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Shield Up

An energy shield powering up: a rising hum, a phasing swell that settles into a steady drone

kind
one-shot
length
1.90 s
downloads
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id
RCR36HHZ1D

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0.00 / 1.90 sMP3 preview · Heavy bulwark
Preset
Spectrogram of “Shield Up”, Heavy bulwark preset
Spectrogram of “Shield Up”, Heavy bulwark 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 RCR36HHZ1D@1 --preset heavy -o shield-up.wav

How it's made

Source
an electrically driven energy field. A bank of slightly detuned saw and triangle oscillators forms the mains-like hum; a pink-noise layer is the plasma shimmer of the field closing around the ship.
Body
the hum rises from about 0.7x to 1x of its root (70-220 Hz) as the field charges, while a low-pass opens from 300 Hz to 1.5-4 kHz. A swept notch (0.8-3 Hz) phases the shimmer band, and the two detuned oscillators beat against each other, giving the phasing swell.
Envelope
a 0.3-0.65 s pitch rise, a swell peaking at about 35 % of the length, then the level settles into a steady, quieter drone (root plus octave and twelfth partials) that fades out at the end.
Variation
`rng` shifts the root by +/-2 %, the detune and the phases of the notch sweep; presets change root pitch, charge time, shimmer, and how much of the length is the sustained drone.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
length0.8 – 2.21.2sLength
root70 – 220110HzRoot pitch
charge0 – 10.5—Charge time
shimmer0 – 10.5—Shimmer
phasing0 – 10.5—Phasing
drone0 – 10.5—Drone level
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('RCR36HHZ1D@1')

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