Reverse Cymbal

A reversed cymbal swell building to an abrupt cut; a classic lead-in for drops and scene changes

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0.00 / 3.91 sMP3 preview · Dark gong-like

Preset

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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 X0HS70FNW1@1 --preset dark -o reverse-cymbal.wav

Source: a struck crash cymbal played backwards. A thin bronze plate rings with dozens of closely spaced inharmonic modes between 2 and 12 kHz, excited by a broadband stick/impact burst. Played in reverse, the decay becomes a swell.
Body: a dense noise wash (high-passed, steeply bright) plus a bank of band-passed metallic resonances at inharmonic ratios; a slow shimmer from beating partials; the upper partials open up as the swell approaches the cut, because in a forward cymbal they are the first to die.
Envelope: reversed exponential decay: starts near silence, accelerates and peaks at the very end, then the sound is cut abruptly (a 10 ms fade only prevents a click). Bright content lags the level.
Variation: length, brightness, metallic amount, stereo width; `rng` detunes the partial table slightly and decorrelates the left and right wash.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
length	0.8 – 5	2.4	s	Length
brightness	0 – 1	0.55	—	Brightness
metal	0 – 1	0.55	—	Balance of ringing partials against plain noise wash
curve	1.5 – 5	3	—	Higher values stay quiet longer and rush at the end
width	0 – 1	0.7	—	Stereo width
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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