Star Wars Battlefront's R2 bleeping is actually baby noises

Star Wars Battlefront trivia time: the bleeps and bloops of R2 in the game are actually the heavily processed recordings of sound designer Ben Minto's son. And, before we go on, he wanted to to clarify that by 'R2' Ben actually means R2 unit or 'generic astromech', rather than the character from the film because, who knows, maybe he won't be in it.

Yeah, right.

I never actually realised the original R2 units were so organic - I'd imagined a crazy-haired keyboardist stabbing at keys while furiously working knobs and dials, but apparently much of the original audio had very everyday routes. "The original R2-D2, if you can actually hear it – I mean sometimes you can hear him saying phrases in the background," explains Ben, "sometimes you hear it in the voice, like 'rawr rawr' or whatever he’s saying – but you have to be able to reverse engineer it to be able to hear it."

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