Volume Step Tick

A short soft blip whose pitch follows the level, for each step of a volume or brightness change

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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 G0YCR56V23@1 --preset minimum-step -o volume-step-tick.wav

Source: a soft electronic feedback blip, the kind a device plays for each notch of a level control. It is a pure sine from a small speaker driver, started with a 3 ms ramp so the onset is click-free.
Body: the fundamental carries the pitch; a faint octave-below sub-partial rounds it, and a short inharmonic partial at 3.9x decays in about 12 ms, like a soft mallet "tock" on the cabinet; a low-pass at 3.5-8 kHz keeps it soft and free of aliasing.
Pitch: steady and follows the level on a log scale (330 Hz at level 0 to 930 Hz at level 1 by default, a span of 1.5 octaves), so a rising slider gives a rising run of ticks.
Envelope: 3 ms attack, then an exponential fall of 60 dB in roughly 50 ms; the whole step is about 0.1 s so rapid repeats while dragging a slider never smear into each other.
Variation: `rng` detunes the pitch by up to 0.4 % so repeated steps are not mechanically identical; `level` is the pitch control, `softness` trades a rounded tone for a brighter one.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
level	0 – 1	0.5	—	Which step of the control: a low level is a low pitch, a high level a high pitch
softness	0 – 1	0.6	—	Softness
decay	0.03 – 0.12	0.05	s	Time for the blip to fade 60 dB
base	200 – 700	330	Hz	Base pitch
span	0.5 – 2.5	1.5	oct	Octaves between the lowest and highest step
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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