Corrugated Cardboard Tear

How it's made

Source

tension breaks paper fibres in overlapping 8–35 ms noise grains, at 65–125 grains/s. Irregular 35–95 ms crumples represent the corrugated flutes buckling behind the advancing tear.

Body

broad, heavily damped bands at 180–900 Hz give the board its dull crunch; fibre noise occupies 600–4200 Hz. Low-Q filters avoid a pitched wooden knock or metallic ringing.

Envelope

a 20 ms tension onset leads into an uneven pull, a final separation and a 120 ms settle. Default action lasts 1.35 s plus its short release; the double-pull variant relaxes midway.

Layers

overlapping fibre grains dominate, with softer low-mid flute collapses and a quiet pink friction bed. Brightness follows the tearing force and rolls off during the release; no room tail.

Variation

seeded timing, grain duration, filter colour and strength prevent machine-like repetition. Thickness shifts the body lower; edge dryness adds upper fibres; pull length changes gesture speed.

Presets

thick packing board, thin dry board, a short cross-grain rip, and two resistant pulls.

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