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Flag Flapping

Close fabric flutter and sharp tension snaps as a flag lashes against strong, uneven gusts.

kind
loop
length
8.00 s
downloads
0
id
XVRJ4T7DX5

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0.00 / 8.00 sMP3 preview · Heavy canvas flag
Preset
Spectrogram of “Flag Flapping”, Heavy canvas flag preset
Spectrogram of “Flag Flapping”, Heavy canvas flag preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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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 XVRJ4T7DX5@1 --preset heavy-canvas -o flag-flapping.wav

How it's made

Source
a flag repeatedly folds and pulls taut on its pole. Filtered noise models fabric friction, with 1 ms attacks and 9–22 ms releases for tension snaps, not electrical impulses.
Body
broad, damped cloth bands at 160–900 Hz make the rounded flap; 0.7–7 kHz folds give close detail. Larger, heavier cloth lowers these bands and lengthens each 55–170 ms billowing envelope.
Envelope
two unequal gust lobes per 8 s cycle accelerate irregular flaps from about 4 to 13 per second. Gust pressure coherently increases wind brightness, flap strength and the proportion of sharp snaps.
Layers
each fold has a low fabric slap, a falling spectral friction band and a delayed recoil; restrained stereo air occupies 100–2400 Hz beneath the close, narrowly positioned fabric.
Variation
seeded timing, strength, band centres, recoil delay and pan avoid mechanical repetition. Four presets contrast taut nylon, heavy canvas, a storm banner and a small flag in separated gusts.
Space
dry close perspective, no tonal pole whistle or reverberation; the engine crossfades the seam.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
speed4 – 138—Flutter rate
size0.6 – 1.61—Fabric weight and size
snap0 – 10.7—Tension snaps
gustiness0 – 10.7—Gust contrast
air0 – 10.3—Air rush
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('XVRJ4T7DX5@1')

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