HB

What it sounds like

A pencil tapped on the edge of a wooden desk. There is a woody knock with a small low thud under it and a short, dry resonance. It is warm rather than bright, the kind of tapping you do without noticing.

Good for

• Thinking time: reading, reviewing, waiting for builds
• Quiet rooms where a wooden tap is tolerable
• People who tap pencils anyway

How it is made

A burst of white noise around 1.9 kHz, a triangle wave dipping from 1.15 kHz to 900 Hz, and a low 260 Hz sine for the desk. A body tuned at about 1.15 and 2.4 kHz supplies the woodiness.

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.