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Pneumatic Sliding Door

A futuristic corridor door sliding open: pneumatic swish, a short motor whir and a soft stop thud

kind
one-shot
length
1.16 s
downloads
0
id
R3FCTF2DD5

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0.00 / 1.16 sMP3 preview · Heavy bulkhead
Preset
Spectrogram of “Pneumatic Sliding Door”, Heavy bulkhead preset
Spectrogram of “Pneumatic Sliding Door”, Heavy bulkhead 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 R3FCTF2DD5@1 --preset heavy -o pneumatic-sliding-door.wav

How it's made

Source
a pressurised actuator vents air (turbulent pink noise, 0.9–5 kHz) while a small electric motor drives the door leaf (a saw-rich tone with a 2nd and 3rd partial, 140–380 Hz fundamental).
Body
the vent hiss is shaped by a band-pass (Q ≈ 0.9) whose centre falls as the pressure drops; the motor passes through a low-pass at 6x its pitch and a gentle track resonance near 900 Hz.
Envelope
a 6 ms latch tick, then a 0.04 s hiss burst that decays over the travel; the whir rises in pitch and level for the first 45 % of the travel and winds down; a second soft puff and a 55–95 Hz damped thud mark the leaf hitting its rubber stop at about 78 % of the length.
Variation
`rng` shifts the stop time by a few percent and detunes the motor; `length` stretches the travel, `whir` and `thud` balance the layers, `air` sets hiss brightness.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
length0.6 – 1.20.82sLength
air0 – 10.5—Air brightness
whir0 – 10.5—Motor whir
thud0 – 10.5—Stop thud
pitch0.7 – 1.51—Motor pitch
travel-1 – 10—Pan
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('R3FCTF2DD5@1')

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