Warm Pad Notify

A slow soft swell of a detuned pad chord for calm, non-intrusive notifications

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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 H5SC7E3DJQ@1 --preset dusk -o warm-pad-notify.wav

Source: an analog-style pad voice: each chord note is a pair of slightly detuned band-limited saws per channel plus a sine at the fundamental for body; detune beating (0.5–1.5 Hz) gives the slow shimmer.
Body: the chord is a stacked-fifths/added-ninth voicing (root, fifth, ninth, tenth or third) spread over two octaves; a low-pass filter (Q 0.9) removes the saw edge and a 70 Hz high-pass removes rumble.
Envelope: slow swell of ~0.6 s (curved so it rises gently without a click), a short plateau, then a 0.85 s smooth release. The cutoff opens with the swell (about 2.5x) and closes during the release, so the spectrum brightens and then darkens with the level.
Variation: `rng` offsets each note's detune by a few cents and the left/right phases, widening the image; `chord` picks the colour, `brightness` the filter opening, `swell` the attack time, `pitch` the root.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
pitch	110 – 330	196	Hz	Root pitch
chord	open · suspended · minor · major	open	—	Chord
swell	0.25 – 0.9	0.6	s	Swell time
brightness	0 – 1	0.45	—	Brightness
detune	0 – 1	0.5	—	Detune
release	0.3 – 1	0.85	s	Release
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.

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