The grid keeps up with more, and re-reads on staleness
Follows the code change that moved the full re-walk off window focus and onto an
age check, and that gave the bridge observers on whatever Live's Session cursor
is sitting on.
**The grid disagrees with Live** was describing behaviour that no longer exists.
It said the app re-reads everything whenever you switch back to the browser, and
that an in-place rename needs a trip into Live and back. Neither is true now: an
in-place rename, recolor or delete reaches the grid on its own, and the full
re-walk happens on staleness rather than on every alt-tab.
What is left uncovered is worth naming precisely rather than hand-waving, so the
two genuine blind spots are listed with the reason: Live exposes no notification
for a clip's length or a group's fold state, so there is nothing to watch and
**sync** is the answer. The table swaps the rename row, which is now automatic,
for those two.
**Nothing appears in the grid** still said to check both pills. There is one
readiness line in the bottom strip now, and it names the first thing it's waiting
on rather than asking anyone to combine two statuses.
**Undo** described the snapshot being re-walked every time you switch back from
Live, as part of why there's one level and no redo. The reasoning is unchanged —
the picture an undo entry was captured against keeps moving — but the trigger
isn't what it says.
Song tags, the sort hierarchy, and following Live
Brings the manual up to the 2026-08-07 work. Three of these were not
additions but corrections — the pages described behaviour the app no
longer has.
The convention lost its BPM. A scene name is `[ROLE] @{key} {SONG}
{TAG}`; the tempo lives on Scene.tempo, which is the one fact Live
already has a home for, and duplicating it into the name meant two
answers that could disagree. Naming is rewritten around that, with the
three readable legacy forms in a table so a half-converted set is
recognisable rather than mysterious.
Song tags are new and get a section rather than a page: an open,
optional, brace-delimited classification of what the song is. The braces
are the point — they make an arbitrary tag reversible without a fixed
vocabulary, which is what keeps the mapping derivable from the name
alone. Roles gets the tag-versus-role distinction, since one describes a
scene and the other a song, and they are deliberately different marks.
Roles and the chosen palette moved out of bsv.json and localStorage into
a hidden device parameter, so Live writes them into the .als. That is a
better story than the one it replaces and Installing, Roles and Color
each told the old one. Home gains a section saying it plainly: there is
no database, and the set is the storage.
The palette is now compiled in. Color and Troubleshooting documented a
Re-derive button that no longer exists — worse than incomplete, since
someone would have gone looking for it.
Following Live is documented with its failure mode stated out loud. It
watches the Session cursor and it is the least verified path in the app,
so "a clip drawn in two places means this got it wrong, press sync" is
in both Reading the grid and Troubleshooting. A manual that only
described the happy path would leave the one symptom worth reporting
looking like a bug in the reader's set.
The same commit records what following Live cost: a write no longer
re-reads the set, so it no longer quietly catches up on changes made in
Live as a side effect. That is a regression from the user's seat and it
says so.
Also: the sort hierarchy in the running order, per-scene slices in
folded song headers, ⌘A, and the bar.beat.sixteenth readout that has
been in the header since the branded transport and was never written up.
Some of this documents work that is still in the working tree, so the
manual is briefly ahead of the released device.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MutvDXT74GQ57Jjztt21cz
Group tracks, dragging scenes and clips, meters
Catches the manual up with the grid.
Track groups were described as a header row spanning their members, with a
folded group standing in as a count column. They're columns now — a group is a
real track at the head of what it contains, with a launcher that fires the whole
group and a bar showing how far it reaches. Folding writes back to Live, so it
survives a snapshot.
New page for moving clips, since it overwrites and has no undo — that needs
saying somewhere it can't be missed rather than as a bullet on another page.
Dragging a single scene joins the running order, which is now three ways to
reorder rather than two.
Track headers carry each track's own color from Live, and the meter toggle is
mentioned where the header is described.
Dropped ⌥ from the mouse tables. It used to add to a selection and no longer
does anything; both pages that taught it now say so, since a shortcut people
learned going quiet is worse than one that never existed.