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Replaces #20 (and the scoring half of the old #20 → #22 → #23 → #24 stack). Adds Rock Band-style scoring to the drum view from a JavaScript port of YARG.Core's drums engine (assets/engine.js, LGPL-3.0, a separate replaceable file; see NOTICE.md), driven by assets/session.js (MIT).

  • Score, multiplier (x4, x8 in star power), streak, stars, star power with fill activation, accent/ghost dynamics, spot-on timing / roll / drum-solo bonuses
  • Difficulty Easy..Expert+ per player (feedpak 1.20.0 drum-tab metadata; legacy GM 35 charts still offer Expert+)
  • Assists: auto kick / cymbals (timed from the audio clock, never doubled), timing presets, Pro cymbals, input offset
  • Early/late timing meter with a suggested input offset and Apply. The default offset stays 0, since it depends on the player's kit and audio output
  • Star power on charts without fills: Enter, or an optional SP pad
  • End-of-song results card with best score per song + difficulty
  • Hit timing: smoothed per-highway clock, MIDI timestamps when the provider passes them, and the engine trails the frame by 60 ms so hits aren't clamped to the frame
  • Refuses non-drum parts ("This song has no drums"); splitscreen hits go to the drum view on screen

Addresses all CodeRabbit findings from #20, each with a test: input offset applied on the engine clock, velocity / 127, manual star power activation, script-load retry, and the two doc fixes.

Tests: node tests/engine.test.js (44), node tests/session.test.js (49), node tests/screen.test.js (31), all passing.

Follow-up for core: the midi-input domain passes only data, so hits are timed when handled rather than at the strike. Passing e.timeStamp from static/capabilities/midi-input.js would let this use it.

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  • New Features
    • Added Rock Band-style drum scoring, with selectable difficulty, timing feedback, score bonuses, star power, and end-of-song results.
    • Added optional kick and cymbal assists, pro-cymbal support, input-offset settings, and improved MIDI hit handling.
    • Added clear feedback when a selected arrangement has no drums.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the README and changelog with gameplay, settings, and scoring details.
    • Added license and attribution information for the project and included components.

mattromano and others added 2 commits October 9, 2026 17:32
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>
Address the CodeRabbit findings on the first scoring PR and bring in the
scoring work field-tested since (drums 5.8-5.15 in Matt's own build).

Review fixes:
- The input offset now moves the engine's clock too. The session owns
  the offset (createSession inputOffsetMs / setInputOffset) and applies
  it to update(), hit() and activate() alike; before, a positive offset
  only shifted the hits, so a late-registered hit found its note already
  missed.
- MIDI velocity reaches the engine as velocity / 127. The engine reads
  values <= 1 as already normalised, so velocity 1 counted as full
  strength.
- Star power can be activated on charts with phrases but no fills
  (manual activation): Enter while the drum view is focused, or an
  optional SP pad (settings, drums_sp_pad_v1: hi-hat pedal, ride bell,
  splash or china). The HUD says how when star power is ready.
- A scoring script that failed to load (or loaded without registering)
  has its <script> element removed, so the next init loads it again.
- Docs: legacy charts with GM 35 double kicks still offer Expert+;
  LGPL-3.0 section 2(b) also allows a modified engine.js under the GPL.

Ported from the 5.x line:
- Hit timing: a smoothed per-highway clock (core 3D highway pattern)
  for drawing and scoring, hits timed by the MIDI message timestamp when
  the provider passes one, and the engine trails the frame clock by
  60 ms so a hit struck just before a frame keeps its own time.
- Early/late timing meter under the score with the suggested input
  offset and an Apply button. The default offset stays 0.
- End-of-song results card (single view): total with bonuses, best
  score per song and difficulty, stars, accuracy and the breakdown.
- Auto kick / cymbals scheduled from the audio clock by one shared,
  forward-only schedule: no late or doubled auto notes.
- The drum view refuses a part that isn't drums ("This song has no
  drums" / "Pick the Drums part") instead of scoring guitar notes.
- Splitscreen: kit hits go to the drum view that is on screen.

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 4.1.0 update adds engine-backed drum scoring, difficulty selection, star power, timing feedback, and auto-kick and auto-cymbal assists. It connects chart and session handling to MIDI input and the gameplay display, adds end-of-song results, and updates release and licensing documentation.

Changes: Drum scoring and gameplay

Layer / File(s) Summary
Engine chart and scoring
assets/engine.js, tests/engine.test.js
The engine decodes drum notes, groups chords, maps chart timing, and tracks hits, misses, overhits, score, combo, and star power. Tests cover chart decoding, scoring behavior, event handling, and boundary cases.
Session chart and difficulty handling
assets/session.js, tests/session.test.js
The session module handles chart metadata, difficulty selection and fallback, input mapping, timing, and HUD data. Tests cover chart conversion, difficulty changes, and timing helpers.
Session scoring and timing
assets/session.js, tests/session.test.js
The session rebuilds scoring state when charts or settings change, excludes assisted notes from scoring, and tracks bonuses and timing samples. Tests cover session events, seeks, assists, offsets, and score bonuses.
Gameplay settings and input wiring
screen.js, tests/screen.test.js
The screen adds persisted scoring settings, lazy scoring-module loading, timestamped MIDI routing, and audio-clock scheduling for assisted notes. Tests cover settings, loading retries, routing, and auto-note selection.
Gameplay display and results
screen.js, tests/screen.test.js
The screen displays score, difficulty, star-power state, timing feedback, and gameplay messages. It adds end-of-song results and best-score storage by song and difficulty. Tests cover display helpers and results behavior.
Release and licensing documentation
CHANGELOG.md, README.md, plugin.json, LICENSE.GPL-3.0, LICENSE.LGPL-3.0, NOTICE.md
The release metadata and documentation describe the scoring features and test commands. The added license texts and notice identify the engine’s LGPL-3.0 licensing and related attribution.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MIDIProvider
  participant screen_js
  participant Session
  participant Engine
  participant ScoreHUD
  MIDIProvider->>screen_js: Send timestamped note-on
  screen_js->>Session: Submit mapped hit and velocity
  Session->>Engine: Score hit at adjusted time
  Engine-->>Session: Return hit result and scoring events
  Session-->>screen_js: Provide scoring state
  screen_js->>ScoreHUD: Render score and timing feedback
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Drum scoring works overall, but two scoring problems should be fixed. If the star power pad is assigned to a ride bell, splash, or china cymbal, charted hits on that cymbal can never score. Repeated accents also earn the bonus too easily. Neither problem affects stability or saved data.

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Review comments at @assets/engine.js:
- Around line 874-880: Update the velocity contract documented by Engine.hit to
accept only normalized values from 0 to 1, matching the screen MIDI path and
normVelocity behavior; remove the raw MIDI velocity range from the API
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- Around line 865-870: Update the comparison threshold logic so same-type
accents use the inverse of compare.hitVelocity when computing rel; preserve the
existing same-type ghost and different-type threshold calculations. Keep the
resulting threshold behavior consistent with the accent check in the n.dyn ===
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- Around line 2132-2135: Restrict the star power pad intercept in the
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Comment thread assets/engine.js
Comment on lines +865 to +870
if (compare) {
const rel = compare.dyn === n.dyn ? compare.hitVelocity : compare.hitVelocity - p.velocityThreshold;
threshold = Math.max(threshold, rel != null ? rel : 0);
}
if (n.dyn === 'ghost') return velocity < threshold;
if (n.dyn === 'accent') return velocity > (1 - threshold);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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# Check whether any test exercises accent-after-accent situational thresholds.
rg -n -C3 "ac: true" tests/engine.test.js tests/session.test.js

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printf '%s\n' '--- parameter definitions/usages ---'
rg -n -C4 -F -- 'velocityThreshold' assets/engine.js tests/engine.test.js tests/session.test.js
printf '%s\n' '--- focused engine tests ---'
nl -ba tests/engine.test.js | sed -n '300,350p'
printf '%s\n' '--- focused session test ---'
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Use the inverse situational threshold for same-type accents.

In assets/engine.js:865-870, a previous accent velocity of 0.9 produces threshold = 0.9. The next accent then passes when velocity > 0.1, so a velocity of 0.5 incorrectly earns the bonus. The test expects that hit to fail.

🐛 Suggested fix
--- "a/assets/engine.js"
+++ "b/assets/engine.js"
@@ -862,10 +862,15 @@
             if (n.chord.t - pc.t > p.situationalVelocityWindow) break;
             compare = pc.notes.find(x => x.lane === n.lane && x.hitVelocity != null) || null;
         }
         if (compare) {
-            const rel = compare.dyn === n.dyn ? compare.hitVelocity : compare.hitVelocity - p.velocityThreshold;
+            let rel;
+            if (compare.dyn === n.dyn) {
+                rel = n.dyn === 'accent' ? 1 - compare.hitVelocity : compare.hitVelocity;
+            } else {
+                rel = compare.hitVelocity - p.velocityThreshold;
+            }
             threshold = Math.max(threshold, rel != null ? rel : 0);
         }
         if (n.dyn === 'ghost') return velocity < threshold;
         if (n.dyn === 'accent') return velocity > (1 - threshold);
         return false;
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if (compare) {
const rel = compare.dyn === n.dyn ? compare.hitVelocity : compare.hitVelocity - p.velocityThreshold;
threshold = Math.max(threshold, rel != null ? rel : 0);
}
if (n.dyn === 'ghost') return velocity < threshold;
if (n.dyn === 'accent') return velocity > (1 - threshold);
if (compare) {
let rel;
if (compare.dyn === n.dyn) {
rel = n.dyn === 'accent' ? 1 - compare.hitVelocity : compare.hitVelocity;
} else {
rel = compare.hitVelocity - p.velocityThreshold;
}
threshold = Math.max(threshold, rel != null ? rel : 0);
}
if (n.dyn === 'ghost') return velocity < threshold;
if (n.dyn === 'accent') return velocity > (1 - threshold);
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Review comment at @assets/engine.js around lines 865 - 870:
Update the comparison threshold logic so same-type accents use the inverse of
compare.hitVelocity when computing rel; preserve the existing same-type ghost
and different-type threshold calculations. Keep the resulting threshold behavior
consistent with the accent check in the n.dyn === 'accent' branch.

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Comment thread assets/engine.js
Comment on lines +874 to +880
function normVelocity(v) {
if (v == null) return null;
v = +v;
if (!Number.isFinite(v)) return null;
if (v > 1) v = v / 127;
return clamp(v, 0, 1);
}

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# Find how velocity reaches Engine.hit from the session/screen layers.
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Use one velocity scale at the Engine.hit boundary.

The screen MIDI path already normalizes MIDI velocity before it calls Engine.hit. The Engine.hit API still documents raw MIDI velocities, while normVelocity treats raw velocity 1 as normalized 1. This makes the public API ambiguous: a direct caller that passes MIDI velocity 1 can score a soft strike as full strength.

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- * @param {object} [opts] {cymbal?, velocity? 0..1 or MIDI 1..127}
+ * @param {object} [opts] {cymbal?, velocity? 0..1}
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Update the velocity contract documented by Engine.hit to accept only normalized
values from 0 to 1, matching the screen MIDI path and normVelocity behavior;
remove the raw MIDI velocity range from the API documentation.

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Comment thread screen.js
Comment on lines +2132 to +2135
if (_cfg.spPad >= 0 && midiNote === _cfg.spPad) {
_session.activate(_inputTime(ts));
return;
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restrict the star power pad intercept to charts that use manual activation.

The code intercepts the star power pad on every chart. It returns before scoring, so the pad never scores as a note. The settings tooltip says this pad is for "charts without drum fills". On a chart with fills, the engine sets manualActivation to false and the fill-end note activates star power. The intercept still runs on those charts.

SP_PAD_CHOICES offers Ride bell (53), Splash (55) and China (52). The engine scores these notes as cymbals: _AUTO_CYM_MIDI lists them, and so does the engine MIDI_MAP. Suppose a player selects one of these pads and plays a chart with fills that contains that cymbal. Every hit on the pad then calls _session.activate() and is never scored. Each charted note becomes a miss and breaks the streak. The player has no pad that can hit those notes.

Apply the intercept only when the engine uses manual activation. On other charts, let the hit go to _session.hit.

🐛 Proposed fix
-            if (_cfg.spPad >= 0 && midiNote === _cfg.spPad) {
+            const eng = _session.engine;
+            if (_cfg.spPad >= 0 && midiNote === _cfg.spPad && eng && eng.manualActivation) {
                 _session.activate(_inputTime(ts));
                 return;
             }
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if (_cfg.spPad >= 0 && midiNote === _cfg.spPad) {
_session.activate(_inputTime(ts));
return;
}
const eng = _session.engine;
if (_cfg.spPad >= 0 && midiNote === _cfg.spPad && eng && eng.manualActivation) {
_session.activate(_inputTime(ts));
return;
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Review comment at @screen.js around lines 2132 - 2135:
Restrict the star power pad intercept in the input-handling flow to sessions
whose engine uses manual activation. Check `_session.engine.manualActivation`
along with the existing pad conditions before calling `_session.activate`;
otherwise, allow the hit to continue to `_session.hit`.

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