Shepard Tones in Auxy

**stereofield** · February 5, 2019, 12:16pm

Hey!

I was fiddling around & ended up sorta recreating a Shepard Tone (in Auxy, of course). If you don’t know what a Shepard Tone is, you can read about it here. Apparently a true Shepard tone uses sine waves, so this may not be pure, but it has the same illusion. As for production, I filled a 1-bar pattern with 32nd notes, duplicated the instrument, and did some automation:

First pattern:

Pitch -100% to 0%
Volume 0% to 100%

Second pattern:

Pitch 0% to 100%
Volume 100% to 0%

Ran into some problems because Auxy’s volume automation isn’t linear, so I slightly adjusted the volume automation (made a fake curve) to fit.

Listen:
https://soundcloud.com/stereofld/shepard/s-gjdx9

Open the project:
https://app.auxy.co/projects/VR0utj8xkaMFP4jTPyiw5Q==

**icsleepers** · February 5, 2019, 12:25pm

My man, very cool. I never knew the name of the sound but was familiar with the sound itself. I love seeing this kind of stuff, it’s researchy, it’s fun, and it’s a great exercise.

Good job @stereofield!

**Produk** · February 5, 2019, 1:33pm

P sure these are the things that Christopher Nolan uses in his movies for intense scenes? Like in Dunkirk?

**Jax** · February 5, 2019, 1:48pm

this could make a cool effect inn some future bass or dubstep songs

**Cornea** · February 5, 2019, 2:15pm

Still waiting for the drop

**Fuujiya** · February 5, 2019, 3:45pm

Wow that sounded weird as hell. Cool find tho lol

**DHO** · February 5, 2019, 4:02pm

This is so cool.

**Eswyn** · February 5, 2019, 4:58pm

I can’t listen right now, but I thought I should probably pop this post from the thread Cool Sound Illusion from @AzureOnyx here…

**Hum4n01d** · February 5, 2019, 5:03pm

LOL

Nice one, I tried this actually but I used notes instead of a pitch bend so it didn’t really work

**kheeshKP** · February 5, 2019, 5:41pm

Reminds me of pamtri lol

**El1011** · February 5, 2019, 7:04pm

Image result for thx logo

**eohr** · February 5, 2019, 7:03pm

well, kinda…

**eohr** · February 5, 2019, 7:47pm

Is the volume automation by decibels (logarithmic)?

**Goxenar** · February 5, 2019, 8:19pm

lol

**AzureOnyx** · February 5, 2019, 10:05pm

august 2017
Ok

**Trey** · February 9, 2019, 11:22pm

Reminds me of this…
Anybody recognize it?.
(I think you have to tap the screen once the page loads on mobile for sound)

**stereofield** · February 9, 2019, 11:24pm

Yeah, I’ve seen that site before. It uses the same effect, pretty convincing too.

**Yaad** · February 10, 2019, 12:39am

dude the project made my app crash

**stereofield** · March 31, 2019, 7:11pm

Yeah, sorta. The recurring theme in Dunkirk (The Oil) uses it, though it’s not a pitch shift, just a bunch of notes going up and up (on the bassline).