docs: board state + log 036 — the night the surface learned to speak

Pre-compact ritual: 11 threads closed tonight, 8 resume points with exact
next commands. The theme of the night was identity bugs — a port's name is
not the port, a device's saved identity is not the device — written up in
log 036 and banked to memory (ardour9 generic midi, worktree roots,
34-display-targets protocol update).

TASKS_DUMP.md

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 * CosmicFest www metadata (`content/lives/2026/cosmicfest.md` + `tracks.json`)
   still needs PLN's venue/date/lineup. Never backfill from a commit message.
   Now unblocked on content: the 14-track ear-truth setlist exists.
+
+## BOARD STATE — end of session 2026-08-29b (pre-compact, the LCXL3-plays night)
+
+Branch `claude/lcxl3-surface` @ ac8ed14, all pushed. Driver RUNNING the merged
+build (labels on per-control targets). Ardour reopened on the FIXED session.
+
+### CLOSED tonight
+- Driver ↔ live SC: 4 defects fixed, end-to-end verified (fa22bb8, 9b48246)
+- v3 visual language + driver-owned values/latches/paint (857de5b, ca173ae)
+- OLED war won: 34 per-control targets, labels fed to native overlay (78ba7fc)
+- midiviz shipped + Bridge button swapped (30a704e); RIG UP ordering (b30715b)
+- Ardour path: webcam eviction + numeric-address autoconnect (63f5320) +
+  session config= fix applied on disk; edge-button census authored (ca173ae)
+
+### RESUME points (exact)
+1. **PLN confirm**: fader 1 → Tidal 01 rises from −inf (fix applied, untested
+   by ears). Then eye-test list from log 035 (labels, DJF Hz overlay, B1 dark).
+2. **Iterate queue from PLN (next session's step 1):**
+   a. fader labels: drop constant "level [ard]" → orbit SAMPLE identity
+      ("d8 jungle_breaks") parsed from the track's dN block; fallback "d8 lvl".
+   b. multi-button states: several gates/mutes inside ~1.5 s → aggregate
+      overlay (glyph row per column + last change), not last-touch-wins.
+   c. OLED latency pass: ~100-200 ms knob→display; hot path = oled_touch
+      throttle 50 ms + summon logic + 3×set_text; profile then cut.
+3. Edge layers build: Track◀▶ setlist cursor (backlog.md/tracks.json source),
+   Page▲▼ OLED pages (HOME/STATE), Solo/Arm=rec-arm, Mute/Select=gPanic.
+   Census table = EDGE_BUTTONS in tools/lcxl3.py.
+4. SC feed (OSC tap): true beat-phase glow + orbit-activity meters page +
+   silent-orbit alarm. One feed, three features.
+5. Ardour hardening: ParVagues_LCXL3.map (wipe-proof bindings — see
+   reference_ardour9_generic_midi); the 12 gains stored at −inf again.
+6. v2 setlist eval-from-controller (Track▶ confirm → send .tidal to :6010) —
+   design session; transitions are the risk (xfade_cut_ghost).
+7. b5ad8b6 migration merge — tonight WAS the start of the play-through.
+8. Small: midimon transport-parse gap (test pinned); midiviz d13/14 homes +
+   KWin always-on-top rule; 3 corpus labels still combinator soup;
+   Midi Through→SC re-add tug-of-war (harmless, unexplained);
+   tools/sweep_state.py untracked (other session's? triage).

armada/tasks/036-the-surface-learned-to-speak.md

+# 036 — The night the surface learned to speak (2026-08-29)
+
+**Goal:** play rose_rouge on the just-arrived LCXL3, then design its visual
+language live, PLN's hands on the hardware the whole way.
+
+**What shipped** (branch `claude/lcxl3-surface`, `fa22bb8..ac8ed14`):
+the driver met a live SuperCollider and needed FOUR defects fixed before one
+fader passed (aconnect direction trap, port-name identity ×2, add-only
+reconcile); the v3 visual language (role hue × value lightness, DJF
+blue→breathing-green-zero→red at the track's BPM); driver-owned truths
+(offset-64 relative values, row-E latches, paint reasserted every 2 s); OLED
+context in PLN's own words ("Le Delay rose!!!", "HANDS IN THE AIR"); the
+34-display-targets discovery that ended the overlay war (log 035); midiviz,
+the wordless purple glyph-rain monitor (Opus worker, 999923c); the Ardour
+saga — a webcam squatting the control input, then Ardour 9's silent
+`config=` load gate, bindings wiped and restored twice (log-worthy on its
+own); RIG UP reordered around the SuperDirt-owns-MIDI-first constraint; the
+nine-press edge-button census.
+
+**The theme, three times over:** identity bugs. A port's NAME is not the
+port (aconnect client vs port name, twice in our code, once in
+midi-autoconnect, once independently rediscovered by the midiviz worker), and
+a device's saved identity is not the device (Ardour's control input bound to
+"C922 Pro Stream Webcam"). Identity is the numeric address; names are
+decoration.
+
+**BC invariant, stated and kept:** the corpus speaks v2 forever. Everything
+v3 lives in one process; unplug it and the classic LCXL still plays every
+track — PLN: "we need to be BC always."