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Rotary Knob Click

A crisp metallic detent click for turning a rotary dial or knob, from fine watch-like to chunky

kind
one-shot
length
0.08 s
downloads
0
id
Q719HE5CZJ

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Rotary Knob Click”, Precise preset
Spectrogram of “Rotary Knob Click”, Precise 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 Q719HE5CZJ@1 --preset precise -o rotary-knob-click.wav

How it's made

Source
a spring-loaded steel pawl dropping into a notch of a detented knob. Two contacts: a faint 0.5 ms release tick as the pawl leaves the previous notch, then the main snap 6–14 ms later as it seats.
Body
the pawl and notch ring in two stiff, damped steel modes (3.2–6 kHz, ratio ≈ 1.9); the knob cap adds a short plastic knock around 700–1400 Hz that gives the click weight without any sub-bass.
Envelope
attacks under 0.3 ms; the metal modes fade 60 dB in 10–30 ms, the cap knock in under 15 ms; the whole click is over by about 0.07 s and dry.
Variation
`rng` mistunes the modes by ±2.5 % and varies contact level slightly, so repeated clicks differ subtly; "tightness" sets the pawl gap, "size" the metal pitch, "body" the cap knock.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
brightness0 – 10.55—Brightness
size0 – 10.5—Size
body0 – 10.35—Body
tightness0 – 10.5—Higher is a shorter gap and faster ring-out
seedint1—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.

Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('Q719HE5CZJ@1')

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