Passing Shower

How it's made

Source

distant rain impacts merge into decorrelated pink and white noise; nearby drops are Poisson noise bursts, 1-3 ms attacks and 9-42 ms releases, with no pitched ringing.

Body

wet ground scatters energy broadly at 0.7-6 kHz; foliage softens the upper edge, while hard ground adds brighter splashes. A 220-1800 Hz wash emerges only under the heaviest rain.

Envelope

at 30 s, sparse rain rises over 12.6 s, crests through 16.2 s, then recedes over 13.8 s. The entire arc scales with requested duration; amplitude and brightness approach zero at the end.

Events

near drops increase from 7 to 227 per second with squared rain intensity; random strength, centre frequency, duration and pan keep the patter irregular. The bed bridges individual impacts.

Modulation

independent 0.19 and 0.31 Hz random drifts move rain sheets and spray by about 10 percent; the common arc raises the noise cutoff from 2.6-4.5 kHz to 5-8 kHz as the rain front arrives.

Variation

presets change surface softness, near-drop balance, bandwidth and peak arrival; open ground, leafy canopy, hard-ground downpour and distant rain remain complete passing showers.

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