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Ice creaking and cracking
Ice under strain: slow creaks and low groans, sharp cracks with fast falling chirps like a frozen lake, thicker as the counter climbs; a big split 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| density | number | 0.7 | 0.1 to 1 | how many cracks and creaks sound at the thickest |
| size | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how many of the cracks are long, big ones rather than a tick and a few pips |
| creak | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how many slow stick-slip creaks sound among the cracks (0 none) |
| groan | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how often a low groan sounds as the ice shifts (0 none) |
| brightness | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how high the cracks ring: dull and low at 0, glassy at 1 |
| character | choice | lake | lake, glacier, pond | a frozen lake, a deep slow glacier or iceberg, or a small bright pond |
| where | choice | all | all, ladder | from home on, or only from the first stretch of the ladder to the coda |
| hush | bool | true | – | it stops 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 stops |
| key | choice | C | C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B | the key the groans, creaks and splits sit in (its root and fifth); the channel's when unset |
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