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Freight-train roar
The freight-train roar of a tornado: a sustained low roar with wreckage rattling in it, thickening and closing in as the counter climbs.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| character | choice | near | distant, near, overhead | how close the storm is: far off, near or right overhead |
| power | number | 0.85 | 0.1 to 1 | how heavy the roar gets at its height |
| build | choice | counter | counter, steady, late | how it thickens: with the counter, steady all along, or only late in the film |
| rumble | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | the weight of the low drones on the key's root, fifth and octave |
| grit | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how rough and bright the noise of the roar is at its height |
| clatter | number | 0.8 | 0 to 1.5 | how much wreckage clatters in the roar |
| width | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how widely the clatter spreads left and right |
| where | choice | all | all, ladder | from home on, or only from the first stretch of the ladder to the coda |
| hush | bool | true | – | the layer goes quiet before a quiet threshold and comes back on its hit |
| quietLead | number | 2.5 | 1 to 6 s | how long before a quiet threshold it falls silent |
| key | choice | C | C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B | the key its low tones sit in; the channel’s when unset |
| mode | choice | major | major, minor, dorian, lydian, mixolydian, phrygian | the scale its tuned notes are drawn from |
Use it in a film
film.js
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