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Static Glitch Burst

A violent burst of electronic static and stuttering glitch for possessed screens and signal loss

kind
one-shot
length
1.20 s
downloads
0
id
VS2P5Q9T8V

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0.00 / 1.20 sMP3 preview · Corrupted buffer
Preset
Spectrogram of “Static Glitch Burst”, Corrupted buffer preset
Spectrogram of “Static Glitch Burst”, Corrupted buffer 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 VS2P5Q9T8V@1 --preset corrupt -o static-glitch-burst.wav

How it's made

Source
a failing video/signal chain. A hard broadband white-noise burst is the carrier; a pitched digital buzz (band-limited saw plus a harsh upper partial, 90-400 Hz) rides under some bursts like a stuck buffer; a short sub thump marks the instant the signal tears.
Body
the burst is chopped into segments of 20-90 ms. Each segment has its own band-pass colour (the spectrum jumps between segments, like different memory blocks being replayed) and some segments are bit-crushed to few amplitude levels for grit. Gaps between segments are silent, giving the stutter.
Envelope
every segment has 1 ms ramps (no clicks), the overall level decays slightly, and the whole burst is cut abruptly by a 4 ms fade at the end, like a signal dropping out.
Variation
segment layout, colours, gap pattern and buzz pitches come from rng; length, stutter, grit, brightness, buzz and thump are exposed.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
length0.4 – 1.60.95sLength
stutter0 – 10.5—Stutter gaps
grit0 – 10.6—Bit-crush grit
brightness0 – 10.5—Brightness
buzz0 – 10.35—Digital buzz
thump0 – 10.5—Onset thump
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('VS2P5Q9T8V@1')

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