Tine Notify

A two-note metallic thumb-piano tine notification with a slight rattle and a warm, pure sustain

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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 BCTK4CFC97@1 --preset glassy -o tine-notify.wav

Source: a steel tine of a thumb piano (kalimba) plucked by a thumbnail, played as two notes in quick succession.
Body: a clamped-free bar, so the partials are strongly inharmonic: fundamental 1, a bright "ping" at about 6.3×, and a faint one at about 17×; a soft octave (2×) adds the warm wooden-box sustain. The fundamental rings longest, the upper partials die within a fraction of it, so the attack is metallic and the tail is pure and warm.
Buzz: a loose ring or bridge rattle makes a short band-limited noise burst, amplitude-modulated at the note's pitch, that fades faster than the tone (`buzz`).
Envelope: a 1.5 ms thumbnail strike (a tiny high-passed click), then an exponential decay of 0.25–0.9 s; the second note starts `spacing` seconds later and rings over the first.
Variation: `rng` detunes each partial by a fraction of a percent; `interval`, `pitch`, `brightness` and `buzz` shape the character.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
pitch	330 – 1100	587	Hz	Pitch
interval	third · fourth · fifth · octave	fourth	—	Interval
spacing	0.07 – 0.3	0.14	s	Spacing
ring	0.25 – 0.9	0.55	s	Ring
brightness	0 – 1	0.5	—	Brightness
buzz	0 – 1	0.35	—	Buzz
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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