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Time Running Out Loop

An urgent seamless loop of fast clock ticks over a pulsing low thump and a tense tritone pad

kind
loop
length
4.00 s
downloads
0
id
QMFTHKCD89

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0.00 / 4.00 sMP3 preview · Panic
Preset
Spectrogram of “Time Running Out Loop”, Panic preset
Spectrogram of “Time Running Out Loop”, Panic 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 QMFTHKCD89@1 --preset panic -o time-running-out-loop.wav

How it's made

Source
an urgent countdown clock. Each beat is a small escapement-like click (1–2 ms noise burst) that excites a short metallic ring (3–7 kHz, 20–40 ms); every fourth beat is an accented, lower "tock".
Body
a heartbeat-like sub thump under each beat, a sine falling from ≈ 95 Hz to ≈ 52 Hz in 80 ms with a 150 ms decay; a quiet tritone pad (≈ 196 Hz and ≈ 277 Hz, soft saw, low-passed) supplies the tension.
Envelope
ticks and thumps are strictly periodic at 3–6 beats per second, so the 4 s loop holds a whole number of beats; the pad swells and relaxes once per loop (0.25 Hz) while its filter opens and closes.
Spectral movement
the pad cutoff and the tick brightness follow the same 4 s cycle, so the loop breathes without a seam.
Variation
`rng` varies every tick's level and tuning by a few percent; presets change the beat rate, the thump weight, the pad tension and the metallic size.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
beats3 – 64—Beats per second
pulse0 – 10.6—Low pulse
tension0 – 10.5—Tension pad
size0 – 10.4—Tick size
accent0 – 10.5—Accent strength
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('QMFTHKCD89@1')

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