# Is a music bank's wave 1 the SAME instruments filtered, or DIFFERENT parts? # BGM_103 (the menu's music) -- 2026-08-30 # # structures/bgm-two-stems.md leaves two readings alive for wave 1: the rear # pair of a 4-channel mix, or a second intensity layer -- and correctly notes # that runtime simultaneity cannot separate them, because both predict it. # This is a static attempt at a discriminator. # # METHOD: magnitude-squared coherence, Welch, NFFT 8192 @ 48 kHz, 60 s window # (702 segments, so the bias floor is ~1/702 = 0.0014). Coherence is ~1 wherever # one signal is a LINEAR FILTER of the other and ~0 for independent signals. # tools/re-capture/bgm_stem_coherence.py # # WAVES: slb_extract_wave.py BGM_103.slb 14336 1893 2 48000 (wave 0) # slb_extract_wave.py BGM_103.slb 3903488 1919 2 48000 (wave 1) # then ffmpeg -i x.riff x.wav. Both decode to 87.744 s, 4 211 729 frames. # CONTROL BANK: BGM_104.slb 14336 1305 (a different piece, same codec). # CONTROLS POS w0 vs linear-filter(w0) 0-0.2k 0.929 0.2-1k 0.938 1-4k 0.936 4-12k 0.938 12-16k 0.938 16-24k 0.937 NEG w0 vs a different bank 0-0.2k 0.001 0.2-1k 0.001 1-4k 0.001 4-12k 0.001 12-16k 0.001 16-24k 0.002 NEG w0 vs w0 shifted 1 s 0-0.2k 0.057 0.2-1k 0.048 1-4k 0.007 4-12k 0.019 12-16k 0.015 16-24k 0.004 REF w0 L vs R (one perf.) 0-0.2k 0.321 0.2-1k 0.221 1-4k 0.363 4-12k 0.445 12-16k 0.497 16-24k 0.450 REF w1 L vs R (one perf.) 0-0.2k 0.078 0.2-1k 0.051 1-4k 0.089 4-12k 0.411 12-16k 0.453 16-24k 0.455 MEASUREMENT w0 vs w1 0-0.2k 0.169 0.2-1k 0.184 1-4k 0.027 4-12k 0.635 12-16k 0.768 16-24k 0.827 ENERGY SHARE w0 0-0.2k 71.4% 0.2-1k 24.8% 1-4k 2.4% 4-12k 1.0% 12-16k 0.1% 16-24k 0.2% w1 0-0.2k 53.8% 0.2-1k 40.9% 1-4k 2.3% 4-12k 2.1% 12-16k 0.3% 16-24k 0.6% # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # READING IT # # ✅ THE INSTRUMENT IS CALIBRATED. A real linear filter of w0 reads 0.93-0.94 in # every band; a different bank reads 0.001-0.002; w0 against itself misaligned by # 1 s reads 0.004-0.057. So the estimator detects filtering and is not fooled by # two pieces of music in the same codec. # # ❌ REFUTED: "wave 1 is wave 0 put through a filter." The positive control says # a filter reads 0.936 at 1-4 kHz. The measurement reads 0.027 there. No linear # filter produces that in a band where both waves carry energy. # # 📌 THE FREQUENCY STRUCTURE IS INVERTED relative to any mic-pair or reverb # model. Coherence RISES with frequency -- 0.169, 0.184, 0.027, 0.635, 0.768, # 0.827 -- while energy FALLS -- 71.4 %, 24.8 %, 2.4 %, 1.0 %, 0.1 %, 0.2 %. # A rear pair or a reverb return decorrelates FASTEST at high frequency, which # is the opposite. What is coherent lives in bands holding ~1.3 % of the energy; # the bands holding 96 % of it read 0.169 and 0.184. # # 📌 AND IN THE MUSICAL MIDRANGE THE TWO WAVES ARE FURTHER APART THAN THE TWO # CHANNELS OF ONE WAVE: 1-4 kHz gives 0.027 between waves against 0.363 for w0's # own L vs R -- a factor of 13. Two channels of one performance agree far more # than the two waves do. # # 🔴 BUT THE L-R CONTROL IS ALSO WHAT LIMITS THIS TOOL, AND IT KILLS THE CLEAN # ANSWER. L vs R within a single wave is genuinely "one performance, two # channels", and it reads only 0.221-0.497 -- nowhere near the 0.94 a filter # gives. So in THIS material "same performance" does not imply high coherence, # which means my positive control was the wrong model of the rear-pair reading: # a real 4-channel mix's rear pair is not a linear filter of its front pair. # # => The filter model is dead. The two named readings are NOT separated. This # tool cannot separate them, and the reason is stated rather than discovered # later: it tests for linear filtering, and neither reading requires it. # # ⚠️ REACH: one bank (BGM_103), one 60 s window, mono-summed for the coherence # rows. Not run over the other 31 banks. The 16-24 kHz reading of 0.827 sits in # 0.2-0.6 % of the energy and is unexplained -- it is NOT generic codec # behaviour, since the different-bank control reads 0.002 in the same band.