ZIAA ARCHIVE RECORDANOMALY POST-MORTEMS
INC-2026-20failureVERIFIED RECORD
GRANULAR-OVERFLOW: Granular Synthesis Cloud Voice Memory Exhaustion
INC-2026-20HAZARD: SOFTWARE_VOICE_OVERLOADSTATUS: DSP_ALGORITHM_OPTIMIZEDINCIDENT DATE:
GRANULAR-OVERFLOW: Granular Synthesis Cloud Voice Memory Exhaustion
Lead Investigator: Mireille O’Connor
INCIDENT NARRATIVE
An unconstrained stochastic generative patch spawned granular audio voices faster than their decay envelopes finished. When voice count passed 8,192 simultaneous grain instances, the host operating system starved the audio callback thread, causing 2 seconds of high-jitter audio dropouts.
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
Generative density parameter lacked a strict hard ceiling tied to available DSP processing time per audio block.
CONTAINMENT PROTOCOL
Hard-capped maximum concurrent granular voices to 2,048 with dynamic voice stealing based on lowest perceptual energy.
SALVAGED / REASSIGNED HARDWARE
Audio Engine Host PCDante Controller InterfaceStudio Monitors