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Wind howling
Wind that gusts and howls across the field, harder and brighter as the counter climbs, with a low moan and a thin whistle on the chords of the key; dull and soft for snow, bright and hissing for dust.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| strength | number | 0.7 | 0.1 to 1 | how hard the wind blows at its strongest |
| gustiness | number | 0.6 | 0.3 to 1 | steady wind at 0, sharp gusts with lulls between at 1 |
| gustLength | number | 8 | 4 to 12 s | seconds from one gust to the next |
| brightness | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | dull and muffled (snow, distance) at 0, bright and hissing (dust, gale) at 1 |
| build | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how much the strength follows the counter: 0 steady, 1 growing all the way |
| surge | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how big a gust crests on each threshold |
| howl | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | how much a low moan in the key swells under the strong gusts (0 none) |
| whistle | number | 0.35 | 0 to 1 | how often a thin whistle on a chord tone rides a strong gust |
| width | number | 0.8 | 0.25 to 1 | how widely the gusts sweep 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 | – | 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 home key; a channel that leaves it unset gets its own from its seed |
| mode | choice | major | major, minor, dorian, lydian, mixolydian, phrygian | the scale the moan and whistle are drawn from |
| family | choice | ascend | ascend, pendulum, fifths, plateau, drift | how the chord roots move from threshold to threshold |
| colour | integer | 2 | 0 to 3 | the chords' colour: 0 triad, 1 seventh, 2 add9, 3 sus2 |
| limit | choice | glow | glow, plagal, deceptive, open | the chord the limit lands on |
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