Crate Smash

How it's made

Source

a blow breaks a nailed wooden crate. The break is a 3–8 ms broadband crack (fibres snapping, nails tearing) over a low thump of the panel flexing (80–200 Hz, ~60 ms); no sustained tone is involved.

Splinters

10–40 tiny wood fragments in the first ~0.4 s, each a 1–4 ms band-passed noise tick (1.8–6 kHz) exciting a short wood ring; the rate is front-loaded and decays as the crate falls apart.

Planks

2–7 loose planks hit the ground one after another. Each is a damped wood modal body (fundamental by plank length, modes ≈ 1 : 2.57 : 4.2, 40–200 ms); the gaps shrink like a bouncing object while strength falls, giving a clatter that settles within about a second.

Envelope

the crack and thump peak in the first 10 ms, splinters fade by 0.5 s, planks keep clattering to ~1.1 s and the whole oneshot is faded out near 1.4 s.

Variation

`rng` jitters splinter and plank timing, size, tuning and pan; macros set crate size (modal scaling), violence (splinter count and crack level), plank count and brightness (striker hardness).

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