From 81e76e3e73fd46f705354fb923824870486ff0e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "prompt.ac/@jeffrey" <mail@aesthetic.computer>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:18:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] loner: "think" doubles to 2 beats, running straight into the
 octave
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@jeffrey: "think should double in length".

think 1 → 2 beats, which fills the beat that had been a rest, so it now
runs from bar 4 beat 2 straight into "of" on beat 19 with no breath
between them. "i think" reads as one held gesture into the octave rather
than two words with air after them.

At 2 beats it is 2.34× her sung length, so it crosses the 1.8× line and
THE HOLD flattens it to a sustained grid tone with vibrato. For a
one-syllable word trailing off that is the intended behaviour — it is
what makes "stone" and "pass" hold whole bars — unlike "patiently",
where flattening destroyed a melody the syllables were carrying. If it
reads as too synthetic, adding think to `nohold` keeps her contour
instead.
---
 pop/loner/bin/halo3.py     | 3 +--
 pop/loner/c/loner-chart.h  | 2 +-
 pop/loner/vox4/.chart.json | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pop/loner/bin/halo3.py b/pop/loner/bin/halo3.py
index a8681910ac..5d0037e17f 100644
--- a/pop/loner/bin/halo3.py
+++ b/pop/loner/bin/halo3.py
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ CHART = {
                                        # so "of" keeps beat 19 and stone its
                                        # bar 6 beat 2.
                                        7: 3.0,
-                                       8: 1.0, 9: 4.0, 10: 2.0, 11: 2.0,
+                                       8: 2.0, 9: 4.0, 10: 2.0, 11: 2.0,
                                        # very longer, patiently slower
                                        14: 4.0, 15: 5.0 },
                              # words whose syllables carry a melody must not
@@ -269,7 +269,6 @@ CHART = {
                              # 1-beat rest, which lands "just" square on the
                              # bar 8 downbeat.
                              "gaps": { 3: 0.5,   # "in" leans in behind the downbeat
-                                       8: 1.0,   # a breath before the octave
                                        11: 1.0 } },
     "w-sitting-curled":    { "slice": "f-sitting-curled",    "beats": 11.0 },
     "w-i-think":           { "slice": "f-i-think",           "beats": 3.5 },
diff --git a/pop/loner/c/loner-chart.h b/pop/loner/c/loner-chart.h
index ebb5e07e37..9929ac001c 100644
--- a/pop/loner/c/loner-chart.h
+++ b/pop/loner/c/loner-chart.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ static const ChartNote w_whole_line_notes[] = {
     { 10.00, 2.00, 5 },
     { 12.00, 2.00, 5 },
     { 14.00, 3.00, -2 },
-    { 17.00, 1.00, -5 },
+    { 17.00, 2.00, -5 },
     { 19.00, 4.00, 12 },
     { 23.00, 2.00, 10 },
     { 25.00, 2.00, 5 },
diff --git a/pop/loner/vox4/.chart.json b/pop/loner/vox4/.chart.json
index eab0122add..793b5a8c03 100644
--- a/pop/loner/vox4/.chart.json
+++ b/pop/loner/vox4/.chart.json
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
    ],
    [
     11.9967,
-    17.7713
+    18.7372
    ],
    [
     19.0015,
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
    },
    {
     "beat": 17.0,
-    "dur": 1.0,
+    "dur": 2.0,
     "st": -5,
     "t": "think",
     "lead": 0.0
-- 
2.51.2