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Typing Key
A single mechanical keyboard keystroke: a plastic click followed by a short bottom-out thock
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0.00 / 0.17 sLight laptop tap
Tweak
renders in the CLI · WAVChange parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.
$ sb get WZRXNPETMV@1 --preset laptop -o typing-key.wav
How it's made
- Source
- a fingertip driving a key stem down in a mechanical switch. Two impacts: a sharp plastic click (switch leaf or stem tick, under 2 ms, broadband above 1.5 kHz) and, 8–16 ms later, the keycap bottoming out on the plate, a duller 3–8 ms low-passed thump.
- Body
- the keycap and switch housing ring in two damped plastic modes (about 2–4.5 kHz, ratio ≈ 1.9, 12–40 ms); the case and plate act as a hollow cavity around 140–300 Hz whose short sine "thock" drops about 25 % in pitch as it decays.
- Envelope
- click attack under 0.3 ms, modes fall 60 dB in about 25 ms; thock attack 1 ms, decay 40–70 ms; everything is silent by roughly 0.1 s, nothing sustains.
- Variation
- `rng` mistunes the modes by ±3 %, the bottom-out delay by ±8 % and the noise bursts, so repeated keystrokes are not identical.
- Layers
- click (contact + modes) and thock (cavity sine + low noise thump) are mixed in a ratio set by `thock`; presets move the balance between tactile click, deep thock and light laptop-style taps.
| Parameter | Range | Default | Unit | Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| click | 0 – 1 | 0.55 | — | Click |
| thock | 0 – 1 | 0.55 | — | Thock |
| brightness | 0 – 1 | 0.5 | — | Brightness |
| decay | 0.012 – 0.05 | 0.025 | s | Time for the keycap modes to fade 60 dB |
| pitch | 1800 – 4200 | 2800 | Hz | Keycap pitch |
| cavity | 140 – 300 | 210 | Hz | Case cavity |
| seed | int | 1 | — | 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.
Revision history1
- r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('WZRXNPETMV@1')