Zoom-In Hit

How it's made

Source

a fast inbound camera-zoom whoosh: turbulent air as pink noise, high-passed at 150 Hz, split into two decorrelated channels; it ends in a hard impact: a soft mallet-like thump on a large hollow body.

Body

the whoosh goes through a band-pass (Q ≈ 1.1) whose centre climbs exponentially from 250 Hz to 2–7 kHz as the source closes in, a Doppler-like brightening; a thin whistle resonance follows the same curve. The impact is a sine dropping 140 → 42 Hz in 0.14 s (pitch fall of a struck membrane), a 3–25 ms noise crack below 3.5 kHz, and a dark noise body (low-passed at 280 Hz) that decays over the tail.

Envelope

the whoosh swells with an accelerating curve, peaking just before the hit, and is cut within 12 ms as the impact masks it. The thump has a 2 ms attack and an exponential decay; the tail is short.

Variation

`rng` shifts the hit time by a few percent and detunes the thump; approach time, tail, weight, brightness and whistle change the character, and the presets move between snappy cuts and heavy slams.

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