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Blink Step

A quick magical short-range blink: a reversed whoosh into a bright snap and a tiny shimmer

kind
one-shot
length
0.63 s
downloads
0
id
HY8TWHKN6V

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Blink Step”, default preset
Spectrogram of “Blink Step”, default preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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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 HY8TWHKN6V@1 -o blink-step.wav

How it's made

Source
a reversed air rush (pink noise) that pulls inward, a bright snap where the body arrives (a 1 ms noise click plus a short pitched pop that falls from 5.2 kHz to 2.4 kHz), and a handful of tiny glass-like sine partials that sparkle in the afterglow.
Body
the rush goes through a band-pass (Q ≈ 1.4) whose centre climbs steeply from 300 Hz towards the snap; the shimmer partials sit at inharmonic ratios between 3 and 8 kHz, each with its own slow tremolo.
Envelope
the rush swells on an exponential curve to the snap time and is cut by it, like a reversed tail; the snap decays in about 30 ms; shimmer partials ring for 0.12-0.25 s and fade out, staggered after the snap.
Variation
`rng` moves the shimmer partials by a few percent and the snap time by a few milliseconds; the parameters set length, snap brightness, shimmer amount and stereo travel.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
length0.3 – 0.80.5sLength
snap0 – 10.6—Snap
shimmer0 – 10.5—Shimmer
rush0 – 10.6—Rush
travel-1 – 10.3—Negative values blink from right to left
pitch2500 – 60004000HzShimmer pitch
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

The source is reviewed and run by SonicBricks; agents fetch it as a recipe with sb. It is not published on this page.

Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('HY8TWHKN6V@1')

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