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Retro Player Death
A chiptune death jingle: a pulse voice sinking in pitch with a slowing vibrato until it fades away.
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Preset
Tweak
renders in the CLI · WAVChange parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.
$ sb get ZXYJ4BY88X@1 --preset heavy -o retro-player-death.wav
How it's made
- Source
- a retro console sound chip voice: a narrow pulse wave (duty 20 %) or square/triangle, doubled by a triangle voice one octave lower, plus a very short noise tick at the start for the hit of the character.
- Body
- no acoustic body; the colour is the chip's raw harmonics, tamed by a low-pass that closes from about 6 kHz to 700 Hz as the voice dies, so the upper harmonics vanish first like a draining battery.
- Envelope
- 3 ms attack to avoid a click, a held first third (0.35 s), then a slow fade to silence at 1.45 s. Pitch falls about 1.6 octaves along an ease-in curve (slow at first, then sagging).
- Modulation
- pitch vibrato of a few percent starting at 9 Hz and slowing to 3 Hz while its depth builds and then eases off with the fade, giving the wobbling, dying-voice feel.
- Variation
- `rng` detunes the start pitch by ±1.5 % and shapes the noise tick; presets change start pitch, fall depth, vibrato depth, wave shape and the amount of grit (saturation).
| Parameter | Range | Default | Unit | Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pitch | 330 – 1320 | 660 | Hz | Start pitch |
| fall | 0.8 – 2.6 | 1.6 | oct | Pitch fall (octaves) |
| wobble | 0 – 1 | 0.5 | — | Vibrato depth |
| grit | 0 – 1 | 0.25 | — | Grit |
| wave | pulse · square · tri | pulse | — | Wave shape |
| 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.
Revision history1
- r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('ZXYJ4BY88X@1')