Rain on an Umbrella

How it's made

Source

raindrops strike a fabric canopy overhead; Poisson noise impacts at 24–145 drops/s.

Body

yielding cloth makes broad, damped 380–1500 Hz drumlets lasting 22–65 ms, not metallic rings. A 1–4 ms contact transient darkens from 3–7 kHz to 1.2 kHz as the water spreads on the cloth.

Layers

quiet stereo rain wash at 650 Hz–6 kHz surrounds the close canopy; lower ground splashes are 15–55 ms noise sprays at 1.4–5 kHz, with occasional delayed 8 ms secondary droplets.

Envelope

steady 10 s loop with only ±8 percent slow density drift; renderer crossfades the seam. Every drop has a rounded 0.5–1.5 ms attack and exponential decay, avoiding hard impulse clicks.

Variation

independent seeded timing, strength, pan, filter centres and decay for every drop. Density controls rainfall, tension raises and shortens cloth drumlets, ground brings splashes forward.

Presets

sparse soft drizzle, higher tight-canopy taps, dense heavy rain, and open wet-ground splashes.

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