Block Break

How it's made

Source

a brittle block fractures under impact. The fracture is a 1-3 ms broadband crack, followed by grinding as the pieces shear past each other (dense, gritty noise for ~0.15 s) and by small fragments that bounce and land as isolated ticks.

Body

the intact block rings briefly in damped stone modes (heavy thud 120-400 Hz, stone mode table scaled by size, 40-120 ms); the grit is band-passed noise whose centre falls from ~4 kHz to ~1.2 kHz as the fragments get smaller and looser; each debris tick has its own 1.8-6.5 kHz resonance.

Envelope

crack peaks at 0 ms, body decays within ~120 ms, grit amplitude-modulated by sparse velvet impulses (crunch) and decaying over ~0.3 s; debris ticks thin out over ~0.45 s with falling strength.

Variation

`rng` jitters the mode tuning, tick times, pitches and strengths; presets change the material (hardness, size), the amount of debris and the crunchiness.

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