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Sliding Bolt Latch

A steel bolt scrapes through its guides, clacks into the keeper and settles with a short dry ring.

kind
one-shot
length
0.82 s
downloads
0
id
BNSBGKH907

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0.00 / 0.82 sMP3 preview · Heavy gate bolt
Preset
Spectrogram of “Sliding Bolt Latch”, Heavy gate bolt preset
Spectrogram of “Sliding Bolt Latch”, Heavy gate bolt 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 BNSBGKH907@1 --preset gate -o sliding-bolt-latch.wav

How it's made

Source
a hand slides a steel bolt through two guides, then into its keeper. Filtered noise models 0.18-0.35 s of friction; a 1 ms attack and 9 ms contact burst excite the final stop.
Body
bolt and keeper have inharmonic modes near 620, 1090, 1830, 2940 and 4650 Hz; T60 is 0.10-0.30 s, with higher modes damped faster. Mounting modes at 175 and 335 Hz supply weight.
Envelope
friction swells with sliding speed and darkens as the bolt stops; a secondary contact 19-34 ms after the clack represents clearance settling. All layers fade naturally before 0.72 s.
Layers
broad scraping at 0.5-6 kHz, irregular friction pulses, a solid low clack and a short dry ring.
Variation
seeded tuning varies by 1.5 percent and contact timing by 3 ms. Travel sets slide time; mass lowers body modes, clearance raises rattle, and damping shortens ringing and softens friction.
Presets
close-fitting cupboard bolt, heavy gate bolt, loose keeper and lubricated quiet slide.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
travel0.18 – 0.350.27sSlide time
mass0 – 10.5—Bolt mass
clearance0 – 10.35—Guide clearance
damping0 – 10.4—Damping
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-25engine 1.0.1use('BNSBGKH907@1')

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