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Cloak Engage

A cloaking device engages: a phasing energy sweep while the hull dissolves into shimmer and vanishes into silence

kind
one-shot
length
1.00 s
downloads
0
id
XGYVMV683Y

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Cloak Engage”, Quick blink preset
Spectrogram of “Cloak Engage”, Quick blink preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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Tweak

renders in the CLI · WAV

Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command
$ sb get XGYVMV683Y@1 --preset quick -o cloak-engage.wav

How it's made

Source
an energy field wrapping the ship. A pink-noise "field" bed, a detuned pair of low saws for the power hum, and a cloud of sparse high sine grains that stand for the hull dissolving into particles.
Body
the noise passes through two swept notches moving in opposite directions (a phaser-like set of moving holes) under a band-pass whose centre sweeps upward then closes; the hum is low-passed and its pitch falls as the field takes over; grains are pure partials picked from a consonant ladder.
Envelope
a fast swell of the field (about 0.12 s), a spectral sweep that rises across the first 60 % and then thins out; grain density falls over time so the shimmer dissolves; every layer fades to true silence before the end so the ship is gone.
Variation
length, sweep range, phasing depth, shimmer density and hum weight; `rng` offsets the hum pitch and the grain timing, pitch and pan.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
length0.8 – 31.5sLength
sweep0 – 10.5—Sweep range
phasing0 – 10.6—Phasing depth
shimmer0 – 10.6—Shimmer
hum0 – 10.5—Power hum
pitch900 – 40002000HzShimmer pitch
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

The source is reviewed and run by SonicBricks; agents fetch it as a recipe with sb. It is not published on this page.

Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('XGYVMV683Y@1')

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