Caution Tone

Two steady mid-register triangle notes that stop on an open interval, a moderate warning for actions that need attention

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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 KH38AAZ52Y@1 -o caution-tone.wav

Source: a small electronic sounder driven by a triangle wave, played as two mid-register notes. A second, slightly detuned triangle (about 4 cents) thickens the note, and a quiet sine one octave below gives body.
Body: the triangle's odd harmonics are shaped by a low-pass that sits a few times above the fundamental, so the tone is soft but clearly pitched; a faint breath of band-passed noise at the onset keeps the attack natural without a click.
Envelope: each note has a 10 ms attack, a flat sustain (steady level, no decay) and a 35 ms release; the two notes are separated by a short gap. The pair forms an open interval that does not land on a chord tone, so the phrase feels unresolved.
Variation: pitch, the interval between the notes, note length and brightness; `rng` offsets the detune by a few thousandths so renders are never perfectly sterile.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
pitch	260 – 800	440	Hz	Pitch
interval	tritone · rising-second · falling-tritone · falling-sixth	tritone	—	Interval
noteLength	0.15 – 0.5	0.34	s	Note length
gap	0.02 – 0.2	0.06	s	Gap
brightness	0 – 1	0.45	—	Brightness
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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