Saw something yesterday that got me inspired but I’m not quite sure how I want to represent a black hole generator powering up and absorbing a planet, should I go with extreme distortions till it blows out bitwig, or does it need the spectral disintegration smear into nothingness approach? Thinking of incorporating VCV elements into this sample since it’s great for stuff like this and has some extreme distortions and tone generating modules perfect for maybe some parts of the sample…

Not using Eventide Blackhole I don’t have that one

 

Experiment until you are pleased with the results.

Your idea of how a black hole sounds may be vastly different to how I imagine it. Asking about someone else's creative approach on such matters is counterproductive.

Just have a go at it, man!

 

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A big frozen reverb tail on initial growing rumble, then slowed and pitched down when the reverb fades to nothingness (think "tape stop" but very slow).

 

feel like
at DJ_spoke_mp3_Download.com someone asked for:
the reversed sound of aspiration from Dyson&Rowenta.com
on a quiet sunday morning.

where i can download it ??? said kevin 232@24 somewhere on a forum for human.

 

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Your idea reminded me of this:

 

well i made one in Phase Plant cause its fun, thats actually the whole reason i learned synthesis and sound design; so i can translate my ideas for sounds in song

i also dont know wtf that would sound like; but i picture like a pandora's box type deal for the generator, where i had a black box in my hand. when i opened it there was a gravitational pull around it, then it started sucking in the space smoothly. then at the end its just me holding the box with the planet gone. so that was my initial idea

 

Even light can't escape a black hole, so the sound of a planet going through it would be too slow for anyone to hear

 

Black Hole Time

More seriously, those cosmic phenomenons cannot be heard. We're talking gravitational waves. So it's totally building an artistic vision of something that cannot be experienced.
I'd personnally represent it as a roaring with a lot of low frequencies drowned (maybe more and more) in reverb. Eventide Black Hole might be out of reach, but Valhalla Supermassive is free...
I would try to record the closest possible something like scratching two stones one against each other with a large diaphragm condenser mic, at the highest sampling frequency available, an then edit the file metadata for it to be read at 44,1 or 48 (not pitch shifted, played at a lower rate). And start from there. Distort, reverberate, mix with synth sounds, pitch shift in parallel, whatever...
Maybe it's a shitty idea, I didnt try this specifically. But I've had very impressive low frequencies by recording objects or instruments at a few milimeters distance with a good LD condenser (SP C1 in this case).

 

Nothing escapes the event horizon of a black hole. The right sound is therefore very easy to design: silence.

 

That is not true.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=What+do+black+holes+sound+like&ia=videos&iax=videos

 

I've sometimes wondered what Baryon Acoustic Oscillations sound like.

 

Have you tried brown and pink noise?

 

I was just poking at the fact there was a plugin called black hole that would work for it, obviously I’d use a different reverb

 

I’d try all sorts of noise

 

heres what i made imagining coming up on the event horizon then just getting sucked in quickly into nothingness... maybe. or maybe another universe, who knows whats going on with black holes!

i just used some trailer fx, took off their reverb and sent them to strymon cloudburst maxed out and a delay then just to be cheeky i put eventides black hole immersive on the mix bus at like 40%

 

It was obvious it was just a joke with the name ;)

 

What NASA has published is not the sound of a black hole (the data doesn't even come from near the event horizon of a black hole), but a sonification (resynthesis) of gas pressure fluctuations, noise from particle collisions and x-rays . In other words, an artistic interpretation of their measurement data.
NASA collects the data with telescopes, shifts the spectra, synthesizes images from this data, processes these images further with various filters to highlight or attenuate certain events, and then resynthesizes audio material based on these images, which is subsequently post-processed.
In some cases, they simplify the process and process their measurement data directly in python, where the amplitude is compressed, the frequency scaled, envelopes are manipulated and spectra are filtered, and then the product is rendered directly into pcm audio for further processing in a DAW.
Just for context: The frequencies of these gas pressure fluctuations are way below 10^-14Hz (<0.00000000000001Hz). Good luck "hearing" something like that.
What you actually hear in these (ehem) "recordings", despite the incredibly precise and impressive technical means, are for the most part artifacts of the synthesis process itself.

Edit:
@grrarrrgh
You could just resynthesize an image of a black hole in photosounder... then add some distortion, eq and reverb...
Because - to put it simple - that's what NASA does.

 

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@macros mk2 this just reminded me of this movie i saw and totally forgot about, funny how memory works. i think its the epic quality and cinematic quality yours both have (movie is mid tho) - i imagine yours to be a lot more majestic and beautiful though then how this turned out