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Cicadas

Cicadas in high summer, swelling in waves

kind
texture
length
15 s
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0
id
AC5YB0QNA9

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0.00 / 15 sMP3 preview · A lone cicada
Preset
Spectrogram of “Cicadas”, A lone cicada preset
Spectrogram of “Cicadas”, A lone cicada 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 AC5YB0QNA9@1 --preset 孤蝉 -o cicadas.wav

How it's made

Source
the tymbal buckles hundreds of times a second: noise gated into short pulses (pulse train).
Body
the hollow abdomen resonates strongly (a band-pass around 4–7 kHz).
Phrase
each cicada swells over several seconds, holds and drops off; several overlap out of step.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
count1 – 83—Count
intensity0 – 10.7—Intensity
pitch3000 – 80005200HzPitch
phrase2 – 156sPhrase
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. r12026-10-25engine 1.0.1use('AC5YB0QNA9@1')

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