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A flock taking off
A flock taking off: a flutter of soft wingbeats and washes that sweeps across the stereo field on every threshold, bigger up the ladder.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| flutter | number | 800 | 450 to 1500 Hz | the pitch of the wingbeat clicks |
| flock | number | 0.7 | 0.2 to 1 | how many birds go up |
| rushLen | number | 3.2 | 1.5 to 6 s | how long a take-off lasts |
| direction | choice | alternate | left-right, right-left, alternate, centre | which way the flock sweeps |
| softness | number | 0.6 | 0 to 1 | the soft washes among the wingbeats |
| stir | number | 0.5 | 0 to 1 | the lone flaps that stir before each threshold |
| whoomph | number | 0.4 | 0 to 1 | the low thump of air on the key’s root |
| width | number | 0.7 | 0 to 1 | how widely it spreads left and right |
| where | choice | home | home, ladder | from home on, or only from the first stretch of the ladder |
| hush | bool | true | – | it falls silent before a quiet threshold and comes back on its hit |
| quietLead | number | 3.2 | 1.5 to 6 s | how long before a quiet threshold it starts to fall silent |
| key | choice | C | C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B | the key its low and tuned tones sit in; the channel’s when unset |
| mode | choice | major | major, minor, dorian, lydian, mixolydian, phrygian | the scale its tuned tones are drawn from |
Use it in a film
film.js
elements: { 'wingbeat-rush': { flutter: 800, flock: 0.7 } }Use it from your agent
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