refactor: user vars parsing and substitution

feat: make midi args case-insensitive
refactor: more decoupling between adapters
refactor: map clip note actions with mixin methods

.gitattributes

@@ -1,18 +1,14 @@
 * text=auto eol=lf
 
-# Git
-.gitattributes  text
-.gitignore      text
-
 # Code
 *.py            text diff=python
-*.txt           text
 *.pyc           binary
 *.ps1           text encoding=utf-16le eol=crlf
-*.json          text
+*.sh            text diff=bash
 
 # Docs
 *.html          text diff=html
+*.md            text diff=markdown
 *.pdf           binary
 
 # Samples
@@ -24,5 +20,5 @@ docs            export-ignore
 tools           export-ignore
 .gitattributes  export-ignore
 .gitignore      export-ignore
-README.md       export-ignore
+*.md            export-ignore
 setup.*         export-ignore

.gitignore

@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ __pycache__/
 .bin/
 .env
 .vscode/settings.json
+tests/fixtures/testproj/

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 # Contributing to ClyphX
 
-## Vendorized packages
+## Gotchas
+- Live API objects must not be checked using `is None` since this would treat
+  lost weakrefs as valid.
+  ```
+  # True both if obj represents a lost weakref or is None
+  obj == None
+  ```
+- Lists and dicts should be created with `list()` and `dict()`, as oppossed to
+  `[]` and `{}`, to make use of the `future` lib optimizations.
+
+
+## Vendored packages
 
 | package           | version | description |
 | ----------------- | ------- | ----------- |
@@ -14,7 +25,7 @@
 
 ## VSCode
 
-Rename `.vscode/.settings.json` to `.vscode/settings.json`.
+Rename `.vscode/.settings.jsonc` to `.vscode/settings.json`.
 
 ### VSCode Tasks
 

README.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ OVER
 A more complex _Action List_ might mute Tracks 1-2, unmute and arm Track 4, turn
 the 2nd Device on Track 4 on, and launch the selected Clip on track 4:
 ```
-1/MUTE ON; 2/MUTE ON; 4/MUTE OFF; 4/ARM ON; 4/DEV2 ON; 4/PLAY
+1-2/MUTE ON; 4/MUTE OFF; 4/ARM ON; 4/DEV2 ON; 4/PLAY
 ```
 
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