The second reading: the same columns at realistic levels

Under each family’s table is a second block (ADR-0042):

  at realistic levels (bass 0.661 mid 0.575 treb 0.281 onset 0.145) — read the *gap* ...
  preset            bass     mid    treb   onset   gates   ceils   occ
  Aurora           0.183   0.165   0.212   0.025       0       1     0
  Ember            0.078   0.053   0.032   0.035       0       0     0

The realistic levels changed meaning in Plan 0048. They are now fractions of each signal’s own recent peak (ADR-0049), not magnitudes, which is why they read 0.661 where they used to read 0.04. Any --report number quoted in an older commit message, ADR Outcome or backlog entry was measured on the raw scale.

The four columns are measured exactly as the ones above, from stimuli set to what real material produces instead of to 1.0. The gap between the two rows is the reading, not either number alone, and it has a direction:

what you see	what it means
both healthy	the preset responds at levels it will actually meet
full scale lively, realistic ~0	gained or gated against a magnitude music never reaches. This is the defect that hid six presets for months
realistic close to full scale	a compressive curve/smoothstep doing its job, or a binding already saturating at low input
realistic > full scale	something inverted or saturating — a parameter past its useful range at full scale, reading back down

The last row is why the full-scale columns stayed. They also keep every number quoted in an older commit, ADR or backlog entry meaning what it said.

Two things this pair cannot see. beat is an event, not a magnitude, so it is true in both readings — a beat-latched binding holds across the gap while an onset-scaled one falls away, which is a distinction, not a fault. And the band array is on its own scale: the low stimulus lights the spectrum slice to the same level as the scalar, while real material’s per-band mean is 0.020 with peaks to 0.338, so a bin()-reading preset reads lower here than the scalar gap suggests.