Timber Variations SFX

Timber Variations SFX is a 12-sound set built from narrow-band noise bursts resonating at a fixed body frequency. It is meant to sound like physical objects — a drawer, a wooden button, a cloth pouch, and every clip was synthesised from scratch for this pack — no sampled material, no library content, no model output — which is what makes it safe to hand over under a licence you can actually ship with.

Every sound is a transient plus a body: the noise burst supplies the strike and a resonant filter supplies the material. Decay is fast and the room is barely there, which is what stops the set from sounding synthetic.

This is the most requested thing in game audio and the thing free packs almost never ship. A footstep played identically reads as cheap within about four steps, and the fix is not a runtime pitch randomiser, it is genuinely different takes. Each take here differs in transient timing, filter position and noise seed, and the spread is measured: far enough apart to hear, close enough to still be the same object.

The set covers 12 files totalling 3.6 seconds, from 278 ms (step-04) to 0.32 s (hit-05). Levels are matched across it: each clip peaks at -1 dBFS with silence trimmed from both ends and a 5 ms fade, so you can drop the folder into one mixer group and set a single volume instead of balancing them one at a time.

Files are 44.1 kHz mono, 16-bit WAV masters with OGG Vorbis alongside, in wav/ and ogg/ folders. The OGG folder is 76 kB against 308 kB of WAV, so ship the OGG unless you need sample-accurate source. The WAV is the master either way — reach for it if you are going to pitch-shift or process further, because re-encoding a lossy file after processing is where artefacts come from.

Good fit for survival and crafting games, board-game adaptations, cosy sims.

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