Cartoon Fall

A long descending whistle with a slowing glide for a cartoon character falling off a ledge

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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 9EAWE5MBY9@1 -o cartoon-fall.wav

Source: the classic cartoon "fall" whistle: a nearly pure sine voice (a slide whistle blown steadily) plus a little breath noise; a soft 2nd harmonic (x2, -14 dB) gives the reedy edge without harshness.
Body: pitch glides from about 1.9 kHz down to 0.45 kHz along an exponential approach, so the fall is fast at first and the glide visibly slows; breath noise is band-passed (Q 6) around the same moving pitch, and a faint low-passed air rush follows it.
Envelope: 25 ms fade-in (no click), level holds then fades out over the last 35 %, so the sound is gone before any impact; a gentle vibrato (about 6 Hz, deepening as the fall goes on) adds the wobble of fear.
Variation: `rng` shifts start pitch by +-3 % and vibrato phase; parameters set length, pitch range, wobble and breath; presets give a tall cliff, a short ledge slip, a comic wobbly drop and a soft airy descent.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
length	0.6 – 3	1.5	s	Length
start	1000 – 2600	1900	Hz	Start pitch
end	200 – 900	450	Hz	End pitch
wobble	0 – 1	0.35	—	Wobble
breath	0 – 1	0.3	—	Breath
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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