Short Car Horn

A dry, short two-tone car honk with nasal diaphragm buzz and a rounded mechanical release.

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0.00 / 0.42 sMP3 preview · Courtesy tap

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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 AVEMTASBYM@1 --preset courtesy -o short-car-horn.wav

Source: two electrically driven diaphragms, nominally 405 and 506 Hz, sounding together. Finite sine banks emphasize odd harmonics through the ninth for a square-like reed buzz without aliasing.
Body: each horn's flare emphasizes a broad 1.2-1.8 kHz nasal band; weak even harmonics represent asymmetric diaphragm travel. A quiet 0.9-3 kHz noise layer supplies contact and diaphragm rasp.
Envelope: 14-23 ms rounded attacks with a 2.8 percent pitch run-up, a nearly level powered hold, then 75-90 ms release. Upper harmonics darken before the fundamentals stop; no room is baked in.
Modulation: independent 27-34 Hz low-depth amplitude flutter and slight pitch drift keep the two diaphragms alive. Their upper partials interfere, giving the simultaneous tones an abrasive edge.
Variation: seeded tuning varies by 0.3 percent and the second horn starts 3-7 ms later. Controls set horn size, interval, powered duration, flare brightness and the balance of the two horns.
Presets: a soft courtesy tap, a bright compact horn, a lower full-bodied pair and a firm warning.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
pitch	320 – 490	405	Hz	Lower horn pitch
hold	0.2 – 0.48	0.39	s	Powered duration
brightness	0 – 1	0.57	—	Flare brightness
interval	1.17 – 1.31	1.25	—	Horn frequency ratio
balance	0 – 1	0.52	—	Upper horn balance
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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