Vine Tear

How it's made

Source

adhesion and longitudinal fibres fail in uneven packets during a sustained pull; 25-40 overlapping, filtered noise grains of 18-85 ms create a tearing rasp rather than a smooth whoosh.

Body

thick stems colour friction at 180-900 Hz; torn fibres add 0.8-5 kHz noise. Low-Q moving bands follow tension, with short 80-220 Hz damped string recoil beneath each major break.

Envelope

traction starts within 15 ms, surges through three catches, then releases at 1.1 s; detached leaves flutter until 1.7 s. The default action including its silent margin is about 1.8 s.

Layers

four irregular major breaks combine 2 ms noise attacks and 60-140 ms string decays; independent leaf friction rises at release, loses high frequencies, and narrows into silence.

Variation

seeded timing, strength, grain bandwidth, recoil tuning and modest panning vary each pull. Thickness lowers the body; dryness sharpens breaks; leaf load controls the settling tail.

Presets

heavy wall growth, elastic green stems, brittle dry stems and a leafy tangle differ in timing, body mass, fracture brightness and the balance of tear versus settling foliage. No reverb.

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