Window Pane Smash

How it's made

Source

a hard strike ruptures a large annealed window; a 0.4 ms attack excites a 45 ms noise crack. Secondary fractures follow within 85 ms, then separate shards collide and land rather than hiss.

Body

the intact pane briefly flexes at 170-1700 Hz with 35-130 ms damping, losing coherence as it breaks. Shards ring in three inharmonic modes, 1 : 1.71 : 2.83, between 1.1 and 11 kHz, T60 60-240 ms.

Envelope

a dense cascade at 0.10-0.85 s gives way to scattered falling tinkles until 2.13 s. Smaller, quieter fragments dominate the late tail; all layers fade naturally before a 2.5 s endpoint.

Layers

centered fracture and panel body; wide, independently excited shard contacts and quieter rebounds. Low-pass filtering removes ultrasonic fizz; no room reverb is baked into the dry effect.

Variation

seeded timing, mode detuning, strength and pan; pane size lowers body and shard pitches. Debris controls contact count; floor hardness controls contact brightness, ring and rebound strength.

Presets

broad domestic pane, heavy storefront, bright tile-floor shower, and damped wood-floor debris.

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