Notification Stack

A cascade of quick overlapping pings at varied pitches that settles, like several notifications arriving together

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0.00 / 1.60 sMP3 preview · Soft Pile-up

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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 53QZAWS42Q@1 --preset soft -o notification-stack.wav

Source: a burst of small struck-metal pings, as when several alerts arrive at once. Each ping is a 1–2 ms strike (high-passed noise tick) exciting a tuned bell-like tine.
Body: every ping is a fundamental plus stretched partials (2.01×, 3.02×, 4.2×); the upper partials die faster than the fundamental, so each attack is bright and the tail pure. Pitches are drawn from a pentatonic set (1, 9/8, 5/4, 3/2, 5/3, 2) so overlapping pings never clash.
Envelope: pings start 20–60 ms apart, with gaps that widen and levels that fall as the stack settles; each rings 0.1–0.8 s so the early pings overlap into a shimmer that thins to the last one or two.
Space: pings are panned across ±0.6 so simultaneous notifications read as separate sources.
Variation: `rng` picks each ping's pitch, jitters timing by a few ms, detunes partials by <0.3 % and pans it; macros set count, spread, base pitch, ring and brightness.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
pitch	440 – 1568	784	Hz	Pitch
count	3 – 8	5	—	Pings
spread	0.12 – 0.6	0.35	s	Spread
ring	0.15 – 0.8	0.45	s	Ring
brightness	0 – 1	0.5	—	Brightness
settle	0 – 1	0.5	—	Settle
width	0 – 1	0.6	—	Stereo Spread
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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