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Paddle Stroke

A close canoe or kayak paddle stroke: blade entry, pulling swirl, and a dripping release.

kind
one-shot
length
1.43 s
downloads
1
id
0B0AVQ6VC3

one-shot · 1.43 s · 1 downloads · 0 likes

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Paddle Stroke”, default preset
Spectrogram of “Paddle Stroke”, default 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 0B0AVQ6VC3@1 -o paddle-stroke.wav

How it's made

Source
a blade enters water, pulls a turbulent wake, then lifts a draining sheet and several drops. Independent filtered noise layers model the entry splash, submerged shear and breaking water film.
Body
broad 180–1800 Hz turbulence replaces solid-body ringing; trapped 2–7 mm air bubbles add short rising 470–1630 Hz chirps. The blade is not struck, so there is no wooden knock or metallic resonance.
Envelope
entry opens in 8 ms and settles by 180 ms; the pull swells from 80 to 650 ms; the lifted film breaks around 740 ms. Uneven, diminishing drips finish by 1.35 s, followed by a clean fade to 1.5 s.
Modulation
low-Q cutoff movement follows blade speed; independent slow noise modulates wake pressure. Bubble timing, size, strength and narrow stereo positions vary deterministically between seeds.
Variation
pace scales the action; depth shifts the wake downward; splash changes entry and film energy; drainage changes release drops. Presets cover quiet entry, deep pull, quick catch and a dripping lift.
Space
close, dry perspective with a narrow wake moving across the blade; no baked-in reverberation.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
pace0.78 – 1.081—Stroke duration
depth0 – 10.55—Blade depth
splash0 – 10.5—Surface splash
drainage0 – 10.5—Draining water
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('0B0AVQ6VC3@1')

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