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Closes #19 (first of a stack of four; the next three build on this one). Also covers #2 (latency calibration: the new Offset setting).

Rock Band-style scoring for both views, ported from the user's custom Drum Highway (5.8.0) onto current upstream:

  • assets/engine.js — a JavaScript port of YARG.Core's drums engine (hit window, chord matching, overhits, combo/multiplier, pro-drums lanes, dynamics bonus, star power phrases + fill activation, star thresholds). LGPL-3.0: kept as a separate, unminified, replaceable file with its notice, LICENSE.LGPL-3.0 and LICENSE.GPL-3.0 (the LGPL incorporates the GPL text). Its header lists every deviation from YARG.
  • assets/session.js (MIT) — the engine for one chart: difficulty levels (Expert+/Expert split on x2, Easy/Medium/Hard from levels), auto lanes, seeks/rebuilds, event queue, and a bonus layer (spot-on timing, snare/tom rolls, drum-solo rating). Reads the drum tab's feedpak 1.20.0 gameplay metadata (a, x2, star_power, fills, solos, levels) from bundle.drumTab.
  • screen.js — loads both lazily from core's /api/plugins/drums/assets/ route (no routes.py), feeds MIDI hits to the session (Learn mapping wins, else GM), difficulty UI (settings select, clickable HUD badge + menu, D / Shift+D), assists (auto kick / auto cymbals up to a difficulty — played on the drum sound at their own volume, timing presets, Pro cymbals), input Offset, and a 2D score HUD (multiplier, score, streak, stars, star power bar, live solo %) with engine-driven hit/miss marks, silver star-power notes and green fill bands. The "Hits" toggle is now "Score".
  • Drum-tab accents follow the authored a flag (spec rationale: velocity alone can't say "authored accent"); older tabs keep the v >= 100 rule, and a hit without v is no longer an accent. A kick with x2 becomes GM 35 (the engine's Expert+ kick).

Fallback (older core / pre-1.20.0 tabs / legacy GM-encoded charts): Expert only, no star power; Expert+ still works for legacy charts with GM 35 notes. Lower levels are not generated client-side — the importer (#1091) already generates and marks them.

Licensing (MIT plugin + LGPL file): acceptable. LGPL-3.0 §4 ("Combined Works") allows MIT code to use an LGPL library through its interface as long as the library stays a separate, replaceable, LGPL-licensed file with its notice and the LGPL + GPL texts shipped — which is how engine.js is shipped (see NOTICE.md). MIT and LGPL-3.0 are both compatible with feedBack's AGPL-3.0 curation policy.

Dropped from the custom version (Slopsmith 0.2.9 shims, not needed on current core): the Web MIDI fallback (_webMidiShim — uses the core midi-input domain as upstream already does), routes.py static-file route (core's assets route serves assets/), fetching arrangements/drums.json for the non-spec drums block (data now comes from drum_tab via core), the Clone Hero kit-profile reader and kit auto-pick.

Requires core streaming the metadata: got-feedBack/feedBack#1105 (stacked on feedBack#1091; spec feedpak-spec#68). Without it everything works on Expert without star power.

Screenshots

2D view, star power phrase (silver notes) + score HUD and difficulty badge; difficulty menu offering all five levels from a pack built by scripts/ch_to_sloppak.py:
(b1-2d-star-power-hud.jpg, b1-2d-difficulty-menu.jpg)

Tests

  • node tests/engine.test.js — 44 pass (LGPL, ported YARG scenarios)
  • node tests/session.test.js — 40 pass (gems, drum_tab metadata parsing, levels, difficulty options/fallback/badge, auto lanes, bonuses, seeks, star power + fills)
  • node tests/screen.test.js — 23 pass (existing 16 + accent / x2 conversion, metadata through session.js, difficulty preference, assists, auto notes)
  • plugin validator (feedBack-plugin-spec/tools/validate.py): ok; node --check on all JS
  • Manual, core feedBack with the metadata PR + this plugin via FEEDBACK_PLUGINS_DIR, a pack built from a synthetic Clone Hero chart with scripts/ch_to_sloppak.py: all five difficulties offered, Medium plays the chart's Medium level, star-power notes and HUD render; audio never played (paused + seek).

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  • New Features
    • Added Rock Band-style drum scoring with points, streaks, star ratings, star power, and fill activators.
    • Added selectable Easy-to-Expert+ difficulty, Pro cymbals, and auto-kick, auto-cymbal, and timing assists.
    • Added controls for timing windows, input offset, and auto-play volume.
    • Improved drum-tab support for accents, ghost notes, and double kicks.
  • Documentation
    • Updated feature and setup guidance, including scoring, difficulty, assists, and test commands.
    • Added license notices and license texts for the scoring engine.

Score drum charts the way the rhythm games do: assets/engine.js is a
JavaScript port of YARG.Core's drums engine (LGPL-3.0, kept as its own
replaceable file with LICENSE.LGPL-3.0, LICENSE.GPL-3.0 and NOTICE.md),
driven through assets/session.js (MIT) which adds difficulty levels,
star power metadata, assists and timing / roll / drum-solo bonuses.

- Per-player difficulty Easy..Expert+ (settings, HUD badge, D/Shift+D).
  Expert drops x2 kicks; lower levels, star power, fills and solos come
  from the drum tab's feedpak 1.20.0 gameplay metadata (Expert only
  without it).
- Assists: auto kick / auto cymbals up to a difficulty (played on the
  drum sound at their own volume), timing presets, Pro cymbals, input
  offset.
- The 2D view marks hits / misses from the engine and draws a score HUD
  (multiplier, score, streak, stars, star power) with Score on.
- Drum-tab accents follow the authored `a` flag; x2 kicks map to GM 35.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: mattromano <42412983+mattromano@users.noreply.github.com>
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The plugin adds Rock Band-style drum scoring, chart difficulty selection, and assists. It connects a new scoring engine and session module to renderer settings, input handling, and HUD displays. Documentation, tests, release notes, and license notices are also added or updated.

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Drum scoring and gameplay

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scoring engine and validation
assets/engine.js, tests/engine.test.js
The new engine decodes drum notes and processes hit windows, scoring, combos, misses, star power, and fills. Tests cover scoring rules, event handling, and state.
Chart sessions, difficulty, and assists
assets/session.js, tests/session.test.js, tests/screen.test.js
Session helpers parse chart metadata, select difficulty charts, map inputs, and manage scoring state and bonuses. Automatic lanes generate hit events and ignore matching player inputs. Tests cover session behavior, chart levels, metadata, and automatic lanes.
Renderer settings, scoring, and display
screen.js, tests/screen.test.js
The renderer adds persisted difficulty, timing, Pro cymbal, and assist settings. It submits hits to scoring sessions, schedules assisted notes, and displays scoring, star power, difficulty, accents, and ghost notes.
Release notes and licensing
CHANGELOG.md, README.md, plugin.json, LICENSE.GPL-3.0, LICENSE.LGPL-3.0, NOTICE.md
The documentation describes scoring, difficulty, assists, and chart metadata. The plugin version changes to 4.1.0. New license texts and a notice identify the engine’s licensing and attribution.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DrumInput
  participant ScreenRenderer
  participant createSession
  participant DrumsEngine
  participant ScoreHUD
  DrumInput->>ScreenRenderer: provide pad hit and input time
  ScreenRenderer->>createSession: submit mapped hit
  createSession->>DrumsEngine: process hit
  DrumsEngine-->>createSession: return scoring state and events
  createSession-->>ScreenRenderer: expose state and verdicts
  ScreenRenderer->>ScoreHUD: render score and star-power state
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The new input-offset setting does not compensate for late-registering hits, so latency calibration does not work as advertised. Songs with star power but no fills can charge star power that the player can never activate. Fix both before merging; the remaining issues are minor polish.

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- Line 20: Update the licensing explanations to include both options permitted
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- Around line 84-85: Qualify the Expert-only fallback to note that legacy charts
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- Around line 1858-1866: In the MIDI hit handling flow, normalize the raw MIDI
velocity by dividing it by 127 before passing it to _session.hit, so the engine
receives a value from 0 to 1.
- Around line 1379-1384: Update _syncSession to advance the session on the same
input-offset-compensated timeline used by _inputTime, so note judgments and
misses account for positive input offsets consistently.
- Around line 626-628: Update the scoring initialization catch that resets
_scoringPromise to remove failed, unregistered script elements before clearing
the promise, so a later initialization can retry loading them. Preserve scripts
whose expected scoring globals have registered.
- Around line 1386-1398: Update the MIDI input handling used by the scoring
session created in _startScoring so a key or pad can call _session.activate with
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Include the modified-library licensing option. LGPL v3 section 2(b) permits conveying a modified library under the GNU GPL. Both explanations instead present LGPL-3.0 as the only option. (gnu.org)

  • NOTICE.md#L20-L20: replace the unconditional “must stay under LGPL-3.0” statement with the permitted options.
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(`bundle.drumTab`). A tab without them — an older tab, a core that doesn't stream them yet, or drums encoded
as guitar notes — plays **Expert only, without star power**; everything else works the same.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the legacy Expert+ exception. Difficulty selection can offer Expert+ without gameplay metadata when a legacy chart contains GM 35 double-kick notes. The unconditional Expert-only fallback misstates that behavior. (github.com)

  • README.md#L84-L85: qualify “Expert only” with the GM 35 Expert+ exception.
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Qualify the Expert-only fallback to note that legacy charts containing GM 35
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}).catch((e) => {
_scoringPromise = null; // allow a retry on the next init
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

A retry after a load failure cannot succeed.

The comment says that clearing _scoringPromise allows a retry on the next init. But the <script> element that failed stays in the document. On a retry, _loadScript finds script[src="${url}"] and resolves at once. The "did not register" check then throws again. After one transient network error, scoring stays unavailable until the page reloads. Remove the failed script elements before you clear the promise.

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     }).catch((e) => {
+        for (const name of ['engine.js', 'session.js']) {
+            const el = document.querySelector(`script[src="${PLUGIN_ASSETS + name + '?v=' + ASSET_VERSION}"]`);
+            if (el && !window[name === 'engine.js' ? 'DrumsEngine' : 'DrumsSession']) el.remove();
+        }
         _scoringPromise = null;   // allow a retry on the next init
         throw e;
     });
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// Song time for an input arriving now (between frames), minus the
// user's input offset.
function _inputTime() {
const t = _h ? _h.estimateTime(_clock, _now()) : _clock.time;
return t - (_cfg.inputOffsetMs || 0) / 1000;
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

A positive input offset does not work, because the engine clock is not offset.

_inputTime() subtracts inputOffsetMs only from the hit time. _syncSession still calls _session.update(t) with the raw bundle.currentTime. Engine.prototype.hit clamps any time below currentTime up to currentTime. _advance has already missed every note where currentTime > note.t + back.

Example: the offset is 100 ms and a note is at T. The player's late-registered hit arrives at song time T + 0.1. The offset hit time is T. Before the hit arrives, the last frame advanced the engine past T + 0.07. As a result:

  • The note is already a miss.
  • The hit time is clamped forward.
  • The hit becomes an overhit.

A positive offset therefore has almost no effect beyond one frame. The setting's own tooltip describes positive offsets as the main use ("raise it if your hits register late"). The PR also claims that this setting covers the latency calibration request from issue #2.

Run the engine clock on the compensated timeline too. Then hits and misses use the same time base.

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     function _syncSession(bundle, notes, chords) {
         if (!_session) return;
@@
-        const t = +bundle.currentTime || 0;
+        const t = +bundle.currentTime || 0;
         _clock.prevTime = _clock.time;
         _clock.prevWall = _clock.wall;
         _clock.time = t;
         _clock.wall = _now();
-        _session.update(t);
+        // Same latency-compensated timeline as _inputTime(), so a positive
+        // offset does not miss notes before the compensated hit arrives.
+        _session.update(t - (_cfg.inputOffsetMs || 0) / 1000);
     }
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// Load engine.js + session.js and build this instance's scoring session.
function _startScoring() {
_loadScoring().then(({ E, H }) => {
if (_instanceDestroyed || !_isReady) return;
_E = E;
_h = H;
if (!_session) {
_auto = _autoAt(_diff ? _diff.id : _cfg.difficulty);
_session = H.createSession(E, { proDrums: _cfg.proCymbals, auto: _auto, params: _timingParams() });
_chartRefs = null;
}
}).catch((e) => console.warn('[Drums] scoring unavailable (engine/session failed to load):', e));
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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printf '%s\n' '--- screen input and scoring blocks ---'
rg -n -F -- 'midi' screen.js | head -80
rg -n -F -- '_session.' screen.js | head -120
printf '%s\n' '--- session creation and metadata blocks ---'
rg -n -F -- 'createSession' assets/session.js screen.js tests/session.test.js
rg -n -F -- 'fills' assets/session.js
printf '%s\n' '--- engine constructor and activation blocks ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- assets/engine.js activation setup and public activation ---'
nl -ba assets/engine.js | sed -n '510,530p;955,976p'
printf '%s\n' '--- screen.js scoring input path ---'
nl -ba screen.js | sed -n '1838,1870p'
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Handle star power when a chart has phrases but no fills.

When tab.star_power is present and tab.fills is empty, the session passes an empty activation list to Engine.create. The engine then enables manual activation. However, the MIDI path calls only _session.hit(...), so no input can activate the charged bar.

Add a key or pad binding that calls _session.activate(_inputTime()), or generate activation fills for charts without them.

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Update the MIDI input handling used by the scoring session created in
_startScoring so a key or pad can call _session.activate with _inputTime() when
star power is charged, including charts with no fills. Alternatively, generate
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Comment on lines +1858 to +1866
if (_session && _h && _E) {
// The engine scores: a Learn/custom mapping entry wins, else GM.
const m = _h.midiToPad(midiNote, _cfg.customMapping, _E.padFromMidi);
if (m) {
const r = _session.hit(_inputTime(), m.pad, { cymbal: m.cymbal, velocity });
if (r && r.type === 'overhit' && laneIdx >= 0) _wrongFlashes.push({ lane: laneIdx, wall: performance.now() });
}
return;
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Normalize the MIDI velocity before you pass it to the engine.

_handleDrumHit passes the raw MIDI velocity (1–127) to _session.hit. normVelocity in assets/engine.js (lines 874-880) divides only values > 1 by 127. A MIDI velocity of 1 is therefore read as 1.0, which is full strength. The softest possible hit then earns the accent bonus, and a ghost note hit at velocity 1 earns no bonus. Divide by 127 here, because this caller knows that the value is MIDI.

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-                const r = _session.hit(_inputTime(), m.pad, { cymbal: m.cymbal, velocity });
+                const r = _session.hit(_inputTime(), m.pad, { cymbal: m.cymbal, velocity: velocity / 127 });
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if (_session && _h && _E) {
// The engine scores: a Learn/custom mapping entry wins, else GM.
const m = _h.midiToPad(midiNote, _cfg.customMapping, _E.padFromMidi);
if (m) {
const r = _session.hit(_inputTime(), m.pad, { cymbal: m.cymbal, velocity });
if (r && r.type === 'overhit' && laneIdx >= 0) _wrongFlashes.push({ lane: laneIdx, wall: performance.now() });
}
return;
}
if (_session && _h && _E) {
// The engine scores: a Learn/custom mapping entry wins, else GM.
const m = _h.midiToPad(midiNote, _cfg.customMapping, _E.padFromMidi);
if (m) {
const r = _session.hit(_inputTime(), m.pad, { cymbal: m.cymbal, velocity: velocity / 127 });
if (r && r.type === 'overhit' && laneIdx >= 0) _wrongFlashes.push({ lane: laneIdx, wall: performance.now() });
}
return;
}
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Review comment at @screen.js around lines 1858 - 1866:
In the MIDI hit handling flow, normalize the raw MIDI velocity by dividing it by
127 before passing it to _session.hit, so the engine receives a value from 0 to
1.

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Superseded by #25, which carries this scoring engine plus all the review fixes from this PR, rebuilt from my latest field-tested drums build.

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Rock Band-style scoring: YARG drums engine, per-player difficulty, star power and assists

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