Warp Drop-Out

How it's made

Source

a ship leaving a faster-than-light tunnel. Three layers: (1) the tunnel's rushing energy, a pink noise band plus a detuned saw "drive tone" that both fall in pitch as the ship decelerates; (2) the arrival, a pressure thump where normal space snaps back (falling sine sub plus a soft low-passed noise knock); (3) the residual rumble of the hull and engines settling, brown noise under a low-pass.

Body

the whoosh is a band-pass sweeping from bright to dark (Q ≈ 1.1), the drive tone is three detuned saws under a closing low-pass; the thump body is a sine gliding 95 → 38 Hz; the rumble is brown noise low-passed at about 140 Hz sliding down to 55 Hz with a slow beating from two close sub sines.

Envelope

the whoosh swells over the first ~25 % then collapses into the arrival at ~38 % of the length; the thump has a 4 ms soft attack (no click) and a ~0.5 s decay; the rumble starts under the thump and fades out over the rest of the length, ending in a smooth fade so the tail is silent.

Variation

length, brightness of the tunnel, thump weight, rumble depth and stereo width; `rng` nudges the arrival time and drive-tone detune by a few percent.

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