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Chapter 24 Sculpture 369
The following table lists all excite Types available for Objects 1 and 2, and information on
the “controls” available for each. Click-hold on the Type panel for these objects, and
select from the list.
Name Description Strength controls Timbre controls: Variation controls:
Impulse a short impulse excitation impulse amplitude width velocity
dependency of
width
Strike short excitation like piano hammer or mallet hammer start
speed (velocity
dependent)
hammer mass felt stiffness
Grav Strike like hammer but with gravitation towards the string,
leading to multiple hammer-string interactions and
disturbed string vibrations
hammer start
speed
felt stiffness gravitation
Pick finger or plectrum picking pickup force and
speed
force/speed ratio plectrum stiffness
Bow bowing of the string bow speed bow pressure slip stick
characteristics
Bow Wide same as bow, but wider, resulting in a more mellow
tone, esp suited for smooth bow position changes
bow speed bow pressure slip stick
characteristics
Noise noise injected into the string noise level noise bandwidth/
cutoff frequency
noise resonance
Blow blow into one end of the “string” (an air column, or
tube). At various positions, starting from 0.0 (far
left): move the blowing direction and position from
“along the string”, towards one end. The string is
“blown sideways” at the chosen position.
lip clearance blow pressure noisiness
External
(Only avail.
for Object
2)
feeds sidechain signal into string. level cutoff frequency
of lowpass filter
being used to
process sidechain
signal
width (size) of the
string area being
affected by the
sidechained signal