Forward per-note velocity overrides to MuseSampler's main playback stream

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Summary

• Note::userVelocity overrides (per-note velocity) already reached FluidSynth and VST correctly, but were silently dropped in MuseSamplerSequencer's main-stream addNoteEvent() - only the single-note audition/preview path consumed them.
• Per-note overrides are now merged into the same per-track dynamics-event stream used for the score's dynamics markings, sorted chronologically (MuseSampler's addDynamicsEvent expects calls in time order per track). Two notes in the same voice/chord sharing an exact onset are averaged rather than one silently overwriting the other, since the API has no way to carry two distinct values at one instant.
• MuseSamplerSequencer::dynamicLevelRatio()'s piecewise "dynamic level to velocity" curve is extracted into a shared muse::mpe::dynamicLevelToVelocityRatio() helper (in mpe/mpetypes.h) instead of staying a private duplicate, so other code needing the same curve (e.g. a notation-side UI feature) can reuse it directly.

Context

Found and fixed while building a per-note velocity editing UI in MuseScore Studio (companion PR in musescore/MuseScore, forthcoming) - third-party MuseSounds libraries hosted via MuseSampler didn't audibly respond to per-note velocity changes, while the same score played correctly through the FluidSynth-backed "MuseScore Basic" sound library.

Test plan

• Built muse_musesampler and the full mscore app cleanly (Release, macOS/arm64)
• Manually verified in MuseScore Studio: per-note velocity changes are now audible when playing back third-party MuseSounds (Spitfire Audio, Orchestral Tools, VSL) via MuseSampler
• Automated test coverage for MuseSamplerSequencer (none existed for this code path prior to this change; happy to add if maintainers want it)

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The change adds a shared dynamicLevelToVelocityRatio helper with interpolation and boundary clamping. The sampler sequencer stores per-layer velocity overrides, clamps and averages simultaneous note overrides, and merges them with dynamic events in timestamp order. Overrides take precedence at matching timestamps. Track reset clears cached overrides. The sequencer now uses the shared dynamic-level conversion.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 836db

The change forwards per-note velocity overrides to MuseSampler playback and has been built and manually verified; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

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Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 15.38% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies forwarding per-note velocity overrides to MuseSampler's main playback stream, which is the primary change.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@framework/musesampler/internal/musesamplersequencer.h`:
- Line 92: Update framework/musesampler/internal/musesamplersequencer.h:92 to
make m_velocityOverridesByLayer store a sum and sample count per start time
instead of only a previous mean. In
framework/musesampler/internal/musesamplersequencer.cpp:354-365, accumulate each
note’s velocity and compute the arithmetic mean only when emitting the dynamics
event, preserving correct results for chords with more than two notes.

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284-349: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add regression tests for the dynamic-event merge.

Test simultaneous override averaging, same-timestamp override precedence, override-only layers, duplicate suppression, and cache clearing between sequence reloads. The PR states that this behavior has no automated coverage.

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In `@framework/musesampler/internal/musesamplersequencer.cpp` around lines 284 -
349, Add regression coverage for MuseSamplerSequencer::loadDynamicEvents
covering averaged simultaneous velocity overrides, override precedence at
matching timestamps, layers containing only overrides, suppression of
consecutive duplicate ratios, and clearing override state across sequence
reloads. Reuse the existing sequencer test infrastructure and assert the emitted
dynamic events for each scenario.

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In `@framework/musesampler/internal/musesamplersequencer.cpp`:
- Around line 284-349: Add regression coverage for
MuseSamplerSequencer::loadDynamicEvents covering averaged simultaneous velocity
overrides, override precedence at matching timestamps, layers containing only
overrides, suppression of consecutive duplicate ratios, and clearing override
state across sequence reloads. Reuse the existing sequencer test infrastructure
and assert the emitted dynamic events for each scenario.

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