Prepare the
next note.
Same physical sax, same written notes. B prepares breath pressure and lip gap before the key arrival, without adding a tongue attack or changing musical gates. Dry horn only: no backing or room to hide the difference.
Start with the 6.4-second fast passage. Both clips come from complete 80.1-second performances, not a cold-start phrase. A remains the rejected band's original dry horn; B is an unapproved player-control experiment, not a claimed sax-sound fix.
A · Original controls
Untouched original dry recordings and instrument settings.
B · Coordinated preparation
51 planned oral preparations; the original key and tongue-command clocks stay fixed.
What is—and is not—verified
The no-change segmented sham reproduces the complete original raw waveform bit for bit. Every model step preserves fingering targets, tongue commands and active gate bits. Only declared mouth-pressure/lip-gap preparation changes; the physical instrument is not rewritten.
Both unrestricted methods leave three period-assessment exceptions, down from seven. The whole-score gate is still negative. Weak doubled-cycle periodicity and detector agreement do not automatically establish perceived pitch or realistic sax tone. Neither side is declared a listening winner.
One constant matches B's full dry playback level and also applies to its short crop. No amp, EQ, room, pitch shift, samples or per-note normalization is added. Existing guitar, bass, drums, Ruth, models, recordings and URLs stay intact.
Comparison and preservation · Actual oral-preparation controller · Actual controls · Unchanged physical horn · All private-stage assessments · Study notes