Alien Planet Wind

How it's made

Source

continuous turbulent flow through porous mineral formations; independent pink-noise air beds occupy 80 Hz–4 kHz, with a quiet 38–160 Hz pressure layer beneath them.

Body

three blown cavities at roughly 230, 610 and 1190 Hz have inharmonic overtones at 1:1.73:2.91. Q 10–18 preserves a breathy bandwidth; independent slow drift moves their formants by up to 35 percent.

Sheen

turbulent white noise excites two mineral-edge bands near 1.9 and 3.2 kHz, Q 14–20, with weak inharmonic upper bands. A 6.5 kHz low-pass prevents a brittle high-frequency wash.

Envelope

5–20 s gusts jointly lift air level, brightness and resonant excitation; remote cavities respond 0.35–1.1 s later. A 0.6 s entrance and 1.5 s exit avoid abrupt boundaries at any render length.

Space

decorrelated air surrounds softly offset cavity positions; delayed gust responses imply scale without a baked-in reverberant tail. Low pressure stays centred for stable mono playback.

Variation

seeded cavity tuning varies by 4 percent. Scale controls cavity size; motion controls flow speed and formant travel; resonance and sheen balance mineral colour against the underlying wind.

Presets

basalt is deep and slow, crystal is light and metallic, storm is broad and turbulent, and hollow dusk emphasizes widely separated breathing formants with little high-frequency sheen.

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