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Radio beacon beeps
A beacon sending short high beeps on the root and fifth of the key in a repeating rhythm that tightens up the ladder, and on every threshold sending its number as quick beeps.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| interval | number | 3 | 1.5 to 6 s | seconds from the start of one beep pattern to the next, at home |
| tighten | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | how much closer the patterns come up the ladder |
| cell | choice | pair | steady, pair, morse, triplet, call | the rhythm of one pattern: one beep, a pair, dot-dash-dot, a triplet or a call |
| beepLen | number | 0.12 | 0.06 to 0.4 s | how long a short beep is |
| voice | choice | pluck | pluck, celesta, blip | what beeps: a clean plucked tone, a soft bell or a tuned click |
| pitch | integer | 84 | 72 to 96 | the register of the beeps (MIDI), moved to the key root |
| count | bool | true | – | on each threshold the beacon sends its number as that many quick beeps |
| countMax | integer | 8 | 3 to 12 beeps | the most quick beeps a threshold sends, however high its number |
| fast | number | 0.14 | 0.08 to 0.25 s | the gap between the quick beeps of a count |
| dropout | number | 2.4 | 1 to 5 s | how long before a quiet threshold the beacon goes quiet |
| tail | bool | true | – | after the limit the beacon repeats on the root, fainter and slower, through the coda |
| key | choice | C | C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B | the home key; a channel that leaves it unset gets its own from its seed |
Use it in a film
film.js
elements: { 'radio-beacon': { interval: 3, tighten: 0.6 } }Use it from your agent
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