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Low Health Heartbeat Loop

A muffled, steady double-thump heartbeat loop for when the player is close to death

kind
loop
length
2.00 s
downloads
0
id
WQJ2XSJS5F

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0.00 / 2.00 sMP3 preview · Underwater
Preset
Spectrogram of “Low Health Heartbeat Loop”, Underwater preset
Spectrogram of “Low Health Heartbeat Loop”, Underwater preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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Tweak

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 WQJ2XSJS5F@1 --preset under-water -o low-health-heartbeat-loop.wav

How it's made

Source
a heartbeat heard through the chest wall. Each beat is two valve closures, "lub" (the atrioventricular valves, longer and lower) and "dub" (the semilunar valves, shorter and softer). Each is a damped low-frequency pulse whose pitch falls quickly (lub 95 -> 48 Hz, dub 110 -> 60 Hz) plus a short low-passed noise thud for the tissue impact.
Body
chest tissue and fluid absorb everything above ~200 Hz, so the sound is muffled: a low-pass at 130-420 Hz and a soft body resonance near 70-90 Hz that rounds the thump.
Envelope
lub decays in ~110 ms, dub in ~80 ms at ~65 % level; the dub follows the lub by 0.24 of a beat. A slow swell (a breathing-like tremolo at the beat rate) pushes the pulse out of a dark low-passed rumble bed.
Rhythm
strictly periodic. The 2 s loop holds a whole number of beats (2-5), so it repeats without a seam.
Variation
`rng` varies each beat's level and tuning by a few percent; presets change tempo, muffling and the strength of the tension bed.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
beats2 – 53—Beats per loop
muffle0 – 10.5—Muffling
weight0 – 10.5—Thump weight
tension0 – 10.3—Tension bed
dub0 – 10.65—Second beat level
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('WQJ2XSJS5F@1')

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