UNKNOWN ARTEFACT: Sound Engineers, apply here!

Kulin

Kulin
Wishblend said:
RedWizzard thinks the sounds may have changed for the UA in 1.3 can you guys check this video of his to see if there are differences?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ynwPcJyNvw
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Yes it has changed.
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Do you know if there are any full recordings of a 1.3 artifact? At least the purrs and so on are limited now. Would be important to analyse the sequence right from the point of drop out from cargo scoop. For example: if the sound sequence is triggered by the drop out and not encoded by a time-stamp the sequence would have at least the same length every time after drop out.

If not we should analyse this time stamp encoding. For example by dropping 2 artifacts in the same instance, 10km away from eachother, starting recording at the same time to hear if their sound is the same. Then we should do the same thing in two different solar systems to learn if there is some positional encoding, too. If not the sound would stay the same - if the testers start recording at about the same time.

In that way we could rule out if the artifacts dropout position is important to encoding the message. And if the time stamp is important it could also be that the artifact does different noises on different times. Probably it gives a very special message at a special time.
 

Guido

Guido
Apologies for arriving into the thread half cocked!

The recordings are done in dual channel mode right? aka Stereo to us bilaterally audio receptor equipped species (two ears one each side for those speed reading)

Has anyone checked for the L/R differential between the two?
Invert the phase of one signal and subtract the other? - might clean out some noises too.
 

Karakhian

K
My own apologies for entering half cocked too!

Has anyone checked whether the signal is a decaying one, so it's acting as a countdown, like in Independence Day?

If so, what's the time period before it reaches 'zero'?
 

smokingrabit

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are you sure its a message that can be decoded? although im not a sound engineer I am a computer scientist and I could go about looking for a pattern of some kind however if its making insect noises and an insect is supposed to make the noise then maybe its not even encrypted...perhaps you need someone who knows about insects? is it definitley a puzzle?

I suspect however if its not a sound engineers job to work on if it is a puzzle, if it is a encrypted message the left and right channels are identicle messages and the differences are clues to the cipher, the same way the enigma machine was first cracked, a commander sent a message every day "nothing to report" british engineers sussed that it might be that and then reverse engineered it from there, If that is the case I might have an answer soon...if it is a messaeg I bet its a location
 
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Kulin

Kulin
smokingrabit said:
are you sure its a message that can be decoded? although im not a sound engineer I am a computer scientist and I could go about looking for a pattern of some kind however if its making insect noises and an insect is supposed to make the noise then maybe its not even encrypted...perhaps you need someone who knows about insects? is it definitley a puzzle?

I suspect however if its not a sound engineers job to work on if it is a puzzle, if it is a encrypted message the left and right channels are identicle messages and the differences are clues to the cipher, the same way the enigma machine was first cracked, a commander sent a message every day "nothing to report" british engineers sussed that it might be that and then reverse engineered it from there, If that is the case I might have an answer soon...if it is a messaeg I bet its a location
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There are many pattern like structures. And Michael brooks told us to listen to the artifact. So i think we can be pretty sure there is something to it.

Biggest example are the purrs. You can get a picture from this thread(listen to the unfiltered and the 4x version. There are two obvious purr-tones. And after a while of listening to unfiltered samples im sure there are other tones directly after the artifact is released.

So purrs after release are different until the first howl comes:

This is a collection of the short sequences directly after dropout

To make it clear i extracted some tones from it. They are clearly different.

As a comparation here are the standard tones:
All following sequences, after the dropout-sequence, do sound like that. I took this from 4 different dropouts, after the first "dropout" sequence. The first 4 tones are at the beginning of 4 different dropouts. The next 4 tones are the same "deep" tone at the end before take-in of the artifact(to prevent decay). The next 4 tones are the high-tones directly after dropout. The last 4 tones are before take-in. The reason they get higher are that the tones get higher shortly before the artifact is going to decay.
 
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smokingrabit

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theres another way it could be a message, imagine that the howls were nubers and the middle one was the number in the form of clicks, it could be simpler than you imagine for example the lngth or frequency of the whols could be a larger number say in their thousands and the clicks could just be a number of clicks, this way you would have the X,Y,Z coords relative say to the center of the universe
 

marx

marx
Do we have any new recordings in 1.3, or are there none yet, just the RedWizzard one that Ratking15 posted earlier?
 

Ratking15

Ratking15
saman said:
Do we have any new recordings in 1.3, or are there none yet, just the RedWizzard one that Ratking15 posted earlier?
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Nope as far as I know me and Redwizzard have the only UA's now though I'm carrying an extra for wishblend while she explores.
 

marx

marx
Ratking15 said:
Nope as far as I know me and Redwizzard have the only UA's now though I'm carrying an extra for wishblend while she explores.
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Sounds good. Could you make some more recordings please, and noting the location (system, nearest planet) where you made them? Although if it's a video, then that should be visible.
 

IAM GROOT

IAM GROOT
AluminumAlloy said:
Someone get a spectrogram out here!
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Lmao, lost my breakfast nearly when I read this, can't believe this is all starting off again. MB apparently said something had been missed before, most likely explanation is the UAs are pods waiting to hatch or beacons and the sounds are counting down to Alien attack ALA the movie Independance Day. This imo is being overthought, the answer will be much simpler.
Here's how I see it,
Events are already happening that will build up to a full on assault or appearance by the Thargoids, the UAs are somehow indicating a countdown and coordinating the alien fleet, maybe they're all bombs counting down to explode taking the star ports out, aren't a bunch of them being studied in Sol, great place for a devastating explosion!
 

Wishblend

Wishblend
Ratking15 said:
Test done and here are the resualts: http://www.twitch.tv/ratking15/c/6876696
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Here is my copy of the twitch stream http://www.twitch.tv/wishblend/c/6876699

First impressions, sounds from the ua have changes, there is a clicking and wind effect now.

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