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Toaster Pop

A toaster latch releases, its spring lifts the toast carriage into a metal clack and a short settling rattle.

kind
one-shot
length
0.80 s
downloads
0
id
MHD4FP1T7M

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0.00 / 0.80 sMP3 preview · Brisk spring release
Preset
Spectrogram of “Toaster Pop”, Brisk spring release preset
Spectrogram of “Toaster Pop”, Brisk spring release 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 MHD4FP1T7M@1 --preset brisk -o toaster-pop.wav

How it's made

Source
a latch releases in 3 ms, followed by 60-130 ms of carriage friction and a metal stop clack.
Body
a thin steel shell has inharmonic modes at 410, 735, 1260, 2180 and 3670 Hz, T60 45-180 ms. A damped 190 Hz chassis mode adds weight without a sub-bass impact or a bell-like ring.
Spring
three inharmonic coil modes relax by 14 percent in pitch over 170 ms as tension falls. Their 90-280 ms decays overlap small, irregular carriage rebounds rather than a cartoon boing.
Envelope
latch at onset, carriage stop at 85-140 ms, diminishing rattles through 520 ms; high modes die first, all layers fade by 700 ms, with a silent safety tail to 800 ms. No room reverb.
Variation
seeded tuning +/-2 percent, rebound timing +/-3 ms and impact strength +/-12 percent. Size tunes the shell; travel sets the stop delay; rattle sets loose-part count and strength; hardness changes contact bandwidth. Presets cover compact, loaded, brisk and worn mechanisms.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
size0 – 10.5—Chassis size
travel0 – 10.45—Carriage travel
rattle0 – 10.5—Loose spring rattle
hardness0 – 10.6—Stop hardness
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-25engine 1.0.1use('MHD4FP1T7M@1')

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