Light Rain

How it's made

Source

light rain on open ground and foliage. Many small, slow drops land every second; each impact is a short noise tick (0.2 ms attack, 2–8 ms decay), and the far-away ones merge into a soft hiss.

Body

the surface colours the ticks: damp ground and leaves give band-passed noise at 2–7 kHz with low Q; the hiss is decorrelated pink noise band-limited to roughly 800 Hz–8 kHz, tilted bright by the thin drops.

Events

fine, dense ticks at about 60–200 per second (Poisson), each with its own pitch, length, level and stereo position; the rate is deliberately low in level so the ticks stay a texture, not a patter.

Modulation

a slow drift (0.15 Hz, ±15 %) moves the bed and the drop rate together, as passing cells of rain do; the loop is 10 s of this, crossfaded at the seam by the renderer.

Variation

`rng` draws every tick's pitch, Q, decay, strength and pan; presets move the density, hiss level and surface softness (drizzle, steady, leaves).

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