Sad Trombone Lose Stinger

How it's made

Source

a slide trombone played with a lip buzz. The lips make a harmonically rich, near-sawtooth pulse (every partial, ~-6 dB/oct); two detuned saws plus a little square model the lip-flap irregularity, and a quiet band-passed pink breath noise rides on top.

Body

the cylindrical bore and flared bell add broad formant humps near 520 Hz and 1.15 kHz; a wah mute (or the player's embouchure) opens and closes a low-pass from ~450 Hz to 1.5-3.5 kHz on every note, which gives the vowel-like "wah" colour.

Envelope

four tongued notes falling by a fixed step (default 1 semitone, a chromatic sag); each has a 30 ms attack, a slight swell and a short gap. The last note is held, sags by several semitones as the slide is pulled out, and gains a 5.5 Hz vibrato that fades in, then releases over 0.3 s.

Variation

`rng` detunes the saws and drifts the pitch by a few cents. Parameters set root pitch, step size, final sag, tempo, mute brightness and vibrato depth; presets are a classic, slow defeat, fast comic fail and a muted cartoon version.

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