"spectral_flatness_mean": 0.18747,
"signature_colour": "warm"
}
}
}