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Saucer Hover
A retro flying saucer hovering in place with a wobbling, vibrato-rich eerie warble
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renders in the CLI · WAVChange parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.
$ sb get A355F71GHC@1 --preset idle-low -o saucer-hover.wav
How it's made
- Source
- a retro B-movie saucer is a pure electronic tone, not a machine. A sine "carrier" around 300 Hz is frequency-modulated by two low-frequency oscillators: a fast vibrato (about 6 Hz, a few percent) and a slow wobble (about 0.5 Hz, up to a minor third) that gives the eerie warble.
- Beating
- a second sine a hair off a perfect fifth above, sharing the modulation, makes the interval breathe and shimmer; a quiet sine one octave below anchors the pitch.
- Body
- a very soft low drive hum (lowpassed saw, tremolo tied to the wobble) suggests the hovering engine.
- Air
- pink noise through a slowly drifting band-pass adds a faint downdraft hiss under the tones.
- Envelope
- steady, a loop; the wobble and the amplitude swell move slowly so no two seconds are identical.
- Space
- left and right use different modulation phases, so the saucer slowly circles in the stereo field.
- Variation
- drift modulators and tuning offsets come from the seeded rng.
| Parameter | Range | Default | Unit | Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pitch | 180 – 520 | 300 | Hz | Pitch |
| wobble | 0.2 – 1.5 | 0.5 | Hz | Wobble rate |
| depth | 0 – 1 | 0.5 | — | Wobble depth |
| vibrato | 0 – 1 | 0.4 | — | Vibrato |
| eerie | 0 – 1 | 0.5 | — | Eeriness |
| air | 0 – 1 | 0.3 | — | Downdraft |
| seed | int | 1 | — | 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.
Revision history1
- r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('A355F71GHC@1')