Knife Carving Stroke

A thin, sharp blade gliding cleanly through soft tissue, ending in a faint, clear steel ring

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Change parameters to build an exact command. Your agent runs it with sb and gets the WAV.

Command

$ sb get NXHHPWJZAN@1 -o knife-carving-stroke.wav

Source: a thin, very sharp blade drawn through soft tissue. The edge shears fibres continuously, which sounds like band-limited noise rather than air: a narrow band (Q ≈ 2.5) that glides from ≈ 1.2 kHz up to 3–6 kHz as the stroke gathers speed, then eases down as the cut opens.
Body: a damp, low "wet" layer (pink noise at 300–900 Hz, softly fluttering at 18–35 Hz) for the flesh around the blade; no bone, no crunch.
Ring: when the blade leaves the cut, the thin steel rings briefly in free-bar modes (≈ 1 : 2.76 : 5.40, plus a close twin of the fundamental for a slow shimmer), 0.15–0.6 s, upper modes fading first; the pitch is a parameter so a series of strokes can sit in one key.
Settle: optionally the parted piece slumps away: a low-passed noise fall (700 → 120 Hz, 0.3 s).
Envelope: stroke 0.15–0.9 s, swelling to ≈ 60 % then easing out; the ring starts at the end of the stroke.
Variation: `rng` varies stroke length (±12 %), sweep height, flutter rate, ring tuning (±1 %), the ring's mode balance and the stereo position, so repeated strokes never sound identical.

Parameters
Parameter	Range	Default	Unit	Controls
length	0.15 – 0.9	0.5	s	Stroke length
wetness	0 – 1	0.45	—	Wetness / body
ring	0 – 1	0.35	—	Ring amount
pitch	900 – 3200	1760	Hz	Ring pitch
brightness	0 – 1	0.5	—	Brightness
settle	0 – 1	0	—	Settle (parting)
ringTime	0.12 – 0.7	0.35	s	Ring time
width	0 – 1	0.4	—	Stereo travel
seed	int	1	—	Variation, reproducible

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