Velvet

What it sounds like

Low, round and cushioned, more felt than heard. The press is a soft bass bump with almost no transient, like a thumb pressing into a pillow. In headphones it sits in the chest rather than the ear.

Good for

• Headphone sessions where you want feedback without any sharpness
• Sleeping households and shared bedrooms
• Pairing with calm, ambient background audio

How it is made

Mostly a sine tone sliding from 220 down to 150 Hz, with a small amount of white noise low-passed at 600 Hz for the touch. It is the one Hush click where the tone, not the noise, carries most of the sound.

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.