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First Drops

Sparse heavy raindrops splat on dry ground, gathering irregularly before the storm.

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texture
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15 s
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0C3X8EZMAM

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0.00 / 15 sMP3 preview · Broad concrete splats
Preset
Spectrogram of “First Drops”, Broad concrete splats preset
Spectrogram of “First Drops”, Broad concrete splats preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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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 0C3X8EZMAM@1 --preset broad-concrete -o first-drops.wav

How it's made

Source
heavy raindrops flatten on dry pavement; a 0.7-2 ms noise attack opens into a broad splat.
Body
non-ringing, low-Q noise at 180-850 Hz carries the drop mass, decaying over 25-65 ms; the contact layer spans 700 Hz-7 kHz and darkens to 1.2-2.8 kHz as the liquid sheet loses energy.
Layers
2-5 delayed spray grains at 4-30 ms add broken, high-passed edges; no puddle bubble tones.
Envelope
splats release in 35-100 ms, spray in 3-12 ms; rounded attacks prevent digital clicks.
Events
irregular Poisson arrivals grow from about 0.5/s to 3.8/s over 20 s at default settings; a quiet distant impact bed grows underneath, leaving the early individual drops exposed.
Variation
per-drop mass, cutoff, grain timing, strength and pan vary independently with seeded rng. Presets offer isolated asphalt drops, broad concrete splats, gritty ground and an advancing rain front.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
density0 – 10.5—Arrival density
growth0 – 10.65—Storm approach
size0 – 10.65—Drop mass
hardness0 – 10.55—Surface hardness
grit0 – 10.4—Broken spray
spread0 – 10.8—Stereo spread
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. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('0C3X8EZMAM@1')

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