Task Complete Sparkle

How it's made

Source

a tiny glass chime tine struck by a hard mallet, played as a quick rising arpeggio of 3–5 notes, with a scatter of light high ticks around it (a handful of small crystals touching).

Body

each note is a fundamental plus stretched partials (2.76×, 5.4×, 8.9×); the upper partials die 2–6× faster than the fundamental, so the strike is bright and the tail is pure. Glitter grains are single sine partials at 3–9 kHz with 60–200 ms decays.

Envelope

1.5 ms strike on every note, 0.45–0.7 s exponential ring; the glitter density is highest just after the last note and thins out; a band of air noise (6–10 kHz) swells for 80 ms and fades over 0.6 s.

Variation

`rng` detunes each partial by ±0.2 %, jitters the glitter times, pitches and strengths; presets change the pitch, the number of notes, the glitter amount and the ring.

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