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package/mcp_server/atlas/enrichments/audio_effects/pitch_hack.yaml

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+id: pitch_hack
+name: Pitch Hack
+sonic_description: >
+  Versatile pitch-shifting delay for Creative Extensions. Combines
+  transposition, reverse, feedback, and randomization on a single delay
+  line. Lighter-weight companion to PitchLoop89 — less of a spatial
+  architect, more of a per-sound treatment for pitched echoes and random
+  reversal textures. The go-to for Akufen-style micro-stutter on hats and
+  the random-reverse pitched ghosts that Villalobos uses on every track.
+category: pitch_delay
+character_tags: [pitched, glitchy, reversed, randomized, micro_stutter]
+use_cases: [akufen_stutter, pitched_ghost, reverse_echo, textural_delay]
+genre_affinity:
+  primary: [microhouse, deep_minimal, idm, experimental]
+  secondary: [dub_techno, electronica]
+complexity: beginner
+introduced_in: "10.0"
+pack: Creative Extensions
+creator: Ableton + Amazing Noises
+class_name: PluginDevice
+
+key_parameters:
+  - name: "Transpose"
+    description: "Pitch shift in semitones + cents on the delayed signal."
+    range: [-24, 24]
+    unit: "st"
+    type: int
+  - name: "Delay Time"
+    description: "Delay in ms or tempo-synced subdivisions."
+  - name: "Feedback"
+    description: "Pitched echo feedback. Cascading when transpose is non-zero."
+    range: [0.0, 1.0]
+    type: float
+  - name: "Reverse"
+    description: "Reverse-plays the delay buffer."
+    type: boolean
+  - name: "Randomize"
+    description: "Randomizes pitch and/or reverse per repeat. The Villalobos-texture parameter."
+    range: [0.0, 1.0]
+    type: float
+
+signature_techniques:
+  - name: "Akufen micro-stutter on hats"
+    description: "Short delay (~50ms), Feedback 0.4, Randomize 0.6 → every hi-hat hit gets 2-3 unpredictable pitched ghost echoes."
+    aesthetic: [microhouse]
+  - name: "Ghost chord tails"
+    description: "Chord stab → Reverse on, Transpose +3st, Feedback 0.5 → pitched reverse ghost trails fade out after each stab."
+    aesthetic: [deep_minimal]
+  - name: "Random pitched percussion"
+    description: "Put on a clave or click → Randomize full → each hit decays into a different pitched echo pattern."
+    aesthetic: [microhouse, idm]
+
+pairings:
+  - device: spectral_blur
+    rationale: "Feed Pitch Hack's random-pitched output into Spectral Blur's halo for ghost atmospheres under the kick."
+
+gotchas:
+  - "Randomize above 0.8 can produce notes wildly out of key — gate with key-detection first if harmony matters."
+
+learn_more:
+  official: "https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/creative-extensions/"

package/mcp_server/atlas/enrichments/audio_effects/pitchloop89.yaml

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+id: pitchloop89
+name: PitchLoop89
+sonic_description: >
+  Robert Henke's emulation of the 1979 Publison DHM 89 B2 pitch-shifting delay.
+  Two independent pitch-shifting delay voices per stereo channel, each with
+  their own pitch (±24 semitones), fine detune (±1 semitone), feedback, pan,
+  and reverse capability. Sample rate selection, hold function, vibrato LFO
+  (sine/square), position modulation LFO with 7 waveforms. THE tool for
+  Monolake-style detuned delay clouds, Basic Channel spatial signatures,
+  and Arpiar-adjacent shimmered stabs.
+category: pitch_delay
+character_tags: [detuned, shimmering, glitchy, spatial, pitched, experimental, vintage_digital]
+use_cases: [stab_shimmer, detuned_echo, reverse_tail, infinite_feedback, glitched_texture]
+genre_affinity:
+  primary: [deep_minimal, dub_techno, ambient, experimental]
+  secondary: [microhouse, idm, drone, cinematic]
+complexity: intermediate
+introduced_in: "11.0"
+pack: PitchLoop89
+creator: Robert Henke
+class_name: PluginDevice
+
+key_parameters:
+  - name: "Pitch A / Pitch B"
+    description: "Coarse pitch shift per voice, in semitones. Two voices mean you can split: one +0.05 cents shimmer, one -0.07 cents detune for dual-detune clouds."
+    range: [-24, 24]
+    unit: "st"
+    type: int
+    sweet_spots:
+      dual_detune_cloud: "+0.05 / -0.07 cents"
+      octave_shimmer: "+12 / +0"
+      reverse_ambience: "+0 / +0 with reverse on"
+
+  - name: "Fine A / Fine B"
+    description: "Fine detune per voice in cents (±100)."
+    range: [-100, 100]
+    unit: "cents"
+    type: int
+    sweet_spots:
+      shimmer: "+5 / -7"
+      chorus_thick: "+15 / -15"
+
+  - name: "Feedback A / Feedback B"
+    description: "Per-voice feedback. High values (80-95%) produce infinite-ascending or descending pitch spirals. Shepard-tone territory."
+    range: [0.0, 1.0]
+    type: float
+    sweet_spots:
+      subtle_echo: 0.35
+      pitched_spiral: 0.85
+      near_infinite: 0.97
+
+  - name: "Reverse"
+    description: "Per-voice reverse playback. Reverses the delay buffer before pitch shift — creates 'reverse swell' tails from any transient."
+    type: boolean
+    sweet_spots:
+      chord_swell_in: true
+
+  - name: "Mode"
+    description: "Signal routing: L/R (independent), Sum (both voices sum to mono), Cross (voice A to R out, voice B to L out, stereo ping-pong at different pitches)."
+    range: ["L/R", "Sum", "Cross"]
+    type: enum
+    sweet_spots:
+      stereo_ping_pong: "Cross"
+      mono_layer: "Sum"
+
+  - name: "Sample Rate"
+    description: "Buffer sample rate reduction. Lower values add characterful lo-fi grit — emulates the original Publison's digital artifacts."
+    range: [1, 44100]
+    unit: "Hz"
+    type: int
+    sweet_spots:
+      vintage_89: 12000
+      heavy_lofi: 4000
+
+  - name: "Vibrato LFO"
+    description: "Modulates pitch over time. Sine or square waveform; rate in Hz."
+    type: composite
+
+  - name: "Position LFO"
+    description: "Modulates the read position in the delay buffer. Seven waveforms including random. The source of the 'shuddering glitch' and 'fractured rhythm' textures Henke uses."
+    type: composite
+
+signature_techniques:
+  - name: "Shimmer on any stab"
+    description: "Put on a chord stab → Pitch A=0, Fine A=+5, Pitch B=0, Fine B=-7, Feedback both at 0.4 → instant detuned shimmer cloud that hangs after the stab."
+    aesthetic: [arpiar, microhouse, dub_techno]
+  - name: "Reverse-in on chords"
+    description: "Enable Reverse on both voices, short delay time → chord swells backwards in before the downbeat. Haunting Monolake effect."
+    aesthetic: [dub_techno, cinematic]
+  - name: "Infinite Shepard on clicks"
+    description: "Feed a single click → Feedback ~0.92, Pitch A=+12, Pitch B=0 → infinite ascending cascade. Classic Henke."
+    aesthetic: [experimental, idm]
+  - name: "Pitched ghost delay"
+    description: "Slow Position LFO with random waveform → delay buffer warps around, producing organic pitched ghosts that never repeat."
+    aesthetic: [deep_minimal, experimental]
+
+pairings:
+  - device: convolution_reverb
+    rationale: "PitchLoop89 feeding Convolution Reverb's Farfisa Spring IR = the Basic Channel / Monolake spatial chain."
+  - device: granulator_iii
+    rationale: "Layer after Granulator for detuned shimmer on top of grain clouds."
+  - device: utility
+    rationale: "Send a short-decay copy of the source to PitchLoop89 via a return track — leaves the original dry while the pitched tail trails."
+
+gotchas:
+  - "Feedback above 0.95 can self-oscillate into runaway loop — keep a hand on the mute"
+  - "Reverse mode introduces latency equal to the buffer length — sync-critical material needs delay compensation"
+  - "Sample Rate very low (<2000Hz) aliases heavily; character, not hi-fi"
+
+learn_more:
+  official: "https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/pitchloop89/"

package/mcp_server/atlas/enrichments/audio_effects/re_enveloper.yaml

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+id: re_enveloper
+name: Re-Enveloper
+sonic_description: >
+  Multiband envelope processor with three adjustable frequency bands. Unlike
+  compression (which reduces amplitude when over threshold), Re-Enveloper
+  reshapes envelope character itself — attack, sustain, decay — independently
+  per band. The right tool for 'shorten the decay of this sustained sound so
+  it behaves like a stab' or 'expand the transient on the highs only'.
+category: dynamics
+character_tags: [multiband, envelope_shaping, transient, sculpted]
+use_cases: [transient_shape, decay_control, per_band_dynamics, micro_stab]
+genre_affinity:
+  primary: [minimal, dub_techno, electronica]
+  secondary: [all_genres]
+complexity: intermediate
+introduced_in: "10.0"
+pack: Creative Extensions
+creator: Ableton + Amazing Noises
+class_name: PluginDevice
+
+key_parameters:
+  - name: "Band Split Frequencies"
+    description: "Low/Mid and Mid/High crossover points in Hz."
+    range: [20, 20000]
+    unit: "Hz"
+    type: float
+  - name: "C/E Factor (per band)"
+    description: "Compression (positive) or Expansion (negative) factor per band."
+    range: [-5.0, 5.0]
+    type: float
+    sweet_spots:
+      subtle_expand: 1.5
+      aggressive_stab: 3.0
+      decay_tightening: -2.0
+  - name: "Attack / Release (per band)"
+    description: "Envelope-shape time constants for each band independently."
+
+signature_techniques:
+  - name: "Turn sustained chord into stab"
+    description: "Low + mid bands at -3.0 C/E (expansion toward short decay), short release → 4-bar pad becomes punchy 1/4-note stab."
+    aesthetic: [deep_minimal]
+  - name: "Expand only the snare transient"
+    description: "High band 2.5 expansion, slow release → snare crack pops out without affecting kick or toms."
+    aesthetic: [all]
+
+gotchas:
+  - "Expansion factors above 4.0 can cause clipping — compensate output gain."
+  - "Crossover bands overlap by ~6dB — not a surgical splitter."
+
+learn_more:
+  official: "https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/creative-extensions/"

package/mcp_server/atlas/enrichments/audio_effects/snipper.yaml

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+id: snipper
+name: Snipper
+sonic_description: >
+  Audio snippet replayer with pitch modulation (Building Max Devices
+  tutorial pack). Re-plays snippets of incoming audio at modulated
+  pitches. Small tool, surprisingly aesthetic-critical for microhouse —
+  the 'replay this hat with a slightly different pitch each bar' pattern.
+category: audio_rearranger
+character_tags: [replay, pitched, micro_chop, glitch]
+use_cases: [micro_chop, pitched_replay, vocal_stutter]
+genre_affinity:
+  primary: [microhouse, deep_minimal, glitch]
+  secondary: [idm]
+complexity: intermediate
+introduced_in: "11.0"
+pack: Building Max Devices
+creator: Ableton
+class_name: PluginDevice
+
+key_parameters:
+  - name: "Snippet Length"
+    description: "Duration of the captured snippet."
+  - name: "Replay Rate"
+    description: "How often the snippet re-triggers."
+  - name: "Pitch Modulation"
+    description: "Per-replay pitch shift."
+  - name: "Randomize"
+    description: "Random variation on pitch/replay timing."
+
+signature_techniques:
+  - name: "Vocal micro-chop"
+    description: "Route vocal → Snipper → short snippet, fast replay, pitch mod → instant Akufen-adjacent micro-vocal pattern."
+    aesthetic: [microhouse]
+
+learn_more:
+  pack: "Building Max Devices"

package/mcp_server/atlas/enrichments/audio_effects/spectral_blur.yaml

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+id: spectral_blur
+name: Spectral Blur
+sonic_description: >
+  Spectral halo/reverb hybrid. Creates reverb-like textures by blurring
+  user-defined frequency ranges into dense clouds of delayed/smeared
+  harmonic content. Not a real reverb — no IR — but the result behaves
+  like one, with more control over which frequency ranges get haloed.
+  Freeze button holds the current spectral content indefinitely. The
+  tool for ethereal pads from sparse sources and alien textures that
+  don't sound like rooms.
+category: spectral_fx
+character_tags: [spectral, halo, reverb_like, ethereal, frozen, frequency_selective]
+use_cases: [halo_pad, ghost_atmosphere, frozen_texture, spectral_bed]
+genre_affinity:
+  primary: [ambient, deep_minimal, experimental, drone]
+  secondary: [dub_techno, cinematic]
+complexity: intermediate
+introduced_in: "10.0"
+pack: Creative Extensions
+creator: Ableton + Amazing Noises
+class_name: PluginDevice
+
+key_parameters:
+  - name: "Frequency Range"
+    description: "Low and high cutoff of the blurred band. Narrow ranges produce pitched halos; wide ranges produce reverb-like wash."
+  - name: "Halo (Grain Length)"
+    description: "How long each spectral grain lingers. Short = shimmer; long = sustained bed."
+    range: [50, 5000]
+    unit: "ms"
+    type: float
+    sweet_spots:
+      subtle_shimmer: 200
+      sustained_bed: 2000
+  - name: "Residual"
+    description: "Amount of dry signal that passes through. 0 = fully wet halo, 1 = hear the source clearly."
+    range: [0.0, 1.0]
+    type: float
+  - name: "Freeze"
+    description: "Holds the current spectral content. Manual or MIDI-triggered."
+    type: boolean
+
+signature_techniques:
+  - name: "Ghost atmosphere under the kick"
+    description: "Very short source (click), narrow mid band, Halo 3000ms, Residual 0 → continuous ghost bed at -30dB."
+    aesthetic: [deep_minimal, ambient]
+  - name: "Freeze-and-move"
+    description: "Play a chord → hit Freeze → automate frequency-range low/high up the spectrum → harmonic cloud morphs in pitch-space."
+    aesthetic: [experimental, drone]
+  - name: "Reverse reverb alternative"
+    description: "Apply to a short stab with long Halo → get reverse-reverb-like build-in without needing to flip the audio."
+    aesthetic: [cinematic, deep_minimal]
+
+pairings:
+  - device: pitchloop89
+    rationale: "PitchLoop89 feeding Spectral Blur = Basic Channel / Monolake ethereal space"
+  - device: convolution_reverb
+    rationale: "Spectral Blur before Conv Rev compounds the halo with real-space acoustics"
+
+gotchas:
+  - "Halo times above 3000ms accumulate CPU — freeze the track after print"
+  - "Narrow frequency ranges at high levels self-oscillate — keep Residual > 0 or compress"
+
+learn_more:
+  official: "https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/creative-extensions/"

package/mcp_server/atlas/enrichments/instruments/bell_tower.yaml

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+id: bell_tower
+name: Bell Tower
+sonic_description: >
+  FM bell synthesis M4L example device from the Building Max Devices pack.
+  Designed as a tutorial but produces genuinely usable bell/mallet timbres
+  via simple FM synthesis. Through Convolution Reverb = thin Arpiar bell
+  stab territory.
+synthesis_type: fm_bell
+character_tags: [bell, fm, metallic, percussive]
+use_cases: [bell_stab, pluck, atmospheric_bell]
+genre_affinity:
+  primary: [ambient, deep_minimal, arpiar]
+  secondary: [experimental, cinematic]
+complexity: beginner
+self_contained: true
+introduced_in: "11.0"
+pack: Building Max Devices
+creator: Ableton
+class_name: PluginDevice
+
+key_parameters:
+  - name: "Carrier Freq"
+    description: "Base pitch."
+  - name: "Modulator Ratio"
+    description: "Ratio of modulator to carrier — inharmonic ratios give bells, integer ratios give pluck tones."
+  - name: "Modulator Depth"
+    description: "FM index — brightness/metallic character."
+  - name: "Decay"
+    description: "Bell decay time."
+
+signature_techniques:
+  - name: "Arpiar bell through Convolution Reverb"
+    description: "Short decay, subtle modulator depth, single hit per bar, through a long cathedral IR → the thin bell stab that recurs in Arpiar tracks."
+    aesthetic: [arpiar, deep_minimal]
+
+learn_more:
+  pack: "Building Max Devices"

package/mcp_server/atlas/enrichments/instruments/granulator_iii.yaml

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+id: granulator_iii
+name: Granulator III
+sonic_description: >
+  Robert Henke's (Monolake) reimagined granular synth. Three playback modes —
+  Classic (2 overlapping grains per stereo channel, the Granulator II engine),
+  Loop (rhythmic crossfaded sample playback), Cloud (up to 20 unsynced
+  overlapping grains). Full MPE for per-note control of grain size, shape,
+  and position. Real-time audio capture samples any source in one click.
+  The single most-used instrument for evolving texture, drone beds, and
+  vocal-chop clouds in deep minimal / microhouse / ambient.
+synthesis_type: granular
+character_tags: [granular, evolving, textural, atmospheric, experimental, organic, cloud]
+use_cases: [texture, drone, vocal_chop, evolving_pad, cloud, re_pitched_loop, atmosphere]
+genre_affinity:
+  primary: [deep_minimal, microhouse, ambient, dub_techno, idm]
+  secondary: [experimental, drone, cinematic, electronica]
+complexity: intermediate
+self_contained: false  # requires a source sample or real-time capture
+introduced_in: "12.0"
+pack: Granulator III
+creator: Robert Henke
+class_name: PluginDevice
+
+key_parameters:
+  - name: "Mode"
+    description: "Playback mode. Classic = 2 overlapping grains per channel (G II engine). Loop = rhythmic crossfaded playback synced to clip tempo. Cloud = up to 20 unsynced overlapping grains for drones/textures."
+    range: ["Classic", "Loop", "Cloud"]
+    type: enum
+    sweet_spots:
+      rhythmic_micro_loop: "Loop"
+      drone_cloud: "Cloud"
+      classic_texture: "Classic"
+
+  - name: "Grain Size"
+    description: "Duration of each grain in ms. Shorter = more tonal; longer = more recognizable as source."
+    range: [1, 1000]
+    unit: "ms"
+    type: float
+    sweet_spots:
+      cloud_drone: 200
+      vocal_grain: 500
+      micro_stutter: 20
+
+  - name: "Position"
+    description: "Read-head position in the source sample. Automate this for smooth source traversal."
+    range: [0.0, 1.0]
+    type: float
+
+  - name: "Position Random"
+    description: "Randomness added to read-head position per grain. Essential for Cloud-mode non-repeating texture."
+    range: [0.0, 1.0]
+    type: float
+    sweet_spots:
+      locked_loop: 0.0
+      organic_scatter: 0.3
+      full_chaos: 1.0
+
+  - name: "Pitch Random"
+    description: "Per-grain pitch detune in semitones. Low values give vintage tape wobble; high values give chord-cloud effects."
+    range: [0.0, 24.0]
+    unit: "st"
+    type: float
+    sweet_spots:
+      tape_wobble: 0.15
+      chord_cloud: 7.0
+      octave_chaos: 12.0
+
+  - name: "Grain Density"
+    description: "How many grains overlap at once. Higher = denser wall of sound."
+    range: [1, 20]
+    type: int
+    sweet_spots:
+      classic: 2
+      cloud_pad: 12
+      wall_of_sound: 20
+
+  - name: "Spray"
+    description: "Time randomization of grain onsets. Prevents periodic artifacts that make granular sound 'machine-like'."
+    range: [0.0, 1.0]
+    type: float
+    sweet_spots:
+      organic: 0.2
+      fully_asynchronous: 0.6
+
+signature_techniques:
+  - name: "Instant deep-minimal texture"
+    description: >
+      Load any vocal snippet or field recording → Cloud mode, Grain Size 200-500ms,
+      Position Random 0.3, Pitch Random 0.1 → immediate organic evolving bed.
+    aesthetic: [microhouse, deep_minimal, ambient]
+  - name: "Rhythmic break re-chop"
+    description: >
+      Load a drum break → Loop mode, sync to clip tempo → automate Position in
+      short jumps → Akufen-style micro-edit patterns without manual slicing.
+    aesthetic: [microhouse, idm]
+  - name: "Vocal-to-chord-cloud"
+    description: >
+      Sustained vowel sample → Cloud mode, Pitch Random 7st, Grain Size 400ms
+      → vocal becomes harmonic cloud without recognizable words.
+    aesthetic: [ambient, deep_minimal]
+  - name: "Real-time capture and grain"
+    description: >
+      Set up Granulator on a return track, route any source to it, hit Capture,
+      then grain the just-captured audio. Zero commitment to the source — if
+      you don't like the grain, record a new slice.
+    aesthetic: [experimental, ambient]
+
+pairings:
+  - device: convolution_reverb
+    rationale: "Henke-canonical combo — grain clouds through a long hall IR = Basic Channel / Monolake spatial signature"
+  - device: pitchloop89
+    rationale: "Pair on output for detuned shimmer on top of the evolving texture"
+  - device: microtuner
+    rationale: "Feed Granulator through Microtuner for microtonal grain-cloud beds"
+
+gotchas:
+  - "Cloud mode with 20 grains + 500ms size is CPU-heavy — freeze the track after print"
+  - "Real-time Capture samples whatever routes to the track — put on a return to grain a single source cleanly"
+  - "Position at 1.0 (end of sample) goes silent — keep Position + Grain Size below 1.0 of the sample duration"
+  - "Grain Size below 20ms starts producing audible tonal artifacts — good for FM-like textures, bad for 'natural' grain"
+
+learn_more:
+  official: "https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/granulator-iii/"
+  creator_site: "https://roberthenke.com/technology/granulator3.html"

package/mcp_server/atlas/enrichments/instruments/harmonic_drone_generator.yaml

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+id: harmonic_drone_generator
+name: Harmonic Drone Generator
+sonic_description: >
+  8-voice Max for Live drone synth by Berlin-based Expert Math (shipped inside
+  Drone Lab). Each voice has its own tuning assignment, and the device
+  supports multiple tuning systems — Solfeggio frequencies, Pythagorean,
+  Indonesian Pelog, Indian temperaments, plus equal and just intonation.
+  Produces sustained harmonic drones with microtonal beating that equal-
+  tempered synths architecturally cannot generate. The secret weapon for
+  a harmonic bed that sits under a whole track at -30 dB and makes it
+  sound like nothing else.
+synthesis_type: additive_drone
+character_tags: [drone, microtonal, sustained, harmonic, meditative, evolving, dark]
+use_cases: [drone_bed, harmonic_atmosphere, microtonal_pad, ambient_bed, tension_bed]
+genre_affinity:
+  primary: [ambient, deep_minimal, dub_techno, drone, experimental]
+  secondary: [cinematic, dark_ambient, microhouse]
+complexity: intermediate
+self_contained: true
+introduced_in: "12.0"
+pack: Drone Lab
+creator: Expert Math (Berlin)
+class_name: PluginDevice
+
+key_parameters:
+  - name: "Tuning System"
+    description: "Selects the scale used to map voices. Each tuning produces a different harmonic flavor."
+    range: ["Equal", "Just", "Pythagorean", "Solfeggio", "Pelog", "Indian"]
+    type: enum
+    sweet_spots:
+      deep_minimal_bed: "Just"
+      dark_meditation: "Solfeggio"
+      exotic_mystery: "Pelog"
+
+  - name: "Voice Count"
+    description: "How many of the 8 voices are active. Fewer voices = purer drone; more voices = denser harmonic cloud."
+    range: [1, 8]
+    type: int
+    sweet_spots:
+      sub_drone: 2
+      full_cloud: 8
+
+  - name: "Per-voice pitch"
+    description: "Each voice has its own pitch assignment. Spread across the scale or stack on root for subtle detuned bed."
+    type: composite
+
+  - name: "Detune"
+    description: "Global detune amount. Low values (5-15 cents) give tape-warble; high values break into chord clouds."
+    range: [0.0, 100.0]
+    unit: "cents"
+    type: float
+
+  - name: "Amp Envelope"
+    description: "Long attack (5-10s) for slow-swell pads; short attack for staccato 'one note' hits."
+    type: composite
+
+signature_techniques:
+  - name: "Minimal-techno underlay"
+    description: "Just intonation tuning, all 8 voices active but voiced as a sparse cluster (root + 5 + minor 3 + octave), level at -30 dB → sits under the whole track as a harmonic shadow."
+    aesthetic: [deep_minimal, dub_techno]
+  - name: "Pelog mystery bed"
+    description: "Indonesian Pelog scale, 5 voices, long reverb send → off-grid harmonic character that sounds ancient without sounding 'wrong'."
+    aesthetic: [ambient, deep_minimal]
+  - name: "Evolving drone with automation"
+    description: "Automate Detune over 32 bars from 5 to 40 cents → drone starts as a tight pad and slowly blossoms into a chord cloud."
+    aesthetic: [drone, cinematic]
+
+pairings:
+  - device: microtuner
+    rationale: "Microtuner can replace or extend the built-in tunings with user-loaded Scala files."
+  - device: convolution_reverb
+    rationale: "Cathedral or warehouse IR on the Drone Generator's output = Basic Channel-adjacent sustained bed."
+  - device: pitchloop89
+    rationale: "Slow Position-LFO modulation on the drone through PitchLoop89 = shuddering pitched cloud."
+
+gotchas:
+  - "All 8 voices at full level clip the output — use Voice Count or the internal level control"
+  - "Long attack envelopes don't trigger instantly — for stabs, use short attack or pre-gate"
+  - "Solfeggio frequencies are outside standard tuning — this is intentional; don't try to match to a song's key"
+
+learn_more:
+  official: "https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/drone-lab/"
+  pack: "Drone Lab"

package/mcp_server/atlas/enrichments/instruments/impulse.yaml

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+id: impulse
+name: Impulse
+sonic_description: >
+  Ableton's original drum sampler — 8-pad sample player with per-pad
+  pitch, pan, volume, and simple filter/saturator/envelope. Older than
+  Drum Rack but still ships with Live; lighter CPU, simpler interface.
+  Good for quick one-shot drums when you don't need Drum Rack's full
+  chain architecture. The understated alternative when a full Drum Rack
+  is overkill.
+synthesis_type: drum_sampler
+character_tags: [drum, sample_player, lightweight, 8_pad]
+use_cases: [quick_drums, single_kit, lightweight_programming]
+genre_affinity:
+  primary: [house, techno, all_electronic_drums]
+  secondary: [all]
+complexity: beginner
+self_contained: false  # requires samples
+introduced_in: "7.0"
+pack: Core Library
+creator: Ableton
+class_name: OriginalDevice
+native: true
+
+key_parameters:
+  - name: "Per-pad sample slot (8 pads)"
+    description: "Each pad holds one sample, mapped to a MIDI note."
+  - name: "Start / Transpose / Stretch"
+    description: "Per-pad playback controls."
+  - name: "Saturator"
+    description: "Per-pad one-knob saturator."
+  - name: "Filter"
+    description: "Per-pad LP/HP filter with envelope."
+  - name: "Decay / Mute Group"
+    description: "Decay envelope; mute group for hi-hat choke patterns."
+
+signature_techniques:
+  - name: "Quick-and-dirty drum kit"
+    description: "Drag 8 samples onto the pads → play. No chain complexity. Great for sketching before moving to Drum Rack."
+    aesthetic: [all]
+  - name: "Hi-hat choke pattern"
+    description: "Put closed and open hats in the same mute group → playing the open hat kills the closed hat tail. Natural choke behavior."
+    aesthetic: [house, techno]
+
+gotchas:
+  - "Only 8 pads — for bigger kits, use Drum Rack"
+  - "No per-pad chain = no per-pad effect insert — use return sends instead"
+  - "No MPE support"

package/mcp_server/atlas/enrichments/instruments/sting_iftah.yaml

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+id: sting_iftah
+name: "Sting (Iftah)"
+sonic_description: >
+  16-step acid-line performance tool by Iftah (Generators pack). Combines a
+  mono synth voice with a generative sequencer offering 3D pattern morphing
+  — up to 256 unique pattern combinations. Built for live improvisation but
+  equally useful in the studio as a 'mutating sub-bass generator' when
+  detuned and dropped low. Not just for acid tracks.
+synthesis_type: mono_synth_with_sequencer
+character_tags: [acid, mutating, generative, mono, performer_oriented]
+use_cases: [acid_bass, mutating_sub_bass, live_improvisation, generative_bassline]
+genre_affinity:
+  primary: [acid_house, psytrance, techno, trance]
+  secondary: [deep_minimal, microhouse (with tricks)]
+complexity: intermediate
+self_contained: true
+introduced_in: "11.0"
+pack: Generators by Iftah
+creator: Iftah
+class_name: PluginDevice
+
+key_parameters:
+  - name: "Note Selection"
+    description: "Which notes are available in the sequence."
+  - name: "Dynamic Expression"
+    description: "Accent / slide patterns — the acid character."
+  - name: "Type Morph"
+    description: "Slider from random to acid-type sequences."
+  - name: "Root Note"
+    description: "Transpose the whole pattern."
+  - name: "Rate / Beat Division"
+    description: "Sequence rate."
+  - name: "Density"
+    description: "How many of the 16 steps trigger. Low density = sparse bass."
+signature_techniques:
+  - name: "Mutating minimal sub-bass"
+    description: "Detune heavily, drop pitch low, Density ~15%, low-pass filter → 'acid line' becomes a warm mutating sub-bass that's never the same two bars in a row."
+    aesthetic: [deep_minimal, microhouse]
+  - name: "Classic acid 303 performance"
+    description: "Default patch, full Type Morph to acid, mid density → classic acid line; use 3D morph mapped to a performance controller."
+    aesthetic: [acid_house, psytrance]
+
+learn_more:
+  official: "https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/generators-by-iftah/"