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Letter into Envelope

A folded letter slides smoothly into an envelope with soft fiber friction and a light final tap.

kind
one-shot
length
1.07 s
downloads
0
id
19221TGA1K

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0.00 / 1.07 sMP3 preview · Light airmail
Preset
Spectrogram of “Letter into Envelope”, Light airmail preset
Spectrogram of “Letter into Envelope”, Light airmail preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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Tweak

renders in the CLI · WAV

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

Command
$ sb get 19221TGA1K@1 --preset airmail -o letter-into-envelope.wav

How it's made

Source
folded paper rubbing inside an envelope; pink and white friction bands at 350 Hz-7 kHz. A few overlapping 18-45 ms fiber catches roughen the slide without tearing or crackling impulses.
Body
broad, heavily damped paper flex bands near 480 and 1150 Hz; no pitched ringing or room tail. The envelope mouth initially exposes bright fibers, then masks treble as the letter moves inside.
Envelope
25 ms mouth contact, a hand-driven slide lasting 0.65-1.15 s with uneven pressure, followed by a 6 ms attack / 65 ms release soft edge tap and 80 ms settling rustle.
Modulation
cutoff falls from 4-7 kHz to 1.8-3.2 kHz; slow random pressure and irregular catches break up the friction. A snug fit introduces a second push in the same insertion gesture.
Variation
named random streams vary grain, catch timing and body tuning by 5 percent. Presets cover light airmail, thick cotton stock, a snug envelope and a brisk office insertion.
Space
dry close perspective, centered mono for placement by the scene mixer; no baked-in reverb.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
slide0.65 – 1.150.94sSlide duration
stock0 – 10.4—Paper thickness
grain0 – 10.35—Fiber texture
snug0 – 10.15—Envelope resistance
tap0 – 10.35—Final contact
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-25engine 1.0.1use('19221TGA1K@1')

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