Rain on Window

How it's made

Source

water drops flatten against a close window pane. Band-limited noise attacks in 0.3–0.9 ms, decays in 4–18 ms, then a softer 8–35 ms wet contact follows rather than a water-pool bubble.

Body

a mounted pane has damped inharmonic bending modes near 1.45, 2.47, 3.87 and 6.12 kHz. Their 24–85 ms T60 tails shorten toward the top; strike position varies modal coupling, not the notes.

Envelope

Poisson impacts run at roughly 5–65 per second, with independently scattered stronger drops. A slow 0.19 Hz wander changes arrival density and the filtered exterior rain bed together.

Layers

quiet decorrelated pink rain behind the pane occupies 450 Hz–4.8 kHz; close glass ticks lead. Larger drops have a lower, longer contact and more wet follow-through. No room reverb is baked in.

Variation

each drop varies strength, size, contact spectrum, modal coupling and stereo position. Presets span sparse fine taps, steady rain, driving dense rain and large drops on a wet pane.

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