A short descending three-note phrase on a triangle wave, with the last note sagging in pitch as it dies. Use it for game over screens, failed runs, lost lives and any moment a small adventure ends. Just over a second, so it does not hold up a restart.
triangle G4 392 Hz 180 ms, then E4 330 Hz 180 ms, then C4 262 Hz 620 ms the last note sags from 262 Hz to 240 Hz over its length low-pass 3 kHz, Q 0.7 to take the edge off envelope: 2 ms attack, 150 ms decay on the first two, 580 ms on the last