A voice starts pointed at its track, without code to point it

There is no assembler bug. I reported one and was wrong.

A label written in the Data Segment does come out as its address, two
bytes, most significant first - implemented in populateOutputBuffers,
documented in the Assembler Manual, and correct. What misled me was the
test I checked it with: the label was the first thing in an unbased
Data Segment, so its address really was 0x0000, and I read the right
answer as an unfilled placeholder.

So Play was doing at run time what the assembler had already offered to
do at assembly time. The voice records now carry their track labels
directly, which is exactly the shape LDD reads, and nothing relocates on
this machine so the address written is the address it will have. That
takes out startVoice, its four call sites, and the eight SETDs that fed
them: 450 bytes to 379, and the initial state of a voice is now
something you can read rather than something you have to follow the code
to work out.

The comment claiming otherwise is gone from Play.asm, and the same
change is made in fourVoiceTest.

The music is unchanged - bar by bar the render matches to within one per
cent, which is the program loading a shade sooner because it is smaller.
Ten recordings moved for the same reason: 446 to 379, and nothing else.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
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blocks.script 343
loops.script 272
tune.sbx 318
Play.sbx 446
Play.sbx 379
notes.txt 21
Apps <dir>
hi.script 121