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Arrow Thunk

An arrow sinking into a wooden target: a dull wood thunk followed by a quick vibrating shaft buzz

kind
one-shot
length
0.49 s
downloads
0
id
F9K0YRTWER

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Arrow Thunk”, Short light arrow preset
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Tweak

renders in the CLI · WAV

Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command
$ sb get F9K0YRTWER@1 --preset light-tap -o arrow-thunk.wav

How it's made

Source
an arrow tip driving into a wooden target. The strike is a very short, low-passed noise burst (the tip biting the surface) plus a slightly longer soft thud of the penetrating point.
Body
the target board rings in a few heavily damped wood modes (a low, dull "thunk" around 120-300 Hz) with a short cavity resonance underneath. The arrow shaft, fixed at the tip and free at the nock, vibrates as a thin rod: a 70-120 Hz-ish fundamental flexing mode with bright overtones, buzzing for a few tenths of a second.
Envelope
the thunk peaks within a millisecond and is gone in ~0.12 s; the shaft buzz starts with the impact, decays about 0.4 s and carries a fast amplitude flutter (rattle against the nock/fletching).
Variation
`rng` jitters mode tuning, strike length and flutter phase; parameters set target size, hardness, shaft length and buzz amount.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
size0 – 10.5—Target size
hardness0 – 10.5—Hardness
buzz0 – 10.55—Shaft buzz
shaft0 – 10.5—Shaft length
decay0 – 10.5—Decay
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('F9K0YRTWER@1')

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