Crystal Notify

A delicate two-tap crystal-glass notification with a pure, inharmonic ring and a long gentle decay

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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 HB7G4R6BKD@1 --preset cascade -o crystal-notify.wav

Source: a thin crystal goblet tapped lightly with a fingernail, then a second, higher tap a moment later.
Body: a glass bowl rings in inharmonic modes, roughly 1, 2.32, 4.25, 6.63 and 9.38 times the lowest mode. The fundamental is a very pure sine that rings longest; upper modes are quieter and die much sooner, so the tap is bright and the tail is a clean, glassy ring.
Beating: a real goblet is not perfectly round, so every mode is a pair a fraction of a hertz apart, which makes the ring shimmer slowly (`shimmer`).
Envelope: a 1 ms tick of high-passed noise, then exponential decays of 0.1–1.1 s per mode; the second note overlaps the tail of the first.
Variation: pitch, interval, ring time, brightness and shimmer; `rng` mistunes each mode by a fraction of a percent and varies the tap noise.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
pitch	700 – 2600	1568	Hz	Pitch
interval	unison · third · fifth · octave	fifth	—	Interval
notes	1 – 3	2	—	Notes
spacing	0.08 – 0.4	0.2	s	Spacing
decay	0.4 – 1.6	0.85	s	Ring time
brightness	0 – 1	0.5	—	Brightness
shimmer	0 – 1	0.4	—	Shimmer
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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