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Camera Shutter

A dry two-click mechanical camera shutter for photo capture and screenshots

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one-shot
length
0.23 s
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GKWHYPHNJB

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0.00 / 0.23 sMP3 preview · Compact
Preset
Spectrogram of “Camera Shutter”, Compact preset
Spectrogram of “Camera Shutter”, Compact 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 GKWHYPHNJB@1 --preset compact -o camera-shutter.wav

How it's made

Source
a focal-plane or leaf shutter in a small camera. Two mechanical events: the blades/curtain opening and, a few tens of ms later, closing. Each is a 1–2 ms broadband contact (metal hitting a stop).
Body
the shutter assembly rings in damped steel modes (≈ 2.4–6.5 kHz, ratio ≈ 1 : 1.9 : 3.1, 8–25 ms); the camera body adds a short hollow knock (500–1100 Hz, 10–25 ms). The closing click is slightly lower and softer than the opening one, as the curtain is slowed by its damper.
Envelope
attack under 0.5 ms; each click is gone in about 40 ms. Between the clicks a faint band-limited noise (curtain travel, 3–7 kHz) fades in and out over the exposure gap.
Layers
contact noise, metal modes, body knock, curtain travel noise; all dry and centred.
Variation
`rng` mistunes the modes by ±3 % and varies click strength; `gap` sets the exposure time, `size` scales mode frequencies (compact vs. reflex), `brightness` the contact noise and mode balance.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
gap0.03 – 0.160.09sTime between opening and closing click
size0 – 10.5—Mechanism size
brightness0 – 10.55—Brightness
body0 – 10.4—Body knock
curtain0 – 10.4—Curtain travel
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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

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