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Paper Tear

A sheet torn in half: fibrous crackle gathers speed and ends in a brief dry flutter.

kind
one-shot
length
1.03 s
downloads
0
id
YCMGHC3KT2

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Preset
Spectrogram of “Paper Tear”, default preset
Spectrogram of “Paper Tear”, default preset: time left to right, frequency bottom to top.
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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 YCMGHC3KT2@1 -o paper-tear.wav

How it's made

Source
cellulose fibres fail in small groups along a moving tear; 5–24 ms filtered noise grains overlap a rough friction bed, rather than a sustained pitched oscillator.
Body
flexible sheet motion adds broad, heavily damped 250–1500 Hz rustle; fibre failure occupies 1–7 kHz. Low-Q bands and an 8 kHz low-pass avoid metallic ringing and ultrasonic fizz.
Envelope
tension gathers over 25 ms, the tear accelerates for 0.58–1.08 s, then the separated halves flutter for 65 ms. Every noise grain has a rounded attack and a finite decay.
Events
38–76 irregular fibre bundles per tear; concave event timing reduces the gaps toward separation, while the friction cutoff rises by about 1.7 kHz with tearing speed.
Variation
seeded timing, grain bandwidth and strength vary each tear; thickness changes sheet body and grain duration. Presets cover office paper, thin tissue, heavy kraft and a quick rip.
Space
dry, centred close-up foley, with no room tail or added impact after separation.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
length0.58 – 1.080.86sTear time
thickness0 – 10.45—Sheet thickness
crispness0 – 10.6—Fibre crispness
roughness0 – 10.55—Ragged edge
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-25engine 1.0.1use('YCMGHC3KT2@1')

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