The Noisecraft Field Guide

1. Compose (Drums & Piano Roll)

The Compose workspace provides everything needed to arrange beats and melodies:

• 16-Step Drum Machine: Sequence Kick, Snare, Closed Hat, Open Hat, Clap, and Tom across 16 steps. Switch between four independent pattern banks (A, B, C, D) to program song sections. Add groove swing (50% to 75%) or click Quick fill for Euclidean rhythms.
• Multi-Track Piano Roll: Four melodic tracks: bass (monophonic punch), lead (soaring melodies), pad (chords), and sampler (orchestral and private recordings).
• Inspector & Editing: Shift-click multi-select, drag notes to move/resize, Quantize to grid divisions, or Duplicate by bar offsets.

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Track Volume Automation Editor

In the Sound & mix view, the Automation Editor allows you to draw continuous volume curves across the song for drums, bass, lead, pad, and sampler:

• Absolute Gain Range: Values range from 0.0 (completely silent) to 1.5 (+3.5 dB boost).
• Interpolation Modes: Choose Linear for smooth gradual ramps and fade-ins, or Step for instant drops and stutter effects.
• Persistent Curves: Automation curves survive saves, idea branch merges, and audio exports.

Master Effects Rack

• Stereo Chorus: Multi-voice delay modulation for stereo widening and lush thickness.
• Master Delay: Synchronized echo with adjustable time, feedback, and dry/wet balance.
• Convolution Reverb: Warm acoustic space with room size and damping controls.
• Master Drive: Harmonic analog saturation that glues your mix together.

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Clip Editing Tools

• Split: Slice a clip at any sixteenth-note step or playhead position without altering source audio.
• Duplicate: Copy clips across positions or lanes while retaining source trims and gain.
• Move: Drag clips along the timeline or transfer between lanes.
• Trims & Fades: Set start offsets, durations, and smooth fade-in/fade-out curves in seconds.
• Play as Instrument: Select any imported sample as a tuned sampler instrument, transposed from its root MIDI note (default 60 = C4).

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Adaptive BGM Matrix & Game Bundle Export

Audition multi-tier dynamic music intensity: Exploration (ambient), Tension (rising suspense), and Combat (driving rhythm). Click Export Game Audio Bundle to receive:

• Seamless loop-point-embedded WAV master mixes for each intensity tier.
• Individual track stems (drums, bass, lead, pad, sampler, audio lanes).
• Separate standalone loop of active procedural biome ambience.
• Folder of key-locked sound effects synthesized with SFX Forge.
• Standard multi-track MIDI file (.mid) and project backup JSON.
• Complete integration manifest and plug-and-play starter scripts for Godot 4.3+ (GDScript) and Unity (C# AudioSource intensity controller).

1. Client Configuration (mcpServers)

Add Noisecraft to your MCP client configuration (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or Cursor MCP settings):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "noisecraft": {
      "command": "npm",
      "args": [
        "--prefix",
        "/absolute/path/to/noisecraft",
        "run",
        "--silent",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOISECRAFT_API_KEY": "nm_agt_your_signed_in_agent_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "noisecraft": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "tsx",
        "/absolute/path/to/noisecraft/src/mcp/server.ts"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOISECRAFT_API_KEY": "nm_agt_your_signed_in_agent_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

2. Turn on Live Agent Sync

1. Open the studio at http://localhost:3000/studio on the same machine.
2. Click the More options (⋯) button in the studio header.
3. Toggle Live agent sync to On.
4. Ask your agent to write a chord progression, lay down drum grooves, or sculpt a synth patch. Edits appear in the browser studio instantly!

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• Checkpoints: Frozen snapshots of the entire song (notes, drums, synth knobs, automation, tempo) saved with a descriptive musical note.
• Milestones (Tags): Star landmark moments (⭐ Demo 1.0, Rough Mix, Radio Edit, Final Master).
• Idea Branches: Spin off alternate creative paths (e.g. Lo-Fi Take, 808 Drums, Acoustic Bridge) without altering your main song.
• Musical Diff: Side-by-side musical breakdown between any two checkpoints (e.g. Tempo: 110 → 125 BPM, Lead: +4 notes).
• Selective Combining (Merge): Pick and choose elements from an idea branch into your target branch with track checkboxes (Lead, Bass, Pad, Sampler, Drums, Automation, Knobs, Song Structure).

Export Menu Options

• Audio mixdown (WAV): High-fidelity 16-bit 44.1kHz stereo file. Check Seamless loop tail to blend reverb tails into the start.
• Individual track stems: Separate WAV files for drums, bass, lead, pad, sampler, and audio lanes.
• Standard MIDI (.mid): Polyphonic notes, velocities, and tempo mappings for Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, or Reaper.
• Project backup (JSON): Portable backup file containing your entire arrangement and asset library.

Community Soundstage & Infinite Playlists

Publishing to the Community Gallery is 100% free and requires 0 render credits:

• Normalized Waveform Peaks: 50-bar vectors calculated automatically for interactive visual seekbars.
• 1-Click Studio Remixing: Any creator can click Remix in Studio to load your published notes, presets, and drums.
• Infinite Playlists: Create unlimited public or private playlists with continuous sequential auto-advance.

Render Credit Rates (Server-Rendered Only)

• Zero Credits: All in-browser playback, editing, browser WAV/MIDI exports, and community publishing use 0 credits.
• Server MIDI: 1 credit.
• Server WAV Mixdown: 1 credit per started minute.
• Server Stems & MIDI: 3 credits per started minute.
• Game Audio Bundle: 5 credits per started composition minute (includes loops, stems, SFX, ambience, and scripts).
• SFX Forge: 1 credit per generated sound effect.
• Biome Ambience: 1 credit per started minute.