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Scissors Cut Paper

Close dry scissors snips through paper, with sliding blades, granular fibre crunch and sheet flex.

kind
one-shot
length
1.48 s
downloads
0
id
AC85ZJF3TB

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0.00 / 1.48 sMP3 preview · Quick trimming
Preset
Spectrogram of “Scissors Cut Paper”, Quick trimming preset
Spectrogram of “Scissors Cut Paper”, Quick trimming 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 AC85ZJF3TB@1 --preset trimming -o scissors-cut-paper.wav

How it's made

Source
closing scissors shear fibres in 3 strokes. Filtered noise makes the 120-250 ms slicing drag; 16-26 irregular 2-9 ms noise grains per stroke model successive bundles of paper fibres breaking.
Body
the bending sheet adds broad 450-1500 Hz crunch, not a pitched cavity. Blade contact contributes a quiet 8-20 ms metallic rasp at 3.4 and 5.8 kHz, strongly damped by the hand and paper.
Envelope
a soft opening scrape precedes each cut; friction brightens toward closure, followed by a 3 ms attack, 24 ms release stop and 70 ms sheet relaxation. Three cuts finish around 1.4 seconds.
Variation
named random streams vary stroke timing by 12 ms, grain spacing, strength and filter colour. Thickness changes fibre grain and sheet flex; stroke changes drag length; count changes cut rhythm.
Presets
thin tissue is light and airy; office paper is crisp; card is dense and coarse; quick trimming uses five short bright snips. All are dry, close and mono for placement in a scene.
Parameters
ParameterRangeDefaultUnitControls
thickness0 – 10.45—Paper thickness
brightness0 – 10.6—Blade brightness
stroke0.12 – 0.250.21sCut duration
count2 – 53—Number of snips
seedint1—Variation, reproducible

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Credits and creation history (JSON)
Revision history1
  1. r12026-10-25engine 1.0.1use('AC85ZJF3TB@1')

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