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7. Drag Object1 pickup position to a value of 0.10. You should be starting to get pretty
bells now… play a few notes.
8. To activate the Delay unit, click the Delay button in the upper-right section.
9. Click the Sync button at the bottom of the Delay section, and drag the Delay Time slider
to a value of 20ms.
10. Adjust the Wet Level knob to 66%.
11. Click the BodyEQ button in the lower right to activate it. Make sure that Lo Mid Hi is
chosen from the Model pop-up menu.
12. Adjust the Lowknob to 0.55, the Midknob to 0.32, and the Hiknob to 0.20.
At this point, you have a working bell sound, but you’ll probably find that there is a
tuning issue below C3 in particular. This programming approach was taken because the
harmonics of the sound are most noticeable after all other parameters have been set.
The solution to the tuning issue primarily lies in the Inner Loss and Stiffness Keyscale
parameters.
13. To adjust, first select the Keyscale button, then drag the green horizontal line within the
Material Pad up or down for low notes, or drag the blue horizontal line up or down for
high notes.
14. Choose Save Setting As from the Settings pop-up menu, save your settings with a new
name, and use it as the basis for new bell sounds, or for your next Christmas album.
Create a generic brass sound in Sculpture
Brass instruments are notoriously difficult to recreate with electronic instruments.
Samplers do a reasonable job in the right hands, and with the right sample library, but they
lack the organic warmth of a real brass player. This is a simple and generic brass setting
that can be played as a solo instrument or as a brass section.
1. In Logic Pro, load the #default (or your vanilla) setting file.
2. Set Object1 type to Blow.
3. Activate Object2, and set its type to Noise.
4. Adjust the Strength of Object1 to around 0.90.
5. Set Object1 VeloSens to around 0.30.
6. Drag the Material Pad ball to a position that is diagonally between the “I” of Inner Loss,
and the “l” of the word Steel, while playing middleC. The sound should be quite brassy.
7. Play the E above middleC and you’ll hear a weird “mandolin meets a telephone ring”
kind of sound.
8. Drag the Resolution slider to the left or right while playing middleC and a few notes
down an octave or so. You’ll discover that a range of sounds that cover everything from
sitars to flutes is possible, just through manipulation of this parameter.
9. Click the Keyscale button and—while playing up and down the keyboard—independently
adjust the Resolution slider, plus the Resolution Low and High Keyscale sliders until the
range of the keyboard you wish to play (an octave or so around middleC, for example)
doesn’t suffer from those mandolin/phone artifacts. Make sure your sound retains the
“brassy” quality.
10. Move PickupA position to around 77%.