Puzzle Piece Lock

How it's made

Source

a wooden or plastic puzzle piece pressed home into a recess in a board. The contact is a soft 2–4 ms low-passed noise burst (the piece edge meeting the socket), followed by a tiny, brighter "seat" tick about 8 ms later as the tab settles.

Body

the piece-and-board system rings as a damped low-mid thump, a sine at ≈ 170–260 Hz whose pitch drops about 20 % in 40 ms, plus a few heavily damped wood modes (≈ 1 : 2.4 : 4.1, 20–60 ms) for the solid knock. A shallow board cavity resonance near 140–200 Hz adds weight without boom.

Envelope

the strike is instant; the body is gone in ≈ 0.12 s and the whole event ends near 0.15 s. There is no reverb: the sound is dry so scenes can place it.

Variation

`rng` jitters body pitch (±3 %), mode tuning and the seat-tick delay; `weight` moves the body pitch and size, `snap` the brightness of the contact, and the presets change material and firmness.

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