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Hail on roofs and cars

Hail rattling on a roof or car: hard bright ticks in squalls, heavier knocks as the stones grow with the counter, a flurry on every threshold.

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Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Range	What it does
surface	choice	car	tin, car, tiles, glass	what the hail falls on: a tin roof, a car, roof tiles or glass
rate	number	5.5	2 to 8 per s	stones a second heard one by one at the heaviest
build	choice	counter	counter, steady, late	how the stones grow: with the counter, steady all along, or only late in the film
squalls	number	0.6	0 to 1	how much the hail comes in bursts with lulls between
knocks	number	0.6	0 to 1	how many of the big stones land as heavy thuds on the key's root
ring	number	0.3	0 to 1	how many big stones ring as small tuned taps in the scale
hiss	number	0.4	0 to 1	the faint white curtain of hail too far off to hear as stones
width	number	0.8	0 to 1	how widely the stones spread 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

film.js

elements: { 'hail-patter': { surface: 'car', rate: 5.5 } }

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