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Hospital Room

A quiet hospital room: a patient monitor beeping steadily over soft ventilation and a faint equipment hum

kind
loop
length
12 s
downloads
0
id
B43KJXK10M

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0.00 / 12 sMP3 preview · Noisy air handler
Preset
Spectrogram of “Hospital Room”, Noisy air handler preset
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Tweak

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Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command
$ sb get B43KJXK10M@1 --preset loud-vent -o hospital-room.wav

How it's made

Source
a bedside patient monitor and the room's air handling. The monitor emits one short pulse per heartbeat from a small piezo speaker (≈ 1 kHz sine with a weak 2nd harmonic); the ventilation is turbulent air in a duct and diffuser, i.e. pink noise; the equipment hum is mains-frequency transformer buzz.
Body
the diffuser band-limits the air to roughly 120 Hz–2.5 kHz with a soft 350 Hz duct body; the hum is a 100 Hz fundamental with 200 and 300 Hz partials, low-passed below 400 Hz; the piezo beep has a faint 2.9 kHz housing resonance riding on its pulse.
Envelope
each beep rises in 6 ms and falls in 50–150 ms (no click); beeps are evenly spaced and the count is rounded so a whole number of beats fills the loop. The air breathes by about ±20 % over drifts.
Variation
beep strength wobbles a few percent; the bed is decorrelated in two channels and the beep sits slightly off-centre. Presets change heart rate, beep level and pitch, ventilation airflow and hum.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
rate40 – 14072—Heart rate (bpm)
beep0 – 10.5—Monitor beep
air0 – 10.5—Ventilation
hum0 – 10.4—Equipment hum
pitch700 – 16001000HzBeep pitch
softness0 – 10.5—Beep softness
spread0 – 10.7—Width
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('B43KJXK10M@1')

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