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Mic Activate

Two soft ascending sine notes that signal a microphone or dictation input is now listening

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one-shot
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0.42 s
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ZKMPBRTKZ0

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Mic Activate”, Soft Hush preset
Spectrogram of “Mic Activate”, Soft Hush 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 ZKMPBRTKZ0@1 --preset soft -o mic-activate.wav

How it's made

Source
two soft, tuned electronic tones played in quick succession, like a pair of felt-struck glass tines or a gently gated sine synth. There is no noise strike: the onset is a smooth 8–15 ms swell, so no click.
Body
each note is a pure fundamental (700–1400 Hz) plus a very quiet 2nd partial (2.0×) and 3rd partial (3.0×) that decay faster than the fundamental, giving an "open and clear" colour that dulls into a pure tail.
Envelope
note 1 swells in ~10 ms and falls 60 dB in ~0.14 s; note 2 starts 85–100 ms later, a perfect fourth to fifth higher and slightly longer, so the pair reads as "rising / now listening". The whole cue is ~0.3 s.
Variation
`rng` detunes each partial by ±0.1 % so the cue is not mechanically identical; macros set pitch, interval, note spacing, ring and brightness. Presets change register, interval and softness.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
pitch500 – 1500880HzPitch
intervalmajor-third · fourth · fifth · octavefifth—Interval
spacing0.05 – 0.160.09sSpacing
ring0.06 – 0.30.11sRing
softness0 – 10.5—Softness
brightness0 – 10.4—Brightness
seedint1—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.

Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('ZKMPBRTKZ0@1')

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