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Enter Key Clack
An emphatic plastic Return key press with a double contact and a short bottom-out
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0.00 / 0.18 sShallow laptop
Tweak
renders in the CLI · WAVChange parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.
$ sb get ZC37VFN74Z@1 --preset laptop -o enter-key-clack.wav
How it's made
- Source
- a fingertip driving a wide plastic Enter keycap down onto its switch and then into the plate. Two contacts: the cap-on-slider strike (1–2 ms broadband tick) and, 20–55 ms later, the bottom-out against the case, a harder and slightly lower impact.
- Body
- the keycap rings in damped plastic modes (about 2–3.5 kHz, ratio ≈ 1 : 1.9 : 3.1, 12–45 ms); the case adds a hollow "thock" (170–330 Hz, 40–70 ms); the long stabilizer wire adds a faint metallic rattle at 4.5–7.5 kHz right after bottom-out.
- Envelope
- contact attacks under 0.5 ms; the first strike is the shorter and brighter, the bottom-out carries the weight; everything is gone by about 0.17 s, so the key sounds emphatic but not ringing.
- Variation
- `rng` mistunes the modes by up to ±3 % and varies the gap and level by a few percent, so repeated presses are not identical. Presets move pitch, damping, gap and thock weight (office, heavy, snappy, laptop).
| Parameter | Range | Default | Unit | Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| brightness | 0 – 1 | 0.55 | — | Brightness |
| body | 0 – 1 | 0.55 | — | Case thock |
| gap | 0.02 – 0.055 | 0.035 | s | Time between key contact and bottom-out |
| pitch | 1900 – 3600 | 2700 | Hz | Keycap pitch |
| rattle | 0 – 1 | 0.3 | — | Stabilizer rattle |
| seed | int | 1 | — | 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.
Revision history1
- r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('ZC37VFN74Z@1')