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Spaceship Fly-by

A fighter ship streaks past the camera: a roaring engine tone with a Doppler pitch drop and a wide noise swell

kind
one-shot
length
3.05 s
downloads
0
id
NND9EHWV7H

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Spaceship Fly-by”, default preset
Spectrogram of “Spaceship Fly-by”, default 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 NND9EHWV7H@1 -o spaceship-fly-by.wav

How it's made

Source
a fighter's drive. A stack of three slightly detuned band-limited saws plus a sub sine make the roaring engine tone; a high sine pair is the turbine whine; pink noise is the exhaust and the air torn around the hull.
Body
every tonal layer is scaled by one Doppler curve: it holds high while the ship approaches, falls fast through the pass and settles low as it leaves. A low-pass opens on the approach and closes on the way out (air absorption), and the noise band-pass sweeps up and down with the same curve. The saw stack is soft-saturated for the growl.
Envelope
the level builds slowly over the approach (inverse-distance swell), peaks just after the pass at about 50 % of the length and falls away faster; the ship travels across the stereo field in step, with a decorrelated wide noise bed so the roar surrounds the camera.
Variation
length, pitch, roar, whine, brightness and travel; `rng` shifts the pass time and the detune a little.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
length1.6 – 53sLength
pitch60 – 260120HzEngine pitch
roar0 – 10.6—Roar
whine0 – 10.4—Turbine whine
doppler0 – 10.6—Doppler depth
brightness0 – 10.5—Brightness
travel-1 – 10.8—Negative values travel right to left
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-24engine 1.0.1use('NND9EHWV7H@1')

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