Gem Collect

How it's made

Source

a small faceted crystal tapped by a hard, tiny striker. The contact is a 1–2 ms high-passed noise tick; the following glints are light, bright taps of the same gem, so every layer is a hard-struck glass tine.

Body

glass ring = a few stiff inharmonic modes (1 : 2.32 : 4.25 : 6.63) around 2.6–3.4 kHz; the lowest mode rings 0.25–0.5 s, the upper modes die 2–6x faster, so the attack is glassy and the tail is a pure ping.

Shimmer

a quick upward run of 4–5 glints in a major pentatonic ladder (1, 9/8, 5/4, 3/2, 5/3 and up), 25–40 ms apart. Each glint is a sine pair with a slight beat, 80–200 ms long, getting quieter toward the top.

Sparkle tail

4–12 tiny pings at 5–9 kHz (kept below 10 kHz to avoid fizz) scattered over the last 0.3 s, each 15–40 ms long, with strength falling off as the tail thins.

Envelope

1.5 ms onset ramp everywhere (no clicks), exponential decays, final fade to silence at about 0.55 s.

Variation

`rng` detunes every mode by under 0.4 %, jitters glint timing by a few ms and places the sparkles; parameters set pitch, ring length, shimmer height, sparkle amount and brightness.

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