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Cicadas in the heat
Cicadas in summer heat: high buzzing trills that pulse in waves, a lone insect at home and a screaming chorus at the limit, louder as it gets hotter.
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- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| chorus | integer | 3 | 1 to 4 | how many cicadas by the limit |
| pitch | number | 3300 | 2400 to 3900 Hz | the middle pitch of the buzzing |
| wave | number | 12 | 5 to 30 s | seconds from one swell of buzzing to the next |
| rate | number | 5 | 3 to 9 per s | clicks a second in a trill |
| sizzle | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | the sizzle of noise under the trills |
| hotness | number | 0.9 | 0.3 to 1 | how loud and bright it gets at the hottest |
| haze | number | 0.4 | 0 to 1 | the low haze of the heat on the key’s root |
| width | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how widely it spreads left and right |
| where | choice | home | home, ladder | from home on, or only from the first stretch of the ladder |
| hush | bool | true | – | it falls silent before a quiet threshold and comes back on its hit |
| quietLead | number | 3.2 | 1.5 to 6 s | how long before a quiet threshold it starts to fall silent |
| key | choice | C | C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B | the key its low and tuned tones sit in; the channel’s when unset |
| mode | choice | major | major, minor, dorian, lydian, mixolydian, phrygian | the scale its tuned tones are drawn from |
Use it in a film
film.js
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