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15. As you play sustained notes, you may notice a distinct lack of interesting timbral shifts
(typical of real flute sounds—due to changes in the player’s breath, lip position, and so
on) as the note is held.
16. You can use a number of approaches to add interest to the sustained sound. These
include using the vibrato modulator (assigned to aftertouch, perhaps), recording or
drawing in an envelope, and controlling the Waveshaper Input Scale via Velocity and/
or String Media Loss. You could even use the Loop Alternate Sustain Mode. Feel free to
experiment!
17. Choose Save Setting As from the Settings pop-up menu and save the setting with a new
name.
Create an organ sound in Sculpture
Organ sounds are among the easiest and quickest sounds to emulate in Sculpture, because
they have no release phase. This simplifies things in that you don’t need to set Keyscaling
parameters for the basic tone. You may, however, do so at a later stage—for modulation
routing or specific sound design purposes.
1. In Logic Pro, load the #default (or your vanilla) setting file. (Object1 type should be set
to Impulse. If it isn’t, change it now.)
2. Set the Voices parameter to a value of 8, or higher if you wish.
3. Drag the Material Pad ball to the top-left corner.
4. Activate Object2 and set the type to Bow.
5. Set the Object2 Gate mode to Always.
6. Drag the R(elease) slider of the amplitude envelope all the way down.
7. Play a C chord, and you’ll hear a flute-like sound.
8. Drag PickupA to the far right.
9. Play a C chord, and you’ll hear a cheesy organ sound. As you can see, PickupA position
has a significant effect on the overall sonic character of the sound.
10. Drag the Object2 pickup while holding down the C chord. When you find a position that
meets your “that sounds like an organ” criteria, release the object pickup.
11. Very slightly adjust the Object2 Timbre parameter upward.
12. Carefully adjust the Object2 Variation parameter downward and upward until you find a
tone you like.
13. You may at this point want to move the Object2 pickup parameter to another position.
Hold down a chord while doing so.
14. You can make further tweaks to the Variation and Timbre parameters of Object2.
15. To introduce a little key click, change Object1 type to Strike, and adjust the Strength
and Timbre parameters.
16. To add a little of the detuned organ vibe, set the Warmth parameter between 0.150 and
0.200.
17. Choose Save Setting As from the Settings pop-up menu and save the setting with a new
name.
You can use this as the basis for your next organ setting.