Okay I will go build this and with luck ship it then move to the image you asked me to look at - I will give you a shout just before in case I'm "too late to the party"....
Instead of just outputting the channel to mono, it converts the mono channel to stereo.
Generally, users want this for those effects. For example, if you add reverb, chorus or stereo delay to a mono vocal channel, you want the output to be stereo, not mono.
@virtuscapeaudio another way if you’re interested could be using Shopify’s but buttons so all the products are hosted on their servers, but could be more expensive than something like aws s3
@d-healey Of course! I overlooked that critical part and only focused on the decay. Thank you so much, Dave! That was illuminating, and I think I am almost finished with the most sophisticated hi-hat script in history of the universe 😁
For anyone else having this problem: Its all about file access permissions...
turns out the mac wont write to my portable drive, and sadly the compile process wont report any errors when it fails to be given permission to write to such a drive....