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Hail Storm
Hailstones clattering on roofs, cars and the ground: hard ice ticks, bouncing stutters and metallic pings
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0.00 / 10 sHeavy onset
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renders in the CLI · WAVChange parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.
$ sb get NZC0AZSAE2@1 --preset heavy-onset -o hail-storm.wav
How it's made
- Source
- hailstones are hard ice spheres (a few mm to 2 cm). Each stone lands as a very short, bright, broadband click (0.1 ms attack, 1-4 ms decay); there is no soft splash because ice does not deform.
- Bounce
- a stone rebounds 1-3 times with shrinking gaps (about 30 ms, then 15 ms, then 8 ms) and a loss of roughly 55% of its strength each time, which gives the typical clattering stutter.
- Body
- the struck surface rings. Roofs and car panels are thin metal sheets: a few inharmonic modes between 1 and 6 kHz with 20-120 ms decay (the pings). The ground is a short dull tick with almost no ring.
- Bed
- the far field of thousands of stones merges into a dense, bright hiss (2-9 kHz, pink-ish) that swells and thins with a slow drift of the cell's intensity.
- Variation
- every stone draws its own size (click brightness and ring pitch), surface, strength, bounce count and stereo position from its voice rng.
| Parameter | Range | Default | Unit | Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| intensity | 0 – 1 | 0.6 | — | Intensity |
| metal | 0 – 1 | 0.55 | — | Metal surfaces |
| bounce | 0 – 1 | 0.6 | — | Bounce |
| size | 0 – 1 | 0.4 | — | Stone size |
| bed | 0 – 1 | 0.6 | — | Dense bed |
| brightness | 0 – 1 | 0.5 | — | Brightness |
| spread | 0 – 1 | 0.8 | — | Width |
| seed | int | 1 | — | 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.
Revision history1
- r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('NZC0AZSAE2@1')