Gentle Chime

How it's made

Source

a small tuned bell or glass chime tapped with a padded mallet, played as two calm notes that step down a small interval (the second lands a little later and rings longest), like a soft "message arrived".

Body

each note is a fundamental plus bell partials (2.0x, 2.76x, 5.4x, 8.93x). The upper partials die much faster than the fundamental and each partial is detuned by a few cents, so the attack is gently bright, the tail is a nearly pure sine, and the beating of the near-unison pair adds natural shimmer.

Envelope

a soft 8-28 ms attack (padded mallet, no click), then an exponential decay of 0.35-1.8 s for the fundamental; the second note enters 0.15-0.55 s later, and the whole sound is closed by a short fade at about 1.2 s for the defaults.

Variation

`rng` detunes partials by a few cents; the macros set pitch, interval, spacing, ring, softness and brightness. Presets change register, interval, softness and tail length.

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