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Torpedo Launch

A ship ejects a guided torpedo: pneumatic thump, igniting motor roar and a receding turbine whine

kind
one-shot
length
2.44 s
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id
TPACXWWMEA

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0.00 / 2.44 sMP3 preview · Heavy tube launch
Preset
Spectrogram of “Torpedo Launch”, Heavy tube launch preset
Spectrogram of “Torpedo Launch”, Heavy tube launch 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 TPACXWWMEA@1 --preset heavy-tube -o torpedo-launch.wav

How it's made

Source
a compressed-air ejector pushes the torpedo out of its tube (a 10 ms pressure pop plus a 0.3 s air hiss), then the motor ignites: turbulent combustion noise, then a turbine-like whine as it leaves.
Body
the ejection is a tube cavity thump (sine falling 120 -> 42 Hz, band-limited noise knock at ~180 Hz). The roar is brown and pink noise under a low-pass that opens from 250 Hz to ~2.4 kHz and closes again; the whine is a saw/sine pair with a 3 % detune, low-passed at 3x its pitch so no harmonic rings harshly.
Envelope
the thump peaks at 0 s and is gone by 0.3 s; ignition follows after a short delay with a 0.15 s flare, the roar holds to ~0.7 s and decays; the whine fades in, then falls in pitch (receding Doppler) while its level drops over the final second.
Variation
`rng` shifts ignition delay (+-5 %), whine pitch (+-3 %) and pan drift; presets change delay, balance of thump, roar and whine, whine pitch and length.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
thump0 – 10.7—Thump
roar0 – 10.7—Roar
whine0 – 10.5—Whine
pitch700 – 26001500HzWhine pitch
delay0.05 – 0.50.15sIgnition delay
length1.2 – 2.62sLength
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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

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