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Hollow Log Drum

A mallet strikes a hollow log: a deep tonal wooden knock with a resonant air cavity and warm decay.

kind
one-shot
length
1.46 s
downloads
0
id
3CWMP8ZCAV

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Hollow Log Drum”, default preset
Spectrogram of “Hollow Log Drum”, default preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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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 3CWMP8ZCAV@1 -o hollow-log-drum.wav

How it's made

Source
one padded mallet strike, a 3-9 ms low-passed noise contact plus a smooth pressure pulse. Harder mallets shorten contact and expose the 1-3 kHz grain; there is no repeated strike.
Body
a hollow log couples an air mode at 82-165 Hz with a wooden shell at 1.57 times that pitch. Air T60 is 0.55-1.25 s; shell modes at ratios 1, 2.63, 4.39 and 6.12 lose treble progressively faster.
Layers
the lowest air mode carries the warm tail, a weak 2.81-ratio air mode adds hollow colour, and short inharmonic shell modes plus quiet contact noise define the tonal wooden knock.
Envelope
contact rises in 0.6-1.8 ms; upper shell modes die in 60-240 ms, the low shell in 0.3-0.7 s. The default air resonance decays 60 dB in 1.18 s, with a final soft fade ending around 1.4 s.
Variation
seeded tuning varies by 0.8 percent and each shell mode by 0.6 percent; contact uses its own noise stream. Pitch, mallet hardness, air sustain and strike position control physical differences.
Presets
bass centre, small open log, firm edge knock and muted padded strike; dry mono throughout.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
pitch82 – 165112HzCavity pitch
hardness0 – 10.35—Mallet hardness
sustain0.55 – 1.251.18sAir decay
edge0 – 10.3—Edge strike
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-25engine 1.0.1use('3CWMP8ZCAV@1')

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