Retro 8-bit Notify

A crisp chiptune arpeggio of three fast pulse-wave notes for retro and pixel-art apps

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Preset

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Free for commercial use. No attribution needed.

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 XD3J08ZQKR@1 --preset handheld -o retro-8-bit-notify.wav

Source: a console-style sound chip playing a fast three-note arpeggio. Each note is a pulse-wave voice (duty cycle 12–50 %) with a soft triangle channel one octave below, as on classic 8-bit hardware.
Body: the pulse has strong odd harmonics; a gentle low-pass keeps the top end crisp but not piercing. The last note rings longer and closes the phrase.
Envelope: 1 ms declick ramp, a short hold, then an exponential-feeling decay per note (about 60–90 ms), with the final note decaying 2–3 times longer. Notes are evenly spaced like a tracker row clock.
Lo-fi: the summed signal is quantized to a few amplitude levels (bit depth) and a faint high-passed noise tick on each note start gives the DAC-like grit; a DC blocker and an overall fade-out end the sound cleanly.
Variation: the chord shape (major, minor, fifth, octave), pitch, speed, duty cycle, bit depth and brightness.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
pitch	330 – 1400	784	Hz	Pitch
chord	major · minor · fifth · octave	major	—	Arpeggio
speed	0.04 – 0.14	0.07	s	Note spacing
duty	0.12 – 0.5	0.25	—	Pulse width
bits	3 – 8	5	—	Bit depth
brightness	0 – 1	0.6	—	Brightness
tail	0.08 – 0.5	0.2	s	Last note ring
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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

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