Energy Blade Ignite

How it's made

Source

a confined plasma column igniting along a blade. Three parts: an electrical snap (a 30 ms high-passed noise burst plus a falling sine thump), a sawtooth-rich buzz (two detuned saws and a sub sine, fundamental 0.8 → 1.25 → 1 × pitch) and a turbulent plasma sizzle (band-passed noise around 3 kHz with sparse sparks).

Body

the buzz passes a low-pass whose cutoff opens from 250 Hz to about 3 kHz as the plasma front travels from the hilt to the tip, then closes to 900 Hz as the column stabilises; the sizzle follows the same sweep.

Envelope

the snap decays in about 30 ms; the buzz rises over 0.25–0.6 s with a slight overshoot and settles to about 55 % by 0.25 s later; the hum then holds with a 6.5 Hz amplitude wobble and fades out at 1.2 s.

Variation

`rng` shifts the tuning of the saws by up to 2 % and the noise streams; macros set the hum pitch, the ignition speed, the sizzle, the wobble and the snap. Presets: a heavy low blade, a fast bright blade and an unstable crackling one.

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