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Radio static
A radio between stations: sparse bright hiss, crackle and bursts, a faint carrier tone and dropouts, getting noisier 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| noise | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how often bursts of hiss come |
| crackle | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how many single crackles there are |
| tone | number | 0.4 | 0 to 1 | how often the faint carrier tone sounds |
| dropouts | number | 0.4 | 0 to 1 | how often everything cuts out for a moment |
| grow | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how much noisier it gets as the counter climbs |
| brightness | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | how bright the hiss and crackle are |
| carrier | choice | glass | glass, celesta, harp | the carrier tone: a glass bell, a soft bar or a harp |
| register | integer | 7 | 6 to 8 | the octave of the carrier tone |
| width | number | 0.8 | 0 to 1 | how widely the noise spreads left and right |
| hush | bool | true | – | The radio 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 home key; a channel that leaves it unset gets its own from its seed |
Use it in a film
film.js
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