Quest Complete

How it's made

Source

a nylon-string harp or guitar plucked in a rising arpeggio (root, third, fifth, octave), then a soft strummed resolving chord. Each note is a Karplus-Strong string excited by a short pick burst.

Body

strings ring 0.5-1.4 s with upper partials dying first (warm, round tone); the chord adds a sine sustain an octave below the arpeggio so the ending feels settled. A body low-pass removes harshness.

Sparkle

three high bell-like sine partials (inharmonic 2.76x, 5.4x) per grain, 50-150 ms long and two to four octaves above the root, scattered over the chord's bloom at low level.

Envelope

arpeggio notes about 110 ms apart and slightly accelerating; the chord lands one note-spacing after the last note, strummed 25 ms per string, and fades over about 1.3 s into an explicit zero.

Variation

`rng` detunes each string by +-0.15 % and varies the sparkle pitches and timing; macros set key, mode (major, lydian, minor), note spacing, ring, sparkle amount and warmth.

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