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Metal groaning under strain
Metal straining and groaning: slow low swells, creaking ratchets and the odd bang, worse as the counter climbs, like a girder, hull or tower under a quake.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| metal | choice | girder | girder, cable, hull, tower | what strains: a steel girder, a taut cable, a ship's hull or a tower |
| load | number | 0.85 | 0.1 to 1 | how hard the structure strains at its worst |
| build | choice | counter | counter, steady, surge | how the strain grows: with the counter, steady all along, or in surges that grow |
| groans | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | the slow low groans on the key's root and fifth |
| creaks | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | how often joints stick and slip in creaking ratchets |
| bowing | number | 0.4 | 0 to 1 | the shivering bowed tone held over the groans |
| bangs | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how often a bang rings out once the strain is heavy |
| width | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how widely the creaks and groans 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 |
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