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Rolling Thunder

A long thunder roll crossing the sky, with uneven fractures and a dark, slowly receding rumble.

kind
one-shot
length
6.05 s
downloads
0
id
4KA1RJ6QB9

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0.00 / 6.05 sMP3 preview · Broad reverse roll
Preset
Spectrogram of “Rolling Thunder”, Broad reverse roll preset
Spectrogram of “Rolling Thunder”, Broad reverse roll preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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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 4KA1RJ6QB9@1 --preset reverse-rumble -o rolling-thunder.wav

How it's made

Source
rapid expansion along a branching lightning channel, modelled with overlapping brown, pink and white noise packets, not pitched oscillators. Uneven arrivals span 0.03-3.7 s with 7-32 ms attacks.
Body
pressure energy occupies 32-300 Hz; broad 160-650 Hz noise adds rolling body without tonal modes. Air absorption lowers the upper cutoff from 0.9-3.8 kHz toward 230-650 Hz as arrivals recede.
Envelope
an initial 90-240 ms swell leads to irregular secondary surges, then a slow 3 s decay; the pressure bed reaches zero at 5.95 s. Crack packets decay in 0.055-0.19 s, body packets in 0.6-1.4 s.
Space
the channel traverses up to 1.8 stereo pan units over 4.7 s. Quiet, dark, decorrelated arrivals at 110 and 230 ms offsets represent multipath propagation, without a resonant indoor reverb.
Variation
named random streams vary arrival times, strengths, packet colours and fine spatial offsets. Distance controls absorption and attack softness; fracture controls clustered 480 Hz-3.8 kHz packets.
Presets
open-sky traverse, distant muffled thunder, close fractured thunder, and a broad reverse roll change absorption, fragmentation, secondary surges, travel width and direction.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
distance0 – 10.25—Distance
fracture0 – 10.9—Fractures
rolling0 – 10.95—Secondary rolls
travel0 – 10.9—Stereo travel
directionleft-to-right · right-to-leftleft-to-right—Direction
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('4KA1RJ6QB9@1')

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