The alternative wail is a variant of the classic wail siren tone, where pitch rises and falls slowly rather than switching abruptly between two notes. This version is presented as an accurate recreation built in Vital, the wavetable synthesizer, rather than a field recording of a real siren. Shared as a raw sound file on soundboards, it has been kept as a clean, loopable alert tone for editors who need a longer warning sound without siren ambience, traffic or a passing vehicle in the background.