Game Over Jingle

A short somber synth-lead phrase stepping down a minor scale and fading slowly, for a game-over screen

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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 4H007N7SS4@1 --preset glass -o game-over-jingle.wav

Source: a monophonic analog-style synth lead playing a four-note phrase that steps down a natural minor scale (5th, 4th, 3rd, then the root). Each note is a stack of three slightly detuned band-limited oscillators (saw, pulse or triangle) plus a soft sine one octave below for weight.
Body: a resonant low-pass (Q ≈ 1.1) closes over each note, from about 1.7x to 0.5x its cutoff, so every note starts bright and darkens like a filter decay; lower notes are darker because the cutoff follows pitch.
Envelope: 12 ms attack, a gentle level droop while the note holds, and a 0.1–0.9 s release that overlaps the next note. The phrase slows down: note lengths 0.4, 0.4, 0.5 s, then a 1.5 s final root with a long release. Vibrato (5 Hz) fades in only after ~0.25 s of the final note; its pitch also sags a few cents.
Variation: `rng` randomises oscillator start phases and detune by a few cents per note. Macros set the root pitch, tempo, brightness, vibrato, detune and the sag; the presets change waveform, register and mood.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
pitch	220 – 660	440	Hz	Root pitch
tempo	0.6 – 1.3	0.8	—	Slowness
brightness	0 – 1	0.45	—	Brightness
wave	saw · pulse · tri	saw	—	Waveform
vibrato	0 – 1	0.5	—	Vibrato
sag	0 – 1	0.5	—	Pitch sag
detune	0 – 25	9	cents	Detune
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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