Short Drum Fill

A short tom fill that speeds up while descending in pitch and lands on a crash cymbal

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0.00 / 1.50 sMP3 preview · Soft brushed build

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 ED7MP8H6H5@1 --preset soft -o short-drum-fill.wav

Source: a drummer's stick on tom heads, then a stick on a crash cymbal. Each tom hit is a 2–4 ms filtered noise tick (stick on the head) driving a membrane.
Body: the head rings as a pitched sine whose frequency drops about a fifth in the first 60 ms (tension relaxing after the strike), plus a damped second mode near 1.6x and a shell resonance; deeper toms ring longer. The crash is a dense, inharmonic metal-plate mode set plus high-passed noise shimmer, bright at first and darkening.
Envelope: tom bodies decay 0.15–0.35 s; the crash blooms in 5 ms and decays over ~0.9 s with a darkening low-pass. The hits start slowly and accelerate (each gap shorter than the last), pitch stepping down from high to low tom, each a little louder.
Variation: `rng` jitters timing, strength and tuning per hit, so every seed is a slightly different fill.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
hits	4 – 8	6	—	Tom hits
pitch	90 – 260	150	Hz	Top tom pitch
accel	0 – 1	0.5	—	Acceleration
crash	0 – 1	0.7	—	Crash level
tightness	0 – 1	0.5	—	Tightness
stick	0 – 1	0.5	—	Stick attack
drop	0 – 1	0.5	—	Pitch drop
shimmer	0 – 1	0.5	—	Cymbal brightness
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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