Mimir/docs/audio-field.md

Audio Field

Mimir's audio field is six microphones, loopback/program reference, and two calibration speakers aligned into one presentation timeline.

Live Target

flowchart TD
    A["mic / loopback capture drivers"] --> B["Mimir.Runtime audio buffers"]
    C["speaker probe scheduler"] --> B
    B --> D["native alignment + phase state"]
    D --> E["Faust/native DSP"]
    E --> F["host voice"]
    E --> G["co-streamer voice"]
    E --> H["ambient / transients"]
    E --> I["loopback stems"]
    E --> J["spatial bed"]
    F --> K["OBS"]
    G --> K
    H --> K
    I --> K
    J --> K

Invariants

• Focusrite dialogue mics are the voice anchors.
• Camera mics are spatial/context witnesses.
• Loopback/program audio is timing evidence where available.
• Distributed inputs must be aligned and resampled before they become program stems.
• Probe signals are budgeted telemetry, not a permanent audio bed.
• Faust/native DSP owns the hot separation and spatialization graph.

Next Cut

Add native audio capture workers that append typed blocks into Mimir.Runtime, then expose buffer depth, clock state, delay estimates, and stem routing in Aquarium UI.