Ticking Tension Loop

A seamless 8 s loop of steady dry clock ticks over a low pulse, for countdowns and thriller edits

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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 E58DYDXQ7V@1 --preset thriller -o ticking-tension-loop.wav

Source: a dry clock escapement ticking against a sub-bass pulse. Each tick is a 1–2 ms noise click that excites a small wooden body; the pulse is a damped low sine thump, like a muffled kick or heartbeat.
Body: ticks ring in a few damped modes (10–30 ms) plus a short hollow knock at 600–800 Hz; "tock" beats are softer and lower. The pulse falls from ~90 Hz to ~55 Hz over 60 ms and decays in ~0.4 s.
Envelope: ticks are strictly periodic (1–4 per second) and the pulse lands on every 1st–4th beat; a slow swell of exactly one loop cycle raises the pulse level, so tension builds and releases without a seam.
Variation: `rng` varies each tick's level and tuning by a few percent; presets change tempo, pulse weight and tick colour (thriller, countdown, wall clock, heartbeat).

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
tempo	1 – 4	2	—	Ticks per second
pulse	0 – 1	0.6	—	Low pulse
brightness	0 – 1	0.5	—	Tick brightness
swell	0 – 1	0.4	—	Tension swell
pulseEvery	1 – 4	2	—	Ticks per pulse
pitch	38 – 90	55	Hz	Pulse pitch
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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