Rain on a Lake

How it's made

Source

rain impacts on still water; distant overlapping splashes form a stereo noise bed, while nearby drops excite short air bubbles rather than solid-surface ticks.

Body

0.9-2.9 mm entrained bubbles ring near 1.1-3.6 kHz with a small upward pitch movement and physical damping; the water impact adds a broad 1.5-5 kHz noise burst with no hard cavity modes.

Envelope

splashes attack in 0.7-1.5 ms and decay in 7-24 ms; bubble entries soften over 0.8 ms and die within 100 ms. The 12 s loop uses the renderer's seamless crossfade, without global fades.

Layers

35-165 small splashes/s and 7-35 bubble plinks/s sit above a 650 Hz-6.8 kHz diffuse bed; independent 0.12 and 0.19 Hz drift moves rainfall density, level and spectral colour gently.

Variation

seeded events vary radius, strength, decay and pan; larger bubbles are slightly louder. Presets separate sparse close pond drops, fine drizzle, soft shower and a distant lake rain curtain.

Space

decorrelated stereo rain and distributed impacts convey open water; distance softens the high end and foreground detail. No room reverb, shore waves, wind or underwater rumble is added.

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