Whip Pan

An ultra-fast whip-pan cut between shots: a short noise burst with a steep filter sweep and a sharp peak

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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 XSB4K7J9E7@1 -o whip-pan.wav

Source: air torn by a camera-cut gesture: pink noise for the body, a thin layer of white noise for the fast, bright edge of the motion blur.
Body: a band-pass (Q ≈ 2.4) whose centre sweeps steeply upwards on an exponential curve and snaps back down once the peak has passed; a faint resonant whistle follows the same curve. Low content is removed with a high-pass that rises with the sweep so the start stays airy and never boomy.
Envelope: a very short swell (about 60 % of the length) to a sharp peak, then a fast fall; start and end are shaped to zero so there are no clicks. The sound crosses the stereo field from one side to the other.
Variation: length, brightness, travel direction, whistle; `rng` shifts the peak time by a few percent.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
length	0.15 – 0.7	0.3	s	Length
brightness	0 – 1	0.55	—	Brightness
travel	-1 – 1	0.7	—	Negative values travel right to left
whistle	0 – 1	0.12	—	Whistle
edge	0 – 1	0.35	—	Air edge
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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