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Core Overload

A power core destabilizing: a rising, warbling siren tone that cuts to an energy burst.

kind
one-shot
length
4.26 s
downloads
0
id
41R7JX4FAY

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0.00 / 4.26 sMP3 preview · Reactor Core
Preset
Spectrogram of “Core Overload”, Reactor Core preset
Spectrogram of “Core Overload”, Reactor Core preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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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 41R7JX4FAY@1 --preset reactor-core -o core-overload.wav

How it's made

Source
a detuned saw/square pair (the core hum) whose pitch climbs exponentially while a siren-style frequency warble speeds up and deepens; a sub sine rises under it as containment fails.
Body
a low-pass sweeping open (spectral movement) plus a sparse electrical crackle bed and a band-passed noise "boil" that grow with the instability; random pitch drift adds the unstable feel.
Envelope
tension swell over the build-up, then a hard but click-free cut (12 ms fade) into the burst.
Burst
a filtered noise blast with a falling low-pass, a pitch-dropping sine thump and a short metallic ring, decaying to silence.
Variation
the seed changes drift and crackle; presets change build-up length, warble and burst weight.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
buildup1.5 – 3.83.2sBuild-up time
startPitch90 – 400180HzStart pitch
warble0 – 10.6—Warble depth
instability0 – 10.5—Instability
burst0 – 10.7—Burst weight
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('41R7JX4FAY@1')

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