Pebble

What it sounds like

Two smooth river stones meeting once: a compact, stony tock with a short, slightly hollow ring. It is lower and rounder than the glass sounds in the family, with a dry weight to it. Each click feels like a small, satisfying contact.

Good for

• Calm, steady work where a rounded click helps
• Quiet demos with a natural, non-plastic feel
• Anyone who prefers stone to glass

How it is made

A burst of white noise centered at 1.5 kHz and a sine that dips from 1.7 to 1.3 kHz, run through a body tuned around 1.25 and 2.9 kHz. The release uses a single body mode at 1.6 kHz.

Every qliqr sound is synthesised from a small text recipe, so the version you hear here is the same one the Mac app plays, with natural variation so no two presses are identical.