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Race Countdown

A three-two-one-go start countdown: three identical low electronic beeps and a higher, longer final beep

kind
one-shot
length
4.41 s
downloads
0
id
1PCA80YGN6

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Race Countdown”, Soft Sim preset
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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 1PCA80YGN6@1 --preset soft -o race-countdown.wav

How it's made

Source
a classic electronic start-light beeper. Each beep is a band-limited square plus a saw an octave up (the buzzy "electronic" edge), a slightly detuned second square for a gentle chorus, and a pure sine fundamental that keeps the tone solid and centred.
Body
a low-pass filter follows the beep, opening for the first few milliseconds and settling to a steady cutoff, so the attack is bright and the sustained tone is rounder. The final beep is the countdown pitch raised by an interval and also gets a sub-octave sine for weight.
Envelope
three equal short beeps (4 ms attack, flat hold, 25 ms release) at a steady one-second pulse, then a long final beep (5 ms attack, slow 2 dB sag, 150 ms release). Ramps avoid clicks.
Variation
the base pitch, the interval of the "go" beep, the pulse spacing, the length of the final beep and the brightness; rng only adds a fraction of a cent of detune so the pair does not phase-lock.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
pitch260 – 700440HzCount Pitch
interval1.25 – 2.52—Frequency ratio of the final beep to the count beeps
spacing0.55 – 1.11sSpacing
goLength0.4 – 1.20.85sGo Length
brightness0 – 10.5—Brightness
edge0 – 10.5—Electronic Edge
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('1PCA80YGN6@1')

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