Rain on a Tent

How it's made

Source

rain strikes a stretched tent fly overhead; 18-125 drops/s make rounded 1-3 ms noise attacks with 12-36 ms fabric taps, over a quieter, decorrelated 220 Hz-4 kHz exterior rain bed.

Body

a damp fabric membrane has short inharmonic modes near 210, 337 and 487 Hz, scaled by tension and impact position; 35-85 ms decays make soft thuds rather than pitched roof or glass ringing.

Layers

small drops have broad 850-3200 Hz tap colour; 2-10 larger drops/s add 140-700 Hz padded slaps. High frequencies roll off twice through the fly and inner fabric; no water plinks or metal resonances.

Envelope

independent Poisson impacts overlap naturally; 0.07 Hz rain-cell drift moves density and bed gain together, while 0.13 Hz drift gently moves the spectral cutoff. No regular pulse or reverb.

Variation

seeded drop position, strength, mode tuning, attack and decay; stereo positions span the roof. Presets separate sparse drizzle, dark sleep rain, close taut-fly taps and a dense enclosing shower.

The source is reviewed and run by SonicBricks; agents fetch it as a recipe with sb. It is not published on this page.