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A drill boring into rock
A drill boring into rock: a grinding low drone and a chattering click rhythm that get deeper and rougher up the ladder, with a bite on each threshold.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| body | number | 0.8 | 0.3 to 1.2 | how loud the grind is |
| deepen | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | over half: the grind drops an octave past the middle of the climb |
| roughHome | number | 0.2 | 0.05 to 1 Hz | how fast the grind beats at home |
| roughLimit | number | 1.5 | 0.5 to 2 Hz | how fast the grind beats at the limit |
| cutHome | number | 200 | 100 to 400 Hz | how bright the grind is at home |
| cutLimit | number | 520 | 250 to 900 Hz | how bright the grind is at the limit |
| chatterHome | number | 3.5 | 2 to 7 per s | chatter steps a second at home |
| chatterLimit | number | 6 | 4 to 10 per s | chatter steps a second at the limit |
| pattern | choice | euclid | euclid, steady, triplet | the chatter: spread unevenly, an even four, or in sixes |
| tone | number | 650 | 300 to 1400 Hz | the middle pitch of the chatter clicks |
| grit | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | the bright grit of noise over the grind |
| knock | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | the knocks of rock on the key’s root |
| curve | number | 1 | 0.4 to 2.5 | how it follows the counter: under 1 builds early, over 1 builds late |
| 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 |
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