Rattlebones

What it sounds like

A friendly skeleton playing its own ribs like a xylophone. The press is a bright, bony tock with a short ring, and the release is a higher one. A double-click rattles three notes in a row, each a little higher, which is the closest a click gets to a giggle.

Good for

• Halloween streams and spooky-season demos
• Playful, percussive browsing
• Anyone who wants a knock with a wink

How it is made

Two sine partials at 1.24 and 3.42 kHz for the bone tone, plus a very short burst of white noise at 2 kHz for the strike. The double-click repeats the note three times, 50 ms apart, stepping up three semitones each time.

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.