Strength Buff

How it's made

Source

a power chord (root, fifth, octave, upper fifth) stacked as slightly detuned saw pairs plus a sine sub, struck in a quick upward strum (30–120 ms apart), the way a spell "charges" an ally. A tuned sparkle layer adds the magical sheen and a soft noise breath gives the swell its air.

Body

each note passes a low-pass whose cutoff opens from 3x to 7–16x the note pitch over 0.35 s (spectral movement from dull to bright), then closes slowly; a tanh stage adds the odd harmonics of a driven amp.

Envelope

punchy swell, 15 ms onset and a 0.3 s rise to the peak, then an exponential fall to silence within the length; a sine sub adds a 120 ms thump at the root. The sparkle (octave x2, x3, x4 and x6 partials, chorus-detuned in pairs) blooms at the peak and rings longest, giving the bright tail.

Variation

`rng` detunes every oscillator by a few cents and jitters the strum timing; presets change the root, strum speed, drive, brightness and tail length.

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