10.6

471Logic Pro Instruments
• Warmth field: Slightly detune each voice to warm or thicken the sound. This parameter
emulates the random fluctuations caused by the components and circuitry of analog
synthesizers.
• Transpose field: Tune the entire instrument by octaves. Given the ability of component
modeling to radically alter pitch with certain settings, coarse tuning is limited to octave
increments.
• Voices field: Specify the number of voices that can be played at any one time. Sixteen
voices is the maximum polyphony of Sculpture.
• Keyboard Mode buttons: Choose polyphonic, monophonic, and legato behaviors. A
polyphonic instrument, such as an organ or piano, allows several notes to be played
simultaneously. Many older analog synthesizers are monophonic, which means that only
one note can be played at a time, much like a brass or reed instrument. This shouldn’t
be viewed as a disadvantage in any way, because it allows playing styles that are not
possible with polyphonic instruments.
• In Mono mode, staccato playing retriggers the envelope generators every time a new
note is played. If you play in a legato style (play a new key while holding another),
the envelope generators are triggered only for the first note you play legato. They
then continue their curve until you release the last legato played key. Mono mode is
also known as multi trigger mode.
• Legato mode is also monophonic, but with one difference:the envelope generators
are retriggered only if you play staccato—releasing each key before playing a new
key. If you play in a legato style, envelopes are not retriggered. Legato mode is also
known as single trigger mode.
Note: All modes retrigger a potentially sounding voice with the same pitch, instead
of allocating a new one. Therefore, multiple triggering of a given note results in
slight timbral variations, depending on the current state of the model at note-on
time. If the string is still vibrating for a specific note, retriggering that same note
interacts with the ongoing vibration, or current state of the string. A true retrigger of
the vibrating string happens only if both Attack sliders of the amplitude envelope are
set to 0. If either slider is set to any other value, a new voice is allocated with each
retriggered note. See Sculpture amplitude envelope.
• Bender Range Up/Down fields: Set the upward/downward pitch bend range.
• Separate settings are available for upward and downward pitch bends—using your
MIDI keyboard pitch bend controller.
• When Bender Range Down is set to Linked, the Bender Range Up value is used for
both (up and down) directions.
Note: Bending the string, just like the string on a real guitar, alters the shape of the
modeled string, rather than acting as a simple pitch bend.